Michael Kyte is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Idaho. He has over 40 years of experience in traffic engineering, public transit operations, and transportation engineering education. He is the co-author, with Tom Urbanik, of Traffic Signal Systems Operations and Design: An Activity-Based Learning Approach (Book 1: Isolated Intersections). He is currently developing two other textbooks, one on coordinated traffic signal control systems and another on intersection operation analysis methods based on the Highway Capacity Manual. He served as the director of the university's National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology for fifteen years. He is a former member of the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service and Committee on Traffic Signal Systems.
Maria Tribelhorn is Assistant Transportation Engineer with DKS Associates. She conducted much of the research on student learning in the introductory course in transportation engineering that is the foundation for this book. Her thesis, based on this research, is titled “Evidence-based Approach to Curriculum Development for the Signalized Intersection Module of the Introductory Transportation Engineering Course”.
Maria Tribelhorn is Assistant Transportation Engineer with DKS Associates. She conducted much of the research on student learning in the introductory course in transportation engineering that is the foundation for this book. Her thesis, based on this research, is titled “Evidence-based Approach to Curriculum Development for the Signalized Intersection Module of the Introductory Transportation Engineering Course”.