Kevin Heaslip is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Utah State University and the As- sociate Director of the Utah Transportation Center and the Mountain Plains Consortium (Region 8 University Transportation Center). Dr. Heaslip graduated from Virginia Tech with a BSCE and MSCE in 2002 and 2003, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007.
The largest accomplishment in Dr. Heaslip’s career was the build- ing of the Transportation Infrastructure Management and Engineering Laboratory (TIMELab). The TIMELab was a joint investment, between USU and the UDOT to bring Intelligent Transportation Systems to Cache Valley.
Dr. Heaslip has received recognition by the Transportation Re- search Board three years running with the designation of three papers
as Practice Ready Papers. Utah State University has also recognized his research by naming him the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Researcher of the Year and Un- dergraduate Research Mentor of the Year twice. He was also awarded the College of Engineering Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year in 2011. USU’s Energy Dynamics Laboratory named him its Engineering Collabora- tor of the Year in 2010 for his work with wireless power transfer and vehicle automation.
His research interests include vehicle electrification and automation, alternative fuels for transportation, sus- tainable and resilient transportation infrastructures, and traffic operations. Dr. Heaslip has completed research for several major organizations including: the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. He is currently working a U.S. Department of Energy funded project on Automated Electric Transportation.
In his time at Utah State University, he has published 18 refereed journal publications, 28 refereed conference proceedings, and received research grants as principal investigator or co-principal investigator in the value of
$6.8 million dollars. In addition, he has mentored 28 undergraduate researchers and served as the major professor of 21 graduate students.
He has received international recognition for his work in automation, and has been an invited speaker on the topic in France, Germany and throughout the United States. He is actively involved at the national level with the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s Research, Integration, Training, and Education forum, and several committees at the Transportation Research Board.
Upon acceptance of his position at USU, Dr. Heaslip had the goal of creating the most visible and productive research group in transportation operations and applied transportation research in the state of Utah and one of the top programs in the country. The tremendous faculty and program at Virginia Tech influenced this goal.