Fred Mannering

Mannering has received numerous awards in his discipline. In 2005 he won the Wilbur S. Smith Award, and in 2009 the James Laurie Prize for his work in highway safety (both awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers). He received the Murphy Teaching Award, Purdue University's highest undergraduate teaching honor, in 2013. In 2016, he was named by the Eno Foundation as one of the Top 10 Transportation Thought Leaders in Academia and in 2019, his paper on highway accident frequency was recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of four Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A: Systems papers that have been instrumental in moving civil engineering forward or have changed the practice of transportation engineering, infrastructure, and development. In 2020, Mannering was recognized as the most highly-cited author (highest total citations and citations per paper) in the 50-year history of the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention and in 2021 he received the Council of University Transportation Centers (HNTB-CUTC) Lifetime Achievement Award. For four consecutive years (2019 to 2022 inclusive), Mannering was on Clarivate's annual list of the world's most influential researchers of the past decade, who were recognized for writing multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

Mannering was born in 1954 (November) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from suburban Pittsburgh's South Fayette High School, received his B.S. degree from the University of Saskatchewan, M.S. degree from Purdue University, and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his doctoral committee consisted of Clifford Winston (Advisor), Daniel McFadden (2000 Nobel Prize laureate in Economics) and Ann Fetter Friedlaender.