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Stephen D. Boyles is a distinguished professor of transportation engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, recognized as an expert in the application of transportation network modeling and mathematical optimization techniques to transportation problems. He has received prestigious awards including the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and the Transportation Research Board’s Fred Burggraf Award. His research has also been acknowledged with the Milton Pikarsky Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers and the Daniel Fambro Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers. As a faculty member, Boyles has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on numerous projects funded by the Texas Department of Transportation, the Wyoming Department of Transportation, and the National Science Foundation Mountain-Plains Consortium. His research spans a broad array of topics including rural roadway pricing, operational analysis of low-volume rural freeways with a high proportion of heavy vehicles, large-scale traffic simulation, and real-time information provision for electric vehicles.
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