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Executive Director

Steven Jones is the former James R. Cudworth Professor of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering at The University of Alabama where he now serves as Executive Director of the Alabama Transportation Institute and leads its Transportation Policy Research Center. Steven has 30 years of transportation engineering and planning experience spanning both academic and private sector consulting appointments in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and in sub-Saharan Africa. He spent 2019 teaching and conducting transportation research as a Fulbright Scholar at the Namibia University of Science and Technology, served as a Fulbright Scholar Alumni Ambassador from 2021 to 2023, and currently serves on the board of the Alabama Chapter of the Fulbright Association. 

Jones is the Technology Transfer (T2) Director for the Center for Regional and Rural Connected Communities (CR2C2), a USDOT-funded Region IV University Transportation Center (UTC). He serves as an Associate Director of The National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR).  Additionally, he leads the Alabama teams under the National Center for Rural Road safety and the FHWA New Mobility Center of Excellence, in which Alabama brings a rural perspective to this national effort.

He has authored or co-authored more than 300 journal articles, conference papers, design manuals, and project reports on a range of transportation topics. Jones is a charter member of the American Society of Civil Engineers Transportation and Development Institute and former chair of its Public Transportation committee. He is an active member of the Transportation Research Board and currently serves on its Committee on Rural, Intercity Bus, and Specialized Transportation. Additionally, he serves on the Institute of Transportation Engineers Standing Committee on Transit. Jones is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Transportation Safety and Security and the African Geographical Review.