CTR's Professional Researchers
This page presents information about the professional researchers on staff at CTR.
| Researcher | Specialty |
Alejandra Cruz-Ross |
Transportation planning, law, and policy, transport finance, border transportation infrastructure. |
Jennifer Duthie |
Network modeling; dynamic traffic assignment; bicycle planning. |
Robert Harrison |
Economic impact studies, trade issues, cost/benefit analysis, transport sector planning; NAFTA trade corridors, inland ports, Texas-Mexico border trade issues. |
Nabeel Khwaja |
Innovative construction; solutions to workzone mobility issues; challenges on mega-reconstruction projects and solutions; public-private partnerships (PPP); enterprise project scheduling systems;lessons-learned systems for knowledge management. |
Lisa Loftus-Otway |
Transportation law and policy; energy, environment, and sustainable development law and policy; freight planning and policy; public-private partnerships (PPP); transportation planning and finance |
Mike Murphy |
Network-level pavement management, highway design and evaluation, non-destructive testing, highway safety, super heavy and load zone analysis and policies regarding truck size and weight impacts on pavement performance. |
Khali Persad |
Transportation planning and construction. |
Dan Seedah |
Transportation infrastructure planning and maintenance, transportation funding, supply chain operations, intermodal freight movement, experimental design, traffic simulation, data collection and analysis, computer programming, and web and user interface development. |
Manuel Trevino |
Pavement performance; forensic study on Full-Scale Bonded Concrete Overlay, continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP), analysis of applicability of asphalt concrete overlays. |
Yetkin Yildirim |
Pavements; flexible pavement, Superpave, asphalt. See also the Superpave and Asphalt Research Program and the Pavement Preservation Center |



