Brian Wolshon, Ph.D. P.E., PTOE, is the Edward A. and Karen Wax Schmitt Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Louisiana State University and the founding Director of the US DOT sponsored Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency. Dr. Wolshon is an internationally recognized expert on evacuation, emergency, and resilient traffic planning and management. For 20 years, he also chaired the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Emergency Evacuation. Over his career Dr. Wolshon has served as an expert consultant to dozens of federal, state, and local government agencies; national laboratories; and engineering firms throughout the United States and abroad. He has authored scores of federal reports and guidance documents as well as book chapters and more than 70 scientific journal papers on topics related to transportation planning and engineering. Among the most notable of these are Large-scale Evacuation: The Analysis, Modeling, and Management of Emergency Relocation from Hazardous Areas and the 7th Edition of the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ Traffic Engineering Handbook.
