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TC Seminar Series

The NUTC Seminar Series allows students, faculty, and the community to learn from the real-world experiences of seasoned industry professionals and researchers in the field. The Series is designed to enhance the student classroom experience and learning. Each year the Series features a wide variety of academic speakers, transportation professionals and researchers examining topics relevant to their course of study and future professions.

Upcoming & Archive

 

TBD

04/04/2024

Hongyu Zheng

TBD

04/18/2024

Dr. Hiba Baroud

"Robust CAV Coordinated In-Vehicle Routing leveraging Game Theories, Machine Learning, and Distributed Optimization"

04/25/2024

Dr. Lili Du 

 "Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority — State of Good Repair Data Quality and Investment Strategy"

05/02/2024

Robert Peskin

 "Integrating Environmental Repercussions in the Optimal Design of Goods, Services, and Infrastructure" 

05/09/2024

Jing Yu

 

 

2024

"A New Flexible and Partially Monotonic Discrete Choice Model"

1/12/2024

Dr. Prateek Bansal

"Activity Queue Inference: Assessing the Stress and Loads of Travelers"

1/18/2024

Dr. Roger Chen 

"Optimal Urban Transportation Policy: Evidence from Chicago"

2/8/2024

Dr. Milena Almagro

"Straddling Model-based&Model-free for Multi-agent Coordination in Transportation"

2/22/2024

Dr. Cathy Wu

"Toward an Integrative Approach to Machine Learning for Traffic Planning" 

2/29/2024

Jiayang Li

"NSF Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) and Related Programs: Funding Opportunities and Proposal Writing"

3/7/2024

Dr. Siqian Shen

2023

A Network-Level Analysis of Urban Traffic

11/1/2023

Dr. Monica Mendendez

Social Media and Community Engagement:  The Bike Lane Wars

10/26/2023

Dr. Deb Neimeier

Design and Analysis of Collaborative Logistics

10/19/ 2023 

Dr. Nathan Huynh 

"Planning Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft (eVTOL)-Based Package Delivery with Community Noise Impact Considerations" | Dr. Bo Sou, University of Illinois Chicago"

10/05/2023

Dr. Bo Zou

"NUTC Seminar Series: "Motivating and incentivizing the adoption and maintenance of travel behavior change (Case study: Stavanger, Norway)" | Ayda Joudavi, Northwestern University"

09/21/2023

Ayda Joudavi

"Telemobility through the pandemic: Longitudinal tracking, modeling, and outlook" 

05/25/2023

Divyakant Tahlyan 

"Preparing for an Era of Private Automated Vehicles: Understanding Challenges and Designing Innovative Infrastructure Solutions"

05/04/2023

Dr. Michael Hyland - Univeristy of California

"Robots at your doorstep? Acceptance of near-future technologies for automated parcel delivery" Maher Said, Northwestern University 

04/20/2023

Maher Said - Northwestern University 

"Traffic Flow as a Simple Fluid: Towards a Scaling Theory of Urban Congestion" 

04/13/2023 

Dr. Jorge Laval - Georgia Institute of Technology 

"Systemwide Identification of Signal Retiming Opportunities with Connected Vehicle Data to Reduce Split Failures"

03/02/2023

Dr. Darcy Bullock  - Purdue University

"How BNSF Railway Uses Advanced Analytics"

02/23/2023

Dr. April Kuo - BNSF

NUTC Seminar: "Reinforcement Learning For Dynamic Pricing And Modeling The Demand For a Mixed-Service Autonomous Ridesharing System With Parcel Delivery" - Hoseb Abkarian | Northwestern University 

02/09/2023

Hoseb Abkarian - Northwestern University 

2022

11/10/2022

"Contemporary Issues in Transportation Data Analytics"

11/3/2022

"Connecting the Dots: Data, Methods, and Policies"

10/13/2022

"Scalable Algorithms for Bicriterion Trip-Based Transit Routing

10/06/2022

"Can light tolls do the heavy lifting ?"

05/19/2022

Lewis James Lehe - Illinois Urbana-Champaign

"Do equations have politics? Time, design and pricing in transport economics"

05/19/2022

Sergio Jara-Diaz - Universidad de Chile

"Economics and regulations of smart transportation systems

04/7/2022

Daniel A. Vignon- University of Michigan

"Incentive design for promoting ridesharing"

03/3/2022

Neda Masoud - University of Michigan

 "Peaking inside the black box: Toward explainable - Al- empowered travel demand models"

02/17/2022

Xilei Zhao, Ph.D. - University of Florida

 

2021

"Evacuation Network Modeling for Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Refueling Infrastructure Deployment"

11/04/21

Eleftheria (Ria) Kontou, Ph.D. - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

 "Blue Skies for Amazon Air:  An Assessment of the Expanding Capabilities of Amazon's Cargo Airline"

10/14/2021
Joseph P. Schwieterman, Ph.D - DePaul University

 

"Perspectives on Travel During and After COVID-19"

06/03/2021
Dr. Steven Polzin

 

"From Transportation Equity to Transportation Justice: Within, Through, and Beyond the State"

05/27/2021

Alex Karner - UT Austin

 

"Shared & on-demand mobility services: from matching to management"

04/29/2021
Kenan Zhang - Northwestern University

 

"Algorithmic Foundations for Demand Responsive Transit Systems"

04/22/2021
Samitha Samaranayake - Cornell University

 

"Low-rank modeling for spatiotemporal mobility and traffic data"

03/18/2021
Lijun Sun - McGill University

2020

Gentrification and Displacement Near Los Angeles Rail Transit Stations: New Evidence from Micro-Data

02/06/2020
Marlon G. Boarnet - University of Southern California

 

 

Harnessing Game Theory & Big Data for Autonomous and Connected Transportation Ecosystem

03/05/2020
Xuan (Sharon) Di - Columbia University

 

Cooperative Platooning in Mixed Traffic: Modeling, Control and Assessment

04/02/2020 - CANCELLED
B. Brian Park - University of Virginia

 

Will ride-pooling change the nature of transit network design?

