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Staff Bio

Denver Tolliver
Director - UGPTI
Program Director - MPC
Phone: (701)231-7190
Fax: (701)231-1945
denver.tolliver@ndsu.edu

 

Denver Tolliver is the director of the Mountain-Plains Consortium (MPC), the director of the interdisciplinary graduate program in Transportation & Logistics, and a senior research fellow at the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute. In addition to his research and administrative activities, he teaches the following graduate courses: Transportation Systems I, Transportation Systems II, Transportation Logistics, and Research in Transportation & Logistics. He also helps teach Railroad Planning and Design.

During his career, Dr. Tolliver has served as principal investigator for more than 30 USDOT, USDA, and state research grants, and testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission or Surface Transportation Board on 22 occasions. He has published more than 50 technical reports and journal articles, and authored a book on highway impact assessment techniques. Dr. Tolliver's primary research interests are freight transportation, highway system planning, and environmental impact analysis. He has served on the Local and Regional Railroad Freight Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and is past president of the Agricultural and Rural Transportation Chapter of the Transportation Research Forum.

Research Interests

• Transportation System Models
• Transportation Planning
• Freight Transportation
• Environmental Analysis
• Transportation of Hazardous Materials

Recent Research Activities/Major Programs of Activity

• NDDOT, Highway Planning for Ethanol Processing Plants
• NDDOT, State Highway Needs and System Performance: Implementation of HERS-ST
• MPC, Trip Generation Rates for Grain Elevators
• MPC, Railroad Productivity Analysis
• The Effects of Transportation Infrastructure on Economic Development in ND - A Study for the ND Legislature

Employment

• 2012-Present, Director, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, NDSU
• 2003-2012, Associate Director, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, NDSU
• 2002-Present, Director, Transportation & Logistics Graduate Program, NDSU
• 1995-Present, Director, Mountain-Plains Consortium, NDSU
• 1992-Present, Adjunct Professor, Civil & Construction Engineering, NDSU
• 1984-Present, Senior Research Fellow, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, NDSU
• 1979-1980, Rail Planner, North Dakota Department of Transportation
• 1977-1979, Research Assistant, Center for Environmental Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Education

• PhD, Environmental Design & Planning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989
• M.U.R.P., Urban & Regional Planning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979
• B.S., Geography, Morehead State University, 1973