Candace Brakewood

Associate Professor

Biography

Candace Brakewood is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the transportation group. Her research group focuses primarily on public transit planning, policy and technology. At UT, she regularly teaches a graduate-level course in Public Transit Planning and Operations and an introductory undergraduate Transportation Engineering class. 

Research

• Public Transportation
• Shared Mobility
• Transportation Planning
• Intelligent Transportation Systems

Education

• PhD in Civil Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2014
• MS in Transportation, MIT, 2010
• MS in Technology and Policy, MIT, 2010
• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2006

Awards and Recognitions

• Tickle College of Engineering Professional Promise in Research Award, University of Tennessee, 2024.
• Tickle College of Engineering Teaching Fellow, University of Tennessee, 2024.
• William W. Millar Paper Award, Best paper award on public transportation, Transportation Research Board, 2022.
• William W. Millar Paper Award, Best paper award on public transportation, Transportation Research Board, 2021 (two time recipient).
• Top 40 under 40, Mass Transit Magazine, 2016.

Publications

Rewalt, Brakewood & Cherry (2025). An analysis of pedestrian safety at bus stops using FARS data, Journal of Safety Research, Volume 95, Pages 147-159.

Jahan, Brakewood, Pike & Watkins (2025). Mind the Gender Gap: Case Studies of U.S. Transit Agency Policies and Design Guidelines for Gender-Inclusive Transit Planning. Transportation Research Record. Volume 2679, Issue 8.

Guo and Brakewood (2023). Analysis of spatiotemporal transit accessibility and transit inequity of essential services in low-density cities, a case study of Nashville, TN. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Volume 179.

Ziedan, Lima and Brakewood (2023). The app or the cap? Which fare innovation affects bus ridership? Transport Policy. Volume 145.

Ziedan, Brakewood and Watkins (2023). Will transit recover? A retrospective study of nationwide ridership in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Public Transportation. Volume 25.

Erhardt, Hoque, Goyal, Berrebi, Brakewood and Watkins (2022). Why has public transit ridership declined in the United States? Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Volume 161, Pages 68-87.

Hightower, Ziedan, Crossland, and Brakewood (2022). Current Practices and Potential Rider Benefits of Fare Capping Policies in the U.S.A. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Volume 2676. Issue 10.

Brakewood, Ziedan, Hendricks, Barbeau and Joslin (2020). An evaluation of the benefits of mobile fare payment technology from the user and operator perspectives. Transport Policy, Volume 93, pp. 54-66.

Brakewood and Watkins (2018). A literature review of the passenger benefits of real-time transit information. Transport Reviews. Volume 39, Issue 3.

Campbell and Brakewood (2017). Sharing Riders: How Bike-Sharing Impacts Bus Ridership in New York City. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Volume 100, pp. 264–282.