04/09/2020 - CANCELLED
Sida Luo - Northwestern University PhD Candidate

 

A decade of research on vehicle ownership and use: methods, results and impacts on U.S. policy making

04/23/2020 - CANCELLED
Cinzia Cirillo - University of Maryland

 

Title TBD

05/14/2020 - CANCELLED
Stephen Boyles - University of Texas, Austin

 

2019

Redefining Transportation with AI

11/07/2019
Tiger Qie - DiDi

 

Recent Developments and Current Issues Facing the National Rail Network: Thoughts on 10 Months at the Surface Transportation Board

10/31/2019
Martin Oberman -  Surface Transportation Board
 

Optimizing the Middle-Mile

10/10/2019
Mike Hewitt - Loyola University Chicago

 

Navigating the Maelstrom; Perspectives on and Challenges Facing Transit in a Turbulent and Uncertain World

05/30/2019 
Brendon Hemily - Hemily & Associates, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Watch Presentation)
 
Spatial distribution of logistics facilities and truck traffic

05/23/2019 
Kazuya Kawamura - University of Illinois, Chicago
 
Understanding the adoption of connected & autonomous vehicles (CAV) & the role of peer influence

04/11/2019 
Cara Wang - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

 

The Pilot of the Future

03/14/2019  
Geoff Murray - Oliver Wyman

Understanding the 'Crowd' in Crowd-Shipping

02/21/2019  
Aymeric Punel - Northwestern University 

Control of traffic composed of humans and automated vehicles

02/07/2019  
Dan Work - Vanderbilt University

2018

Impact of Non-Hub Cities to United's Success

11/29/2018 
Mandeep Grewal - United Airlines
 
Spillover Parking Congestion & Retail Business

11/15/2018 
Robin Lindsey - Univesrity of British Columbia

 
Ground Transportation Gaps: The Most Heavily Traveled Intercity Routes in the US without Rail or Express Coach Service

10/04/2018 
Joseph Schwieterman -DePaul University & Chaddick Institute

 

Transit Network Design Under Demand Uncertainty
08/24/2018 
Hong Lo - Hong Kong University

 

Statistical Inference of Probabilistic Origin-Destination Demand Using Day-to-Day Traffic Data

05/31/2018
Zhen (Sean) Qian, Carnegie Mellon University  View Presentation

 

Forgiving Roads

05/17/2018
Michael G. Dreznes, International Road Federation (IRF) View Recording

Travel Behavior Implication of Automated Vehicles

05/10/2018 
Yoram Shiftan, Transportation Research Institute, Technion, Israel 

View Recording     View Presentation

Modeling & Optimizing Paratransit in the Age of TNCs

04/26/2018
Eric Gonzales, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst  View Recording     View Presentation 

 
The History of Road Safety in Industrialized Countries (and the Future of Road Safety in Developing Countries)

03/08/2018
Kavi Bhalla, University of Chicago

The 4th National Climate Assessment: Maintaining Hope While Assessing the Science

03/01/2018
Donald J. Wuebbles, University of Illinois

Safety Implications of the Transition Getting at the S-Curve Parameters

02/22/2018

Reg Souleyrette - Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, Commonwealth Professor of Transportation Engineering, University of Kentucky  View Presentation

 

The Role of Space in Design, Scale Economies and Optimal Pricing in Public Transport

02/08/2018
Sergio Jara-Diaz, University of Chile

Research, Planning, & Lessons Learned in Evacuation & Transportation Resilience

02/01/2018
Brian Wolshon, Edward A. and Karen Wax Schmitt Distinguished Professor; Director, Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency, Louisiana State University

2017

A Universal Methodology for Learning Cascading Failure Dynamics in Interdependent Networks

11/16/2017
Cynthia Chen
Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington-Seattle
Director, THINK (Transportation-Human Interaction-and-Network Knowledge) Lab 

Digitalization of Transport Management - A Voyage, not a Destination

11/14/2017
Gunnar Stefansson
Professor, Logistics & Transport Management, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden; University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Models and Approaches to Multi-Objective Arc Tour Problems with an Application to Marathon Course Design

11/09/2017
Mehmet Basdere
PhD Candidate, Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, Northwestern University

Agent-Based Activity/Travel Microsimulation: What’s Next?

11/02/2017
Eric Miller
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Director, University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI), University of Toronto

The Marginal Congestion of a Taxi in New York City

10/26/2017
Alejandro Molnar
Assistant Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University

Dynamic Clustering and Perimeter Control in Large-scale Urban Networks

10/17/2017 
Nikolaos Geroliminis, EPFL

Efficiency from User-driven Service Order Adjustments in Collaborative Consumption of Supply in Transportation

10/12/2017
R. "Jay" Jayakrishnan
University of Southern California

A Tale of Two Stations: Civil Engineering & Design of the CTA Wilson & 95th Street Stations

10/05/2017
Chris Bushell, Chief Infrastructure Officer, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)

Research, Practice, and Future Directions of Dynamic Ridesharing

05/25/2017
Maged Dessouky
University of Southern California

On-demand Personal Mobility Services in the Era of Mobile Computing: Physics, Economics and Management

05/18/2017
Hongyu Chen
Dissertation Year Fellow, Northwestern University

Delivering Sustainability: Transporting Goods in Urban Space

04/27/2017
Anne Goodchild
SCTL Director, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington

Using Automated Data Sources to improve the performance of Public Transport Systems: A Framework and Applications

04/13/2017
Nigel Wilson
Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Presentation slides

Multidimensional Network Analysis of Customer Preferences in Engineering Design

03/30/2017
Wei Chen
Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design, Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Presentation slides

Anticipatory Pricing to Manage 'Flow Breakdown'

03/09/2017
Ian Savage
Associate Chair, Department of Economics, Professor of Instruction, Weinberg School of Arts & Science, Northwestern University
Presentation slides

The Right to Travel—Little Recognized Aspects & Impediments

03/02/2017
Richard Sobel
Visiting Scholar & Faculty Affiliate, Northwestern University

Exploring Millennials' Adoption of Shared Mobility & Attitudes Towards Vehicle Ownership in California

02/23/2017
Giovanni Circella
Senior Research Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology; UC Davis
Presentation slides

Effects of the Light Rail Transit Development & Neighborhood Design on Travel Behavior

02/09/2017
Jason Cao
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Presentation slides

2016

An Overview of Regional Transportation Planning in Chicago

12/01/2016
Kermit W. Wies, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow & Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University

Planning Service Facilities Under Continuous Traffic Equilibrium

11/17/2016
Yanfeng Ouyang, Endowed Faculty Scholar, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Transit lines on a general parametric city: Feasible heuristics or strategic optimal?

