Dr. Catherine L. Ross is Vice-President and Director of Transportation Research for EuQuant Inc. She is also the Director of Georgia Tech's Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD). Dr. Ross has over thirty years experience in transportation planning, urban planning, quality growth and land use planning and organizational management experience consulting for both the public and private sectors.
In addition to her current position, she served as the first Executive Director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority; this included negotiating an eleven-county agreement in the Atlanta area to implement the Country's first ever regional express bus service. During her tenure as a public servant she conducted studies of the development potential of transportation corridors, oversaw MARTA's (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) Management Performance Audit and served as Co-author of the Georgia statewide Transportation Choices Initiative (TCI) Program. In her capacity as a leading researcher, she refines survey and analysis methodology required to determine toll-road cost and funding structures, is recognized internationally for being at the forefront of Regional Development research and, more recently, developed the concept of "The Green Light Team". This concept was used in developing Atlanta's Atlantic Station project, and has been recognized nationally as the template with which planning agencies and developers expedite large economic development projects in densely populated central-city areas.
Dr. Ross has published more than 200 articles, books, reports and monographs on transportation planning, impact assessment methods, and urban and regional planning. She has served in an executive capacity on numerous boards including: the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board and the Eno Transportation Foundation. Dr. Ross earned her bachelor's degree from Kent State University, her master's degree in regional planning and her doctorate in city and regional planning from Cornell University.
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