Theodore Mansfield, Phd Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Provides thought leadership and subject matter expertise on contemporary issues in transportation, including the application of big location data to transportation problems and the integration of health considerations.
• Integrates state-of-the-science health impact modelling techniques with prevailing travel demand modeling tools to empower clients to better understand the health and equity implications of urban planning decisions.
• Develops, prototypes, and manages the deployment of new software features to process massive geospatial data, including global position system (GPS), location-based services (LBS), and connected vehicle (CV) data.
• Manages complex projects and leads multi-disciplinary teams of transportation planners, data scientists, and software engineers developing solutions to meet a diverse range of client needs in the transportation space.
• Disseminates methodological innovations and project findings to professional and academic audiences through conference presentations, publications, and research committee memberships.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed and maintained large and complex codebases, including scoping and prioritizing work items in an agile context, developing and prototyping code to implement new algorithms, testing and troubleshooting code.
• Designed and refined LBS data processing algorithms, including routing algorithms and home location imputation methods, balancing technical and analytical rigor with computational and performance constraints at scale.
• Built data pipelines to integrate contextual geospatial data with big location data including US Census Bureau data, household travel survey data, and land use data.
• Supervised a cross-disciplinary team that processed LBS and GPS data for numerous statewide and regional applications.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed a first-of-its kind integration of a health impact model with a four-step travel demand model.
• Designed and implemented algorithms to derive travel behavior insights from big LBS and GPS datasets.
• Processed travel survey data to inform the development and calibration of travel demand models.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Supervised a multi-disciplinary research team that completed several projects in support of USDOT’s Safety Data Initiative, including developing and implementing research designs and evaluating emergent data sources to.
• Developed a national assessment of pedestrian fatality risks at the neighborhood scale using novel statistical methods.
• Developed an approach to collect, maintain, and analyze data relating to the environmental review and permitting process, including compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), for transportation.
• Communicated technical findings to policy officials, USDOT leadership, and senior White House officials.
• Served as the liaison between USDOT’s Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Center and various federal councils, including the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering.

Chapel Hill, NC

• Developed and applied a novel multi-risk framework to estimate the health impacts of transportation in the Raleigh, NC metropolitan area using a dynamic Markov chain Monte Carlo model
• Investigated the degree to which transportation health impacts varied in relation to built environment characteristics
• Compared the magnitude of transportation health risks from mobile-source emissions, physical inactivity, and fatal crashes
• Explored potential disproportionate transportation health impacts on vulnerable populations in the Raleigh, NC metropolitan area
• Presented research findings at professional meetings, including the Annual Meeting of American Public Health Association and the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Chapel Hill, NC

• Compared quantitative health impact estimates from static and dynamic modeling approaches given increased transportation physical activity after a change in the built environment
• Published research findings in peer-reviewed academic journals, including Risk Analysis, the Transportation Research Record, and BioMed Research International
• Findings reported in news outlets including the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch

Durham, NC

• Developed a novel structured consensus method for prioritizing environmental health indicators
• Coordinated a pilot application of this consensus-building approach amongst global experts in environmental health to recommend environmental health indicators for inclusion in the United Nation’s post-2015 Sustainable.
• Reviewed and characterized over 800 climate change adaptation papers in support of a large climate change and public health systematic review effort
• Conducted an international review of environmental health monitoring programs and developed summary materials to support an expert consultation hosted by the World Health Organization in Geneva

• Developed the initial draft of the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Transportation – Public Health Policy, which identified physical activity, safety, and exposure to air pollution as focus areas.
• The Transportation – Public Health Policy was adopted by the North Carolina Board of Transportation in October 2012, making NCDOT one of the first state departments of transportation in the nation to adopt a public.
• Reviewed approaches for integrating health considerations into transportation decision-making at state, regional, and local transportation agencies across the US and presented findings to the Environmental and Policy.
• Assisted NCDOT in developing an indicator-based framework for prioritizing investment in transportation projects
• Conducted a content analysis of state department of transportation (DOT) sustainability plans and synthesized results to improve sustainability-focused decision-making frameworks at state DOTs
• Published research findings presented findings at national and international research conferences

Chapel Hill, NC

• Reviewed local-level hazard mitigation plans and coded plan content using ATLAS.ti
• Worked in teams to interpret plan content consistently relative to an agreed-upon evaluation rubric
• Gained familiarity with consensus-driven research approaches and methods of content analysis

Chapel Hill, NC

• Used spatial regression to estimate air quality in the Raleigh, NC metropolitan area and compare thehealth impacts of three urban development patterns (compact development, baseline and sprawl)
• Reviewed scientific literature linking the built environment to transportation emissions and air quality

• Research project entitled "Urban scale modeling of combined sewer overflow (CSO) abatement via green infrastructure" selected as best summer research project
• Modeled green roofs and rainwater harvesting systems on a micro scale
• Analyzed the fractal characteristics of urban sewersheds; on Horton's Laws of Streams and the Strahler ordering system
• Formulated ideological basis for an urban scale stormwater management model based on fractals to combine of micro and macro scale models

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Science And Engineering

Dissertation: Health Impacts of Transportation and the Built Environment: A Quantitative Risk Assessment Advisor: Dr. Jacqueline MacDonald.

Master’S Degree, City And Regional Planning

Thesis: The Built Environment, Spatial Variation in Fine Particulate Matter, and Attributable Mortality: A Scenario-Based Land-Use.

Master’S Degree, Environmental Sciences And Engineering

Thesis: The Built Environment, Spatial Variation in Fine Particulate Matter, and Attributable Mortality: A Scenario-Based Land-Use.

Bachelor’S Degree, Civil Engineering; Minor In Mathematics; Certificate In Environmental Management, 4.0