William L. Eisele, Ph.D., P.E.

Eisele, Bill

Program Manager
Senior Research Engineer

Mobility Analysis - Valley Park
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
The Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77845
ph. (979) 845-8550 Ext. 58550 · fax (979) 845-6008
bill-eisele@tamu.edu

Short Biography

Dr. Eisele is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas and the state of Michigan. Since 1995, he has been active in research in the areas of mobility analysis, freight mobility, performance measurement, and access management. Dr. Eisele has performed research for a variety of private and public sponsors including several state departments of transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), and various university transportation centers, among others.

Mobility Analysis and Performance Measurement

Dr. Eisele is active in research related to mobility analysis and transportation system performance measurement. He is a co-author of TTI's Urban Mobility Report, which provides mobility statistics for 101 metropolitan areas throughout the United States. He is a co-author of TTI's Congested Corridors Report, that identifies travel reliability problems at specific stretches of highway responsible for significant traffic congestion. He has appeared on radio and television network news shows and many radio, television stations, and newspapers in major cities covering the Urban Mobility Report and Congested Corridors Report.

Through an FHWA sponsored pooled fund study, he provides technical assistance along with a team of researchers on mobility and reliability performance measures, data and issues. Recent key task areas include identify and evaluating new sources of mobility data and developing new measures and techniques to inform transportation investment decision-making about attributes of arterial street reliability and freight mobility. He recently served as principal investigator for a research project for TxDOT to develop and test a framework for congestion monitoring in small- to medium-sized communities (SMSCs). He co-developed and co-instructed workshops throughout the state of Texas to assist state and local staff in implementing the mobility monitoring materials.

Dr. Eisele has been active in a number of research efforts related to freight mobility and performance. A few of his selected freight mobility projects include:

  • Through a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) pooled fund project, provided technical assistance in the development of a methodology and applications for estimating the economic impact of congestion on freight. The work also documented a "freight box" conceptual framework to allow practitioners a way to visualize and communicate freight mobility and reliability issues for freight infrastructure decision-making.

  • Assisted Transport Canada in the development of measures and methods to assist in estimating the efficiency of Canada's freight transportation system by investigating mobility and reliability. Provided assistance in the creation and application of the appropriate measures. This work was published in the inaugural edition of the Institute of Transportation Engineer's (ITE's) Journal of Transportation.

  • Led an effort to assist the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) by obtaining truck global positioning system (GPS) data from the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) for the Phoenix region that evaluated the temporal and spatial characteristics of the data to identify if it met the specifications for planning applications. Investigated the development of origin-destination matrices of the data and estimated speeds with the data.

  • Provided technical assistance on research sponsored by the Southwest Region University Transportation Center (SWUTC) that developed and applied mobility performance measures for freight transportation in urban areas.

Access Management and Land Development Impacts on Transportation

Dr. Eisele has worked extensively in all areas of access management (and corridor management) including economic impacts, planning, design, safety and operations. He has provided access management technical assistance to other states and internationally. A few selected efforts include:

  • Led a project sponsored by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to evaluate MDOT's statewide Access Management Program. MDOT has conducted an Access Management Program since 2002, and nearly 40 access management corridor studies were completed by numerous consultants. Through this effort, TTI provided an evaluation of the implementation results from these studies and recommended adjustments to the program.

  • Served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on several projects for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in the development of TxDOT's statewide Access Management Program including economic impacts of access management and benefits of access management, and made significant contributions to TxDOT's statewide access management program that ultimately included technical assistance on the TxDOT Design Division's on-line Access Management Manual.

  • Led a project to develop and instruct four courses on specific access management considerations for the Institute of Transportation Engineer's (ITE's) Professional Development Program. Four courses were developed: Principles and Practices of Access Management, Economic Impacts of Access Management, Safety Impacts of Access Management, and Retrofitting Access Management into Existing Right-of-Way.

