Ranjit Godavarthy, associate research fellow with Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, won the Wootan Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in Policy and Planning from the Council for University Transportation Centers.

He received the award at the council’s annual winter meeting and banquet, which took place in conjunction with the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting Jan. 11 in Washington, D.C.

Godavarthy completed his dissertation, “Network and Design Guidelines for Accommodating Large Trucks at Roundabouts," at Kansas State University. 

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.