Faculty

Chandra R. Bhat
P.E., Ph.D., Northwestern University
Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering

Travel demand modeling; activity and travel behavior analysis; application of econometric, discrete choice and market research techniques in transportation planning; traffic flow theory and operations; logistics and freight modeling; transportation air quality analysis; pseudo- and quasi-Monte Carlo simulation techniques.

Kara M. Kockelman
P.E., Ph.D., M.C.P. Univ. of California at Berkeley
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
William J. Murray Jr. Fellow

Travel behavior modeling, transport data analysis, intra-urban transport policy, modeling of land use-travel demand interactions, transport economics, traffic operations, and facility design.

Randy B. Machemehl
P.E., Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Nasser I. Al-Rashid Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering
Director, Center for Transportation Research

Transportation system operations; public transportation systems planning and design; traffic data acquisition; traffic simulation; system demand forecasting; freeway operations and freeway bottleneck identification and resolution.

Jorge A. Prozzi
P.E.; Ph.D., Univ. of California at Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering

Pavement materials; design and rehabilitation of flexible and rigid pavement; pavement monitoring and evaluation; non-destructive testing (NDT); accelerated pavement testing (APT); applied econometrics; Transportation Infrastructure Management.

S. Travis Waller
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering

Modeling and large-scale optimization of transportation systems including network design, stochastic shortest path algorithms, and dynamic traffic assignment. Planning under uncertainty, transportation applications of information technology, and traffic simulation.

C. Michael Walton
P.E.; Ph.D., North Carolina State
Professor, Civil Engineering
Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering

Transportation systems engineering, planning, economics and policy analysis; intelligent transportation systems; interposal/freight transport, commercial vehicle operations; institutional arrangements.

Zhanmin Zhang
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering

Infrastructure systems management; pavement design and management; modeling of  pavement behavior and performance; variability and reliability of pavements; pavement performance simulation; computerized information and decision support systems; application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS); intelligent infrastructure systems.