VHB is excited to announce Elizabeth Jaedicke as Chief of Aviation Economic and Forecasting in our growing national aviation practice. Elizabeth has more than 10 years of experience constructing complex forecast models to predict passenger, cargo, and flight activity at airports around the world. Her knowledge gained from working with domestic and international airports provides a unique perspective to help clients develop air transport infrastructure services to meet current and future demand, measure environmental activity, and advance strategies to proactively address industry trends that may affect operations and profitability.
“Elizabeth’s forecasting skills, management background, and commitment to client service strengthens our ability to offer clients a broad range of comprehensive and integrated services from airside to landside,” said Peter Byrne, National Aviation Director. “Airports play a very important role as engines of economic growth in our communities. Her forecast modeling experience is invaluable to our clients as airport capacity continues to grow and meet the growing demand for air transportation systems.”
Major domestic and international aviation clients have benefitted from Elizabeth’s forecast modeling experience, which includes the integration of route level and top-down econometric forecasts, and traffic forecasting for airport share models in multi-airport systems including Chicago, New England, New York, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo. She has led numerous due diligence projects in connection with privatization transactions at LGA, MDW, GIG, GRU and YTZ airports (among others) and clients include major investment banks and multi-airport operators. In addition, she has led economic impact studies for public airport authorities including the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority.
Elizabeth has served on committees as panelist or speaker for professional organizations such as TRB. She is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and holds a Master’s in Public Administration/International Development.
To learn more, connect with Elizabeth at ejaedicke@vhb.com.
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