Transportation Systems Analysis and Planning - Core Faculty

Members of the core faculty are nationally recognized authorities in their fields. Collectively they hold significant responsibilities with the major research journals and professional societies in transportation. Each is known for excellence in teaching and research.

Frank S. Koppelman
f-koppelman@northwestern.edu

Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering and Transportation,
B.S.C.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959;
M.B.A., Harvard University, 1961;
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975.

Professor  Koppelman's research interests are in the development and application of advanced logit models to the study or urban and intercity travel demand. His current research includes development and refinement of activity based travel models, models of intercity passenger travel behavior and models of air traveler preferences for carriers, schedule and classes.

Hani Mahmassani
masmah@northwestern.edu

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair of Transportation
B.S.C.E., University of Houston, 1976;
MS.C.E., Purdue University, 1978;
Ph.D. (Civil Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982.

Professor Mahmassani's professional, academic and research activities span a wide range of topics in the areas of multimodal transportation network modeling and optimization, dynamic system management, travel behavior analysis, traffic science, econometric methods, transportation demand forecasting and planning, system evaluation and decision-making, telecommunication-transportation interactions, system vulnerability and security applications, large-scale human infrastructure systems, and real-time operation of logistics and distribution systems.
 

Joseph L. Schofer
j-schofer@northwestern.edu

Professor of Civil Engineering and Transportation,
B.E. (Civil Engineering), Yale University, 1963;
M.S. 1965, and Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1968.

Professor Schofer's research interests include urban transportation planning, management and policy making; transportation impact analysis and evaluation; and transportation safety. He is working on empirical studies of factors affecting child pedestrian safety and factors affecting success and failure of HOV facilities.
 

Pablo Durango-Cohen
pdc@northwestern.edu

Louis Berger Junior Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
BS, University of Southern California, Industrial and Systems Engineering
MS, University of California, Berkeley, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Prof. Durango-Cohen's research interests involve applying Operations Research, Economics, and Statistics to problems that arise in the management of civil infrastructure assets. Most recently, He worked on the formulation, analysis and implementation of adaptive models to optimize maintenance and rehabilitation resource allocation decisions under performance model uncertainty. He is also interested in capacity management, statistical performance modeling, and contract analysis and design.

David Boyce
d-boyce@northwestern.edu

Professor of Civil Engineering and Transportation,
B.S., Northwestern University, 1961.
M.C.P., University of Pennsylvania, City and Regional Planning, 1963.
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Regional Science, 1965.

Professor Boyce’s current research and teaching interests concern forecasting of urban travel over congested transit and road networks. He views the travel forecasting problem as the formulation and solution of a large-scale integrated models, in contrast to the traditional view of solving a sequence of partial models. He actively works with software vendors and practitioners in advancing the understanding and application of both traditional and integrated approaches.

Yu (Marco) Nie
y-nie@northwestern.edu

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
B.E. Structural Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
M.E. Transportation Engineering, National University of Singapore.
Ph.D. Transportation Engineering, University of California, Davis.

Professor Nie’s research fields include network optimization, traffic flow theory and traffic simulation. My Ph.D. work was focused on the estimation of time-dependent travel demands, which play a crucial role in urban transportation planning and operations. He has developed a polymorphic traffic simulation platform that integrates a variety of traffic flow models. This is a component of the Toolkit of Network Modeling (TNM), a general programming solution to various network problems, which I designed and implemented. His recent research also looks at optimal routing problems in stochastic networks, dynamic traffic assignment problems and the mechanisms causing oscillations and gridlocks in urban traffic.

ASSOCIATED FACULTY
Other faculty active in research and teaching related to transportation include:

·  Ronald Braeutigam Economics: industrial organization, regulation, transportation economics.
·  Mark S. Daskin Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Science and Transportation and Chairman of the Industrial Engineering and Management Science Department: application and development of operations research techniques for the analysis of transportation services, including mathematical models for integrating manufacturing, logistics and distribution.
·  Aaron J. Gellman J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Director of The Transportation Center: transportation management and economics, air transportation, technology innovation.
·  Robert S. Gemmell Robert Gemmell, Civil and Environmental Engineering: environmental impacts, water resource planning.
·  Donald Haider J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management: public management, urban finance.
·  Wallace Hopp Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences: stochastic decision processes, optimal planning horizons, operations research applications.
·  Arthur Hurter Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences: location models, economics of the firm, operations research and information system applications.
·  David Simchi-Levi Industrial Engineering and Management Science: vehicle routing and scheduling models.
·  Marvin Manheim In memoriam.
·  Leon Moses Economics: logistics, economics of the firm and transportation economics.
·  Robert Neuschel J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management: management, economic, and regulatory trends in the transportation industry, corporate leadership, strategic planning.
·  John Panzar Economics: industrial organization, regulation, transportation economics.
·  Ian Savage Economics: Transportation economics, privatization, urban mass transit.
·  David Schulz In memoriam.