11/02/2016
Sergio Jara-Diaz, Professor of Transport Economics, Universidad de Chile

Connecting e-Hailing to Mass Transit Platform

10/27/2016
Yu (Marco) Nie, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University
Presentation slides

Some Parking Economics

10/20/2016
Richard Arnott, Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside

CTA Red & Purple Modernization (RPM): A Core Capacity Expansion

10/13/2016
Carole A. Morey, Chief Planning Officer, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
Presentation slides

Public-Private Partnership for Transportation Safety: Case Studies in Air & Rail

10/06/2016
Laurence Audenaerd, Lead Engineer, Center for Advanced Aviation, System Development, The MITRE Corporation
Presentation slides

Big Data to Tackle Urban Mobility Challenges

09/29/2016
Marta C. Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2015-16

Simulating and Visualizing Planning for Sustainable Development

05/26/2016
Dr. Paul Waddell, Professor of City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley

Simulating the Dynamic Effects of Horizontal Mergers: U.S. Airlines

05/19/2016
Dr. John Lazarev, Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University, Visiting Scholar of Economics, Northwestern University
Presentation slides

Transit Accessibility, Last Mile Issues & Equity: Assessment using Chicago as a Case Study

05/05/2016
Dr. Nebiyou Y. Tilahun, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning & Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Presentation slides

The Air Transport Industry: Structure, Economics, Operations: An overview of the Aviation Industry and its Key Players

04/28/2016
Peter L. Smith, Former Project Director, Customer Value of Aviation Services, Marketing & Business Strategy, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Presentation slides

The German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest,Inc.

04/12/2016
The seminar included presentations by select German companies and institutions and featured an expert speaker from the transportation sector in Germany.

Modernizing Freight Rail Regulation—The 2015 Transportation Research Board Recommendation to Congress

02/25/2016
Ken Boyer, Professor of Economics, Michigan State University
Presentation slides

Location-Based Social Network (LBSN) Data: Emerging Big Data Sources for Travel Demand and Activity Modeling

02/11/2016
Jing (Peter) Jin, Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rutgers, The State College of New Jersey
Presentation slides

An Integrated Urban Model of Transportation, Land-Use, Energy, and Environment

02/04/2016
Abolfazl Mohammadian, Professor of Civil & Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
Presentation slides

Beyond Transport Time: modeling time use, understanding time values

01/21/2016
Sergio Jara-Diaz, Profesor Titular en Economía del Transporte (Professor of Transport Economics), Universidad de Chile
Presentation slides

The End of Traffic; the Future of Transport; the Role of Cycling

12/03/2015
Kevin J. Krizek, Director, Environmental Design Program, University of Colorado, Boulder
Presentation slides

The Future of Transportation in Illinois

11/20/2015
Randall Blankenhorn, Secretary of Transportation, Illinois Department of Transportation

Semiparametric Estimates of the Willingness to Pay for Autonomous Electric Vehicles

11/19/2015
Ricardo A. Daziano, David Croll Fellow Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

The Business Case for Higher Speed Freight Trains

11/12/2015
David Burns, Railroad Industrial Engineering Consultant
Presentation slides

How to Fundraise for Operational Expenditures in International Humanitarian Aid

11/05/2015
Maria Besiou, Associate Professor of Humanitarian Logistics, Kühne Logistics University
Presentation slides

The Neglected Impact of Measurement Error on Disaggregate Transportation Demand Models

10/15/2015
David Brownstone, Professor of Economics, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Irvine
Presentation slides

Estimation of Airline Itinerary Choice Models Using Disaggregate Ticket Data

10/08/2015
Laurie Garrow, Associate Professor of Transportation Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Presentation slides

The Digitally Connected Commuter: Is Growing Reliance on Personal Electronic Devices Increasing the Demand for Public Transit?

10/01/2015
Joseph P. Schwieterman, Director, Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, DePaul University
Presentation slides

2014-15

Connected Cars - Lifestyle Delivery

05/28/2015
Sania Irwin, Head of Systems & Applications, Chief Technology Office, Nokia
Presentation slides

Green Urban Freight Strategies in the New Mobility Era

05/14/2015
Jie (Jane) Lin, Associate Professor, Civil & Materials Engineering; Research Associate Professor, Institute for Environmental Science & Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Presentation slides

Uncertainty in Hazardous Materials Transportation

05/07/2015
Changhyun Kwon, Assistant Professor, industrial & Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Presentation slides

Place Perception, Attractiveness, Meaning and Relationship to Activity and Travel: Three Case Studies of Different Scales from Santa Barbara, CA

04/23/2015
Konstandinos G. Goulias, Professor of Transportation, Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Impact of Activities While Traveling on the Subjective Valuation of Travel Time

04/23/2015
Patricia Lyon Mokhtarian, Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Presentation slides

Modeling Driver Behavior in a Connected Environment: Integration of Microscopic Traffic Simulation and Telecommunication Systems

04/02/2015
Alireza Talebpour, PhD Candidate, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University
Presentation slides

Tactical Network Planning for Food Aid Distribution in Kenya

03/05/2015
Marie-Ève Rancourt, Assistant Professor of Management & Technology, Université du Québec
Presentation slides

Potholes or Tolls? Perspectives on Transportation Finance

02/26/2015
Joseph L. Schofer, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Dean, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University
Presentation slides

Microscopic Simulation and Safety Analysis of Roundabouts

02/19/2015
Nezamuddin, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Valparaiso University
Presentation slides

An Efficient Data-driven Approach to Static and Dynamic Ambulance Location for Emergency Medical Services

01/29/2015
Lavanya Marla, Assistant Professor, Industrial & Enterprise Systems, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presentation slides

Developing an Integrated Transportation Infrastructure Decision Support Platform: Focusing on Big and Open Data Visualization

01/27/2015
Meead Saberi, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Monash University
Presentation slides

