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Will Recker

To the best of our knowledge Will Recker is retired from working. His most recent ITS biography is provided below.

Dr. Will Recker is a Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, University of California, Irvine. Dr. Recker was educated at the Carnegie Institute of Technology of Carnegie-Mellon University where he was awarded the PhD degree in Civil Engineering. Dr. Recker is active as a university educator, researcher, and administrator; he served as Director of the UCI Institute of Transportation Studies for twenty three years. He has authored over one hundred and fifty research articles that have appeared as archival journal publications, over fifty articles that have appeared as conference proceedings, and has served as principal investigator on many research projects in travel demand modeling and transportation systems engineering. Since assuming his current position at the University of California, he has served as Principal Investigator on over fifty extramural research grants and contracts in transportation totaling over $30 million. The major portion of his research has focused on travel demand models, disaggregate modeling methodologies and transportation systems analysis. He has been instrumental in the development of activity-based travel behavior approaches, and in the application of advanced technology to the management of traffic systems, intelligent transportation systems and telematics.