Kara Kockelman

Dissertation: A Utility-Theory-Consistent System-of-Demand-Equations

Approach to Household Travel Choice

Advisor: Mark Hansen

PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1998

MS Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 1996

MCP City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, 1996

BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1991

The University of Texas at Austin - Present 

• Professor, Transportation Engineering 

Kara Kockelman is a registered professional engineer and holds a PhD, MS, and BS in civil engineering, a master’s in city planning, and a minor in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Kockelman has been a professor of transportation engineering at the University of Texas at Austin for 26 years, and is Associate Site Director of the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Efficient Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation Systems. She has authored over 230 journal articles (and two books), and her primary research interests include planning for shared and autonomous vehicle systems, the statistical modeling of urban systems, energy and climate issues, the economic impacts of transport policy, and crash occurrence and consequences.