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| Bill Kelsh |
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| Virginia LTAP Program Director |
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Bill Kelsh
University of Virginia
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Thornton Hall
351 McCormick Road
PO Box 400742, D202
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4742 |
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Phone: 434-982-2897
Email:wek5k@virginia.edu |
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Biographical Information
William E. “Bill” Kelsh is the Virginia LTAP Director. Bill comes to the Center for Transportation Studies from the Virginia Transportation Research Council where he worked for 29 years in a variety of roles. He began his career at the Research Council in June 1977 as a graduate assistant in the Economics and Environmental Section where he studied early applications of geographic information systems technology for conducting environmental assessments of highway corridors. Bill joined the full-time research staff in February 1979 where he studied and evaluated national, state, and local traffic records systems and made influential recommendations for efficiencies and improvements in Virginia's statewide accident records systems. In the mid-1980’s he designed and developed a microcomputer-based traffic records system for local police-reported accident and traffic offense data that was implemented in over 80 Virginia localities. In October 1986 he assumed the role of the Research Council's Information Technology Coordinator where he provided leadership and in-house technical support for the Research Council's VAX-based office automation and electronic publishing systems and over 60 desktop PCs. In September 1990, Bill was appointed as Assistant Director and assumed responsibility for leading all administrative functions at the Research Council including budget, fiscal, facilities, human resources, publications, library, and information systems. In 1992 he served briefly as Director of the Virginia Transportation Technology Transfer Center - the predecessor to today’s Virginia LTAP. Bill holds an undergraduate degree (Mathematics, 1973) and two Master's Degrees (Urban and Environmental Planning, 1978 and Computer Science, 1983) – all from the University of Virginia.
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