Libby joined the staff of the University of North Carolina (UNC) Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) in 2001. As a senior research associate for the Center, Libby’s primary focus areas include bicycle and pedestrian safety, and crash causes, including environmental and driver risk factors such as speeding and aggressive driving. Libby has served as the principal investigator or key researcher on a number of national, state and local studies that have examined roadway and behavioral crash factors, and identified appropriate countermeasures. She has also conducted pedestrian and bicyclist safety and access research, and worked with agency representatives and project staff to develop evidence-based case studies, published guides and interactive tools and resources to help states and communities make safety improvements. Results of her research have been presented at national conferences and can be found in a variety of published reports and articles. In addition to her research work at HSRC, Libby is the founder and co-chair since 2011 of the joint sub-committee on Traffic Speed and Safety of the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Academies of Science. Libby holds a master’s degree in biology from Wake Forest University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Carol is a Senior Planner with nearly 30 years’ experience in local government, policy development, government relations, and multi-modal transportation planning. She is a complete streets instructor with the Complete Streets coalitions, and has conducted workshops in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kansas. As a Senior Planner with Toole Design Group, she has served as project manager for pedestrian plans in Louisville, (Kentucky), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and Raleigh (North Carolina). Her access to transit work includes projects in Durham and Charlotte (North Carolina), and Prince George’s County (Maryland). During her ten years with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Carol headed up several pedestrian and bicycle initiatives, including regional access to transit workshops and heading the agency’s Transit Access Programs branch. Committed to Safe Routes to School programs, Carol is the project manager for the Virginia SRTS program, and the communication and marketing manager for the Georgia DOT’s SRTS Resource Center. She has developed SRTS plans for schools in North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware, and Washington, DC. Earlier in her career, Carol worked for the cities of Alexandria (Virginia) and Rockville (Maryland). Carol holds graduate degrees in East Asian Studies and Urban Management/Planning.

Vivian Coleman has 19 years of experience in municipal planning with expertise in multi-modal transportation planning, zoning and subdivision administration and landscape design. She has a broad background in project management, policy development and implementation and ordinance revisions. Vivian is a certified planner and a registered landscape architect in North Carolina and is a qualified instructor for the North Carolina Safe Routes to School program. Vivian currently serves as the Center City Transportation Program Manager for the Charlotte Department of Transportation where she oversees a variety of planning and design initiatives in Uptown, including complete streets projects, implementation of the wayfinding and parking guidance system, and curb lane management and freeway underpass projects. She previously served as the City of Charlotte’s Pedestrian Program Manager, the Planning Director for the Town of Knightdale, North Carolina and held various planner and inspections positions for the City of Raleigh, Town of Knightdale and Town of Cary. Vivian holds a Master’s Degree of Landscape Architecture from North Carolina State University. During her graduate work she lived overseas as a park designer in Kotka, Finland.