Kara Kockelman has been named a senior fellow of MIT’s Mobility Initiative, which aims to improve the global mobility system.
The transportation engineering professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering is one of five experts chosen as fellows this year. Each year, the program identifies a small cohort of individuals with unique insights and professional experience to contribute toward scholarship that advances safe, clean and inclusive mobility systems.
Kockelman is part of the second cohort of senior fellows. The initiative focuses on four pillars: research, education, entrepreneurship and engagement.
Kockelman's research encompasses a wide array of topics, including travel demand modeling, the impacts of self-driving vehicles, energy and greenhouse gas emissions, and traffic safety analysis. She has published extensively in these areas and contributed significantly to the field of transportation engineering. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses covering many aspects of transportation, including travel demand forecasting, transport economics, transportation system design and data analysis.
