Maren Outwater, PE, Senior Director
- Integrated land use, travel, and air quality modeling
- Forecasting of activities, toll strategies, transit ridership
- Peer review, research and training
- Commercial vehicle and freight forecasting
Ms. Maren Outwater, PE, has 25 years of experience in developing forecasting models for land use, transportation, environmental, and economic analysis and 20 years of progressive experience in managing complex model development efforts. She has developed and enhanced models to provide practical solutions for today's transportation, growth, and economic development challenges. Ms. Outwater has managed large-scale model development and application for activity-based travel, land use forecasting, evaluation of toll strategies, ridership forecasting (local, regional, and intercity), environmental and economic analysis, and commercial vehicle and freight forecasting. She has also managed development of geodatabases to maintain and update spatial data used in these models.
Before joining RSG as a Director, Ms. Outwater most recently served as the Director of Data Systems and Analysis at the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) in Seattle, WA, where she managed a staff of 25 and a budget of 7 million biannually and led the land use and travel modeling, geographic information systems and information technology activities of the agency. Prior to this, she managed the West Coast practice of Cambridge Systematics’ Travel Demand Forecasting business line.
Education
- MUP, Transportation Planning, University of Michigan
- BS, Civil Engineering, University of Michigan
Publications
- Outwater, Maren; Spitz, Greg; Lobb, John; Campbell, Margarget; Sana, Bhargava; Pendyala, Ram; Woodford, William; Characteristics of Premium Transit Services that affect Mode Choice, TCRP H-37, Summary of Phase 1, Transportation, 2011, Volume 38, Number 4, Pages 605-623, July 2011.
- Simonson, Mark; Outwater, Maren; Caballero, Peter; Jensen, Michael; Testing The Puget Sound's Land Use Model Response to Transportation Strategies, Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research, Volume 3: Issue 2, ISSN: 1942-7867, April 2011.
- Outwater, Maren; Tierney, Kevin; Bradley, Mark; Sall, Elizabeth; Kuppam, Arun; Modugula, Vamsee; California Statewide Model for High-Speed Rail, Journal of Choice Modeling, March 2010.
- Shiftan, Yoram; Outwater, Maren; Zhou, Yushuang; Transit Market Research using Structural Equation Modeling and Attitudinal Market Segmentation, Journal of the World Conference on Transport Research Society, Volume 15, Number 3, May 2008.
- Outwater, Maren; Charlton, Billy; The San Francisco Model in Practice: Validation, Testing, and Application; Innovations in Travel Modeling 2006 Conference, Austin, TX, May 2006, p. 24-29.
- Fischer, Michael; Outwater, Maren; Cheng, Lihung Luke; Ahanotu, Dike; Calix, Robert; An Innovative Framework for Modeling Freight Transportation in Los Angeles County, California; Transportation Research Record 1906, 2005.
Upcoming Events
- Jun. 1, 2012 : Tour-based and Supply Chain Modeling for Freight
Recent Events
- May. 2, 2012 : Tour-based and Supply Chain Modeling for Freight
- May. 1, 2012 : Improving Mode Choice Models with Awareness, Consideration, and Attitudes
- May. 1, 2012 : An Integrated Land-Use Transport Model Application
- Apr. 30, 2012 : Freight Forecasting Workshop