Dr. Lisa Aultman Hall

Biography

Lisa Aultman-Hall is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She obtained her PhD in Civil Engineering from McMaster University in 1996. Professor Aultman-Hall has previously served as a Professor of Civil Engineering at various universities including Kentucky, Connecticut, and Vermont. Her research primarily focuses on transportation systems, with particular emphasis on methods to collect unique databases for modeling and analysis of long-distance intercity travel, electric vehicles, network resiliency, streetscape design, and non-motorized transportation. She was the founding Director of the interdisciplinary Vermont Transportation Research Center (TRC), where her focus included land use and transportation models. Aultman-Hall has published numerous journal articles, with recent works concentrating on creating alternative specific attributes for intercity mode choice models comparing air and highway travel, including estimations of carbon emissions per trip distance. Additionally, she is working on generating time-space-resolved energy demand for electric vehicle (EV) charging, a key element in modeling regional electricity grids and assessing EV adoption scenarios. Collaborating with colleagues in Vermont, Dr. Aultman-Hall is developing new spatial measures of intercity travel using large datasets from California.

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