MICHELLE FOWLER

Dir. Applied Research | Transportation Research Center

Michelle Fowler is the Director of Applied Research at Transportation Research Center Inc. (TRC), where she leads the Advanced Mobility group in tackling some of the most pressing safety questions in modern transportation.  Her teams test and evaluate cutting-edge advanced driver assistance systems, automated vehicles, and connected vehicle technologies to advance safe deployment of emerging mobility solutions.  Fowler also leads TRC’s Research Consortium for Crashworthiness in Automated Driving Systems (RCCADS), a consortium of government agencies, automotive manufacturers, and suppliers to develop a foundation of research to inform the development of safety validation methods and tools for automated vehicles, focusing on occupant protection and crashworthiness.