Hauser receives lifetime achievement award for transportation research

Edd Hauser, director of the Center for Transportation Policy Studies and the Center for Disaster Studies, recently received the academic Lifetime Achievement in Transportation Research and Education Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC).

During a 15-year tenure with UNC Charlotte, Hauser has been the principal investigator on more than 150 research, strategic planning and public policy studies related to the field of transportation. He has been involved with CUTC since the 1980s and was on the council’s Board of Directors before undertaking the roles of secretary, vice president and then president from 1985-86.

The CUTC was established in 1979 by the major transportation research centers and institutes in the United States. The council provides a forum for universities and centers to interact collectively with government and industry.

As a CUTC member, Hauser has represented three educational institutions. In addition to UNC Charlotte, he was founding director of the UNC system-wide Institute for Transportation Research and Education, now housed at N.C. State University, and he developed Arizona State University’s Center for Transportation Systems Research.

The Lifetime Achievement in Transportation Research and Education Award honors individuals “who have contributed immensely throughout their professional lives to transportation research and education.”

Norman Mineta, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, received the CUTC non-academic Lifetime Achievement Award.

Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, delivered the keynote address for the CUTC awards banquet, held in Washington, D.C.

Photo: Edd Hauser (right) with fellow lifetime award recipient Norman Mineta.