Robert E. Gallamore is the former Director of The Transportation Center and Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Prior to joining Northwestern University in August, 2001, Gallamore was on executive loan from Union Pacific Railroad to the Transportation Technology Center, Inc., in Pueblo, Colorado. There he was Assistant Vice President, Communications Technologies and General Manager of the North American Joint Positive Train Control Program. This partnership of the Association of American Railroads, the Federal Railroad Administration, and the State of Illinois DOT is establishing railroad industry interoperability standards and deploying an operational positive train control system enabling rail passenger train speeds of up to 110 mph between Chicago and St. Louis. Before the industry assignment, Gallamore was General Director, Strategic Analysis for the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha and an executive with UP Corporation in New York City.

Gallamore has also served in several positions with the federal government. As Deputy Federal Railroad Administrator under President Jimmy Carter, he led the Executive Branch development of recommendations for railroad deregulation and revitalization. In this capacity he was awarded one of the first Senior Executive Service Awards by President Carter. Earlier, Gallamore was Associate Administrator for Planning of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration and System Plan Coordinator with the United States Railway Association (which established Conrail out of the facilities of the bankrupt Northeast railroads).

After 9/11, Gallamore served on a National Academy of Sciences panel, "Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism: Transportation and Distribution Systems," whose report is included in Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism. Subsequently, Gallamore chaired the National Research Council / Transportation Research Board Committee on Freight Transportation Information Systems Security, which addressed issues, threats, and research priorities in this difficult area. He subsequently chaired other NAS / TRB panels on hazardous materials transportation and on railroad research priorities. He was made a Lifetime Affiliate of the National Academies in 2004.

Dr. Gallamore received his A.B. from Wesleyan University with high honors. He earned an M.A. in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. His dissertation on railroad mergers remains a standard reference. Among Gallamore's numerous publications is a chapter on railroad innovation and regulation in Essays in Transportation Economics and Policy: a Handbook in Honor of John R. Meyer, published by the Brookings Institution (1999).