Natalia Barbour
Former academic | Research in travel behavior and transportation safety | Now Transportation Planner
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Dr. Natalia Barbour is currently a Senior Transportation Planner at MetroPlan Orlando. Before joining MetroPlan Orlando she served as an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida and Delft University of Technology. During her time in academia she taught courses on transportation systems and climate change mitigation and authored a book chapter on transport and its environmental impacts (chapter 10 available here). Together with other TU Delft scientists, Dr. Barbour recorded an online educational program on edX Climate-Neutral World: Theory, Applications and Taking Action, where she taught two weeks on cities, transport, and climate mitigation. Prior to joining TU Delft she was a Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she led the development of New Mobility course for MIT edX platform and collaborated with experts from around the world on how to leverage mobility disruptions to create better cities.
She graduated with her doctorate from the University of South Florida where she used statistical and econometric models to study the adoption and usage patterns of new transportation systems such as bike-sharing, ride-sourcing, and shared automated vehicles.
She was serving on the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports and was a guest editor of the special Collection: Sustainable Transportation and Mobility Solutions.
interests
Travel behavior
Mobility adoption
Cycling
Non-motorized travel
Health
Sustainability
Environment
key publications
Barbour, N., Abdel-Aty, M., 2024. Rethinking cycling safety: The role of gender in cyclist crash injury severity outcomes. Analytic Methods in Accident Research 44, 100349. (link)
Barbour, N., Abdel-Aty, M., Yang, S., Mannering, F., 2024. Pedestrian injury severities resulting from vehicle/pedestrian intersection crashes: An assessment of COVID-contributing temporal shifts. Analytic Methods in Accident Research 43, 100334. (link)
Barbour, N., Mannering, F., 2023. Intended cycling frequency and the role of happiness and environmental friendliness after COVID-19. Scientific Reports 13, 636, 1–9. (link)
education
B.S., Physics
Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland)
M.S.C.E., TransportationEng.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ph.D., Transportation Eng.
University of South Florida
Postdoctoral Associate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology