Mr. Edgar Kraus is a Research Engineer and manager of the TTI Clean Energy Program and has been with TTI since 2001. He received a Master of Science degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Rhode Island with an emphasis on transportation engineering. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Braunschweig, Germany. Mr. Kraus is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, an affiliate of the Transportation Research Board, a member of the Institute for Transportation Engineers, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. At TRB, Mr. Kraus is a member and committee research coordinator for the Committee on Utilities and the Committee on Information Systems and Technology. He is also the chair of the research subcommittee of the Committee on Eminent Domain and Land Use.

Mr. Kraus' primary fields of interest are transportation infrastructure management, right-of-way and utility issues, data architecture and application development, and spatial data technologies. As principal investigator, he has provided leadership on numerous projects involved with the development of data architectures and prototype data management systems using state and national datasets. Currently, Mr. Kraus is leading a TTI team tasked with the development of national guidelines for the management of out-of-service utility infrastructure.