Hani Mahmassani named William A. Patterson Chair in Transportation
HANI S. MAHMASSANI
William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation
Northwestern University
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982.
MS.C.E., Purdue University, 1978.
B.S.C.E., University of Houston, 1976.
RESEARCH, TEACHING, AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Dr. Hani S. Mahmassani is now the William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair of Transportation at Northwestern University.
From 2002 to 2007, he was at the University of Maryland, where he was most recently the first holder of the Charles Irish Sr. Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Also at Maryland, he was the founding Director of the Maryland Transportation Initiative, a cross-disciplinary institute for transportation systems research and education. Before working at the University of Maryland, he was on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin for 20 years, where he was most recently the A. Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering, Professor of Management Science and Information Systems and Director of the Advanced Institute for Transportation Infrastructure Engineering and Management.
He specializes in multimodal transportation systems analysis, planning and operations, dynamic network modeling and optimization, transit network planning and design, dynamics of user behavior and telematics, telecommunication-transportation interactions, large-scale human infrastructure systems, and real-time operation of logistics and distribution systems.
Dr. Mahmassani received his PhD in Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 and MS in Transportation Engineering from Purdue in 1978. He chairs several technical and professional committees in the US and internationally, and is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Science, and Associate Editor of Transportation Research C (Emerging Technologies) as well as the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He serves on the editorial boards of the major transportation journals. He has served as the Paper Review Chair of the Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics of the Transportation Research Board since 1989, and is the immediate past president of that committee. He is a past president of the Transportation Science Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the immediate past President of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research. He has published over 175 refereed articles and conference proceedings, and over 100 technical reports. He has served as Principal investigator on over 95 funded research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, The Advanced Technology Program, General Motors Research Laboratories, Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Governor's Office, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, and served as consultant to several companies and government agencies in the areas of transportation modeling, operations, logistics and intelligent transportation systems. He has served in an advisory capacity to various institutes and programs, and has performed several program assessments of leading international research institutes and corporate R&D departments.
