Peter Stopher, Professor of Transport Planning, University of Sydney, Founding Member and First Chair of the TRB' s Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values

Peter Stopher is Professor of Transport Planning at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney, a position he has held since the beginning of 2001. He was educated at the University of London, where he received both his BSc (Eng.) in Civil Engineering and Ph.D. in Traffic Studies. He has been a professor at Northwestern University, Cornell University, McMaster University, and Louisiana State University, where he held the endowed chair of the Louisiana Land and Exploration Company. He spent 11 years from 1980 through 1990 as a full-time transport planning consultant in private industry. Prof. Stopher has 40 years of professional experience in transport planning, travel forecasting, travel-behaviour modelling, and associated areas. He has an international reputation in travel-demand modelling, and the development of new procedures for travel forecasting. He was one of the pioneers of the development of disaggregate travel-demand models and was the first to use and apply the logit model in the 1960s. He has been in the forefront of work to assess the shortcomings of conventional travel-forecasting models with respect to the demands of clean air legislation and goals. He was selected by the US Federal Highway Administration to develop one of four concept papers on a new paradigm for travel forecasting. He was a founding member of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values, serving as its first Chairman from 1971-1977, and again from 1995-1997 and was awarded Emeritus Membership of the Committee in 2002; he also founded the series of International Conferences on Traveller Behaviour that began in 1973 and which will hold its next meeting in Kyoto, Japan in 2006.

In addition to work in travel forecasting, Dr. Stopher has also developed a substantial reputation in the field of data collection, particularly for the support of travel forecasting and analysis. He pioneered the development of travel and activity diaries as a data-collection mechanism, and has also written extensively on issues of sample design, data expansion, nonresponse biases, and measurement issues. He recently completed a report on standardising household travel surveys, and is working on use of GPS devices in connection with personal travel surveys and for evaluation of voluntary travel behaviour change. Dr. Stopher initiated the TRB Subcommittee on Survey Methods, which is now a Committee of the TRB. He co-chaired the international conference on Transport Surveys: Raising the Standard, in Eibsee, Germany in May 1997, the following conference in Kruger Park, South Africa in 2001, and the International Conference on Travel Survey Methods in Costa Rica in 2004.

彼得.斯托弗，从2001年开始担任悉尼大学交通与物流学院交通规划教授。他在伦敦大学接受教育并获得土木工程学士学位和交通研究博士学位。他曾在美国西北大学、康奈尔大学、麦克马斯特大学担任教授，还是路易斯安那州立大学的Louisiana Land and Exploration基金主席。从1980到1990年，他为私营机构做全职交通规划咨询工作。斯托弗教授在交通规划、出行预测、出行行为模型等相关方面有着40年丰富的研究经验。在交通需求模型、新型出行预测程序开发方面也享有国际声誉。他是离散交通需求模型开发的先驱者之一，也是上世纪60年代将分类评定模型Logit Model运用于实践的第一人。他一直工作在传统交通预测模型缺陷评估的最前沿，并强调该模型应充分尊重以立法的形式减少空气污染并达到环保目的。他受美国联邦高速公路管理局聘请开发四个概念项目之一的新型出行预测模型范式。他是美国运输研究协会（TRB）交通行为及评估分委会的创始人之一，并于1971－1977年担任该委员会首任主席，1995－1997年曾再次当选，2002年被该委员会授予终身会员荣誉；他还于1973年发起了交通行为研究系列国际年会的首届会议，下次会议将于2006年在日本京都举行。

除了在出行预测领域的研究之外，斯托弗博士在出行预测及分析支持系统数据库建设方面也卓有建树。他是出行和日常活动为基础的数据采集系统开发的先行者，他还写过大量有关样本设计、数据扩展、抽样偏差及测定方法问题的文章。他最近完成了关于家庭出行测量标准化的报告，并致力于全球定位系统（GPS）在个人出行测定及主动出行行为变化评估中的运用。斯托弗博士发起成立了TRB的交通调查方法分委会，该分委会现已成为TRB的常设委员会。他是1997年5月在德国艾比湖举行的主题为：Raising the Standard的交通测量国际会议联合主席，该会议于2001年在南非克鲁格国家公园再次召开，同时也是2004年在哥斯达黎加召开的出行调查方法国际会议的主席之一。