Peter Ohlms

Education

M.R.P., Transportation and Land Use, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.S., Civil Engineering (Transportation), University of Virginia

Biography

Peter B. Ohlms, AICP is a Senior Research Scientist with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). He researches bicycle/pedestrian, transit, and planning topics for the VDOT’s research division, the Virginia Transportation Research Council. He has over 20 years of experience in multimodal transportation planning and is usually a bike commuter and occasionally a bus driver. He holds a Master of Regional Planning degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a civil engineering degree from the University of Virginia. His research includes road diets, bike box/turn box evaluation, statewide non-motorized travel monitoring programs, and low-speed pedestrian- and bicycle-alert systems for transit buses.

He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Ohlms chairs the Transportation Research Board's Standing Committee on Transit System Planning and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program's Project Panel on Implementing A Guidebook for Urban and Suburban Roadway Cross Section Reallocation. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the VTRC Tilton E. Shelburne Award, the VCTIR Horizon Award, and the Egan Award for Outstanding Application for Information Technology.