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Dr. Spear is a member of the Travel Model Improvement Team in the Federal Highway
Administration's (FHWA) Office of Metropolitan Planning and Programming where he serves as a national expert in travel
demand modeling and in the use of geo-spatial technologies for transportation planning.
From 1995 to 2000, he was the Director of Geographic Information Services at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
(BTS). While at BTS, he supervised development of the first consolidated geo-spatial database depicting national
transportation infrastructure, services and flows, and was instrumental in raising GIS awareness, both within the
Department of Transportation and in the broader transportation community.
Before coming to BTS, he was the GIS program manager at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge,
MA and served as the Volpe Center's technical expert on geographic information systems and geo-spatial databases.
Dr. Spear has conducted numerous evaluations, policy studies, and economic analyses for the DOT and other federal
agencies, as well as research in travel behavior and travel demand forecasting.
Dr. Spear received a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and a Ph.D. in Transportation Planning from Cornell University.
