Dr. Monique Stinson is the Freight Estimation, Forecasting and Analysis Manager at the USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, where she manages the Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) program. She has led the release of two new FAF products including the Preliminary Annual Estimates and the Experimental County-Level Flows. Previously, Dr. Stinson led research in urban and long-distance freight at Argonne National Laboratory. Her novel, agent-based freight transportation model--called CRISTAL--won a Best Paper award at TRB in 2023, and is the foundation for continuing research at Argonne. During her consulting career, she developed the first supply chain and logistics model to be implemented by a US MPO, and she conducted many other freight modeling, planning, and data studies for MPOs and states. Dr. Stinson is a member of the TRB Freight Data Committee and is an editor for the Transportation Research Record and Transportation Letters. She previously served as a member of the TRB Freight Planning and Logistics Committee and chair of the Freight Modeling Subcommittee. Dr. Stinson earned her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her BS and MS at the University of Texas at Austin.

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