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Transportation Safety Researcher
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Dr. Matthew Raifman is an expert on estimating the co-benefits of sustainable transportation, with academic experience modeling transport-related physical activity, estimating the health effects of air pollution, and quantifying disparities in traffic fatalities by race/ethnicity. At SafeTREC, his research focuses on understanding how the changing composition of the passenger vehicle fleet impacts incidence of traffic fatalities, unpacking how automated vehicles may affect road safety, and exploring novel approaches to setting speed limits in the U.S.
He previously was a senior manager with Ford Smart Mobility, where he led Ford’s public-private partnerships to pilot autonomous vehicles in both Miami Dade County and Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Ford, he was a senior advisor with the Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities initiative at Johns Hopkins University, where he advised mayors, city managers, and executive teams on performance analytics and open data, and led over a dozen technical assistance projects across the U.S. In addition, he has served as a science and technology fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, a transportation performance management lead in the Governor’s Office in Maryland, and as a delivery unit expert in the President’s Office of the World Bank. As a researcher, he has also conducted economic and financial analysis at both the World Resources Institute and the Brookings Institution, co-authoring reports evaluating the social benefits and costs of bus rapid transit and global financial flows to sustainable transport.
Matt holds a doctorate from Boston University in Environmental Health, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Tufts University.
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