Peter Ohlms
Senior Research Scientist, Virginia DOT
Biography
Peter Ohlms, AICP, researches bicycle/pedestrian, transit, and planning topics for the Virginia DOT’s research division, the Virginia Transportation Research Council. He has over 10 years of experience in multimodal transportation planning and is usually a bike commuter and occasionally a bus driver. He holds a Master of Regional Planning degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a civil engineering degree from the University of Virginia. His current and recent research includes road diets, bike box/turn box evaluation, statewide non- motorized travel monitoring programs, and low-speed pedestrian- and bicycle-alert systems for transit buses.