Nick Wood

Wood, Nick

Assistant Transportation Researcher

Mobility Management
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
505 East Huntland Drive, Suite 455
Austin, TX 78752
ph. (512) 467-0946 Ext. 12115
nickwood@tamu.edu

Short Biography

Mr. Wood is an Assistant Transportation Researcher in TTI's Austin Office. His experience is in the areas of performance assessment, congestion pricing, transportation economics and managed lanes. He is currently a lead analyst for the USDOT on an assessment of first-time pricing programs as part of the Urban Partnership Agreement/Congestion Reduction Demonstration (UPA/CRD) program. Mr. Wood is leading parts of the tolling, safety, and equity evaluations for the Los Angeles, Seattle, and Atlanta sites. He has worked on projects with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) on the evaluation of the performance of the Katy Freeway Managed Lanes in Houston and the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) on the evaluation of the MoPac Express Lanes in Austin. Mr. Wood has also worked on research for managed lanes in Washington State and Kansas.

Mr. Wood was a lead analyst for a TxDOT research project on the development of locally-specific drive cycles for the MOVES model within the major urban regions of Texas. He drafted a methodology to collect and process GPS data for trip segments that could be used by agencies to support modeling to gauge conformity with air quality regulations. To monitor cycling activity throughout Austin, Mr. Wood has measured GPS smartphone data to generate a report on cycling volumes on local highways and streets for TxDOT.

Before arriving at TTI, Mr. Wood was the lead analyst in a congestion monitoring project at Georgia Tech conducted on behalf of the Georgia Department of Transportation. Mr. Wood measured the lost time experienced per trip by corporate vehicle fleets on major roadways using on-board GPS/GSM devices.

Education

  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010.
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute., 2007.

Experience

  • Assistant Transportation Researcher, Mobility Management, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, October 2010 - Present.
  • Graduate Research Assistant, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2008 - August 2010.
  • Traffic Engineering Intern, Creighton Manning Engineering, June 2006 - August 2006.
  • Highway Design Intern, New York (State). Dept. of Transportation, February 2006 - May 2006.
  • Transportation Construction Inspector, New York (State). Dept. of Transportation, May 2005 - August 2005.

Professional Registration

Intern Engineer Certificate in New York.

Affiliations

  • Member, Young Professionals in Transportation, Austin Chapter.
  • Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).

Selected Publications

S.G. Bricka, I.N. Sener, C.M. Dusza, N. Wood, J.G. Hudson. Factors Influencing Walking in Small Urban Region. Transportation Research Record: Journal of Transportation Research Board, Vol. 2307, 2012, pp. 52-59.