Goddard, Tara
individual record
Assistant Professor
Positions:
- Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Architecture
Research Areas:
Streets,
Traffic safety,
Traffic regulations,
Equity,
Local transit accessibility,
Autonomous vehicles,
Automobile drivers,
Semantics,
Social justice,
Driver assistance systems,
Pedestrians,
Roads--Design and construction,
Culture,
Mass media--Social aspects,
Cycling
UN Sustainable Development Goals:
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Twitter
overview
Vulnerable road user safety; roadway safety culture; linguistics and semantics in road safety; driver cognition and attention; transportation planning; traffic safety and crash reduction; design for sustainable transportation; transportation equity and justice; partial/conditional autonomous technology and driver behavior; wildfire planning and evacuation; transportation and heat.
education and training
- Ph.D. in Urban Studies, Portland State University - (Portland, Oregon, United States) 2017
- M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States) 2005
- B.S. in Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara - (Santa Barbara, California, United States) 2002
selected publications
Academic Articles12
- Goddard, T., McDonald, A., Wei, R., & Batra, D. (2022). Advanced Driver Assistance Systems in Top-Selling Vehicles in the United States: Cost, Vehicle Type, and Trim Level Disparities. Findings.
- Ralph, K., Goddard, T., Thigpen, C., & Davis, R. (2022). Intervening at the blotter, not the broadcast: Improving crash coverage by targeting police press releases. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 15, 100669-100669.
- Kim, A. J., Alambeigi, H., Goddard, T., McDonald, A. D., & Anderson, B. A. (2021). Bicyclist-evoked arousal and greater attention to bicyclists independently promote safer driving.. Cogn Res Princ Implic. 6(1), 66.
- Kim, A., Alambeigi, H., Goddard, T., McDonald, A., & Anderson, B. (2021). Linking Threat-Related Attentional Biases Toward Bicyclists to Driving Behavior. Journal of Vision. 21(9), 1861-1861.
- Goddard, T., & Ralph, K. (2020). Words Matter, Even in Traffic: The vital role of language and framing in advancing Vision Zero. Vision Zero Cities Journal: International Journal of Traffic Safety Innovation. 5, 0-2.
Chapters1
- Goddard, T. (2016). Theorizing bicycle justice using social psychology Examining the intersection of mode and race with the conceptual model of roadway interactions. Golub, A., Hoffmann, M. L., Lugo, A. E., & Sandoval, G. F. (Eds.), Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation: Biking for all?. 100-113. Routledge.
Reports1
in the news
- Traffic deaths jump for Black Americans who couldn't afford to stay home during COVID The Philadelphia Tribune June 21, 2021
researcher on
Principal Investigator1
recent teaching activities
- CARC311 Fld Study Design Comm Instructor
- CARC311 Fld Study Design Comm:deu Instructor
- CARC331 Fld Study Design Phil Instructor
- CARC331 Fld Study Design Phil:deu Instructor
- CARC481 Sem Germ Susta Comm Instructor
Email
goddard@tamu.edu
First Name
Tara
Last Name
Goddard
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; 3137 TAMU
College Station, TX 77842
USA
Research Areas:
Streets,
Traffic safety,
Traffic regulations,
Equity,
Local transit accessibility,
Autonomous vehicles,
Automobile drivers,
Semantics,
Social justice,
Driver assistance systems,
Pedestrians,
Roads--Design and construction,
Culture,
Mass media--Social aspects,
Cycling
UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Websites
UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Twitter