Lisa Aultman-Hall (She/Her)

Lisa Aultman-Hall, PhD joined Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) at the University of Waterloo in 2020. From 2020 to 2026, she was Chair of Waterloo SYDE where she is proud to have overseen hiring of 14 new faculty as well as the creation or renewal of 3 of the programs in the department. Thanks to donor funding, Lisa's time as Chair included significant design of new classroom and lab renovations.

After graduating in 1996 with a PhD from McMaster University, she served as a Professor of Civil Engineering at the Universities of Kentucky, Connecticut and Vermont. Prof. Aultman-Hall focuses on transportation systems, especially methods to collect unique databases for modeling and analysis of long-distance intercity travel, electric vehicles, network resiliency, streetscape design, and non-motorized transportation. She was the founding Director of the interdisciplinary Vermont Transportation Research Center (TRC) whose focus included land use and transportation models.

Prof. Aultman-Hall's current research focuses on modelling long-distance travel patterns and electric vehicle (EV) charging behaviour. Her work involves travel surveys designed with her graduate students as well as the National Travel Survey of Canada.

• 1996, Doctorate Civil Engineering, McMaster University, Canada

• 1993, Master of Applied Science Civil Engineering, Queen's University, Canada

• 1991, Bachelor of Applied Science Civil Engineering, McMaster University, Canada

• SYDE 262 - Engineering Economics of Design
  • Taught in 2022
• SYDE 536 - Modelling Transportation Systems
  • Taught in 2026
• SYDE 599 - Special Topics in Systems Design Engineering
  • Taught in 2021, 2025

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Aultman-Hall L., Onayev A., Dowds J., and LaMondia J.J., Understanding the relationship between mode and destination choices for personal out-of-town travel, Travel Behaviour and Society, Volume 31, 399-409, Canada, 2023.

• Ullman H., and Aultman-Hall L., Exploring motivations and barriers for long-distance trips of adult women Vermonters, Travel Behaviour and Society, Volume 21, 37-47, United States, 2020.

• Dowds J., Aultman-Hall L., and LaMondia J.J., Comparing alternative methods of collecting self-assessed overnight long-distance travel frequencies, Travel Behaviour and Society, Volume 19, 124-136, United States, 2020.

• Aultman-Hall L., and Ullman H., Long-distance and intercity travel, Mapping the Travel Behavior Genome, 187-207, United States, 2020.

• Berliner R.M., Aultman-Hall L., and Circella G., Exploring the Self-Reported Long-Distance Travel Frequency of Millennials and Generation X in California, Transportation Research Record, Volume 127, 208-218, United States, 2018.

• Aultman-Hall L., Harvey C., Sullivan J., and LaMondia J.J., The implications of long-distance tour attributes for national travel data collection in the United States, Transportation, Volume 45, 875-903, United States, 2018.

• Xiao X., Aultman-Hall L., Manning R., and Voigt B., The impact of spatial accessibility and perceived barriers on visitation to the US national park system, Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 68, 205-214, United States, 2018.

• Aultman-Hall L., Lamondia J.J., Ullman H., and Suender M., Surveying social network geography to model long-distance travel, Transportation Research Procedia, Volume 32, 542-552, United States, 2018.

• Harvey C., Aultman-Hall L., Troy A., and Hurley S.E., Streetscape skeleton measurement and classification, Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, Volume 44, 668-692, United States, 2017.

• Dowds J., Sentoff K., Sullivan J.L., and Aultman-Hall L., Impacts of model resolution on transportation network criticality rankings, Transportation Research Record, Volume 127, 93-100, United States, 2017.