Lance Bullard, PE

TTI Senior Research Engineer
Research Group Lead

Education

• M.S., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1995
• B.S., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1991
• B.S., Mechanized Agriculture, Texas A&M University, 1988

Short Biography

Mr. Lance Bullard is the associate agency director overseeing the Safety Group, the division head for the Roadside Safety and Physical Security Division, and a senior research engineer at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). He has been employed with TTI for approximately 37 years in various roles, designing, developing, improving, analyzing and conducting full-scale crash testing of highway safety appurtenances, such as guardrail terminals, crash cushions, breakaway sign supports, and perimeter security devices, including gates, fences, and bollards for both U.S. and international markets.

He is the principal investigator and engineer for the Texas Workforce Commission and Texas Health & Human Services Automotive Adaptive Equipment projects. These projects involve performing reviews and recommendations of vehicle modifications for driver adaptations for physically disabled persons, as well as conducting quality control and safety inspections of those modifications.

Mr. Bullard was employed as a private consultant to highway roadside safety hardware manufacturers for four years. During this time, his consulting activities included much of the same work as his TTI activities, including setting up a private crash testing facility and conducting full-scale crash tests. He also served as an engineering research associate and former head of the Testing and Construction Section in the Engineering Factors Program at TTI’s Proving Ground.

Mr. Bullard has contributed to the conduct and/or analysis of more than 2,000 full-scale vehicular crash tests. He was the principal investigator at TTI for the NHTSA Office of Motor Vehicle Defects Investigation contract. Additionally, he has performed many accident investigations and reconstructions of passenger and commercial vehicle accidents. He has developed and taught courses in accident investigation and reconstruction and biomechanics of automobile accidents in the United States and the United Arab Emirates.

He has authored and coauthored many technical reports related to highway safety appurtenances. He has been active with the SAE Accident Investigation Practices Committee and a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) committee for motorcycles and mopeds. Mr. Bullard is active with the TRB Committee AKD20 for Roadside Safety; a research affiliate of the AASHTO Task Force 13 Committee for Highway Safety; a member of the SAE Adaptive Devices Standards Committee; chairman for the ASTM Development of a Standard Test Method for Boat Barriers; a committee member of the ASTM Security Systems and Equipment, Systems Products and Services; a member of the ATSSA Guardrail Committee; and task force leader for the ATSSA Guardrail Training Course.

Mr. Bullard is a licensed professional engineer in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and Washington. He holds over 30 U.S. patents for various highway safety devices.