Stephen Boyles

Stephen Boyles is a professor in the Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering within the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Holding the Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professorship in Transportation Engineering and serving as a Distinguished Teaching Professor, he specializes in transportation engineering. Boyles received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2009, an M.S.E. in Civil Engineering from the same university in 2006, and B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Washington in 2004. His academic career includes positions as Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming from 2009 to 2011, followed by Assistant Professor at UT Austin from 2011 to 2016, Associate Professor from 2016 to 2022, and Professor since 2022. He has also held fellowships such as the Charles Elmer Rowe Fellowship in Engineering from 2019 to 2023.

Boyles' research interests encompass transportation network analysis, static and dynamic traffic assignment, transportation user behavior, infrastructure systems, and innovative vehicle technologies, with applications to autonomous and electric vehicles, disaster recovery sequencing, managed lanes, dynamic pricing, and ridesharing platforms. He is the author of the forthcoming Transportation Network Analysis, Volume I: Static and Dynamic Traffic Assignment (2025, with N. E. Lownes and A. Unnikrishnan) and Smart Transport for Cities & Nations: The Rise of Self-Driving & Connected Vehicles (2018, with K. Kockelman). Notable publications include "Post-disaster recovery sequencing strategy for road networks" (Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2021), "Battery electric vehicle traveling salesman problem with drone" (Networks and Spatial Economics, 2024), "Mean-standard deviation model for minimum cost flow problem" (Networks, 2023), and "Balancing passenger transport and power distribution: a distributed dispatch policy for shared autonomous electric vehicles" (IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, accepted). His work has earned the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2013, the Transportation Research Board's Fred Burggraf Award in 2015, the Best Paper Award from TRB's Standing Committee on Disaster Response in 2023, and multiple teaching accolades including membership in the Academy of Distinguished Teachers (2025), the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching by an Assistant Professor (2016), and the Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship (2018-2019). As Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator, he has led projects funded by the Texas Department of Transportation, National Science Foundation, Wyoming Department of Transportation, and the Mountain-Plains Consortium, addressing topics such as rural roadway pricing, large-scale traffic simulation, real-time information provision, and electric vehicles. Boyles has contributed as an outstanding reviewer for the American Society of Civil Engineers (2017) and received Meritorious Service Awards from Transportation Science journal (2021, 2022).