Dr. Richard (RJ) Porter
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2007, The Pennsylvania State University
Office Number: 208 CME
Phone Number: 801-585-1290
Fax Number: 801.585.5477
Email: richard.jon.porter@utah.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Sketch
Dr. R.J. Porter joined the University of Utah's Civil and Environmental Engineering Department as an Assistant Professor in July 2009. He comes to Utah following two years of post-doctoral research work at the Texas Transportation Institute of the Texas A&M University System. Dr. Porter holds a B.S. (1999), M.Eng. (2000) and Ph.D. (2007) in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. He was a full-time research assistant at the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute during completion of his doctoral degree. Prior to that, Dr. Porter was a Research Associate at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia and a Research Assistant at the Last Resource Inc., in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Dr. Porter is a member of the Transportation Research Board (of the National Academies) Operational Effects of Geometrics Committee [AHB65] and Chair of the Subcommittee on Performance-Based Analysis of Geometric Design [AHB65(3)}. He was honored as a Leadership Fellow of the Eno Transportation Foundation in May 2005. He was also recognized at the 2006 Council of University Transportation Centers Awards Banquet as the Student-of-the-Year for the Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center.
Research Topics
| Transportation Safety | Highway Geometric Design |
| Traffic Operations | Human Factors and Driver Behavior |
| Statistical and Econometric Modeling of Transportation Data | Work Zone Management and Design |
