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Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship

The Award recognizes the career contributions and achievements of an individual in one of the areas covered by TRB’s Technical Activities Division. As part of the Annual Meeting, the honorees are invited to present overviews of their area of expertise, including the evolution, the present status, and the prospects for the future.

Created in 1992, it was originally known as the Transportation Research Board Distinguished Lectureship, the Award was renamed in 2002 in honor of the eighth TRB Executive Director, Thomas B. Deen, who served with distinction from 1980 to 1994.

Who Can Nominate

Technical Activities Division Group Chairs. Chairs have discretion on establishing the nomination process within their Group.

Nomination Process

Each Group Chair may nominate no more than one person. Nominations shall be in writing and shall be no more than three pages in length. Nominations shall include a biographical summary, current position, education and work experience, professional activities, TRB involvement, major achievements, awards, publications, general topic for the lecture, and any other information that would help in the selection process. Nominations will be evaluated based upon the career contributions and achievements of the individual in the areas covered by TRB's Technical Activities Division and the potential of the individual to present a lecture that will be valuable, interesting, informative, and timely to Annual Meeting attendees. Nominations should be submitted to the Director of the TRB Technical Activities Division no later than one month before the Technical Activities Council’s summer meeting, which is normally held in mid-June.

The award recipient will be notified by mid-July and a formal announcement is released later in the Fall. The award is dated for the year it is presented at the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship at the TRB Annual Meeting.

Selection Committee

The TRB Technical Activities Council


 Past Recipients

2025 - SANDI ROSENBLOOM, How Little We Really Know: The Unrecognized Centrality of Marginal Groups in Transportation Planning and Policy

2024 - SUSAN HANDY, Shifting Gears: Reflections on the Role of Researchers in Shaping the Ideas that Shape Transportation

2023 - CHARLES A. FUHS III, Re-envisioning Mobility on Urban Freeways: The Emergence and Evolving Roles of Managed Lanes

2022 - ANNE STRAUSS-WIEDER, Evolving with Rapidly Shifting Supply Chains and Freight Systems: The Past, the Present, and the Emerging Future

2021 - DORVAL R. CARTER, JR., Our Work is Never Done: Examining Equity Impacts in Public Transportation

2020 - SARAH JO PETERSON, TRB's Technical Activities Committees: The Significance of Their History

2019 - JON A. EPPS, Innovative Asphalt Pavement Technology: Paving the Way for the World’s Roadways

2018 - PATRICIA L. MOKHTARIAN, The Times They Are A-Changin’: What Do the Expanding Uses of Travel Time Portend for Policy, Planning, and Life?

2017 - BRUCE M.SMITH, Ethical Issues Facing Today's Transportation Agencies: Transparency and Security, Codes of Conduct, and Public-Private Partnerships

2016- HANI S. MAHMASSANI, Micromodels and Megadata: Taming Complexity for Deep Insight and Robust Decisions

2015 - DANIEL SPERLING, The Emerging Transformation of Mobility, Vehicles, and Fuels

2014 - JOSEPH L. SCHOFER, Moving the Goods: Performance Measures and the Value Proposition for Transportation Projects

2013 - JOHN P. BROOMFIELD, A Holistic Approach to Transportation Infrastructure Maintenance and Preservation

2012 - WILLIAM W. MILLAR, Public Transportation: Today and Tomorrow

2011 - JAMES McCLELLAN, Railroads and the New Normal: Impacts of Lean and Green

2010 - MARTIN WACHS, Transportation Policy, Poverty, and Sustainability: History and Future

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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