Travis Waller

Background

About Travis Waller

Professor S. Travis Waller has held tenured/continuing Professorial roles in America, Australia and Germany. Co-Founder of two start-up companies. Founding Director of multiple university research centers. University management roles including Head of School and Deputy Dean (Research). ​Over 40 industry sponsors, 200+ peer​-​review​ed​ scientific journal publications and 43 graduated PhD students. Globally recognized research leader in the planning and management of future human mobility and transport infrastructure in the context of emerging technology and digitized social values. Early leading research into mobility behavior adaptivity via information internet platforms for transport planning (2001), automated/autonomous vehicles (2007), quantifying environmental justice for transport planning (2008), electric vehicle traveler behavior (2008), transport-pandemic nexus (2012), mobility information paradox (2017), quantifying ethics-metrics for transport planning (2020), rapid planning via pervasive big data (2021), mobility infrastructure as a platform (2021), and blockchain applications for mobility as a resource (2022). Travis received some of the key awards from his field including: being named one of the top 100 innovators in science and engineering in the world under 35 years of age by MIT’s Technology Review magazine for his work on dynamic traffic analysis (2003)​, received the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award for his proposed research and teaching plan on adaptive network equilibrium (2004)​, named a Fellow of the Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professorship and Phil M. Ferguson Teaching Fellowship while at UT-Austin, received both the Fred Burggraf Award (2009) ​as well as the Pyke Johnson Award (2019) from the U.S. Transportation Research Board (a division of the U.S. National Academies)​, and named a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia in 2021.