Brendan J. Russo, Ph.D., P.E.

NAU Associate Director of AZTrans: The Arizona Laboratory for Applied Transportation Research

Dr. Brendan Russo is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Northern Arizona University, where he also serves as Associate Director of AZTrans: The Arizona Laboratory for Applied Transportation Research. Dr. Russo has over 14 years of transportation-related research, teaching, and professional work experience, and he holds a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Wayne State University and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a focus in transportation from Iowa State University. His primary research areas include traffic/transportation safety, safety impacts of automated driving system (ADS)-equipped vehicles, safety performance and economic assessments of roadway design features, vulnerable road user safety and behavior, and econometric methods for transportation data analysis. He is a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), the Transportation Research Board (TRB) ACS10 Transportation Safety Management Systems Committee (also serving as the Committee Research Coordinator), the TRB AKD20 Roadside Safety Design Committee, and he is a registered Professional Engineer in Arizona. Dr. Russo has been involved with numerous transportation-related research projects funded by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), the Arizona, Michigan, Montana, and Oregon DOTs, the Arizona Institute of Automated Mobility, the Maricopa Association of Governments, the City of Phoenix, and the City of Scottsdale.

Education

Aug 2015 Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Civil Engineering, PhD

May 2012 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Civil Engineering, MS

Dec 2009 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Civil Engineering, BS

Work experience

08/2021- Present Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University

08/2015 – 08/2021 Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University

08/2014 – 08/2015 Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Iowa State University

08/2012 – 08/2014 Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Wayne State University

05/2010 – 08/2012 Graduate Research Assistant, Wayne State University

05/2009 – 11/2009 Construction Inspector, Michigan Department of Transportation

05/2007 – 05/2009 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Wayne State University

Licenses and certificates

Registered Professional Engineer, Arizona

Professional memberships

Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

Member and Research Coordinator, TRB Committee ACS10 Transportation Safety Management Systems

Member, TRB Committee AKD20 Roadside Safety Design