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Richard Wallace
Richard Wallace, M.S., is a Senior Project Manager with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) and has more than 15 years experience designing, conducting, and managing transportation projects and research. He serves as the project manager on CAR’s work with the Michigan Department of Transportation and plays a leading role in CAR’s work to establish the Connected Vehicle Proving Center (CVPC). Prior to rejoining CAR in April 2007, Mr. Wallace held the positions of Research Scientist with the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) and Lecturer in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Just prior to rejoining CAR, Mr. Wallace served as the lead scientist for MTRI’s “Transportation Applications of Restricted Use Technology Study” and led two of the four pilot studies that MTRI implemented in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Transportation, including those associated with traffic queues and delay and estimation of AADT with remote sensing. Prior to the formation of MTRI (formed out of the sale of a division of the Altarum Institute), he completed and served as Co-Principal Investigator for a study entitled the “Cost Benefit of Providing Non-emergency Medical Transportation.” This groundbreaking study, completed under contract to the Transit Cooperative Research Program of Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, compared the healthcare costs and benefits to the additional transportation costs of providing non-emergency medical transportation-to-transportation- disadvantaged persons that face transportation barriers to obtaining needed medical care. Mr. Wallace's research has been presented at leading transportation venues, including the annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, ITS America, and the Community Transportation Association of America, and published in leading journals, such as Transportation Research Record and the Journal of Public Transportation.
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