Dr. Brendan Russo is an Assistant 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 12 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 research is primarily focused on transportation safety; specifically safety performance and economic assessments of roadway design features, pedestrian and bicyclist safety, road user behavior, occupant protection, 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 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 Commerce Authority, the Maricopa Association of Governments, and the City of Phoenix.