Michigan State Transportation Director Kirk T. Steudle is the recipient of the 2015 W.N. Carey, Jr., Distinguished Service Award. This honor is in recognition of his outstanding service in transportation research, including being a national leader in the development of connected vehicle technology, and service to the Transportation Research Board (TRB).
During Steudle's service to TRB, he has been a member of numerous committees, panels, and task forces in addition to chairing the executive committee, oversight committee for the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2), and Committee on SHRP 2 Implementation, as well as National Cooperative Highway Research Program panels on Developing an Asset Management Plan for the Interstate Highway System and on Administration of Highway and Transportation Agencies.
Steudle will be presented the Carey Award on Jan. 13, 2016, during the chairman's luncheon at the TRB's 95th annual meeting. The award recognizes individuals who have given leadership and distinguished service to the TRB, but who have not necessarily been personally active in transportation research. This award was known as the Highway Research Board Distinguished Service Award until 1974, when it was renamed the Transportation Research Board Distinguished Service Award to correspond to the change in the board's name. In January 1987, the Executive Committee renamed this award the W. N. Carey Jr. Distinguished Service Award in honor of W. N. Carey Jr., who served as the board's director from 1967 until 1980.
The TRB 95th Annual Meeting takes place Jan. 10-14, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The meeting covers all transportation issues, with more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 750 sessions. A number of sessions and workshops will focus on the meeting’s spotlight theme: Research Convergence for a Multi-Modal Future. The meeting is expected to attract more than 12,000 transportation professionals from throughout the United States and 70 other countries.
