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Office: 130 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-625-7062
E-mail: knapp078@umn.edu
Areas of expertise: transportation planning and policy; operational impacts of factors that influence the roadway environment (geometrics, weather, polices)
Keith Knapp is the research manager and research associate in the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS) within the State and Local Policy Program. He is also a research scholar at the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota, and he directs a multi-state Deer-Vehicle Crash Information and Research Center.
Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, Knapp was an associate research scientist in the Work Zones and DMS program at Texas A&M University's Texas Transportation Institute. He has 18 years of transportation consulting, research, and teaching/training experience and has been a principal investigator or key researcher on more than 16 studies that focused on the safety and mobility impacts of roadway design and characteristics. His work at the Texas Transportation Institute focused on work zone and horizontal curve safety and pavement marking durability on roadways with large aggregate surface treatments.
Knapp also taught at the University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University. While in Wisconsin, he developed, planned, and helped teach 12 to 15 publicly- and DOT-offered professional development training courses. And he participated in Wisconsin's annual Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) highway safety course (teaching on intersection and roadside design). His research focused on four-lane to three-lane cross section conversions, intersection safety, and deer-vehicle crashes.
Knapp received his B.S. in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1988 and a master's degree in civil engineering (with a focus in transportation) from Cornell University in 1989. Knapp completed his Ph.D. in civil engineering at Texas A&M University in 1997. He is a licensed professional engineer in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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