He has more than 25 years of experience working on transportation issues and conducting research regarding the use of technology to improve transportation sustainability, mobility and security. He is leading an effort to use statewide trucking industry GPS data to enable the quantification of roadway network performance for freight. McCormack has also worked at a Norwegian research agency testing freight technology, explored the relationship between land use and transportation, developed transportation applications for geographic information systems and managed a series of border and freight technology projects for the Washington State Department of Transportation. He has an M.S. in civil engineering and a Ph.D. in geography, both from the University of Washington.