Patricia “Pat” Mokhtarian, associate director of the National Center for Understanding Future Travel Behavior and Demand (TBD), received the 2026 Distinguished Alumni Award from Northwestern University’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS).
Three members of the TBD Center leadership team, Steven Polzin, Ram M. Pendyala, and Irfan Batur, have published a feature article, “Can Transportation Planning Catch Up to a Changing World?”, in TR News, the magazine of the Transportation Research Board (Issue 359, Fall 2026).
The TBD Center congratulates Professor Ram M. Pendyala, the Center’s Associate Director at Arizona State University, on being named the 2026 recipient of the W.N. Carey, Jr., Transportation Research Board (TRB) Distinguished Service Award.
The 2026 National Mobility Summit took place on September 14, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Organized by the TBD Center in collaboration with nine other National, Regional, and Tier-1 University Transportation Centers, the Summit brought together leaders from government, academia, and industry to discuss how to advance the movement of people and goods across the United
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TBD Center Director Chandra Bhat and Associate Director Patricia Mokhtarian are among the 20 internationally recognized transportation researchers featured in the book “Conversations with Leading Transport Researchers: The Unwritten Rules of Academia.”
TBD Center Director Chandra Bhat and TBD PhD student Dale Robbennolt have received the Andrew Daly Award for the Most Innovative Application of Choice Modelling at the 9th International Choice Modelling Conference (ICMC 2026), held July 20–22, 2026, on the Gold Coast, Australia. The award recognizes the conference paper judged to make the most innovative
The 2025 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data is now fully incorporated into the TBD Center’s TMD, T3D, and WBEAT dashboards.
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The Travel Behavior and Demand Special Issue has been published in Transport Policy, marking an important milestone for the Travel Behavior and Demand (TBD) National Center. The special issue brings together eight peer-reviewed papers that revisit the foundations of travel demand analysis and explore how transportation planning and policy must evolve in response to changing
TBD National Center, in partnership with the National Center for Infrastructure Transformation, is proud to be a co-sponsor of the Summer Transportation Extravaganza hosted and organized by the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. This week-long day program for rising high school juniors and seniors provides students an in-depth hands-on educational
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A paper co-authored by TBD Center researchers has received the 2026 Zephyr Exceptional Technical Achievement Award, recognizing the paper “COVID & Telecommuting-Induced Changes in Individual Activity and Travel Patterns” by Grace Jia, Kaitlyn Ng, Ekin Ugurel, Brian Lee, Ram Pendyala, and Cynthia Chen.
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