Flexible Transit for Low-Density Communities

01/22/2015
Charlotte Frei, Ph.D. Candidate, Transportation Systems Analysis & Planning, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University
Presentation slides

What Can Choice Modelling Learn from Behavioral Economics and Does it Matter

01/08/2015
Stephane Hess, Professor of Choice Modelling, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
Presentation slides

Advances in Data Collection and Analysis to Enhance Road Safety

10/30/2014
Linda Ng Boyle, Chair, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering; Professor of Civil & Environment Engineering and Industrial Systems Engineering, University of Washington

Building Metra for the Future: A Career Information Session

10/23/2014
Bruce M. Marcheschi, Chief Engineering Officer, Metra

Jim Derwinski, Chief Mechanical Officer, Metra

Brenda Smith, Chief Human Resources Officer, Metra

American Railroads: Decline & Renaissance in the Twentieth Century

10/16/2014
Robert E. Gallamore, Principal, The Gallamore Group

Making Sense of the Future Market for Electrified Powertrains in the United States with Vehicle Choice Models

10/14/2014
Jacob W. Ward, Program Manager, Vehicle Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy

Thomas S. Stephens, Principal Transportation Systems Analyst, Argonne National Laboratory

Paying for Access but Getting Immobility: Rethinking Finance and Governance Models for 21st Century Urban Transportation

10/02/2014
Elliott Sclar, Professor of Urban Planning and Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University

2013-14

Analysis of Highway-Safety Data: Current and Future Methodological Challenges

5/22/2014
Fred Mannering, Charles Pankow Professor of Civil Engineering, Purdue University

Life-Cycle Analysis of Transportation Fuels and Vehicle Technologies

05/01/2014
Michael Wang, Systems Assessment Group, Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Vehicle Routing Problems: Applications in Service and Entertainment Environments

04/10/2014
Grisselle Centeno, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of South Florida

The O'Hare Modernization and Chicago Airspace Project

04/04/2014
Christina Drouet, Manager, Chicago Area Modernization Program Office, Federal Aviation Administration

The Science of Sleep: Aviation Rest and Fatigue Regulations for Pilots - a Panel Discussion

04/01/2014
Noam Alon, Director, Network Operations Center, United Airlines
Dr. Kathryn Reid, Research Associate, Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine; Associate Director, Circadian Rhythms & Sleep Research Program, Northwestern University

Distributed Coordinated in-Vehicle Online Routing Using Mixed-Strategy Congestion Game

02/27/2014
Lili Du, Assistant Professor, Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, Armour College of Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology

Envisioning Autonomous Vehicle Pathways through the Lens of Air Transportation Planning

02/20/2014
Megan S. Ryerson, Assistant Professor, City & Regional Planning, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

Symposium on the Work of Leon Moses

02/07/2014

Harvesting Complexity to Build Smarter Cities

01/09/2014
Sybil Derrible, Assistant Professor, Civil and Materials Engineering; Director, Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks Lab, University of Illinois at Chicago

Overview of Power Grid Research at Argonne National Laboratory

12/05/2013
Jianhui Wang, Energy Systems Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory

Transit Service Reliability, Hidden Waiting Time, and Optimal Holding Control

11/07/2013
Peter Furth, Ph.D., Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University

High-speed Railroad Pasenger Services: Ridership Projections for the USA's Northeast Corridor

10/31/2013
David Boyce, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University

Adaptive Routing in Stochastic Time-Dependent Networks with Real-Time Information

10/24/2013
Dr. Song Gao, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Enhanced Econometric Model Structures: Application to Travel Behavior and Transportation Modeling

10/15/2013
Naveen Eluru, McGill University

Transforming Transportation for Tomorrow

09/27/2013
Ann L. Schneider, Secretary, Illinois Department of Transportation

Modeling Individual Choices for Sustainable Mobility: Understanding the Role of the Environment

09/26/2013
Elisabetta Cherchi, Technique University of Denmark

Modeling Heterogeneous Decision Processes and Joing Decision-Making in Travel Demand Models

09/23/2013
Amanda Stathopoulos, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

2012-13

Road Safety Analyses using Data from Naturalistic Driving Studies: Challenges and Opportunities

05/16/2013
Paul P. Jovanis, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Electric Vehicle Recharging: Decision Support Tools for Drivers and Infrastructure Providers

05/09/2013
Tim Sweda, PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Science, Northwestern University

Minimizing Greenhouse Emissions in Vehicle Routing

04/18/2013
Gilbert Laporte, Professor - Department of Management Sciences, HEC Montreal

Integrated Planning of Bin allocation and Vehicle Routing in Solid Waste Collection

04/11/2013
Vera Hemmelmayr, Assistant Professor - Institute of Transport and Logistics Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Flight Delays, Capacity Investment and Welfare under Air Transport Supply-Demand Equilibrium

04/04/2013
Bo Zou, Assistant Professor in Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Cost Recovery from Congestion Tolls with Long-run Uncertainty

02/28/2013
Robin Lindsey, CN Chair in Transportation and International Logistics; Professor, Operations and Logistics Division - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Understanding the Evolving Transportation Market and the Changing Role of 3PL's

02/14/2013
Bill Driegert, Chief Innovation Officer - Coyote Logistics, Inc.

Coordination and Optimization of UrbanMobility in Smart Cities

01/24/2013
Nikolaos Geroliminis, Assistant Professor, Urban Transport Systems Laboratory - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Pareto Improvements from Lexus Lanes: The Case for Pricing a Portion of the Lanes on Heavily Congested Highways

12/06/2012
Dr. Jonathan D. Hall, Don Searle Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Economics - Transportation Center, Northwestern University

Transportation Trends and Investment Implications

12/05/2012
Christopher J. Ceraso, Director & Senior Equity Research Analyst, Credit Suisse, New York

Transportation Information Session: Institute of Transportation Engineers - Illinois Chapter

11/29/2012
Joel Christell, ITE-IL Section President
Joshua Harris, ITE-IL Student Affairs Director

Traffic Monitoring with Smartphones

11/15/2013
Professor Daniel B. Work, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Research Assistant Professor, Coordinated Science Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Disaster Management Based on Multi Agent Transportation Simulation

11/13/2013
Seungjae Lee, Department of Transportation Engineering - Seoul
Shinhae Lee, Research Fellow - Seoul Institute

The Role of the Built Environment in Reducing Drivingand Promoting Active Travel

11/08/2013
Professor Susan Handy, Chair, Department of Environmental Science & Policy; Director, Sustainable Transportation Center - University of California, Davis

Bringing the Boeing 787 into Operational & Commercial Service in LATAM Airlines

10/25/2012
Justin D. Siegel, Vice President, Fleet Projects - LATAM Airlines Group, S.A.

