Jerry Everett has served as the Associate Director of the University of Tennessee Center for Transportation Research (CTR) for the past 10 plus years. In addition to his leadership responsibilities, Jerry is the program manager of several Tennessee Highway Safety Office grants and the principal investigator for TDOT funded and other sponsored projects where he performs research and provides management oversight. His core research interest and expertise include transportation planning, teen highway safety outreach, K-12 STEM education, travel data collection and travel demand modeling. He has worked professionally in transportation since 1991. Prior to beginning work at UT in 1999, he served as a community planner in the Metropolitan Planning Division of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in Washington, D.C. for 7 years. He holds a PhD., M.S., and B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.