Awards & Honors
- Third Prize – Best Paper (Paper Title: Improving Bus On-Time Performance Using Schedule Based Reliability Concept Under Mixed Traffic Conditions; Authors: A. Chepuri, R. Kenny, S. S. Arkatkar, G. J. Joshi and S. S. Pulugurtha), Indian Road Congress (IRC) Conference, October 27-28, 2018, Nagpur, India.
- Best Research Paper Award (Paper Title: Spatial Variations in Pedestrian and Bicycle Level-of-Service (LOS) for Infrastructure Planning and Resource Allocation; Authors: S. S. Pulugurtha and Md. S. Imran) by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Transportation & Development Institute hosted Green Streets, Highway, and Development Conference, Austin, TX (2013)
- William States Lee College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award at Graduate Level, UNC Charlotte (2010)
- Engineer of the Year, Nominee, Safe Communities Partnership, Las Vegas, NV (2002)
- Best Paper Award (Paper Title: Evaluating Ground Holding Policy Implications in Real-Time Using Genetic Algorithms; Author: S. S. Pulugurtha), Student Paper Competition held in Conjunction with the 25th American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) International Air Transportation Conference, Austin, TX (1998)
- Barrick Summer Session Scholar, Graduate College, UNLV, 1997
- Best Paper Award (Paper Title: Optimal Scheduling of Urban Transit Systems Using Genetic Algorithms; Authors: P. Chakroborty, K. Deb and S. S. Pulugurtha), ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, New York (1996)
- National Merit Scholar, University Grants Commission, India, 1993-1995
- National Merit Scholar, National Council for Education, Research, and Training, Government of India, 1986-1988
- State Merit Scholar, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, 1986-1988