Professor & A.P. and Florence Wiley Faculty Fellow
Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
3136 TAMU
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
77843-3136
Tel. (979) 458-3949
Fax. (979) 845-6481
e-mail : d-lord “at” tamu “dot” edu
Last updated: May 4, 2025
Video of Dr. Lord discussing his research program at TTI
Short Biography
Dr. Dominique Lord is a Professor and holder of the A.P. and Florence Wiley Faculty Fellowship in the Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the department, he was an Associate Research Scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute between 2001 and 2004. Over the last 30 years, Dr. Lord has conducted numerous research studies in the United States, Canada, and across the world in highway design and safety. Since joining Texas A&M, he successfully completed several projects such as “NCHRP 17-58: Safety Prediction Models for Six-Lane and One-Way Urban and Suburban Arterials”, “NCHRP 17-29: Developing a Methodology for Predicting the Safety Performance of Rural Multilane Highways,” TxDOT’s “Analysis of Roadway Departure Crashes on Two-Lane Rural Roads in Texas,” as well as a CDC-funded project titled “Reducing Older Driver Injuries at Intersections using more Accommodating Design Practices.” He was the co-author of Chapters 11, 12 (forthcoming 2nd edition), 17 and 18 of the Highway Safety Manual.
Dr. Lord’s primary interests are conducting fundamental research on accident analysis methodology, new and innovative statistical methods for modeling motor vehicle collisions (including Bayesian statistics), and before-after evaluation techniques. He has extensive experience in data analysis techniques and even developed new tools that have been used by engineers and scientists across the world. His other research interests include problems associated with the crash data collection process, safety audits, human factors related to older drivers and pedestrians, and traffic flow theory. He published a seminal textbook in highway safety titled “Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling” in 2021 (currently working on second edition). He has had more than 170 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and more than 155 papers at international conferences with a peer-reviewed process.
Dr. Lord has been an active member of several TRB Committees for several years, including Highway Safety Performance (ANB25) and a friend of TRB Committee on Safety Data, Analysis and Evaluation (ANB20) and Statistical Methodology (ABJ80). He is just finished is 4-year term as a member of the Standing Committee on Safety Performance and Analysis (ACS20). He was an area editor for the journal Transportation Research Record for three years and is an Associate Editor for Accident Analysis & Prevention.
He is the recipient of numerous national awards, such as the Transportation Research Board D. Grant Mickle Award, the 2000 Canadian Association of Road Safety Professional Best Paper Award, the 2010 CUTC-ARTBA New Faculty Member Award, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) New Investigator Research Award. He is a registered Professional Engineer in both the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
Dr. Lord is often sought by the media (print/TV/radio/Web) to discuss his research studies and provide his expertise on topics related to highway safety and traffic engineering. The list can be found in his CV above, which is updated more frequently than this webpage.