Joann Lynch | Resource Systems Group, Inc.

Joann Lynch

Senior Consultant

Joann primarily conducts transportation market research for public agencies. With a focus on travel behavior, she leads studies that inform these agencies’ transportation planning and modeling practices.

As a project manager, she helps them perform innovative research and impactful analysis on day-to-day travel patterns and emerging transportation trends. She specializes in particular in the design and management of smartphone-based transportation studies using RSG’s app, rMove™.

Outside of work, Joann is an avid hiker, aspiring home chef, and seizes any opportunity to explore a new city.

EDUCATION

BA, Geography, Colgate University

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS

Lynch, J., J. Dumont, E. Greene, and J. Ehrlich. “Use of a Smartphone GPS Application for Recurrent Travel Behavior Data Collection.” Transportation Research Record 2673, no. 7 (2019): p. 89–98. doi:10.1177/0361198119848708.

Lynch, J., D. Farmer, J. Ehrlich, and E. Greene. “Designing a data collection program to keep pace with innovations in transportation.” Presented at the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO) Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2019.

Lynch, J., E. Greene and M. Lee. “Using an All-in-one Smartphone GPS Application for Household Travel Survey Data Collection.” Presented at the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, May 2018.

Lynch, J., M. Lee, and L. Flake. “Smartphone GPS Applications as a Mode of Travel Survey Data Collection.” Presented at the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2017.

Cavallo, J. Lynch, and P. Scull. “The Digital Divide in Citizen-Initiated Government Contacts: A GIS Approach.” Journal of Urban Technology 21, no. 4 (2014): p. 77-93. doi: 10.1080/10630732.2014.942167