Officers

President

Dr. Patrick Szary

  • Associate Director

Center for Advanced Infrastructure & Transportation (CAIT)
Rutgers University
100 Brett Rd
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8058

Dr. Noreen McDonald

Vice President

Dr. Noreen McDonald

  • Chair, City & Regional Planning
  • Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor
  • Director, Carolina Transportation Program

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3140

Dr. P.S. Sriraj

Secretary

Dr. P.S. Sriraj

  • Director

Urban Transportation Center
University of Illinois at Chicago
412 South Peoria Street, Suite 340
Chicago, IL 60607

Dr. Laurence Rilett

Immediate Past President

Dr. Laurence Rilett

  • Director, Auburn University Transportation Institute
  • Ginn Distinguished Professor

Auburn University Transportation Research Institute
1220 Shelby Center
Auburn University, AL 36849

Dr. Marwa Hassan

Treasurer

Dr. Marwa Hassan

  • Director

Transportation Consortium of South Central States
Louisiana State University
3316A PFT Hall
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70810

Traci Ulberg, CAE, CMP

CUTC Executive Director

Traci Ulberg, CAE, CMP

  • CEO

Meetings Northwest, Inc.
PO Box 2083,
Missoula, MT 59806

Members at Large

Dr. Shauna Hallmark

Dr. Shauna Hallmark

  • Director and Professor

Institute of Transportation (InTrans)
Iowa State University
2711 S. Loop Drive, Suite 4700
Ames, Iowa 50010

Term Expires: 2023

Mr. David Kack

Mr. David Kack

  • Executive Director

Western Transportation Institute
Montana State University
2327 University Way
Bozeman, Montana 59715

Term Expires: 2023

Dr. Camille Kamga

  • Director

University Transportation Research Center
The City College of New York
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031

Term Expires: 2024

Committees & Task Forces

Chair: Dr. Laurence Rilett, Director, Auburn University Transportation Institute and Tom O’Brien, Center for International Trade and Transportation

  • Work Initiatives: Download the 2012 National Transportation Workforce Summit: Summary of Results
  • Get Involved! Fill out the pledge card and return to Traci Ulberg (CUTC Executive Director).

Chair: Chandra Bhat, Center for Transportation Research

  • Mission: Facilitate and promote working relationships within the CUTC membership and to develop and maintain mediums of communication with external groups on behalf of the council for the advancement of university transportation research, education, technology transfer, and workforce development.

Chair: Sue McNeil, Delaware Center for Transportation/University Transportation Center and Hillary Nixon, Minata Transportation Institute

  • Mission:  Annual recognition of outstanding PhD and MS theses in Science/Technology and Policy/Planning, and outstanding non-thesis ME reports in Science/Technology and Policy/Planning.

Chair: Marwa Hassan, Center for Transportation Research and Musharraf Zaman, The University of Oklahoma

Committee Members: CUTC Members

  • Mission: This committee oversees the solicitation of nominations for all of the CUTC awards but not the CUTC awards given to students. This group administers the judging and/or selection process for these awards.

Chair: CUTC Immediate Past-President
Committee Members: To be determined by the current President to ensure there is no conflict of interest.

  • Mission: Shall prepare a slate of nominees for all offices and Executive Committee Membership to be filled by election as set forth in Article IV of the bylaws.

Chair: TBD

  • Mission: To serve as the point of contact for activities required of transportation centers by sponsoring federal agencies, and to accommodate those activities within CUTC’s normal activities, to the extent consistent with the purposes of CUTC.
Dr. Hilary Nixon

Dr. Hilary Nixon

  • Deputy Executive Director

Mineta Transportation Institute

San Jose State University
210 N 4th St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA

Term Expires: 2024

Dr. Susan Handy

  • Associate Director

Institute of Transportation Studies

University of California-Davis
1605 Tilia Street, Davis, CA 95616

Term Expires: 2025

Dr. Constantine Tarawneh

  • Director

University Transportation Center for Railway Safety (UTCRS) University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

1201 West University Drive
Edinburg, TX 78539-2999

Term Expires: 2025

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