Tanzila Khan
Researcher

Tanzila Khan is a Researcher with the Global Passenger Vehicle team and a co-coordinator of the Emerging Markets cluster at the ICCT. The broad area of her research interests and expertise is at the intersection of vehicle emissions, fuel economy, and road transport related air pollution and climate change. Her major areas of work at the ICCT include light-duty vehicle decarbonization policies with a focus on transition to zero-emission vehicles, and standards for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions and other local pollutants. Tanzila has been working with many countries and governments around the world and mostly active with Australia, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, the U.S., selected African countries, and other emerging markets and developing economies.

Tanzila holds a PhD in Civil (Environmental) Engineering from North Carolina State University and a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Civil (Transportation) Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Before joining the ICCT, Tanzila’s prior research works included evaluating the U.S. Federal policy and program targeted for improving light-duty vehicles fuel economy and protecting human health such as the U.S. EPA fuel economy ratings, exhaust emission certification tests, and exhaust emission standards; assessing micro-scale geospatial variation in real-world vehicle activity and emissions to identify real-world emission hotspots and associated factors that are detrimental to near-road air quality and human health; developing energy and emission estimation model to support how to increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from an on-road vehicle fleet; quantifying impacts on air quality (public health) and climate change from implementation of alternative vehicle fuel such as compressed natural gas, compared to conventional diesel and gasoline fuel.