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Keith Bartholomew is a professor in the University of Utah’s Department of City & Metropolitan Planning and is the associate dean of the College of Architecture + Planning. An environmental lawyer, Professor Bartholomew received a Juris Doctor and a Graduate Certificate in Environmental Law from the University of Oregon. He clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, then served as a staff attorney for 1000 Friends of Oregon, a growth management and land use planning advocacy organization in Portland. While at 1000 Friends, Professor Bartholomew was the director of “Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection” (LUTRAQ), a nationally recognized research program examining the interactive effects of land use development and travel patterns. After coming to Utah, Professor Bartholomew was the associate director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law. Professor Bartholomew became an assistant professor in the University of Utah’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and then transferred in 2004 to the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning in the College of Architecture + Planning. In 2010, Professor Bartholomew received tenure, and was promoted to associate professor. He was promoted to full professor in 2020 and received a University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2021. Professor Bartholomew’s primary research area is the development and application of integrated land use-transportation scenario analysis as the basis for community visioning, long-range transportation planning, and transportation project analysis. With funding provided by the Federal Highway Administration, Professor Bartholomew has studied scenario planning projects in more than 100 U.S. metropolitan areas and the results from this research have been presented in peer-reviewed transportation and urban planning journals, in widely distributed books (including ULI’s Growing Cooler), at conferences for academics, professionals, and policy activists, and through a unique digital library of scenario planning source materials. A recent offshoot of this research has focused on the use of scenario analysis as the basis for the development of climate action plans, particularly in states that now require such plans, such as California and Oregon. His most recent work has focused on the ridership and equity impacts of small-scale design decisions at bus stops.

Xianfeng (Terry) Yang

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Utah

Dr. Yang is an Assistant Professor (Transportation Engineering) in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah. Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, and his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University. Dr. Yang's current research areas include machine learning for transportation modeling, traffic operations with connected automated vehicles, traffic safety, transportation equity, transportation planning, etc. He is the recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2021. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed research articles in journals and conferences. He is currently the editorial board member of Transportation Research, Part C, the Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development and IEEE OJ- Intelligent Transportation Systems, and the Handling Editor of TRB Transportation Research Record. He is also the Vice-Chair of INFORMS JST ITS committee and the Secretary of the ASCE Artificial Intelligence committee. He is the appointed member of two TRB standing committees (ACP25-Traffic Signal Systems and AMR20-Disaster Response, Emergency Evacuations, and Business Continuity). He serves as the panelist of NSF, NCHRP, and multiple USDOT University Transportation Centers.