University of Kansas Transportation Center

The University of Kansas Transportation Center (KUTC) conducts, coordinates, and promotes transportation training, technology transfer, and research to the State of Kansas and the surrounding region.

The KUTC is a multi-disciplinary center of the University of Kansas operating since 1977, managing technology transfer and research programs. Primary areas of interest are highway engineering and maintenance, traffic engineering and safety, transportation workforce development, and community transit. The Center’s three primary programs are Kansas LTAP, Kansas RTAP, and the Kansas Local Field Liaison Program.

- To coordinate, facilitate, and stimulate interdisciplinary research in all aspects of transportation at the University of Kansas

- To collect, generate, and provide information, training, and technical assistance to national, regional, state, and local agencies, to private industry, and to the citizens of the state

- To conduct research in transportation areas related to the Kansas economy