Kara Kockelman

Kara Kockelman (born 1969) is an American civil and transportation engineer, who is currently the Dewitt Greer Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, previously the Clare Boothe Luce Professor of Civil Engineering, and a published author. Kockelman’s work focuses on transportation, and includes planning for future implementation of shared and autonomous vehicle systems as well as policies like credit-based congestion pricing and urban growth boundaries.[1][2][3][4]

Education

Kockelman graduated from Palo Alto High School, in Palo Alto, California. She then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her BS in civil engineering in 1991. She earned her MS in civil engineering in 1996, along with her MCP in city and regional planning. In 1998, she received her PhD in civil engineering from UC Berkeley. Kockelman accepted the position of Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 1998, before advancing to Associate Professor in 2004. By 2009, she had become a full-time tenured professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering.[5][6]

Work

Dr. Kockelman is currently a professor of Transportation Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin.[7] She is an expert in transportation and emerging technologies, focusing on city infrastructure and automated vehicles. She is a champion for thoughtful applications of connected and automated vehicles, believing they can save thousands of lives, dramatically increase productivity, and save billions or even trillions of dollars.[8] Kockleman's work focuses on finding the best technology to save lives and money in the transportation sector. Her work uses modeling to predict the ways that new vehicle technologies could affect populations in the future, based on varying scenarios like policy changes, economic situations, and technology costs.[9] She and her colleagues also study differences in ownership of automated vehicles, such as private ownership, shared vehicles, and taxi services.[9]

Kockelman's publication record consists of more than 140 refereed publications, covering a wide variety of subjects, nearly all of which involve transportation-related data analysis. According to Google Scholar (as of May 2017), her papers have been referenced over 8,500 times in scholarly publications.[10] She is currently a member of multiple standing committees of the Transportation Research Board.[11] Kockelman has had papers published in multiple academic transportation journals, such as Transportation, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Transportation Research, Transportation Research Record and the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum.[12]

Much of Dr. Kockelman's work has appeared in mediums outside of academia, ranging from radio programs like Texas Public Radio[13] to magazines such as Newsweek.[14]

Awards

In 1991, Kockelman was awarded U.C. Berkeley's University medal, recognizing her as "Most Distinguished Graduate" of her 5,300-person graduating class.[15]

In 2002, MIT's Technology Review magazine identified Kockelman as one of the world's "Top 100 Innovators Under 35",[16] followed by the Council of University Transportation Center awarding her its inaugural "Young Faculty Award" in the same year.[17]

In 2010, Kockelman received the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers.[18] In 2014, ASCE awarded her the James Laurie Prize in transportation engineering.[19] In August 2014, Kockelman received a Google Research Award to pursue research on the topic "Anticipating & Mitigating the Latent Demand Effects of Self Driving Vehicles: A Role for Data-Driven Modeling & Credit-Based Congestion Pricing."[20]

References

  1. ↑ "Kara Kockelman". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ "CV" (PDF). utexas.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Kockelman, Kara". worldcat.org. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Autonomous cars at SXSW 2017: transportation panacea or a long road ahead?". extremetech.com. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  5. ↑ "CV" (PDF). utexas.edu. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Kara Kockelman". utexas.edu. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Google testing self-driving Lexus on Austin streets". FOX 7 KTBC. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  8. ↑ "Our streets may be clogged with self-driving cars". Treehugger. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
  9. 1 2 "How Humans Can Pave the Way for Robot Taxis". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  10. ↑ "Google Scholar Citations". Google. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  11. ↑ "TRB Committee Details". mytrb.org. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  12. ↑ "CV" (PDF). utexas.edu. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  13. ↑ "How To Pay For The Nation's Crumbling Infrastructure". tpr.org. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  14. ↑ "DRIVERLESS CARS AND THE FUTURE OF PARKING". newsweek.com. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Prizes and Honors / University Medal Winners". berkeley.edu. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  16. ↑ "MIT's Technology Review Magazine". MIT. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  17. ↑ "Kara Kockelman". RSAI. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  18. ↑ "WALTER L. HUBER CIVIL ENGINEERING RESEARCH PRIZES PAST AWARD WINNERS". ASCE. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  19. ↑ "JAMES LAURIE PRIZE PAST AWARD WINNERS". ASCE. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  20. ↑ "Kara Kockelman". The Daily Texan. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
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