(Director of Operations Research & Trade) - Transport Economics & International Trade

Stephen Fitzroy has over 30 years of experience in providing economic consulting services and program management for private and public sector clientèle. His areas of expertise include economic analysis applications for transportation planning, long range forecasting, housing, land use, and economic development.

Dr. Fitzroy was formerly the Program Manager for the operations research and communications contract at US DOT Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before that, he was the Principal Economist for the Louis Berger Group's Planning and Economic Department specializing in regional economic analysis, socioeconomic impact assessment, market analysis, policy-oriented social research, and transportation studies. He was also formerly the business manager and Principal Economist for Standard & Poor's DRI (now Global Insight) International Trade and Transportation practice, and served as the Director of Research and Forecasting for the Puget Sound Regional Council in Seattle, Washington.

Currently Dr. Fitzroy chairs the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) Joint Subcommittee on the Economics of Pricing, and serves on the Transportation Economics, Congestion Pricing and Environmental Justice in Transportation committees.

Dr. Fitzroy has frequently served as a senior technical specialist and project manager for studies involving transportation economics and policy, domestic and international freight movements, commodity flow analysis, survey research and design, forecasting and decision analysis. He has a Ph. D. in Urban Planning from Harvard University, a Master's Degree in Regional Planning (M.R.P.) from Pennsylvania State University, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Drexel University.