Dr. Steven Stapleton is a Research Associate in the Infrastructure-Based Safety Systems group in the Division of Technology Implementation at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. Steven has over seven years of experience as a researcher in the field of transportation safety engineering, including experiment design and utilizing various statistical and econometric methods to evaluate the safety of different road design elements. In addition to analyzing data that has been collected during research projects he has worked on, Steven also enjoys using open data sources to help answer lingering research questions.