State of Good Repair and Beyond: Analyzing Metra's 2013 Strategic Plan

10/18/2012
Alexander Clifford, Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer, METRA - Metropolitan Rail Corporation
Don Orseno, Metra Chief Operations Officer
Joe Lorenzini, Metra Chief Engineering Officer

A Data-Driven Paradigm for Arterial Traffic Flow Monitoring, Modeling, and Control

10/11/2012
Dr. Henry Liu, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America

09/27/2012
Christian Wolmar, Noted British Transport journalist

2011-12

A Data-Driven Paradigm for Arterial Traffic Flow Monitoring, Modeling, and Control

10/11/2012
Dr. Henry Liu, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America

09/27/2012
Christian Wolmar, Noted British Transport journalist

Between GPS-based self-tracking and the diary: What is next for travel behavior studies?

07/27/2012
Kay W. Axhausen, Professor, Institute for Transport Planning & Systems (IVT), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzererland

The Panama Canal as Precursor

05/24/2012
Aaron J. Gellman, Professor of Transportation, The Transportation Center, Adjunct Professor, Management & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

The Competitive Effect of Multi-Market Contact

05/10/2012
Guy Arie, PhD in Management & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management;, 2011-12 Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow, Northwestern University

Transportation Deregulation and Safety: A Retrospective and Reflection after 25 Years

05/03/2012
Multiple Speakers

Leveraging the Mobile Cloud for Travel Demand

04/26/2012
Joan Walker, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering and, Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Urban Travel Forecasting: a 50 Year Retrospective

04/12/2012
David Boyce, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University

A Priority System for Multi-Modal Traffic Signal Control

04/05/2012
Larry Head, Associate Professor & Department Head, Systems & Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona

Safety Without Borders: Raising the Bar on Traffic Safety Across the Globe Through Data, Research, and Collaboration?

03/29/2012
David L. Strickland, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

Designing NextGen Advanced Runway Operations to Exploit the Uncertainty of Meteorological Conditions

03/08/2012
Laurence Audenaerd, Senior Engineer, Center for Advanced Aviation System Development, The MITRE Corporation, Northwestern CEE PhD

Traffic congestion in networks, and alleviating it with public transportation and pricing

03/01/2012
Carlos F. Daganzo, Robert Horonjeff Professor of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley

Changing the Face of Logistics

02/23/2012
Mike Mullen, Vice Chairman, CenterPoint Properties

Vulnerability and Adaptation Options of European Transport Systems Towards Weather Extremes

02/02/2012
Dr. Claus Doll, Freunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

A Trade-Space Analysis of Surface Alternatives for Short-Haul Passenger Air Travel

01/12/2012
Laurence Audenaerd, Senior Engineer, Center for Advanced Aviation System Development, The MITRE Corporation, Northwestern CEE PhD

Proactive Transmission Planning in Electricity Networks

01/05/2012
Enzo E. Sauma, Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Effectiveness and Equity of Future Transportation Financing Options

12/01/2011
Zhang Lei, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland

NY Commuter Railroad's Response to Hurricane Irene

11/11/2011
Howard Permut, President of Metro-North Railroad (MTA) in New York

Ranking of Information in Intelligent Transportation Systems

11/10/2011
Ouri Wolfson, Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Towards a 21st Century Postal Service

11/01/2011
John C. Panzar, Louis W. Menk Professor, Emeritus, Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Safety Technology, Fuel Economy, and Individual Mobility

10/26/2011
David L. Strickland, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) U.S. DOT

Anticipating Disaster: Planning for Emergency Logistics Needs

10/20/2011
Mark Turnquist, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

Recent Railroad Research at Northwestern

09/20/2011
Ian Savage, Professor of Economics, on pedestrian safety research
David Kosnik, Research Engineer, ITI, on bridge stress testing

2010-11

A Framework for Sustainable and Strategic Decision Making Using Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment (EIO-LCA), Including Applications to the Transit Bus Fleeting Problem

06/02/2011
Elaine Croft McKenzie, PhD Candidate, TC Dissertation Year Fellow, Northwestern University

A Strategic Model of Assignment on a Transportation Network With Rigid Capacities

05/19/2011
Patrice Marcotte, Professor and Acting Director, Computer Science and Operations Research Department, University of Montreal

Capacity Investment & Pricing Decisions in Highway Public-Private Partnerships

05/12/2011
Zitao (Arthur) Zhang, PhD Candidate, Transportation System Analysis and Planning Program, McCormick School of Engineering;, Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow, Northwestern University

Driver Assist Technology: Deploying Bus Rapid Transit along a Narrow Lane or Road Shoulder

05/05/2011
Max Donath, Director, Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

A Simulation-based Optimization Framework for Urban Traffic Control

04/21/2011
Carolina Osorio, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT

Modeling Heterogeneous Risk - Taking Behavior in Route Choice: A Stochastic Dominance Approach

04/14/2011
Xing Wu, PhD Candidate, Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow, Northwestern University

What Services Should You Operate in a Bus Corridor? and What can We Achieve in Time Savings, Reliability and Comfort if Properly Controlled?

