Stephen Ritchie, Institute of Transportation Studies – Irvine (ITS-Irvine) Director and Chancellor’s Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine (UCI) has been elected American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Fellow. “ASCE Fellows have made celebrated contributions and developed creative solutions that change lives around the world,” ASCE notes. “It is a prestigious honor held by 3% of ASCE members.”
Ritchie is a Life Member of ASCE and an internationally recognized educator and pioneering researcher in intelligent and sustainable transportation systems planning and engineering emphasizing the development, application and field deployment of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence techniques for traffic operations and management, and support of infrastructure investment for the nation’s freight transportation system. He is completing 20-years of service as Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UCI this year, where he has led the Institute to become one of the major transportation research centers in the nation,
while also being the focal point of the highly successful transportation research and education enterprise on the UCI campus. His research, and his founding of the international journal Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, helped define and advance the scientific basis of what is now the worldwide field of Intelligent Transportation Systems. His current leadership of the Freight Mobility Living Laboratory, a near-real-time, scalable ecosystem for exploring field deployments of innovative approaches and technologies for collecting vital road and rail freight activity data, is impacting research frontiers and the state of practice in California and the nation.