Dr. Eisele is also a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University (TAMU) where he teaches a graduate course on site planning and traffic impact. He serves on the TAMU Graduate Faculty.

Education

  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2001.
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Michigan State University, 1994.
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, Michigan State University, 1993.

Experience

  • Program Manager, Mobility Analysis, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, September 2012 - Present.
  • Senior Research Engineer, Mobility Analysis, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, September 2012 - Present.
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, 2008 - Present.
  • Research Engineer, Mobility Analysis, Texas Transportation Institute, September 2006 - August 2012.
  • Associate Research Engineer, Mobility Analysis, Texas Transportation Institute, April 2001 - August 2006.
  • Assistant Research Engineer, Mobility Analysis, Texas Transportation Institute, September 1999 - March 2001.
  • Assistant Research Scientist, Mobility Analysis, Texas Transportation Institute, February 1995 - August 1999.
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, 1993 - 1994.
  • Research Assistant, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, 1992 - 1993.
  • Engineering Technician, Lansing, Michigan, Soil and Material Engineers, Inc, 1991 - 1992.

Professional Registration

Professional Engineer in Texas, Registration No. 85445.

Professional Engineer in Michigan, Registration No. 6201057322.

Affiliations

  • Member, Transportation Research Board (TRB), Committee on Access Management.
  • Member, Transportation Research Board (TRB), Urban Freight Transportation Committee.
  • Friend (past member), Transportation Research Board (TRB), Statewide Data and Information Systems Committee.
  • Friend, Transportation Research Board (TRB), Committee on Performance Measures.
  • Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), ITE.
  • Technical Council Chair, ITE, Freight Mobility Council.
  • Member, Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), ITS.

Honors & Awards

Herbert H. Richardson TTI/Trinity Team Award, 2005.

TTI Trinity Researcher Award, 2003.

TxDOT Top Research Innovations and Findings, 2002, for the paper, Access Management Guidebook for Texas.

Fellow, Eno Transportation Foundation, 2000.

Selected Publications

W.L. Eisele, D.L. Schrank, T.J. Lomax. 2011 Congested Corridors Report. University Transportation Center for Mobility, Texas Transportation Institute. November 2011.

D.L. Schrank, T.J. Lomax, W.L. Eisele. TTI's 2011 Urban Mobility Report. University Transportation Center for Mobility, Texas Transportation Institute. September 2011.

T.L. Ramani, J. Zietsman, W.L. Eisele. Incorporating Sustainability into TxDOT's Transportation Decision Making - Summary of Work Performed, Methods Used and Results Achieved. 5-5541-01-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. February 2011.

W.L. Eisele, C.E. Yager, M.A. Brewer, W.E. Frawley, E. Park, D. Lord, J.A. Robertson, P. Kuo. Safety and Economic Impacts of Converting Two-Way Frontage Roads to One-Way: Methodology and Findings. 0-5856-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. January 2011.

W.L. Eisele, C.E. Yager, M.A. Brewer, W.E. Frawley, E. Park, D. Lord, J.A. Robertson, P. Kuo. Safety and Economic Impacts of Converting Two-Way Frontage Roads to One-Way. 0-5856-S. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. 2010.

T.L. Ramani, J. Zietsman, W.L. Eisele. Incorporating Sustainability into TxDOT's Transportation Decision Making: Updated Workshop Materials. 5-5541-01-P2. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. November 2010.

W.L. Eisele. Mobility Monitoring in Your Community: Interactive Workshop. 5-5571-01-P1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. February 2010.

W.L. Eisele, W.E. Frawley, J.A. Crawford. Delivery of Workshops on Mobility Monitoring in Small to Medium-Sized Communities. Technical Report. 5-5571-01-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. November 2009.

T.L. Ramani, J. Zietsman, W.L. Eisele, D. Rosa, D.L. Spillane, B.S. Bochner. Developing Sustainable Performance Measures for TxDOT's Strategic Plan: Technical Report. 0-5541-1. Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX. April 2009.