Research Fellow
Center for Sustainable Communities
Adjunct Associate Professor
Dept of Community & Regional Planning
Temple University

Dr. Loveless is a nationally known expert on the social and economic impacts of transportation infrastructure and policies. She has performed research commissioned by the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, served as a panelist and moderator at a number of Transportation Research Board conferences, and is an appointed member of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Social and Economic Factors in Transportation and Committee on Transportation and Economic Development. She has also been a featured speaker at Federal Highway Administration and Transportation Research Board workshops, and was a researcher and contributing author for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program project that produced the Guidebook for Assessing the Social and Economic Effects of Transportation Projects. She has been invited by numerous community groups as a program panelist and speaker and has been a guest lecturer in courses at the University of Pennsylvania (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences - Department of Systems Engineering, and the Graduate School of Fine Arts - Department of City and Regional Planning).

In a decade of practice as a transportation consultant to private and public sector clients, Dr. Loveless has worked on air quality and sustainability issues related to transportation, assessed alternative transportation modes (both motorized and nonmotorized), researched and evaluated transportation enhancement projects, intermodal systems, facility designs, transit-oriented development, land use and labor market impacts, economic development impacts, transportation pricing policies, and innovative project financing.

Dr. Loveless holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, master’s degrees in economics from American University and in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her training and work as a transportation consultant, Dr. Loveless worked as an international trade and development specialist and economist for the Federal Government in Washington, D.C.,and as a market analyst for Scott Paper Company.