In 1992, the TRB created a TRB Distinguished Lectureship to recognize the career contributions and achievements of an individual in the areas covered by TRB's Technical Activities Division. In 2002, the TRB Executive Committee renamed this the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship, in honor of the Board's eighth Executive Director, who served with distinction from 1980 to 1994. The Honorees are invited to present overviews of their area of expertise, including the evolution, the present status, and the prospects for the future. The names of the honorees and the titles of their lectures are as follows.
2009 - GERALDINE KNATZ, Local Seaport Initiatives Driving International Policy: Eliminating the Effects of Air Pollution and Drawing Up ‘Green Prints’ for Responsible Growth
2008 - MATTHEW W. WITCZAK, Pavement Performance Research Implementation: Its Uniqueness, Complexity, and Recommendations for Acceleration into Practice
2007 - GENEVIEVE GIULIANO, The Changing Landscape of Transportation Decision Making
2006 - ABBA LICHTENSTEIN, Preservation of Historic Transportation Facilities
2005 - LILLIAN C. BORRONE, Sparking the Globalized Trade and Transportation Connection: Supplying Freight System Responses to Global Trade Demands
2004 - RICHARD O. JONES, Context-Sensitive Design: Will the Vision Overcome Liability Concerns?
2003 - THOMAS B. DEEN, Policy Versus the Market: Transportation's Battleground
2002 - FRANCIS X. McKELVEY, A Perspective on Our National Air Transportation System: The Past, the Present, and the Future
2001 - DAN BURDEN, Building Communities with Transportation
2000 - ROBERT L. LYTTON, Characterizing Asphalt Pavements for Performance
1999 - ALAN E. PISARSKI, Transportation Planning, Policy, and Data: Inextricable Linkages
1998 - L. GARY BYRD, Service Life and Life of Service: The Maintenance Commitments
1997 - JOHN W. FISHER, The Evolution of Fatigue-Resistant Steel Bridges
1996 - EDWARD V. A. KUSSY, Surface Transportation and Administrative Law: Growing Up Together in the Twentieth Century
1995 - C. MICHAEL WALTON, Deployment of Transportation Research: An Enterprise in Transition
1994 - ADOLF D. MAY, JR., Traffic Management from Theory to Practice: Past, Present, Future
1993 - BRYANT MATHER, Concrete in Transportation: Desired Performance and Specifications
1992 - CARL L. MONISMITH, Analytically Based Asphalt Design and Rehabilitation's Theory to Practice (1962-1992)
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