Dr. C. Michael Walton
Dr. C. Michael Walton is Professor of Civil Engineering and holds the Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (UT). In addition, he holds a joint academic appointment in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
Dr. Walton, a native of Hampton, Virginia, earned a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the Virginia Military Institute in 1963. Following four years of military service as a Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he returned to academia to earn a Master's degree and a Ph.D. degree in 1969 and 1971 respectively from North Carolina State University, both in civil engineering. During this period he served in the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington and with the North Carolina State Highway Commission. In 1971 he joined the UT Austin faculty, pursuing a career in transport policy and engineering analysis that now spans more than 30 years.
Dr. Walton is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is a past-chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Executive Committee and the western region vice chairman of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). He is a founding member of the Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) of America and is past chair of the Board of Directors. He has served on or chaired a number of national study panels including those mandated by Congress and others of the National Research Council (NRC). He is chair of TRB's Research and Technology Coordinating Committee (FHWA) and past chair of the Committee for the Congressional Study for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program. Other professional or technical society memberships include American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Institute of Transportation Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers, Society of American Military Engineers, and the Urban Land Institute.
Dr. Walton is the recent recipient of the 2000 George S. Bartlett Award in recognition for outstanding contributions to highway progress. He was selected by a Board of Award comprised of the President and Executive Director of each of the three sponsoring organizations-American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), TRB and ARTBA. The Bartlett Award is unusual in that it is the only award jointly sponsored by the three organizations and is considered to be among the highest honors
in the highway transportation profession.
The American Society of Civil Engineers noted the technical contributions of Dr. Walton by honoring him with several awards including the 1999 Francis C. Turner Lecture for contributions to transportation research, education and practice, the 1992 James Laurie Prize for contributions to the advancement of transportation engineering; the 1987 Harland Bartholomew Award for contributions to the enhancement of the civil engineer's role in urban planning and development; and the 1987 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award, for innovations in transport facility planning.
The Transportation Research Board presented Dr. Walton with the 1998 W.N. Carey, Jr. Distinguished Service Award in recognition of outstanding leadership in support of transportation research. In 1995, he was named TRB's Distinguished Lecturer in recognition of the research contributions over his entire career.
The American Road and Transportation Builders Association presented Dr. Walton with the 1994
S.S. Steinberg Award recognizing his outstanding contributions to transportation education. He received the 1995 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award from the College of Engineering at North Carolina
State University. The College of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin awarded Dr. Walton the 1996 Joe J. King Award, their highest professional award, in recognition of his outstanding leadership to the engineering profession.
The Institute of Transportation Engineers has awarded him the 1996 Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the transportation profession by relating academic studies to the actual practice of transportation.
Dr. Walton has contributed to more than 200 publications in the areas of ITS, freight transport, and transportation engineering, planning, policy and economics, and he has delivered several hundred technical presentations. He has served as senior editor or contributing author for a variety of technical reference books and manuals and as a member of the editorial board for several international journals.
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