Associate Director
Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida, United States
Ms. Lisa Staes is the Associate Director of the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) and also serves as CUTR’s Director of Transit Safety and Workforce Development Programs. She was recently appointed by U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg to the Transit Advisory Committee for Safety (TRACS), is the chair of TRB’s Standing Committee on Transit Safety and Security (AP 080), Advisory Board Member of Elsevier’s Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives Journal, Handling Editor on TRB’s TRR Editorial Board, and former chair of APTA’s Bus Safety Committee. She is the CUTR project manager for FTA’s Transit Standards Development Research and Safety Research Demonstration Evaluation projects, where she is actively involved in transit research and stakeholder involvement activities. Sample research topics include transit assaults, collision/crash energy management for transit buses, simulator training and its impact on transit safety, training and certificate programs and elements of success, rural and senior mobility initiatives, and transit development and coordinated transportation systems planning.
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Mental and behavioral health correlations in transit assaults and methods to reduce victimization
Sunday, June 16, 2024
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM ET