Fred Mannering is currently a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Executive Director of the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR)at the University of South Florida. Previously he was the Charles Pankow Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, and was a professor at the University of Washington and the Pennsylvania State University before that. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he received his engineering bachelors degree from the University of Saskatchewan, masters degree from Purdue University and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Mannering's expertise is in the application of statistical and econometric methods to study a variety of subject areas including highway safety, transportation economics, automobile demand, and travel behavior.