KU Transportation Center Staff
Mehrdad is a Traffic Safety Engineer for the Kansas LTAP Program with extensive traffic engineering, highway engineering and civil engineering experience. Mehrdad coordinates the Roadway Safety Assessment Program for Kansas LTAP and provides training and technical assistance in roadway safety and traffic engineering.
Lisa is the Director for the Kansas University Transportation Center and the Kansas LTAP and RTAP Programs. Her areas of specialty include transportation safety, transportation planning, community planning, communications, and partnership development.
Kristin is the Education Program Coordinator for the KU Transportation Center. She develops the annual Kansas LTAP training calendar and implements statewide training, workforce/professional development, and specialized events and programs for both LTAP and RTAP. Kristin also coordinates the Kansas Roads Scholar Program.
Alice provides administrative support for the KU Transportation Center and handles requests for resources distributed by the Center.
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.
Affiliated Faculty Researchers
Research interst 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 interests in traffic control devices, highway design, highway safety, and work zone safety.
Research interest in hydrology. Teaches LTAP training workshops in GIS applications to transportation.
Workshop Instructors
Teaches Asphalt Road and Street Maintenance and Bridge Maintenance.
Teaches Culverts and Drainage, Culvert Management, Surveying, Road Engineering, Public Works I and II and other management classes.
