Jodi Godfrey » Employee Directory

Jodi Godfrey is a Florida native and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) at the University of South Florida (USF), where she works on the Transit Safety and Workforce Development Program.  Ms. Godfrey received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from USF. Jodi serves as the vice chair of the American Public Transportation Association Bus Safety Committee. Ms. Godfrey is also the secretary of the Transportation Research Board Standing Committee on Transit Safety and Security (AP080) and a member of the Transportation Research Board Women and Gender in Transportation Committee (AME20). Jodi is passionate about safety, improving workforce development in the transportation industry, and fighting to end human trafficking. Ms. Godfrey has published work related to employee safety reporting, crashworthiness and crash energy management of transit buses, onboard technologies to reduce accidents and incidents, National Household Travel Survey trend data analysis, the role of public transit in natural disaster response, attracting and retaining the workforce to the transportation industry, training initiatives to reduce accidents and incidents, and so much more. Jodi’s passion for improving safety and security is rooted in both her personal experience and her incredible hope for the future.