Transportation

Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Daniel Work can’t think of a better place to research traffic issues than Nashville. He’s bringing his expertise on applying cyber-physical systems—the combination of physical systems with technological advances—to transportation to a city that adds… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Center for Transportation and Operational Resiliency (VECTOR) will receive $1 million of a total $7 million, five-year U.S. Department of Transportation grant aimed at preserving and optimizing the nation’s transportation system. Craig Philip VECTOR was selected as part of a consortium headed by the University of Arkansas, and researchers… Read More

A Vanderbilt University School of Engineering alumna is the first female chief engineer for Georgia’s transportation department. Meg Pirkle, CE'89 Meg Bryson Pirkle earned her Vanderbilt bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1989 and went to work for Georgia Department of Transportation’s planning department the same year,… Read More