KU Transportation Center Team
Leadership
Professor, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Steve's research interests are in traffic control devices, highway design, highway safety, and work zone safety.
Lisa is Associate Director for Research, Partnership, and Innovation, and RTAP Director. Lisa also teaches in the Urban Planning Program in the School of Public Affairs and Administration.
Emily Wilder is an Associate Director of Business Operations at the University of Kansas Transportation Center. She is also the Director of the Kansas Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP), the National LTAP Association's Liaison to the APWA, and the NLTAPA Partnership work group co-chair. Emily holds a M.S. in Management and Leadership and certificates from the Kansas Leadership Center in Leadership Teaching and Coaching.
Lisa is the Associate Director of Special Projects for the University of Kansas Transportation Center. Her areas of specialty include transportation safety, transportation planning, community planning, communications, and partnership development.
Staff
Kara is the Communicaitions Coordinator for the University of Kansas Transportation Center. Along with developing effective communications strategies throughout the center, she is responsible for the successful execution of annual conferences. Kara holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism and a Master of Fine Arts in writing. Kara has been in the event industry since 2016 as an event coordinator for Southeast Missouri State University's Show Me Center and Kansas City's T-Mobile Center.
Megan Hazelwood graduated from the University of Kansas in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism. She has over eight years of event management experience. Megan previously worked for Entercom Communications where she assisted with events such as Rockfest and, most recently, the KU Memorial Union, where she served as the Event Manager. As the Event Coordinator for the University of Kansas Transportation Center, she will coordinate workshops for the Kansas LTAP and RTAP programs.
Nikhila serves as an Assistant Transit Researcher for the KU Transportation Center. She is primarily involved in transit and other transportation-related research projects, along with RTAP projects. She has two Masters degrees from the University of Kansas, Construction Management with a focus of Transportation Engineering (2020) and Urban Planning with a specialization in Transportation Planning (2017). She earned her bachelors degree in Architecture and is a Licensed Architect in India.
Anne is Outreach Coordinator and lead trainer for the Kansas RTAP Program. She develops the annual Kansas RTAP training calendar, teaches RTAP classes statewide, trains other transit trainers in the state, and coordinates with partners of Kansas RTAP in ongoing service and new initiatives.
Hemin is the Road Safety Resources Coordinator. He works directly with county and city public works agencies in Kansas as part of Kansas LTAP. He assists KUTC staff and researchers in the University of Kansas Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department in collecting and analyzing relevant traffic data. Hemin also helps develop a series of road safety briefs for KUTC and Kansas LTAP, and he has PH.D. and RPIC.
Connor is a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Kansas Transportation Center (KUTC) and is a graduate student in the Urban Planning and Public Administration programs. He conducts and assists in transportation research at KUTC.
Mike has 40 years of field and management experience in highway, road, and bridge construction, maintenance, and public works response to emergency events. His career began with KDOT in the Kansas City Metro area, working up to Area Superintendent responsible for the highway system in Johnson County. He became Operations Division Manager for Douglas County Public Works, then Street Division Manager for the City of Lawrence. Mike has worked with public officials at fire and accident events, including Hurricane Katrina, and the Greensburg and Chapman tornado cleanups. As Local Field Liaison, Mike assists public works agencies with road safety improvements and implementation, operational issues, department leadership turnover, and more.
Clark is Kansas LTAP's first Local Field Liaison. He is a licensed engineer and land surveyor. Clark has served as a military engineer at Fort Riley and Saudi Arabia, as well as City Engineer for Great Bend and County Engineer for Barton County. As Local Field Liaison, Clark works with county and city public works agencies in Kansas on issues such as: practical road safety assessments, identifying low cost safety improvements, providing guidance in applying for funding for safety improvements, assistance in the implementation of local road safety plans, and more.
Affiliated Faculty Researchers
Research interests in high quality, efficient, safe, health, and sustainable luminous and visual environments.
Research interests include geotechnical topics such as new design methods for unpaved roads, multi-tiered earth wall systems, geosynthetic reinforcements and soil improvement techniques.
Research interests in transportation engineering, traffic flow, highway capacity, and driver behavior.
Research interests include soil stabilization, flowable fill, site investigation methodology, and solid waste management.
Research interest in hydrology. Teaches LTAP training workshops in GIS applications to transportation.
