Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI)
Dr. Tutumluer is the Abel Bliss Professor in Engineering, Paul F. Kent Endowed Faculty Scholar, and Director of International and ZJUI Education Programs in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a trailblazer in the realm of...
February 07, 2024
Dr. Heng Wei is currently a professor of transportation systems and engineering, the director of the civil engineering program, and the founding director of the Advanced Research on Transportation Engineering and Systems (ART-Engine S Lab) at the University of Cincinnati (UC). Prior to joining UC in 2004, Dr. Wei was a...
February 07, 2024
Dr. Wang is a civil engineering professor and the director of the Western Transportation Institute (WTI) at Montana State University. Throughout his career, Dr. Wang has worked tirelessly to help advance pavement evaluation technology both in the U.S. and internationally. A pioneer in the development of instrumented vehicles for pavement distress, he’s been invested in...
February 07, 2024
Dr. Flintsch has been the Dan Pletta Professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 2021 and is the Director of the Center for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (CSRI) at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), where his work has been instrumental in the field of...
February 07, 2024
Dr. Ceylan’s remarkable career in civil, transportation, and pavement engineering is truly admirable. He has exhibited exemplary leadership, achieved numerous accolades, and made significant contributions to the advancement of air transportation engineering. Dr. Ceylan is currently Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. Endowed Professor of Civil Engineering and the founding Director of the Program for Sustainable Pavement Engineering and Research (PROSPER) within the Institute for Transportation (InTrans) at Iowa State University (ISU) and a Distinguished Member of ASCE. Throughout his career, Dr. Ceylan has made outstanding research and education contributions for advancing...
January 22, 2024
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Dear T&DI Members and Friends: Happy New year! It was a pleasure to see many of you earlier this month at the Transportation Research Board Meeting in Washington, D.C. Before the holidays, in December 2023, I had the privilege of chairing the ASCE T&DI Board of Directors meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, where we had a walk-through of the site for the International Conference on Transportation Development (ICTD). We were pleased with...
January 18, 2024
The ASCE Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) is pleased to announce Angeli Jayme, Ph.D., EI, A.M.ASCE, of the Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), as the 2023 recipient of the T&DI Outstanding Younger Member Award. The award was established to recognize the professional contributions of younger members of the Institute. Since June 2022, Dr. Jayme has been a Research Scientist at the Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT) but has been employed by ICT in some capacity for nearly a decade, where she has worked...
January 18, 2024
On November 15, 2023, T&DI hosted the 2023 Francis C. Turner Lecture, Revolutionizing Road Transportation with Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Technologies, by 2023 Francis C. Turner Award recipient, Dr. Yinhai Wang, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, of the University of Washington. Dr. Wang gave a powerhouse presentation that...
November 28, 2023
This position is elected by the membership of T&DI. The Governor is expected to participate in the monthly Board meetings (2 or 3 face-to-face meetings annually and monthly teleconferences in-between. The face-to-face meetings are generally 1.5 days and the teleconferences generally last no more than 90 minutes.) In the first year, the governor acts as the Institute's Treasurer. The Treasurer works with the Institute Director on the budget...
November 21, 2023
Dear T&DI Members and Friends: I am honored and privileged to begin my term as your ASCE T&DI President, particularly so at a time when our transportation profession is delicately poised at the cusp of a literal technological revolution that will affect literally every aspect of our travel. Even so, the beauty of our profession is that we can never forget the human in the loop, the convergence of engineering science and social science. Such convergence in activities will be the name of the game in ...
October 17, 2023