04/07/2011
Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir, Visiting Professor at MIT, Associate Professor, Department of Transport Engineering & Logistics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC)

Transition Strategies for Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicles

03/10/2011
Jeroen Struben, Assistant Professor, Strategy & Organization, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

Sensitivity of Path Travel Time to Path Flow

03/03/2011
Hamed Babai, PhD Candidate, Transportation Engineering, Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow, Northwestern University

Agent-Based Modeling for Integrated Transportation - Land Use Policy Analysis

02/03/2011
Eric J. Miller, Director, Cities Centre, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto

Consumer Choice Between Gasoline and Sugarcane Ethanol

01/20/2011
Alberto Salvo, Assistant Professor, Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management

The Right to Travel: Intersection with the Right to Privacy and a Personal Liberty

01/06/2011
Richard Sobel, Visiting Scholar, Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies
Ramón L. Torres, PhD Candidate, Transportation Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science

Optimal Design and Pricing of Public Transport (still crazy after all these years)

12/17/2010
Sergio Jara-Diaz, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Chile

Differential Games on Networks: Dynamic Traffic Assignment and Other Applications

11/30/2010
Professor Terry Friesz, Harold and Inge Marcus Chaired Professor of Industrial Engineering, Penn State University

Pricing Risks in Delivery and Management of Transportation Assets

11/11/2010
Ivan Damnjanovic, Assistant Professor, Construction Engineering and Management Group, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University

A Joint Tour-Based Discrete-Continuous Model of Vehicle Type Choice and Tour Length

10/28/2010
Ram M. Pendyala, Professor, Transportation Systems School of Sustainable Engineering, Arizona State University

Location, Vehicle Miles of Travel, and the Environment: A Chicago Case Study

10/21/2010
Marshall Lindsey, Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow, PhD Candidate, Chemical & Biological Engineering

Application of Cellular Probe Data in Transportation Planning, Operations and Management

10/14/2010
Professor Bin Ran, Professor, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Energy Policies for Passenger Motor Vehicles

09/30/2010
Kenneth A. Small, University of California, Irvine and Resources for the Future

Resilience in Freight Transportation Networks

09/23/2010
Elise Miller-Hooks, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland

2009-10

Some Unintended Impacts of Green Logistics Policies in Urban Areas

05/06/2010
Samer Madanat, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

A Political Economy Model of Road Pricing: Why Road Pricing is Not Implemented

04/22/2010
Bruno De Borger, Professor of Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Plans and Actions in a Model of Choice

04/08/2010
Moshe Ben-Akiva, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT

Transportation, Environment, and Energy Systems from Transportation Emissions Control to Public Health - Are We Doing the Right Thing, and Doing it Right?

04/01/2010
H. Oliver Gao, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

Optimal Path Finding for Direction, Location and Time Dependent Costs, with Application to Vessel Routing

03/04/2010
Irina Dolinskaya, Assistant Professor, IEMS, Northwestern University

Strategic Design of a Relay Network for Truckload Transportation

02/18/2010
Halit Üster, Visiting Eshbach Scholar, Northwestern University;, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University

City Logistics

02/04/2010
Teodor Gabriel Crainic, University of Quebec at Montreal and Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT)

Equilibrium and Efficiency of Traffic Flows in Networks (Beckmann-McGuire-Winsten Revisited)

01/28/2010
Prof. Martin Beckmann, Professor Emeritus of Economics,, Brown University;, Prof. Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, Technical University of Munich

The Fall and Rise of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge

01/21/2010
David Levinson, University of Minnesota

How Optimal Is Optimal? Revealing the Realities of Implementing Transportation Solutions – A Discussion with Illinois State Senator Jeff Schoenberg

12/03/2009
Jeff Schoenberg, Illinois State Senator, 9th Legislative District

If Telecommunication is Such A Good Substitute For Travel, Why Does Congestion Continue To Get Worse?

11/19/2009
Patricia Lyon Mokhtarian, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chair, Transportation Technology and Policy Graduate Program, University of California, Davis

The Design, Performance, and Implications of Algorithm B: A Fast and Frugal Wardrop Equilibrium Solver

11/12/2009
Robert Dial, Professor Emeritus,, University of Texas at Austin

Managing Customers Through Economic Cycles

11/04/2009
John McKean, Executive Director, Center for Information-Based Competition

Wrestling with How to Measure Bicycling's Benefits

10/08/2009
Kevin J. Krizek, University of Colorado, Denver, (McCormick Alum '93)

Chicago to St. Louis – in an Hour and 52 Minutes

10/01/2009
Richard Harnish, Executive Director, Midwest High Speed Rail Coalition

Freight Data Availability, Gaps and Inaccuracies

09/17/2009
Amelia Regan, Professor of Computer Science, Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Economic Incentives for New Vehicle Purchases to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (“Feebates”): An Analysis of Policy Options for California

08/12/2009
David Bunch, Professor of Management, University of California: Davis

2008-09

Some Successful Applications of DTA (Dynamic Traffic Assignment)

06/04/2009
Michael Florian, President, INRO Consultants, Inc.;, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science & Operations Research, The Center for Research on Transportation, University of Montreal

Competition in the U.S. Freight Railroad Industry: Prices, Costs, Productivity & Capacity Constraints

05/21/2009
Joseph Swanson, President, Jos. Swanson & Co.;, Clinical Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management
John Hudson, Professor & Director, Geography Program, Associate Director, Environmental Sciences programs, Northwestern University

The National Transportation Policy Project and Other Efforts to Reform Surface Transportation Program Structure and Financing during 2009/2010

05/21/2009
Dr. Nancy Kete, Director of the World Resources Institute's Center for Sustainable Transport (EMBARQ)

Do We Have the Future We Wanted Back in the Early 20th Century and Can We Invent the Future We Need by the Mid 21st?

05/20/2009
Dr. Nancy Kete, Director of the World Resources Institute's Center for Sustainable Transport (EMBARQ)

Revitalizing Mass Transit in the Motorized Metropolis- Case Studies of Mexico City and Istanbul

05/19/2009
Dr. Nancy Kete, Director of the World Resources Institute's Center for Sustainable Transport (EMBARQ)

Inventory Routing Problems

04/21/2009
M. Grazia Speranza, University of Brescia

The Simulation of Emergency Evacuations in the Chicago Business District Using TRANSIMS

04/09/2009
Hubert Ley, Traffic Simulation Project Leader, Argonne National Laboratory, Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center (TRACC)

Induced Demand and Rebound Effects in Road Transport

04/02/2009
Kenneth Small, Professor at UC Irvine

Towards Long Lasting Pavements

03/05/2009
Imad L. Al-Qadi, Founder Professor of Engineering;, Director of the Advanced Transportation, Research and Engineering Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Containment vs Coverage: Flexible Network Design in the Presence of Random Disruptions

