Ms. Hayes is a Senior Associate at Fehr & Peers with 20 years of experience in local, regional, and statewide transportation, land use, and goods movement/port planning, analysis and project implementation. She has been involved in numerous freight projects and CEQA/NEPA analyses (marine, rail, and highway, as well as logistics warehousing/distribution development planning) in California, as well as Utah, Colorado, Texas, Georgia, Nevada, Mississippi, Michigan, South Carolina, Washington and Oregon. Ms. Hayes has served as a key researcher for freight and logistics studies funded through the National Cooperative Highway/Freight Research Programs (NCHRP/NCFRP) on supply chain resiliency and truck bottlenecks, and she is currently working on one to address autonomous freight vehicles. Ms. Hayes has participated in policy development at the local, regional and federal levels, and understands the importance of balancing land uses and the movement of goods and people to ensure the sustainability of health and jobs in our communities.

Ms. Hayes holds a Master’s of City & Regional Planning and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Texas, Arlington. In addition to being the incoming Chair of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Intermodal Freight Transport Committee, Ms. Hayes is also a member of TRB’s Marine Environment Committee and a member of American Planning Association (APA) and Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS).