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The National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) recently awarded Vukan Vuchic its first “Academic Award” to recognize a career “dedicated to increasing knowledge about the operations, planning and policies toward passenger trains and other advancements in the field of transportation,” NARP officials said in a prepared statement.

Until his retirement last year, Vuchic was the UPS Foundation professor of transportation engineering at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. In that role, he “provided valuable insight into planning and design of urban transportation systems and the importance of all types of rail services,” NARP said.

In addition to teaching at Penn, Vuchic has lectured at about 90 universities and consulted around the world.

“Dr. Vuchic’s unflagging enthusiasm in advancing our knowledge of passenger trains, along with transit- and pedestrian-friendly urban planning, has been an inspiration to his students, to his colleagues, and to public officials,” NARP President Ross Capon said.