Bio
Dr. Pankaj Dahal serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Transportation Analytics & Decision Science Group (TADS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His primary focus is on automating data acquisition, processing, and compilation for the Transportation Energy Data Book. Additionally, he plays an active role in the development and maintenance of both the frontend and backend systems for the New York State Department of Transportation (nysact.ornl.gov) and the National Household Travel Survey (nhts.ornl.gov). He also works on processing and analyzing Carload Waybill Samples from the Surface Transportation Board (STB), as well as the assignment of flows to North American Rail Lines from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). He has recently contributed to the development of Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) version 5.
Education
- Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, from University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Master's in Statistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- B.E. in Civil Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal.