Goods Movement Collaborative
Kelly Pitera
Home pageKelly Pitera is a completing a master of science in civil engineering with a certificate in Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics. She plans to pursue a PhD at the UW as well.
Kelly holds a bachelor of science in civil engineering at Villanova University. Prior to returning to school, she was employed by Berger/ABAM Engineers, a structural and civil engineering consulting firm located in Seattle, Washington. There she was responsible for bridge and roadway design for numerous transportation and public works projects. She obtained her professional engineering (PE) license in 2005.
Kelly's research interests include freight mobility and logistics. Currently she is exploring relationships between supply chain structure and transportation resiliency. Kelly's future goals include teaching.
Outside of school, Kelly enjoys traveling, skiing, running, camping and hiking.
Wenjuan Zhao
Home page Wenjuan Zhao came to University of Washington in 2007 after finishing her M.S. degree in Civil Engineering in China. Now she is pursuing her PhD program at Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and specializing in the field of Transportation Engineering. And her research interests mainly lie in port operation management and optimization, and empty container logistics. Currently, she is a research assistant and working with Professor Anne V. Goodchild on the NCRST Project to propose an improved terminal gate appointment system and evaluate the efficiency and benefits of this new system brought for both trucker and terminals.
Susan Albrecht
Home pageSusan Albrecht has a Master's in Policy Studies and is finishing a Master's in International Studies with the Jackson School of International Studies. She has also completed graduate certificates in Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics (GTTL), and Environmental Management with the Program on the Environment (PoE). Her academic research focuses on international security, energy and environmental policy. As a research assistant in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, she has assisted in research and co-authored papers on transportation logistics at the U.S./Canadian border and the Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
Chilan Ta
Home pageChilan comes to the University of Washington with a B.A. in Sociology from UC San Diego. She is fashioning an informal concurrent master’s program, and draws on coursework offered by the Urban Design and Planning Department, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. In 2010, she will graduate from the University of Washington with two master’s degrees: a Master of Urban Planning and a Master of Science in Transportation Engineering.
Chilan’s interests cross many disciplines to cover the geopolitics of transportation investments and financing; the relationships between land use, growth, and transportation improvement packages; effective communication strategies between private and public organizations for incident relief; and the life cycle of transportation solutions. On the order of ten to fifteen years post-graduation, she aims to develop experience working in both the public and private realms of regional and transportation planning and policy development with the eventual pursuit of a Ph.D.
Currently, she is Research Assistant under Professor Anne V. Goodchild, working on a TransNow and WSDOT funded project to unpack the concept of resiliency, apply it to goods movement and the freight transportation system in Washington State, and conceptualize and operationalized the relationship between the transportation infrastructure and the economy.
Li Leung
Home pageCurrently Li Leung is a Research Assistant in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, working with Professor Goodchild to understand the characteristics of extremely long traffic delays at the international border crossing at Blaine, Washington/Surrey, British Columbia. Although she has always been fascinated by quantitative sciences, she was not quite sure if the next step in life after her undergraduate studies was either a job or graduate school. She has always been intrigued by the transportation field especially since she grew up in Seattle and witnessing how much congestion has grown in the past decade.
Her engagement into the transportation field started when she attended a women's engineering conference and participated in a presentation illustrating the impacts of the transportation world given by Professor Goodchild. At the end of the lecture, Li spoke with Professor Goodchild further about the transportation field and graduate studies. After learning how there is a great demand of work that needs to be done in the field and that entering transportation graduate studies is a great path to take for someone with a quantitative background. Li then decided she wanted to be a part of the transportation world and became Professor Goodchild's Research Assistant.
Li graduated with Bachelor of Sciences in Applied Computational Mathematics from the University of Washington and is now pursuing a Masters degree at UW in Civil and Environmental Engineering, focusing on transportation. In combination with her interest in transportation, she also enjoys statistics, math, outdoor activities, and experiencing new foods.
Derik Andreoli
Derik Andreoli is a doctoral candidate in geography at the University of Washington. His areas of expertise include economic geography, labor market theory, migration theory, and public policy. Derik is interested in the individual, social, and economic motives of transmigrants and the myriad ways in which transmigration can at times promote and at other times hinder the transmission of economic development from one region to another. Derik is also fascinated by the rise of supply chain management and how shifts in approaches to supply chain management impact local economies and transportation systems.