September 8, 2008
Chandra R. Bhat, transportation engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, received the Wilbur Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award at the Institute of Transportation Engineers 2008 Annual Meeting and Exhibit. The annual award seeks a professional who has made an outstanding contribution to the transportation profession by relating academic studies to actually being involved in transportation. Throughout his career Bhat has established himself as one of the foremost international educators and leaders in the transportation profession through his integration of academic studies with the actual practice of transportation. He is also an internationally recognized research expert and pioneer in the development and use of quantitative techniques to study travel behavior.
Bhat holds the Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professorship in Transportation Engineering.
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