Kara M. Kockelman

Ph.D., P.E.,

Dewitt Greer Centennial Professor of Transportation Engineering Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1076 PhD., Civil Engineering, The University of California at Berkeley, 1998

Bio

Research site: caee.utexas.edu/prof/kockelman

Research interests
Research interests include planning for electric, shared and autonomous vehicle systems; the statistical modeling of urban systems (including models of travel behavior, trade, and location choice); energy and climate issues (vis-à-vis transport and land use decisions); the economic impacts of transport policy; and crash occurrence and consequences.

Key activities
Author on more than 170 journal articles (and two books) across a variety of subjects, nearly all of which involve transportation-related data analysis. Recent honors and awards include serving as the North American Regional Science Council President, 2020; American Society of Civil Engineers Bechtel Energy Award, 2020; Vulog Top 20 in 2020 – Women in Mobility Award; Google Research Award, 2014; and University of Queensland Honorary Professor, 2018-2021.