Patricia Lyon Mokhtarian is an American civil engineer and transport economist, the Clifford and William Greene, Jr.
Her dissertation, Time-Dependent Structural Equations Modeling of the Relationship between Attitudes and Discrete Choice Behavior of Transportation Consumers, was supervised by Frank Koppelman.
[4] She was the Susan G. and Christopher D. Pappas Professor at Georgia Tech for five years, beginning in 2016,[5] before being named as the Clifford and William Greene, Jr.
[4] In 2021, the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research gave Mokhtarian their Lifetime Achievement Award.
[4] Mokhtarian was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024, "for improved transportation systems planning and practice through quantifying human behavior".