UNC Charlotte researcher Edd Hauser, director of the Center for Transportation Policy Studies and the Center for Disaster Studies, recently received the academic Lifetime Achievement in Transportation Research and Education Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers.
The award honors individuals “who have contributed immensely throughout their professional lives to transportation research and education.” As a faculty member with appointments in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, the Public Policy Ph.D. program and Civil Engineering, Hauser describes his career as one characterized by entrepreneurship and partnership building.
During his 15 years with UNC Charlotte, Hauser has been the principal investigator on more than 150 research, strategic planning and public policy studies related to the field of transportation. He has been involved with CUTC since the 1980s and served on the council’s Board of Directors before taking on the roles of secretary, vice president and then president from 1985-86.
Major transportation research centers and institutes in the United States established the council in 1979 to provide a forum for universities and centers to interact collectively with government and industry.
Hauser has represented three educational institutions. In addition to UNC Charlotte, he was founding director of the UNC system-wide Institute for Transportation Research and Education, now housed at N.C. State University, and he developed Arizona State University’s Center for Transportation Systems Research.
Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, delivered the keynote address for the CUTC awards banquet, held in Washington, D.C. in January 2016. Norman Mineta, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, received the CUTC non-academic Lifetime Achievement Award.
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