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Rajesh Paleti Wins 2013 Milton Pikarsky Award

Rajesh Paleti

Rajesh Paleti

Rajesh Paleti, SWUTC doctoral graduate researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, was awarded the 2013 Milton Pikarsky Award for Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Science and Technology at the CUTC Annual Awards Banquet in January 2014.  Rajesh’s award winning dissertation “On Integrating Household Vehicle Ownership, Composition, and Evolution with Activity-Based Travel Models” looks at household vehicle ownership, and created a model to determine how vehicle fleets evolve over time.