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Background
Janine Dawkins is a transportation professional from Kingston, Jamaica, with over thirty years of experience spanning multiple subject areas within the transport and mobility space. Following undergraduate studies at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad, she earned MS (1995) and PhD (1997) degrees in Civil Engineering (Transport) from Georgia Tech, as well as an LLB (2016) from the University of London.
Since April 2024, she has been the Lead Consultant and business partner in TAMPER Consulting, which develops solutions and delivers specialised training in traffic safety, driver behaviour, crash reduction, crash investigation and reconstruction in the Caribbean Region. Her prior career as a technocrat in government culminated in her role as the Chief Technical Director in the former Ministry of Transport and Mining. She is also affiliated with the University of Technology, Jamaica, as a part-time lecturer.
Interests
Her core specialisation lies in traffic engineering and management, with other areas of expertise being road safety, transport policy, and legislation. With key research interests surrounding behaviour and decision-making in transport and mobility, traffic control systems, multimodal travel, and technology transfer, she seeks to influence change towards a user-centric approach in the design and implementation of transport systems in developing states. In the TAMPER Institute, she is developing curricula for workshops in driver behaviour, traffic safety, and engineering.
Sample Work
Publication
Comparative Evaluation of Roundabouts with other Intersection Control Methods in the Island of Jamaica
Paper presented at the Transportation Research Board National Roundabout Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, May 2008.
Publication
Technology Transfer to the Caribbean: A Case Study of Kingston, Jamaica
Paper presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Conference, Washington DC, USA, January 1998.