Research Team

Patrick McCarthy
School of Economics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0615
404-894-4914 (voice)
404-894-1890 (fax)
patrick.mccarthy@econ.gatech.edu

Dr. Patrick S. McCarthy is a Professor and Chair of the School of Economics in Ivan Allen College at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an expert on transportation economics, regulation of transportation safety, public transit costs and privatization, traffic congestion, and civil infrastructure.

Professor McCarthy also is an expert on applied econometrics, including discrete choice econometrics. Professor McCarthy has completed commissioned reports on highway safety for the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Government of Quebec. He has consulted on transportation matter to TRW, Shell Oil, the Indiana Attorney General, and other public and private sector clients.

Professor McCarthy is the author of Transportation Economics Theory and Practice: A Case Study Approach (Blackwell Publishers 2001). He has published more than fifty articles in academic journals and volumes. Professor McCarthy is an associate editor of Transportation Research and the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum.

He previously taught for twenty-two years at Purdue University, where he was Professor of Economics and Civil Engineering. Professor McCarthy earned a Ph.D. in economics in 1976 from the Claremont Graduate School and a B.A. in economics in 1971 from the University of California, San Diego.