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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
4/10/2025
Xuesong (Simon) Zhou
04/17/2025
Dr. Liying Song
"Investigating Vulnerabilities in Autonomous Vehicle Perception Algorithms”"
4/24/2025
Saif Eddin Jabar
"Uncertainty in the Vulnerability of Metro Transit Networks: A Global Perspective"
5/1/2025
Nazanin Tajik
"A Mega Project: Road/Bridge from Finland to Sweden"
5/15/2025
Antti Talvitie
"Recent Advances in Transit Operations Analysis"
5/22/2025
Nigel Wilson
2025
"Max-pressure traffic signal timing: integrating theory and practice"
1/23/2025
Dr. Michael Levin
1/30/2025
Dr. Patricia Mokhtarian
"Static and Multi-period Facility Location Models for Freight Transportation Decarbonization"
2/6/2025
Adrian Hernandez
"Modeling Ride-Hailing Demand for Pricing and Planning"
Dr. Gregory Erhardt
"A Generic Stochastic Hybrid Car-following Model Based on Approximate Bayesian Computation"
2/27/2025
Dr. Soyoung Ahn
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
3/7/2024
Dr. Siqian Shen
"Shared Mobility Services: From System Analysis to Management"
04/04/2024
Hongyu Zheng
Modeling the intermodal freight system to ensure a low-carbon resilient future.
04/9/2024
Dr. Robert Ledoux, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
"Evaluating Uncertain and Dynamic Interdependencies of Critical Infrastructure Systems"
04/18/2024
Dr. Hiba Baroud
04/25/2024
Dr. Lili Du
05/02/2024
Robert Peskin, Senior Consulting Manager, AECOM
05/09/2024
Jing Yu, Ph.D Candidate, Northwestern University
- Joint presentation with the Sandhouse Rail Group
9/26/2024
Martin J. Oberman, former Chair, The Surface Transportation Board
10/10/2024
Dr. Riley Edwards, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - "Leveraging Track Geometry Data, Laser Triangulation Track Heath Data, and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for Railway Track Condition Assessment"
- Joint presentation with the Sandhouse Rail Group
10/17/2024
Dr. Elise Miller-Hooks, George Mason University - "Protective Decisions for Transportation Systems under a Changing Climate"
10/24/2024
Dr. Pablo Durango-Cohen, Northwestern University - "Improving the management of transportation infrastructure: An overview of recent and future research opportunities"
11/07/2024
Dr. Yanfeng Ouyang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Resource Planning and Dynamic Management of Demand-Responsive Mobility Services”
11/21/2024
Robin Lindsey, University of British Columbia - “Investigating road traffic hypercongestion using a dynamic travel simulator”
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
10/05/2023
Dr. Bo Zou
09/21/2023
Ayda Joudavi
"Telemobility through the pandemic: Longitudinal tracking, modeling, and outlook"
05/25/2023
Divyakant Tahlyan
05/04/2023
Dr. Michael Hyland - Univeristy of California
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
03/02/2023
Dr. Darcy Bullock - Purdue University
"How BNSF Railway Uses Advanced Analytics"
02/23/2023
Dr. April Kuo - BNSF
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
02/06/2020Marlon 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
10/31/2019
Martin Oberman - Surface Transportation Board
10/10/2019
Mike Hewitt - Loyola University Chicago
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)
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
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
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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
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,
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
City Logistics
02/04/2010
Teodor Gabriel Crainic,
Equilibrium and Efficiency of Traffic Flows in Networks (Beckmann-McGuire-Winsten Revisited)
01/28/2010
Prof. Martin Beckmann, Professor Emeritus of Economics,
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,
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
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,
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,
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,
Transport Infrastructure Investment and Its Effects on Employment: Theoretical Linkages, Estimation Issues, and Recent Evidence
02/01/2007
Piyapong (Joey) Jiwattanakulpaisarn,
Modeling Consumers’ Choice of Multiple Items Simultaneously: A Methodological Approach with Application to Household Vehicle Holdings and Use
01/30/2007
Chandra Bhat, (NU
Dynamic Performance Models for Transportation Infrastructure Management
01/11/2007
James Chu,
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
Reregulation: The Struggle for Prosperity
09/28/2006
Mike Blaszak, Chicago Attorney
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,
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,
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
Transportation
11/11/2004
Michael Florian, Centre de Recherche
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,
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,
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,
Economic Issues in Designing Alternatives to State Motor Fuel Taxes
10/24/2003
Tony M. Rufolo, Professor of Urban Studies & Planning, Portland State University