Kara Kockelman
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Kara M. Kockelman, Ph.D., P.E. (born 1969) is an American civil and transportation engineer, who is currently the Dewitt Greer Centennial Professor of Transportation Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, previously the Clare Boothe Luce Professor of Civil Engineering, and a published author. Kockelman’s work focuses on transportation, and includes planning for future implementation of shared and autonomous vehicle systems, and policies like credit-based congestion pricing and urban growth boundaries.[1][2][3][4]
Kockelman graduated from Palo Alto High School, in Palo Alto, California. She then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her BS in civil engineering in 1991. She earned her MS in civil engineering in 1996, along with her MCP in city and regional planning. In 1998, she received her PhD in civil engineering from UC Berkeley.
Career
In the fall of 1998, Kockelman accepted the position of Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, before advancing to Associate Professor in 2004. By 2009, she had become a full-time tenured professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering.[5][6]
As of 2015, Dr. Kockelman is a professor of Transportation Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin.[7] She is a member of multiple standing committees of the Transportation Research Board.[8]
