Dr. Patrick McCarthy is Professor Emeritus, School of Economics (SOE) in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. From 2000 – 2011, he served as School Chair and from 2011 – 2020 as SOE Professor. He also served as Director, Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies (CPBIS) at Georgia Tech. His research areas include transportation economics, industry studies, regulation, and applied econometrics. He is author of Transportation Economics Theory and Practice: A Case Study Approach (Blackwell Publishers, 2001), has published widely in academic journals and edited volumes, and has received research funding from the Sloan Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Georgia Department of Transportation, Georgia Tech University Transportation Center, the Federal Aviation Administration, National Science Foundation, and AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. He is on the editorial boards of Transportation Research: Part E and Journal of Transport Literature, is incoming President of the Transportation Research Forum, and current President of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group. Prior to Georgia Tech, he spent two years at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) and twenty-two years at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana). He has held visiting positions in Greece, Singapore, Germany, and China.