In recognition of his service to TRB, Wayne Kittelson is the 2025 recipient of the W.N. Carey, Jr., Distinguished Service Award. Mr. Kittelson, Senior Principal Engineer, Kittelson & Associates, Inc., is recognized for his almost 50 years of service to TRB and for his significant engagement in the highway capacity and quality of service field. The Carey Award—named in honor of W.N. Carey, Jr., TRB’s Executive Director from 1967 to 1980—recognizes individuals who have given leadership and distinguish...

The 2026 Sharon D. Banks Award for Humanitarian Leadership in Transportation recipient is Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, Senior Vice President, National Practice Consultant, HNTB. Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti is recognized for her career-long efforts to ensure that transportation systems truly serve the people who rely on them. Through her leadership, Gutierrez-Scaccetti has advanced a clear philosophy: that transportation is the circulatory system of the economy, connecting communities, enabling opportunity, ...

Dr. Christopher P.L. Barkan, Professor and George Krambles Director of the Rail Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is the 2025 recipient of the Robert E. Skinner, Jr. Distinguished Transportation Research Management Award. He is recognized for his nearly four decades-long career advancing research, safety, and operational capacity in the nation’s r...

Dr. Chris Hendrickson, Hamerschlag University Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University, is the 2025 recipient of the Roy W. Crum Award. Named for Roy W. Crum, who served as the Board’s director from 1928 until his death in 1951, the award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of transportation research Hendrickson is honored for a distinguished 50-year career during which time he has authored 290 peer-reviewed publications, eight books, and ten edited volumes, with more than 20,000 cit...

Dr. David Harkey, President, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute (IIHS-HLDI), is the 2026 recipient of the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship. He has dedicated his career to improving road safety. His work has spanned locations from rural Alabama to urban Australia and addressed issues affecting passenger vehicles, large trucks, pedestrians, and bicyclists. In all those areas, his applied research has influenced public policy and been used by road safety prof...

HGS is sponsoring the 72nd Highway Geology Symposium on August 13-15, 2023 in Tacoma, WA. TRB will cosponsor a workshop titled “ Geotechnical Data Sourcing and the Quality and Use of Models for Geotechnical Design ” on August 14, 2023. This session at HGS will highlight how though the application and use of new innovative sources of geotechnical data, engineers can increase reliability and certainty of various geotechnical design models. The use of these new, more readily-available data sources coupled w...

Sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering, ARRB, COTA, UNSW Sydney, and the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation, the Bridging Transportation Researchers (BTR) Conference will be held on August 9-10, 2023 online. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. The event is open to the public and there is no registration fee. This free conference will be hosted on multiple Zoom-based tracks to virtually and globally unite transportation engineers, planners, and p...

Organized by the Road Ecology Center (UC Davis), the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation will be held on June 4-8, 2023 in Burlington, VT and online. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. ICOET is the foremost interdisciplinary, inter-agency supported conference addressing the broad range of ecological issues related to transportation systems in all modes. It provides a venue for sharing information and for training across multiple disciplines related to transportation and ecology ,...

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