Dan Sperling Receives Prestigious Transportation Award
Dan Sperling, Distinguished Professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Davis, has been named the 2024 recipient of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s prestigious S.S. Steinberg Award in honor of “remarkable contributions to transportation education.”
Sperling, who is the founder of the Institute of Transportation Studies, or ITS, and the Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and Economy, conducts research and teaching transportation at UC Davis and has led ITS to global leadership in sustainable transportation.
A researcher and educator for more than 40 years, Sperling has authored or co-authored 13 books and over 250 papers and reports and launched a series of influential centers and programs at UC Davis, including the award-winning interdisciplinary graduate program on Transportation Technology and Policy.
