Katie Asmussen is a research assistant professor with the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute’s energy Storage and Transportation Convergent Research Initiative. She also holds an appointment with the University of Tennessee’s Center for Transportation Research. 

Her research interests span travel behavior, travel demand modeling, transportation planning, vehicle automation, electrification, choice modeling, and econometrics. Asmussen’s work centers on how digital and automated systems are reshaping work and personal life, aiming to predict future travel behavior and demand. 

By integrating engineering with social science, her research develops human-centered solutions to improve traffic safety and reduce congestion. She focuses on interdisciplinary approaches that consider both technological advancements and the behavior of individuals and groups within a “humans-in-the-digital-loop” framework.

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