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Keynote Speaker - October 2022

Robert C. Wunderlich, P.E.

Senior Research Engineer- Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Topic: Safe System Approach

Mr. Wunderlich is a Senior Research Engineer and the Director of the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.  In that role, he is responsible for leading the Center’s efforts in traffic safety research, policy analysis, education, and outreach.  Over the past few years, much of Mr. Wunderlich’s work has focused on understanding the factors associated with traffic fatalities and injuries at the state and national levels and finding ways to lower them and developing tools that allow practitioners to perform effective safety analyses.

In 2019, Mr. Wunderlich received the Burton W. Marsh award for distinguished service to the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Public Service Award for his dedication to saving lives on U.S highways by championing data-driven traffic safety initiatives.  Mr. Wunderlich is a past president of ITE and was elected as an Honorary Member, ITE’s highest honor, in 2021.  He is a licensed professional engineer in Texas, a member of Transportation Research Board Transportation Safety Management Committee and helps edit the AASHTO Green Book as a member of the Technical Committee on Geometric Design.