Institute for Transportation

Program for Sustainable Pavement Engineering and Research (PROSPER) Director Halil Ceylan will receive the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Roy W. Crum Award at the organization’s annual meeting to be held in January 2025 in Washington, DC.

The award, named after the board’s director from 1928 until his death in 1951, recognizes outstanding achievement in transportation research.

Ceylan, who is also the Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. Endowed Professor in Iowa State University’s Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department, is being recognized specifically for his “distinguished career in civil, transportation, and pavement engineering marked by exemplary leadership, numerous outstanding achievements, and significant contributions to the performance and production of fundamental and developmental transportation-related research.”

Ceylan has also been a dedicated member of the TRB community for over two decades and currently serves on the Standing Technical Committee on Quality Assurance Management and Subcommittee on Design and Construction of Roller Compacted Concrete Pavements, as well as on the Airport Cooperative Research Program’s Panel on Automated Pavement Conditions Survey Practices at Airports. He has chaired sessions at multiple TRB Annual Meetings on diverse topics, including inclement weather effects on driving behavior, weather impacts on surface transportation, track support assessment, and efficiency in geotechnical design using neural networks.

Ceylan also organized workshops and sessions at the TRB’s 13th TRB International Conference on Low Volume Roads, and sessions on modeling erosion and foundation support in concrete pavements and neural network applications in geotechnics.

More on Ceylan’s award and his achievements is available from the TRB announcement of the award.