Carl Sundstrom is a Senior Research Associate at the Highway Safety contributing to engineering and research projects surrounding general highway safety and pedestrian and bicycle-related issues. Mr. Sundstrom led the development and serves as the Program Manager for the Walk Friendly Communities program, a national program to evaluate and promote walkability to cities through recognition, assistance, and education. He also serves as a Program Manager for the FHWA-sponsored national bicycle and pedestrian clearinghouse, the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC), a Federal Clearinghouse of pedestrian- and bicycle-related training materials and resources. Mr. Sundstrom is an instructor for Road Safety 101, an online certificate aimed at teaching the fundamentals of road safety coordinated through the Highway Safety Research Center and has been involved in developing and teaching a graduate-level pedestrian and bicycle planning course. Mr. Sundstrom is a registered professional engineer in North Carolina and a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering.

Carol is a Senior Planner with nearly 30 years’ experience in local government, policy development, government relations, and multi-modal transportation planning. She is a complete streets instructor with the Complete Streets coalitions, and has conducted workshops in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kansas. As a Senior Planner with Toole Design Group, she has served as project manager for pedestrian plans in Louisville, (Kentucky), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and Raleigh (North Carolina). Her access to transit work includes projects in Durham and Charlotte (North Carolina), and Prince George’s County (Maryland). During her ten years with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Carol headed up several pedestrian and bicycle initiatives, including regional access to transit workshops and heading the agency’s Transit Access Programs branch. Committed to Safe Routes to School programs, Carol is the project manager for the Virginia SRTS program, and the communication and marketing manager for the Georgia DOT’s SRTS Resource Center. She has developed SRTS plans for schools in North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware, and Washington, DC. Earlier in her career, Carol worked for the cities of Alexandria (Virginia) and Rockville (Maryland). Carol holds graduate degrees in East Asian Studies and Urban Management/Planning.