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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Transportation Planning and Policy
• Disaster Management and Mitigation
• Evacuation Modeling
• Traffic Operations, ITS, and Highway Safety
• Freight Transportation
• Economic Impacts of Transportation Systems
DEGREES:
Ph.D. (1975) Transportation Engineering, North Carolina State University
Automotive Safety Foundation Fellow (1968-69), Northwestern University
M.S. (1966) Transportation Engineering, North Carolina State University
MRP (1965) City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
B.S. (1963) Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University
PROFILE:
I have been Director of the Center for Transportation Policy Studies
at UNC Charlotte since September 2000. In addition, as part of my
research and outreach, UNC Charlotte was asked by the City of Charlotte
and Mecklenburg County to work with them as a partner to establish
a Regional Center for Homeland Security and Major Disaster Management.
I have also been the director of that center since fall, 2002. On
the academic side, I have appointments in Civil Engineering and
in the Public Policy PhD program, in addition to my appointment
in Geography. My career has been spent in transportation research,
teaching, consulting, and highway administration. In the last few
years I have been involved in infrastructure protection, disaster
studies, emergency planning and response, and homeland security
in building a partnership with the City and County.
My professional focus on transportation began in 1969, when I was
hired as the first professional to build a transportation research
practice at the Research Triangle Institute. After finishing my
PhD, I also taught evening classes in transportation systems at
Duke University. In the decade of the 1980’s, I was appointed
as the first full-time Director of the UNC system-wide Institute
for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE). I also led the
effort to establish the Southeastern Consortium of University Transportation
Centers, which I directed from 1986 through 1989. Responding to
a request to develop a new Center for Transportation Systems Research
at Arizona State University, I directed that center for two years
(1990 and 1991) and was also an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering.
In Arizona I also established an inter-institutional research program.
In 1992 I returned to my home state after accepting an appointment
as Assistant State Highway Administrator in the NCDOT. From 1994
until September 2000, I was a senior consultant with Kimley-Horn
and Associates, where I built a national consulting practice in
transportation systems, with a focus on ITS-related planning and
design. In all of these assignments, my entire professional career
has been focused on entrepreneurship and building partnerships.
As a result, I have helped establish several on-going partnerships
that have effectively enhanced transportation planning and operations,
education and research initiatives, in many different ways.
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