Prof. Patricia L. Mokhtarian

Patricia Mokhtarian is the Susan G and Christopher D Pappas Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She joined Georgia Tech in 2013, after 23 years at the University of California, Davis. Prior to that, she spent nine years in regional planning and consulting in Southern California, after completing her PhD at Northwestern University.

Dr. Mokhtarian has specialized in the application of rigorous quantitative methods to the study of travel behavior for more than 35 years. A key research interest has been the impact of telecommunications technology on travel behavior, with additional interests in land use and transportation interactions (especially the influence of the built environment on travel behavior, after accounting for self-selection), attitudes toward travel itself, multitasking, travel time budgets, induced demand, and congestion-response behavior.

She has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, technical reports, and other publications. She is a recent Past Chair of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research, is an editor of the journal Transportation, and serves on the editorial boards of six other transportation journals.

Further information can be found in Dr. Mokhtarian's Georgia Tech Faculty Profile