02/26/2009
Michael Lim, NU Ph.D. Candidate

The Future of Chinese Railways

02/19/2009
David Burns, Railroad Industrial Engineering Consultant

Traffic Assignment by Paired Alternative Segments (TAPAS)

02/05/2009
Dr. Hillel Bar-Gera, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University;, Department of Civil Engineering, Purdue University (visiting scholar)

A New Trip-Based Framework for Travel Demand Forecasting Consistent with Tours with Stop Interaction

01/22/2009
Vince Bernardin, Jr., Ph.D. Candidate, Transportation Engineering, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University

Mobile Millennium: Using Smartphones to Monitor Traffic In Privacy Preserving Environments

12/04/2008
Alexandre Bayen, Asst. Prof. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Modeling Driver Behavior as a Stochastic Hazard-Based Risk-Taking Process

11/20/2008
Samer Hamdar, Ph.D. Candidate, Transportation Engineering, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University

New Databases for Technical and Business Experts: How to Datamine News and Blogs for Your Company and Client

10/23/2008
Clarke Caywood, Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications; Director of the Graduate Program in Public Relations The Medill Graduate School Northwestern University

Metaheuristic Approaches for Solving the Fixed-Charge Capacitated Multi-commodity Network Design Problem

10/02/2008
Michel Gendreau, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research & Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks,, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), Université de Montréal; Département de mathématiques et génie industriel, École Polytechnique de Montréal

2007-08

A Queuing Model of Activity Scheduling Behavior

06/05/2008
Roger Chen, Post Doctoral Fellow, The Transportation Center, Northwestern University

Sequential Resource Allocation for Nonprofit Operations

05/29/2008
Robert Lien, PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial Eng. & Management Sci., Northwestern University; Transportation Center 2008 Dissertation Year Fellow

Normalization and Disaggregation of Network-GEV Models

05/22/2008
Jeffrey Newman, PhD Candidate, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University;, Transportation Center 2008 Dissertation Year Fellow

Retail Assortment Optimization

05/13/2008
Marshall Fisher, Operations & Information Management Dept., Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks

04/21/2008
Michael Gastner, Sante Fe Institute

Collaborative Decision Making in Air Traffic Flow Management

04/17/2008
Michael Ball, Orkand Corporation Professor of Management Science, Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland; Visiting Professor, Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Berkeley

Advanced Modeling in London: Issues and Opportunities

04/03/2008
Eric Petersen, Associate, Cambridge Systematics

Emerging Technologies and Mass Transit Planning: Moving Bits to MovePeople

02/21/2008
Michael J. Shiffer, Clinical Associate Professor,, University of Illinois, Chicago

Addressing Spatial Autocorrelation in Transportation & Lank Use Data: Opportunities for Behavioral Forecasting

02/18/2008
Dr. Kara Kockelman, Assoiate Prof. - Civil, Architectural & Environmental Eng & William J. Murray Jr. Fellow, University of Texas at Austin

Forgiving Highways

02/14/2008
Michael G. Dreznes, International Road Federation, Deputy Director General-Washington Program Center

Chicago Transit Authority: Agency on the Move

02/06/2008
Ron Huberman, President, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)

A Probit-based Time-Dependent Stochastic User Equilibrium Traffic Assignment Model

01/31/2008
Kuilin Zhang, PhD Candidate, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University

CMAP's Research and Analysis Work Program

01/24/2008
Kermit Wies, Deputy Executive Director for Research and Analysis, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)

Integrating Land Use and Activity-based Transport Modeling: a Framework and Application to San Francisco

11/15/2007
Paul Waddell, Professor, Department of Urban Design & Planning, Director, Center for Urban Simulation & Policy Analysis, University of Washington

Comparing Congestion Pricing Schemes: Cordon-based Pricing, Area-based Pricing and Parking Deposit System

09/27/2007
Takuya Maruyama, Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Visiting Scholar, University of Texas, Austin

2006-07

Experiences as Advisor to the Iraqi Republic Railways

06/06/2007
Mark Hemphill, Senior Rail Project Manager, HDR Engineers

Zonal Pricing in the Italian Electricity Market

05/31/2007
Viswanath Pingali, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Northwestern University; Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow

Evaluating the Impacts of Aviation on Climate Change

05/04/2007
Don Wuebbles, Department Head and Professor, Department of Atmosphere Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Modeling Vehicular Traffic Flow as 'Conservation' Laws

05/03/2007
H. Michael Zhang, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis

Behavior-Consistent Information-Based Route Guidance: Integrating Network Interactions and Traveler Response

04/26/2007
Srinivas Peeta, Professor of Civil Engineering; Director, NEXTRANS Center, Purdue University

Transportation Policy and Politics

04/19/2007
Linda Morgan, Partner & Chair, Transportation Practice Group, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC.; Former Chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Surface Transportation Board.

The Politics of Chicago Transit Finance

04/05/2007
Julie Hamos, Illinois State Representative, 18th District Chair, House Mass Transit Committee

Logistic Network Design For Closed-Loop Supply Chains

03/29/2007
Kristin Sahyouni, PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow, McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, Northwestern University

Real-Time Transportation Network Decision-Making: Pricing, Auctions, and Learning Dynamics

03/08/2007
Hani S. Mahmassani, Charles Irish Sr. Chair in Civil & Environmental Engineering; Director, Maryland Transportation Initiative, U. of Maryland

Supply Chain Design to Mitigate Disruption Impacts

03/01/2007
Mark Daskin, Bette and Neison Harris Professor of Teaching Excellence, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University

Analysis of Dispatch Policies for a Dynamic Multi-Period Routing Problem

02/22/2007
Martin Savelsbergh, Professor, School of Industrial and Engineering Systems & Research Director, The Logistics Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology

Operational Flexibility in Drayage Vehicle Routing

02/08/2007
Guangming Zhang, PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Science, Northwestern University & Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow

Transport Infrastructure Investment and Its Effects on Employment: Theoretical Linkages, Estimation Issues, and Recent Evidence

02/01/2007
Piyapong (Joey) Jiwattanakulpaisarn, PhD student, Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London

Modeling Consumers’ Choice of Multiple Items Simultaneously: A Methodological Approach with Application to Household Vehicle Holdings and Use

