Robert E. Skinner, Jr. Distinguished Transportation Research Management Award

In 2021, the Executive Committee established the Robert E. Skinner, Jr. Distinguished Transportation Research Management Award to recognize outstanding achievement in management, administration, promotion, fostering, and implementation of transportation research. The award is named for Robert E. Skinner, Jr. who served TRB for more than 30 years, including 21 years as its executive director from 1994 to 2015. It is a lifetime achievement award and the recipient should be someone who has distinguished himself or herself through leadership of a major transportation research program or programs that have contributed to advances in transportation over the course of their career. The following person have received the award.

2022 - Eugene R. (Gene) Russell, Sr.
2021 - Robert E. Skinner, Jr.