Dr. Mark Burris is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University and a Research Engineer with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. His main area of interest is traveler behavior in response to pricing, particularly congestion (or value) pricing. He has served in an evaluation and monitoring role for managed/express lane projects around the country. He has also led many studies and surveys on how travelers will react to innovative tolling strategies and the costs and benefits associated with those projects. He recently completed a 6 year term as chair of TRB’s transportation economics committee.

Mr. Arunachalam is a Vice President and a Senior Project Manager leading Arcadis’ Texas Region Mobility Business Line. He has over 16 years of experience in research and consultancy with a broad focus on Advanced Planning, Traffic and ITS Engineering. Mr. Arunachalam’s expertise includes freeway and arterial corridor studies, sub-regional planning studies, managed lanes feasibility studies, micro, meso and macroscopic simulations, predictive safety analysis, ITS Planning and performing benefit to cost analysis for infrastructure investments.

Gary Hsueh’s experience spans nearly 20 years across a wide range of projects encompassing public transit, campus master planning, Transportation Demand Management, and emerging mobility (including active mobility, road-based, and guideway-based automated systems). His roles have spanned planning and feasibility analysis to pilot design and implementation. Recently, he supported the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s Accessible Automated Vehicle Demonstration, a multi-year project to deploy an automated shuttle with additional technologies to serve people with disabilities, and he was the Principal Investigator for the Bay Area Fair Value Commuting Demonstration, an FTA Mobility on Demand Sandbox project that demonstrated innovative methods to reduce drive alone commutes. Gary serves on the TRB Standing Committee on Innovative Public Transportation Services and Technologies (AP020).

Scott is a Senior Vice President who leads multimodal transportation design and planning projects. He has extensive experience developing and applying travel demand models and traffic operations models to help evaluate projects and plans. His combination of design and analysis experience helps his plans be more implementable and helps the projects that he develops operate more efficiently for all users of the system.

Ben Walker is a graduate of the University of South Florida and brings a comprehensive knowledge of the Connected and Automated Vehicle industry. Before joining HNTB, Ben served as the Intermodal Systems Development Manager for the Florida Department of Transportation, responsible for project planning and development, prioritization, along with government and agency coordination for all modes. Once at HNTB, Ben served as project manager on the Florida Department of Transportation Automated Vehicle Support contract, helping lead the public sector’s role in CAV systems and has helped guide the safe integration of emerging technologies into infrastructure. Ben serves on the planning committee for the Florida Automated Vehicles Summit and has helped other agencies such as the Polk County TPO, the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority and the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority implement CAV plans, applications or vehicles into their system.

Patrick DeCorla-Souza is a former co-chair of the TRB Committee on Congestion Pricing. He currently serves as the Public-Private Partnerships (P3) Program Manager at the USDOT's Build America Bureau and FHWA's Center for Innovative Finance Support. Previously, Patrick led the Value Pricing Pilot Program, the Urban Partnerships Program, and the Congestion Reduction Demonstration Program at FHWA. Prior to joining FHWA, Patrick developed transportation plans and programs at the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG). Over more than three decades at USDOT, Patrick has led research and published many papers and articles. TRB's Transportation Research Record has published his technical papers in the areas of travel demand modeling, air quality analysis, benefit-cost analysis, public involvement, and innovative financing including tolling, congestion pricing and public-private partnerships. Patrick is currently a member of TRB’s Committee on Economics and Finance.