Zmud has 25 years of experience in studying travel behavior, road pricing, freight and commodity flows, transportation data programs, and the intersection of transportation and information-communication technologies, RAND said.
She is also incoming chair of the Policy and Organization Group of the National Academies' Transportation Research Board, and serves as co-chair of the TRB's Special Task Force on Data for Decisions and Performance Measures.
Prior to joining RAND as a senior policy researcher in August 2010, Zmud was founding owner and president of NuStats, a company specializing in complex social research studies of transportation, mobility and other quality-of-life issues.
Zmud succeeds Martin Wachs, who will continue part-time as a RAND researcher and will teach at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
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