Susan Payne, Senior Planner, specializes in transportation modeling and analysis, transportation air quality planning, natural resource planning, and research and data analysis.  She combines her background in growth management analysis and transportation modeling to support the work of the Central Lane Metropolitan Planning Organization. Susan works on transportation air quality responding to Federal Clean Air Act and State conformity rules. She developed analysis of local, state, and federal environmental regulations relating to long-range regional transportation planning. 

Susan performs computer modeling and analysis in support of transportation projects, and has worked on residential buildable land inventories.

Susan holds a Master's and Bachelor's in Landscape Architecture from UO, a MS in Ecology, Utah State Univ., and a BS in Math/Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prior to working at LCOG, Susan worked at the UO's Institute for a Sustainable Environment, was a Research Assistant in the Dept. of Public Administration at PSU, and a Research Scientist at the Univ. of Texas, Austin.  email