01/30/2007
Chandra Bhat, (NU CEPhD ’91), Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor of Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Dynamic Performance Models for Transportation Infrastructure Management

01/11/2007
James Chu, PhD Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University & Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow

Expanding the Panama Canal

11/16/2006
Aaron J. Gellman, Professor of Transportation, The Transportation Center; Professor of Management & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management and of Industrial Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University

The Arrow....seen before': Indiana's Public-Private Transportation Initiative

11/30/2006
Joseph A. Gustin, Deputy Commissioner, Public-Private Partnerships Indiana Department of Transportation

Information-Rich Vehicular Safety System

11/02/2006
Kenneth P. Laberteaux, Principal Research Engineer for the Toyota Technical Center

Construction and Management Practices on the Boston Central Artery (Big Dig) Project

10/19/2006
Chris Hendrickson, Duquesne Light Company Professor of Engineering;, Co-Director of the Green Design Institute and, Director, Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education & Research, Carnegie Mellon University

Reregulation: The Struggle for Prosperity

09/28/2006
Mike Blaszak, Chicago Attorney:, Senior Counsel, Earth Tech Inc.

2005-06

Model Reference Adaptive Control for Real Time Traffic Management under Emergency Evaculation

06/01/2006
Henry Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University Of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Transferability of Household Travel Data Across Geographic Areas Using NHTS 2001

05/04/2006
Jie Lin, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago

Occupational Labor Demand and the Sources of Nonneutral Technical Change

04/20/2006
Daniel Rich, Professor of Economics, Illinois State University

A Shadow Critical Project Appraisal: The Airbus A380 Program

04/06/2006
Aaron J. Gellman, Professor of Transportation, The Transportation Center; Professor of Management & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management and of Industrial Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University

A Stochastic Optimization Model for Highway Project Selection and Programming Under Budget Uncertainty

03/02/2006
Zongzhi Li, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Architectural Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology

Deconstructing Freeway Traffic Congestion

02/13/2006
Ben Coifman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science and Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University

A Variational Approach for Inferring Dynamic Origin- Destination Trip Demands

02/06/2006
Yu (Marco) Nie, PhD Candidate in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis

The Automotive Industry and the Dynamics of Consumer Demand: The Case of Automobile Leasing

02/03/2006
Fred Mannering, Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University

Value of Service Choice in Period Vehicle Routing Problems

01/12/2006
Peter Francis, PhD Candidate,Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University

Transportation Modeling - The Perspective of the Software Developer

12/01/2005
Wolfgang Scherr, Principal, PTV America

Cyclic Railway Timetabling: a Stochastic Optimization Approach

11/17/2005
Rommert Dekker, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam

Optimization Approaches to Gang Scheduling at BNSF

10/17/2005
Michael Gorman, School of Business Administration, University of Dayton

System-level Stability and Optimality of Decentralized Supply Chains

10/20/2005
Yanfeng Ouyang, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

A Shipper-carrier Dynamic Freight Assignment Model Using a Variational Inequality Approach

10/06/2005
Bhuwan Agrawal, PhD Candidate, Civil & Environmental Engineering,, 2005 Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow

2004-05

Physical Security and Vulnerability Modeling for Infrastructure Facilities

04/14/2005
Mark A. Turnquist, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

Airlines Economics

03/01/2005
George Winston, Senior Fellow, Economics Studies, The Brookings Institute

Airline Industry Status Update

02/17/2005
George Hamlin, Director, MergeGlobal, Inc. (MGI)

Transportation and Petroleum: What's the Problem?

02/10/2005
David Greene, Corporate Fellow, Engineering, Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Transportation

11/11/2004
Michael Florian, Centre de Recherche sur les Transports, University de Montreal

Improvements in the efficiency of simulation-based estimation processes

10/21/2004
Stephane Hess, Doctoral Researcher, Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College, London

Optimizing the Design of Railway Tank Cars to Minimize Accident-Caused Releases

10/07/2004
Christopher Barkan, Director, Railroad Engineering Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2003-04

Does Britain or the United States Have the Right Gasoline Tax?

05/27/2004
Kenneth Small, Transportation Center Visiting Patterson Professor, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine

Risk Assessments, Transportation Vehicles, and Accidents

05/20/2004
Deborah Bruce, Director, Safety Studies Division, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

Welfare Reform and Transportation

05/13/2004
Evelyn Blumenberg, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, Department of Urban Planning

Effective Ways to Improve Customer Satisfaction, and Increase Ridership in Public Transportation

04/22/2004
Darwin Stuart, Recently Retired Director, Strategic Planning, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and NU Alum (MST'66)

The Relative Risk of Flying and Driving after September 11: The Contribution of Bounded Rationality

04/01/2004
Michael Sivak, Head, Human Factors Division, University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute

Transshipments in Supply Chain Management

03/11/2004
Michal Tzur, Visiting Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University

Information Decisions, and Productivity : On Board Computers and Capacity Utilization in Trucking

03/04/2004
Thomas N. Hubbard, Associate Professor of Economics & Strategy, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

Urban Travel Forecasting: Revolution or Evolution?

02/26/2004
David Boyce, Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University

Issues in Transportation: Regional Politics, Funding Conflicts and Shifting Coalitions

01/29/2004
Eric Petersen, Associate, PBConsult, (NU MST '98;NU PhD Candidate, Sociology)

Job Accessibility of Low-Income Workers: Needs Assessment, Trends and Evaluation

12/03/2003
Piyushimita Thakuriah (Vonu), Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Policy; Associate Director, Urban Transportation Center, University of Illinois at Chicago

Automobile Ownership Modeling and its Importance in Travel Behavior

11/20/2003
Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, Civil & Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago

Truck Drivers and Ballerinas: the Baumol Hypothesis and Trucking Productivity 1977-1997

11/06/2003
Kenneth D. Boyer, Economics Department, Michigan State University

Driving by Choice or Necessity

10/16/2003
Susan Handy, Associate Professor,, Environmental Science & Policy,, University of California at Davis

Economic Issues in Designing Alternatives to State Motor Fuel Taxes

10/24/2003
Tony M. Rufolo, Professor of Urban Studies & Planning, Portland State University

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