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Tara Ramani, Ph.D., PE

Tara Ramani, Ph.D., PE

Associate Agency Director

Environment Group
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
1111 RELLIS Parkway, Room 3432
Bryan, TX 77807-3135
(979) 393-0688
[email protected]
https://environment.tti.tamu.edu/

Education

  • Ph.D., Urban and Regional Planning, Texas A&M University, 2017
  • M.S., Transportation (Civil Engineering), Texas A&M University, 2008
  • B.E., Civil Engineering, Anna University, 2005

Short Biography

Dr. Tara Ramani is an Associate Agency Director overseeing the Environment Group of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). Dr. Ramani also serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Healthy and Efficient Mobility (CHEM), a US Department of Transportation funded University Transportation Center.

Dr. Ramani is an expert on sustainable transportation planning, with an emphasis on air quality topics. She has conducted academic research and supported practitioner organizations on air quality issues, especially related to mobile sources. She has worked for a range of state, federal, and local government entities to support their efforts relating to transportation conformity (regional and project-level), to assess impacts of various transportation projects, programs, and policies on air quality, and to address linkages between transportation air quality, sustainable transportation, and health.

She is a member of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee and a member of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Standing Committee on Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation as well as the Standing Committee on Transportation Energy. She has also previously served as vice-chair of the TRB Committee on Sustainable Transportation and as a member of the Committee on Performance Measurement. She was also a technical contributor to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5). She holds an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Anna University, India, and an M.S. in Civil (Transportation) Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning, both from Texas A&M University. She is also a licensed professional engineer (PE) in Texas.

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