Dr. Dominique Lord, President of Lord Highway Safety Analytics, LLC, is a Professor and holder of the A.P. and Florence Wiley Faculty Fellowship in the Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University. Over the last 30 years, Dr. Lord has conducted numerous research studies in the United States, Canada, and across the world in highway design and safety. Since joining Texas A&M, he successfully completed several projects such as “NCHRP 17-58: Safety Prediction Models for Six-Lane and One-Way Urban and Suburban Arterials”, “NCHRP 17-29: Developing a Methodology for Predicting the Safety Performance of Rural Multilane Highways,” TxDOT’s “Analysis of Roadway Departure Crashes on Two-Lane Rural Roads in Texas,” as well as a CDC-funded project titled “Reducing Older Driver Injuries at Intersections using more Accommodating Design Practices.” He was the co-author of Chapters 11, 12 (forthcoming 2ⁿᵈ edition), 17 and 18 of the Highway Safety Manual.

Dr. Lord’s primary interests are conducting fundamental research on accident analysis methodology, new and innovative statistical methods for modeling motor vehicle collisions (including Bayesian statistics), and before-after evaluation techniques. He has extensive experience in data analysis techniques and even developed new tools that have been used by engineers and scientists across the world. His other research interests include problems associated with the crash data collection process, safety audits, human factors related to older drivers and pedestrians, and traffic flow theory. He published a seminal textbook in highway safety titled “Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling” in 2021.He has had more than 165 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and more than 150 papers at international conferences with a peer-reviewed process.

Dr. Lord has been an active member of several TRB Committees for several years, including Highway Safety Performance (ANB25) and a friend of TRB Committee on Safety Data, Analysis and Evaluation (ANB20) and Statistical Methodology (ABJ80). He is just finished is 4-year term as a member of the Standing Committee on Safety Performance and Analysis (ACS20). Finally, he was an area editor for the journal Transportation Research Record for three years and is an Associate Editor for Accident Analysis & Prevention.