Senior Transportation Economist, Cambridge Systematics. |
Dr. Isabel Victoria-Jaramillo’s career started in 1993 working with the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (PRHTA). During her eight years with the PRHTA, she served as Assistant to the Executive Director of the PRHTA and developed design policy and guideline documents, standard drawings, and construction specifications for roadway projects. From 2001 to 2006, Isabel worked for the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. As a Graduate Research Assistant, she focused on the areas of transport economics, freight data needs at the metropolitan level, and environmental justice assessment of toll road projects. From January 2007 to June 2015, Isabel worked for CDM Smith as a Senior Transportation Analyst, gaining extensive experience in commodity data analysis, transportation and logistics requirements necessary to support integrated, multimodal freight corridors, transportation planning, and economic models. She served as the project manager for the multi-year contract funded by the USTDA that provided the Secretariat of Communications and Transport of Mexico (SCT) with a national framework for addressing the transportation and logistics requirements necessary to support an integrated, multimodal transportation system in Mexico and enhance future economic growth and development opportunities in that country. With CDM Smith, she served as Colombia Country Manager/Manager of Client Accounts in 2013-Mid 2014. For Corficolombiana, the Colombia’s largest investment consortium, she managed the consulting services for the implementation of Electronic Toll Collection on their highway concessions. For the Colombia Ministry of Transport, she led the development of municipal road safety plans for ten medium-sized Colombian cities. Dr. Victoria-Jaramillo joined Cambridge Systematics (CS) in August 2015. She is a Senior Transportation Economist with more than 20 years of experience in cost-benefit and economic impact analyses of existing and proposed transportation infrastructure for passenger and goods movement; state of good repair of transportation infrastructure for Federal, State, and local agencies; statewide, regional, and urban freight planning; freight corridor analysis; commodity flow analysis; freight performance metrics; and road safety. Isabel has lead numerous studies, including the ongoing economic role of freight rail in Texas and how the Texas economy benefits from freight transportation assets and services, the economic impact of VIA 2040 Long Range Comprehensive Transportation Plan (LRCTP) on the Greater San Antonio region, cost-benefit analyses in support of TIGER, FASTLANE and INFRA grant applications, the economic cost of failure to invest in Mississippi highways, the Economic Impact of the BART Extension from Alameda County to Santa Clara County in California, and the economic impact of the Transbay passenger intermodal center and redevelopment area in San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Victoria-Jaramillo has used both quantitative models (REMI and IMPLAN) and qualitative methods to estimate the full range of benefits from transportation improvements and related economic growth. |