Robert Harold Wertman, AICP, PTP
Master of Urban Planning 2013
Consultant at RSG, Inc.
Robert Wertman is a consultant at RSG, a consulting practice specializing in designing, implementing, and applying sophisticated data-driven analytics to help understand why people and transportation systems do what they do and help inform policy-makers on critical infrastructure decisions. prior to RSG, Robert was the principal transportation planner at the Madison County Council of Governments (MCCOG) in Anderson, Ind.
Robert has a master's degree in urban and regional planning from Ball State University and two bachelor's degrees from Michigan State University: one in urban and regional planning (2011) and another in sociology (2011). He is a certified planner with the American Planning Association (APA). In addition, he is a certified professional transportation planner with the Transportation Professionals Certification Board (TPCB). Robert serves on the Standing Committee on Transportation Planning Analysis and Application (AEP15) in the Technical Activities Division of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in Washington, D.C.
Robert develops and applies travel demand models in support of statewide, metropolitan, and corridor level transportation plans. His focus is on advanced four-step travel demand models and the integration of big data within modeling frameworks. He has experience managing household travel surveys, regional and statewide travel demand model updates, and various metropolitan planning organization transportation planning activities required under MAP-21, FAST, and IIJA act. He has implemented statewide, regional, and corridor-level modeling, forecasting, and passive data applications in Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Washington states.
Robert currently lives in Central Indiana and enjoys traveling, volunteering, nerding out on anything technology and transportation related, spoiling his dog, and being actively involved in his Indianapolis community.