Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award
The Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the performance and production of fundamental or developmental transportation-related research. It is also a lifetime achievement award, and the recipient should be someone who has distinguished themselves through advances in transportation because of their personal portfolio of research over the course of their career.
In 1948 the Highway Research Board established an award in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of transportation research. This award was known as the Highway Research Board Distinguished Service Award until 1952, when the Executive Committee designated it the Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award as a memorial to the Board's director, Roy W. Crum, who served as head of the HRB staff from 1928 until his death in 1951.
Who Can Nominate
Anyone currently or formally in the transportation research or research implementation fields.
Nomination Process
The nomination portal will be opened during the beginning in June. All nominations must be submitted no later than July 31. A single nomination may be jointly-submitted/supported by multiple nominators, but nominators must designate a corresponding nominator and all nominators must currently be or formally have been engaged in the transportation research or research implementation fields.
Nominators will be expected to summarize information on their candidate in each of the following areas: 1) Performance and production of transportation-related research; 2) Transportation advancements attributed to the candidates work; 3) Candidate’s TRB volunteer activities; and 4) Other intangibles nominators believe make their candidate eligible for this lifetime achievement award.
Summary information for a candidate within each of these areas may not exceed 400 words for a total of no more than 1,600 words per nomination. Nominators will have the option to upload their candidate’s bio or provide a link to their candidate’s bio online. Nominators should limit their nominations to no more than one candidate per nomination cycle. Current TRB staff are not eligible to receive this award.
All nominators will be notified upon a decision by the selection committee. The award recipient will be notified in October and a formal announcement is released later in the Fall. The award is dated the year the recipient is named and is presented at the Chair’s Plenary Session at the January TRB Annual Meeting.
Selection Committee
The Selection Committee consists of the Chair and Vice Chair of the TRB Executive Committee, Chair and Vice-Chair of the TRB Division Committee, and the Executive Director of TRB.
2021-Present |
2001-2020 |
1981-2000 |
1961-1980 |
1948-1960 |
2023 - Imad L. Al-Qadi
2022 - Gongkang Fu
2021 - Hani S. Mahmassani
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2020 - Mohamed Abdel-Aty
2019 - Sue McNeil
2018 - Daniel Sperling
2017 - Susan A. Shaheen
2016 - Sandra Q. Larson
2015 - Lance A. Neumann
2014 - Forrest M. Council
2013 - Ralph Haas
2012 - David L. Greene
2011 - Joseph L. Schofer
2010 - Keith Turner
2009 - Kumares C. Sinha
2008 - Dennis C. Judycki
2007 - Robert J. Reilly
2006 - Herbert H. Richardson
2005 - John M. Kulicki
2004 - Sandra Rosenbloom
2003 - Alan A. Altshuler
2002 - John R. Meyer
2001 - Joseph M. Sussman
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2000 - John W. Fisher
1999 - Ezra Hauer
1998 - Damian J. Kulash
1997 - Herbert S. Levinson
1996 - Adolf D. May, Jr.
1995 - Carl L. Monismith
1994 - Patricia F. Waller
1993 - Robert Herman
1992 - George M. Smerk
1991 - Lyle Saxton
1990 - David A. Aschauer
1989 - William J. Harris, Jr.
1988 - B. J. Campbell
1987 - Carl F. Crumpton
1986 - L. Gary Byrd
1985 - Howard H. Newlon, Jr.
1984 - William M. Spreitzer
1983 - Charles F. Scheffey
1982 - Eldon J. Yoder
1981 - J. Douglas Carroll, Jr. |
1980 - Wilbur S. Smith
1979 - W. N. Carey, Jr.
1978 - Harold L. Michael
1977 - Roy E. Jorgensen
1976 - William L. Garrison
1975 - John L. Beaton
1974 - George W. McAlpin
1973 - D. Grant Mickle
1972 - Richard L. Peyton
1971 - David H. Stevens
1970 - A. E. Johnson
1969 - F. C. Turner
1968 - John H. Swanberg
1967 - Robert F. Baker
1966 - Bryant Mather
1965 - W. S. Housel
1964 - Kurt Frank Wendt
1964 - Carl C. Saal
1963 - Fred Burggraf
1962 - David R. Levin
1962 - Alvin C. Benkelman
1961 - William H. Goetz
1961 - Rex M. Whitton
1961 - Elmer M. Ward (posthumously)
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1960 - Harold Allen
1960 - Robert R. Litehiser
1959 - Merlin G. Spangler
1959 - Guilford Payson St. Clair
1958 - Harmer E. Davis
1957 - Edward H. Holmes
1956 - Francis N. Hveem
1955 - Stanton Walker
1955 - Tilton E. Shelburne
1955 - Earl Foster Kelley
1954 - Walter H. Root (posthumously)
1954 - Ralph A. Moyer
1954 - Burton W. Marsh
1953 - Charles R. Waters
1953 - Prevost Hubbard
1952 - Herbert S. Fairbank
1951 - Roy W. Crum (posthumously)
1950 - Albert T. Goldbeck
1950 - Fred V. Reagel
1949 - O. K. Normann
1949 - Kenneth B. Woods
1948 - Frank H. Jackson
1948 - Charles H. Scholer |