About Me

Hi, I'm Connor Forsythe, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. My research focuses on understanding the policy-related impacts of extended vehicle life, electric vehicle adoption, and transportation network companies. I completed my B.S. in Systems Engineering at The George Washington University, where I graduated top of class. I have a strong background in programming, with proficiency in Python, MATLAB, Stata, R, SQL, and Julia. Throughout my academic career, I've actively participated in both research and teaching roles, serving as a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at CMU and as an Undergraduate Research and Teaching Assistant at GWU. I'm currently working on several research projects that explore various aspects of transportation policy, transportation technology demand, and discrete choice modeling. In my free time, I enjoy watching movies, playing video games, as well as listening to and playing music. Feel free to connect with me through connorforsythe@cmu.edu.

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Research

Journal Publications

Forsythe, C. R., Gillingham, K. T., Michalek, J. J., & Whitefoot, K. S. (2023). Technology advancement is driving electric vehicle adoption. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(23), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219396120

Submitted to Journal

Forsythe, C. R., Jha, A., Michalek, J., & Whitefoot, K. (2022). Externalities of Policy-Induced Scrappage: The Case of Automotive Regulations. NBER Working Paper. https://doi.org/10.3386/w30546. R&R at Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Forsythe, C. R., Harper, C. D., & Michalek, J. J., (2023). Bringing Home the Bacon: Estimating Willingness to Pay for Autonomous Grocery Delivery Across US Households. Under review at Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Forsythe, C. R., Gillingham, K. T., Michalek, J. J., & Whitefoot, K. S. (2023). Will Pickup Truck Buyers Go Electric? Under review at Nature-Energy.

Works in Progress

Forsythe, C. R., Helveston, J.P., Arteaga C. (2024). The Heterogeneous Aggregate Valence Analysis (HAVAN) Model: A Flexible Approach to Modeling Unobserved Heterogeneity in Discrete Choice Analysis. [Working Paper]
Bruchon, M. B., Forsythe, C. R., & Michalek, J. J. (2023). Should Ridesourcing Services Pool More Ride? To be submitted to Transportation Research Part A: Practice and Policy by 2/28/2024.
Koling, A., Armanios, D., Michalek, J. J., Forsythe, C. R., & Jha, A. (2023). Ride-Sharing the Wealth – Effects of Uber and Lyft on Jobs, Wages and Economic Growth. To be submitted to Transportation Research Part A: Practice and Policy by 2/28/2024.
Bruchon, M. B., Forsythe, C. R., Andreasan, C., Whitefoot, K. S., & Michalek, J. J. (2023). Does Congestion Pricing for Uber and Lyft Work? Effects of Chicago’s Downtown Zone Surcharge. To be submitted to Transportation Research Part A: Practice and Policy by 2/28/2024.
Burns, A., Forsythe, C. R., Michalek, J. J., & Whitefoot, K. S. (2023). Estimating the Potential to Reduce Double Parking and Cruising with a Dynamic Curb Space Reservation System for Diverse Users.
Vicente, J.P., Forsythe, C. R., Gillingham, K.T., Michalek, J. J., & Whitefoot, K. S. (2023). Automotive Choice Models: A Systematic Review of the State of the Literature.

Dissertation

Econometric Estimation of Consumer Responses to Personal Transportation Policies and Technologies

Github

Beyond hosting this website, my GitHub account contains several projects that I've either created or helped contribute to.

Specifically, I would recommend looking at two popular packages that I have contributed to

xlogit: a Python choice modelling package for quick estimation of both simple and mixed logit models.
logitr: an R choice modelling package for estimation of both simple and mixed logit models.