TBD News

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

In November 2024, the TBD Center proudly sponsored a visit for graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Texas at Austin to the City of Austin’s Mobility Management Center (MMC). The tour offered students an invaluable opportunity to experience firsthand how a major city manages its complex transportation network and mobility operations. Led by

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

The TBD National Center organized and sponsored a 3-day symposium, titled “Back to Foundations: Travel Demand Analysis in a Fast Evolving Transportation Landscape”. The symposium brought together over 30 experts from across the globe in academia, industry, and the public sector. This invitation-only event, hosted at the University of Texas at Austin from October 29 to November 1, 2023, focused on the intersection of technology and travel behavior in today’s rapidly evolving transportation landscape.