TBD News

On March 5, 2025, the TBD Center hosted its Annual Meeting at The University of Texas at Austin, bringing together faculty, students, and collaborators from across our consortium. We were joined by officials from the U.S. Department of Transportation, including Dr. Firas Ibrahim, Mr. Caesar Singh, Mr. Thomas Saad, and Dr. Britain Bruner for a […]

TBD Center participated in the 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in Washington, D.C., held from January 5-9, 2025. This prestigious event brought together thousands of transportation professionals, researchers, and students to discuss and shape the future of transportation. TBD Center researchers and students contributed to the event through a range of

The TBD Center is thrilled to celebrate a remarkable achievement by our Director, Dr. Chandra Bhat, who has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2024 W.N. Carey, Jr. Distinguished Service Award by the Transportation Research Board (TRB). Dr. Bhat, the Joe J. King Endowed Chair Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, is

The TBD National Center is proud to celebrate the achievements of two outstanding students who were honored at the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., on January 4, 2025. Amy Fong, a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, advised by Dr. Atiyya Shaw, has been named the 2024 TBD

Researchers from the TBD Center—Dr. Steve Polzin, Dr. Irfan Batur, and Dr. Ram Pendyala—have contributed an insightful article to the Fall 2024 edition of the Census Transportation Planning Products (CTPP) Status Report. This newsletter, developed by the CTPP Planning Group with contributions from the transportation community, provides updates on the use of Census data products

A new TBD study by a team of researchers from Arizona State University, The University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Washington reveals that extreme heat significantly alters how people go about their daily lives, influencing everything from time spent at home to transportation choices. The study, led by Arizona State University, provides detailed insights

The TBD National Center recently participated in the inaugural Future of Transportation (FoT) Summit, held August 13-15, 2024, at the U.S. Department of Transportation Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Organized by the National University Transportation Centers and led by the Safety21 National UTC at Carnegie Mellon University, this special event focused on harnessing research and technology

📸✨ TBD National Center senior personnel, Chandra R. Bhat, Ram M Pendyala, and Patricia Mokhtarian, attended the recent 17th IATBR International Conference on Travel Behavior held July 14-18, 2024, in Vienna, Austria. Professors Bhat, Pendyala, and Mokhtarian – all of whom are past IATBR chairs – joined other past IATBR chairs to celebrate the 2024

TBD Director, Professor Chandra Bhat, recently participated in the ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development (ICTD 2024) in Atlanta, GA, between June 15–18, 2024. As the T&DI President, he delivered a keynote speech and presided over several key events, including the session on Improving Research Writing as part of the Early Academic Career Workshop.

TBD’s Doctoral Candidate Katherine Asmussen Receives Honorable Mention at ICMC 2024 Katherine Asmussen, a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin and affiliated with the TBD National Center, was awarded an honorable mention for the Best Ph.D. Paper at the 2024 International Choice Modeling Conference (ICMC). Supervised by TBD Center Director Dr. Chandra