Dr. Garber has served on the University of Virginia faculty since 1980. He has authored over 100 refereed publications and reports and has co-authored a textbook. He is a registered professional engineer in the commonwealth of Virginia and a chartered engineer of the United Kingdom. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. He is the recipient of the Transportation Research Board’s D. Grant Mickle Award and the Virginia Engineering Foundation Distinguished Faculty Award. Dr. Garber served for several years as chair of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Traffic Safety in Maintenance and Construction Operations. He is a member of the ASCE’s Committee on Highway Safety and Traffic Operations. He has served as the principal investigator for many research projects sponsored by federal, state and private agencies. He also has served on several Transportation Research Board policy studies on speed management and on size and weight of large trucks. Before joining the University of Virginia faculty, he taught at the University of Sierra Leone and the State University of New York at Buffalo and worked as an engineer in London and Sierra Leone.
Research Interests
Nicholas Garber’s research interests include traffic operations and highway safety with particular emphasis on intelligent transportation systems, speed management on high-speed roads, work zones and large trucks safety.
