Kockelman’s work focuses on transportation, and includes planning for future implementation of shared and autonomous vehicle systems, and policies like credit-based congestion pricing and urban growth boundaries.
[8] Kockelman is an expert in transportation and emerging technologies, focusing on city infrastructure and automated vehicles.
[12] Outside of academia, Kockelman's work has also been published via mainstream media outlets that include Texas Public Radio stations[13] and magazines such as Mother Jones[14] and Newsweek.
[16] In 2002, MIT's Technology Review magazine identified Kockelman as one of the world's "Top 100 Innovators Under 35".
[19] In 2007, Kockelman received the Harland Bartholomew Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
[25] In addition, she was the recipient of the Walter Isard Award for Scholarly Achievement by the North American Regional Science Council in November 2020,[26] and was ranked 32 out of 21,274 authors among the Top 2% in the Logistics and Transportation field in December 2020.
[29] In addition, she delivered a lecture titled “Large-Scale Shared Autonomous Vehicle Simulations with Geofences, Stop Aggregation, and Parking Restrictions” at Johns Hopkins University for the Richard J. Carroll Memorial Lectureship in Civil Engineering in March 2021.