Team
Laurie A. Schintler
Professor Schintler is an expert in the fields of spatio-temporal
analysis, transportation planning and policy, health and medical policy,
network analysis and critical infrastructure.
She is Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Schar School of
Policy and Government at George Mason University.
She has produced over 30 co-authored peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and a co-edited book, New Advances in Transportation and Telecommunications Modeling: Cross-Atlantic Perspectives (2005). She holds a U.S. patent, “System and method for analyzing the structure of logical networks.”
Dr. Schintler has been a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on dozens of grants and contracts, including work on the development of a micro-simulation traffic model for the I-66 corridor to evaluate the impact of SmarTraveler, a traveler information service, on congestion in the Washington, D.C. region. Other contracts have focused on a diverse set of topics including network modeling for critical infrastructure protection, risk analyses of hazardous materials transportation, GIS modeling of an anthrax release in the Washington, D.C. area and the evaluation a welfare-to-work program in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Professor Schintler is also a participant in the STELLA-STAR organization, a joint NSF-ESF sponsored project. She has been an invited participant and expert reviewer for the NISAC, Department of Energy for Department of Homeland Security, the Workshop on Protecting the Nation’s Blood Supply, American Red Cross, and Identifying Weights to Measure Transportation Infrastructure Vulnerabilities for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. She has given numerous invited briefings to industry and agencies within the government, including Federal Reserve Bank, the Department of Homeland Security and the Financial Services Roundtable, and the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute.
She holds the Ph.D. and M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
