{"id":1326,"date":"2018-03-05T01:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T01:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/cecmee\/?page_id=1326"},"modified":"2022-09-15T00:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T07:38:45","slug":"brendan-russo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/aztrans\/brendan-russo\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Russo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brendan J. Russo, Ph.D.,\u00a0P.E.<\/h1>\n

NAU Associate Director of AZ<\/strong>Trans<\/em>: The Arizona Laboratory for Applied Transportation Research<\/h2>\n

\"Dr.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Education<\/h3>\n

Aug 2015 Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Civil Engineering, PhD<\/p>\n

May 2012 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Civil Engineering, MS<\/p>\n

Dec 2009 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Civil Engineering, BS<\/p>\n

Work experience<\/h3>\n

08\/2021- Present Associate Professor<\/b>, Northern Arizona University<\/p>\n

08\/2015 – 08\/2021 Assistant Professor<\/b>, Northern Arizona University<\/p>\n

08\/2014 – 08\/2015 Graduate Research\/Teaching Assistant<\/b>, Iowa State University<\/p>\n

08\/2012 – 08\/2014 Graduate Research\/Teaching Assistant<\/b>, Wayne State University<\/p>\n

05\/2010 – 08\/2012 Graduate Research Assistant<\/b>, Wayne State University<\/p>\n

05\/2009 – 11\/2009 Construction Inspector<\/b>, Michigan Department of Transportation<\/p>\n

05\/2007 – 05\/2009 Undergraduate Research Assistant<\/b>, Wayne State University<\/p>\n

Licenses and certificates<\/h3>\n

Registered Professional Engineer, Arizona<\/p>\n

Professional memberships<\/h3>\n

Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)<\/p>\n

Member and Research Coordinator, TRB Committee ACS10 Transportation Safety Management Systems<\/span><\/p>\n

Member, TRB Committee AKD20 Roadside Safety Design<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Contact AZTrans<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
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\n <\/i>\n Email:<\/span>\n <\/div>\n
AZTrans​@nau.edu<\/div>\n <\/a>\n \n
\n <\/i>\n Call:<\/span>\n <\/div>\n
928-523-1431<\/div>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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