Tara Lakshmi Ramani, P.E.

Ramani, Tara

Assistant Research Engineer
Program Manager
Assistant Research Scientist

Air Quality - Gilchrist, Room 353
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
The Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 845-9888 Ext. 59888
T-Ramani@ttimail.tamu.edu

Short Biography

Ms. Ramani is the Program Manager for the Air Quality Program at TTI. Since joining TTI's Air Quality Program in 2006, Ms. Ramani has worked on numerous projects involving transportation sustainability, performance measurement, planning, air quality, and emissions testing. Her particular areas of interest and expertise are in sustainability and performance measurement for transportation.

Ms. Ramani is the Principal Investigator and key researcher on a number of state and national projects covering topics such as performance measurement for transportation planning and operations, sustainability performance measures for State DOTs and other transportation agencies, and developing sustainable transportation performance measures for strategic planning. Additionally, she served as an instructor for a workshop series for transportation professionals concerning transportation performance measures for strategic planning and sustainability. Ms. Ramani is also involved in numerous other ongoing or recently completed research projects on topics ranging from transportation policy analysis, transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, truck idling and emissions reduction, freight sustainability, and landfill gas to transportation fuel conversions.

Ms. Ramani is active among the Transportation Research Board (TRB) as a friend of various committees, and is certified as an Engineer in Training in the State of Texas. During her tenure at TTI, she has authored and co-authored numerous research reports, and has had research papers accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals. She has also made presentations at TRB annual meetings, ITE meetings and at other conferences.

Education

  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Texas A & M University, 2008.
  • B.E., Civil Engineering, Anna University, India, 2005.

Experience

  • Assistant Research Engineer, Air Quality, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, February 2013 - Present.
  • Program Manager, Air Quality, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, September 2012 - Present.
  • Assistant Research Scientist, Air Quality, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, October 2011 - Present.
  • Associate Transportation Researcher, Air Quality Studies, Texas Transportation Institute, August 2008 - October 2011.
  • Graduate Assistant Research, Air Quality Studies, Texas Transportation Institute, September 2006 - August 2008.

Professional Registration

Engineer in Training in Texas, Registration No. 41630, 2010.

Affiliations

  • Friend, Transportation Research Board (TRB), Committee on Transportation Sustainability and Sustainable Transportation Indicators.

Honors & Awards

Distinguished Graduate Student Award, Texas A&M University Association of Former Students, 2009.

Zachary Department of Civil Engineering Graduate Fellowship, Texas A&M Engineering Program, 2006.

Selected Publications

S. Anderson, C.P. Beaty, L. Ding, D.R. Ellis, J.A. Epps, C.K. Estakhri, B.A. Glover, M.L. Hoelscher, N.D. Norboge, R. Rajbhandari, T.L. Ramani, T. Scullion, J.A. Shelton, C. Shon, W.R. Stockton, S.R. Vadali, S.P. Venglar, J. Zietsman. TxDOT Administration Research: Tasks Completed FY2011. 0-6581-TI-3. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. April 2012.

T.L. Ramani, J. Zietsman, W.L. Eisele. Incorporating Sustainability into TxDOT's Transportation Decision Making - Summary of Work Performed, Methods Used and Results Achieved. 5-5541-01-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. February 2011.

T.L. Ramani, L. Quadrifoglio, J. Zietsman. Accounting for Nonlinearity in the MCDM Approach for a Transportation Planning Application(forthcoming). IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 57, No. 4, November 2010, pp. 702-710.

T.L. Ramani, J. Zietsman, W.L. Eisele. Incorporating Sustainability into TxDOT's Transportation Decision Making: Updated Workshop Materials. 5-5541-01-P2. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. November 2010.

D. Lee, J. Zietsman, M. Farzaneh, J.D. Johnson, T.L. Ramani, A.A. Protopapas, J.H. Overman. Characterization of In-Use Emissions from TxDOT's Non-road Equipment Fleet - Final Report. 0-5955-2. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. August 2010.

T.L. Ramani, J. Zietsman, W.L. Eisele, D. Rosa, D.L. Spillane, B.S. Bochner. Developing Sustainable Performance Measures for TxDOT's Strategic Plan: Technical Report. 0-5541-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. April 2009.

M. Farzaneh, J. Lee, T.L. Ramani, L.L. Higgins, J. Zietsman. Toward a Green Campus: A Transportation Strategy for Texas A&M University. SWUTC/09/167174-1. Southwest Region University Transportation Center, Texas Transportation Institute. March 2009.