Caroline Mays is a senior-level leader with more than 24 years of multimodal transportation planning, programing, policy, project development, and implementation experience at the local, regional, state, and international levels, having held various leadership roles at all four levels.

Ms. Mays joined the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in late 2012 and has held several positions. Ms. Mays is a member of TxDOT’s senior leadership team and currently serves as the Director of Planning and Modal Programs. In this role, she directs and oversees all the transportation planning activities of the agency including Aviation, Maritime, Public Transportation, Rail, and Transportation Planning and Programming Divisions.

Ms. Mays is a member of the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners. She serves as the Chair of the Association of American State Highway Transportation Official’s (AASHTO) Special Committee on Freight and is a member of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Planning and Logistics Committee. Ms. Mays also serves on the World Road Association (PIARC) Technical Committee on Freight as a representative of AASHTO and the United States.

Ms. Mays holds a Bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Waterloo, Canada and a Master’s degree of Science in Planning from the University of Toronto, Canada.