She is the Research Director of the Mobility21 Transportation Research Center, a national University Transportation Center (UTC) and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Ryerson builds models to understand the system effects of transportation and how perturbations to the system – from new technologies like autonomous vehicles to disasters and infrastructure outages – impact traveler choice and mobility, facility congestion, and, more broadly, the local and regional economy and environment. Session Topic: Economic & Social Roundtable