Faculty and Staff Office Directory

Dr. Bill Anderson received his doctorate in Geography from Boston University in 1984. From 1983 to 1998 he was a member of the Geography faculty, director of the Institute for Energy Studies and an associate member of the Department of Civil engineering at McMaster University. From 1998 to 2008 he was a professor in the Department of Geography and a lead researcher in the Center for Transportation Studies at Boston University. He arrived at the University of Windsor in July 1, 2008 as Ontario Research Chair in Cross-Border Transportation Policy and founding director of the Cross-Border Institute (CBI). CBI’s research, outreach and educational activities are focused of the movement of goods, people and services across the Canada-US border and other international land borders.

Dr. Anderson’s expertise is in border operations, technology and policy; freight transportation and supply chain; international trade and business; Canada-US economic integration; and regional economic development. At the CBI he leads a multidisciplinary team studying border traffic flows, the economic impact of border infrastructure, big data analysis of Global Positioning System data, cross-border customs and immigration and other topics with the common goal of making borders work better.

Ms. Leardi-Anderson has over 20 years’ experience providing strategic policy and operational advice to the most senior level decision-makers in public and private sector organizations. She has led large scale infrastructure projects and innovative initiatives. She is the Executive Director of the Cross-Border Institute (CBI) at the University of Windsor where her work focuses on impacts on the movement of goods, people, services, and funds across international borders. Most recently she was appointed by the Minister of Transportation for the Province of Ontario as Chair of the Owen Sound Transportation Company, responsible for the safe and efficient operation of some of the country’s largest ferry services.  She was on leave from her role as Executive Director of the CBI for a period of time to serve as the Executive Vice President for P3 Procurement and Policy at the Windsor Detroit Bridge Authority. In this role, she oversaw the P3 Procurement Process that resulted in the selection of the proponent team to build the $6 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge project between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan. As part of her EXVP responsibilities she established the governance, decision-making, and approval structures and developed and managed key relationships with stakeholders and project partners.

Ms. Leardi-Anderson sits on the national board of directors for the Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport, North America, and is a Director at Large for the Michigan Chapter of the international organization of Women in Transportation where she also Co-Chairs a coaching and mentoring committee.

Dr. Maoh is a Full Professor of Civil Engineering where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate transportation engineering courses. He is also the Associate Director of the Cross Border Institute (CBI) and the founder of its Traffic Lab. Dr. Maoh is also the co-founder of the Transportation Systems Innovation (TSI) research Lab at the new Centre for Engineering Innovation at the University of Windsor. Over the past sixteen years, Professor Maoh has been involved in numerous academic research projects to study various transportation problems from a holistic perspective by focusing on processes governing the movement of people and goods at various geographical scales. His main research interests include land use modeling, cross-border and freight transportation, network analysis, Big-Data analysis, travel demand analysis, passenger and commercial travel behavior, sustainable cities, development of geospatial planning support system and GIS applications. To date, he has published his research findings in numerous peer-reviewed international academic journals. Professor Maoh was the recipient of a number of awards from the University of Windsor for his excellence is research, scholarship and creative activities.