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June 5, 2008 :
[TC Seminars]

A Queuing Model of Activity Scheduling Behavior
Roger Chen, Post-Doctoral Fellow

Sequential Resource Allocation for Nonprofit Operations
Robert Lien, IEMS PhD Candidate, 2008 TC Dissertation Year Fellow

Annual Transportation End-of-the-Year BBQ & Gathering

Fred Smith, Founder & CEO of FedEx Speaks at Kellogg

CE PhD student Emily Kushto wins the Federal Highway Administration's Dwight D. Eisenhower Fellowship

Methods to Improve Travel Choice Modeling:
Disaggregation of Network-GEV Models
Jeffrey Newman, CEE PhD '08
2008 TC Dissertation Year Fellow

What in the World is Going on at the STB?
Bill Sippel, Fletcher & Sippel LLC

The Airline Industry as a Service Business
Barbara Higgins, VP, United Airlines

America's Transportation Challenge
Matthew K. Rose, CEO of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, member of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Commission, and Transportation Center BAC member

CE PhD student Zitao Zhang wins the Graduate Fellowship from ASCE Illinois

Emerging Technologies and Mass Transit Planning:
Moving Bits to Move People
Mike Shiffer, PhD, former CTA Director of Planning

Agency on the Move plus
The Inaugural Presidential Fellowship at CTA
Ron Huberman, President of the CTA

A Probit-based Time-Dependent Stochastic User Equilibrium Traffic Assignment Model
Kuilin Zhang, PhD candidate

Future of the Rail Carload Business : Loose-Car Railroading
Mike Blaszak, Senior Counsel, Earth Tech Inc.

CMAP's Research and Analysis Work Program
Kermit Wies, Deputy Executive Director of CMAP

ITE Illinois awards CE PhD student Emily Kushto its annual scholarship

Transportation Research Board names Hani Mahmassani an Emeritus Member of the Committee on Transportation Network Modeling

2007

Transportation Energy Conservation Options
Joseph Schofer

Operational Innovations in Transportation Networks for Energy Conservation
Hani Mahmassani

Aaron Gellman writes in the Chicago Tribune, arguing against President Bush's plans to reduce flights at peak times

Pattharin Sarutipand, CE PhD candidate, wins the International Road Federation Executive Fellowship

Ian Savage comments on the CTA funding crisis: audio and text

Aaron Gellman comments on airline delays
President Bush is backing a plan to help reduce the amount of airline delays in the country by having carriers reduce their flights at certain peak times. Northwestern University aviation analyst Aaron Gellman is opposed to that idea.

Laura Riegel, IEMS student in the Transportation and Logistics Minor, wins the Delta Nu Alpha Fellowship

Ian Savage comments on railroad fatalities
An elderly Chicago man is dead after his car was hit this week by a commuter train at a crossing, marking the latest in a number of train-pedestrian incidents. Northwestern University transportation economist Ian Savage says a little less than 1,000 people are killed on the nation’s rails every year, with around 500 of those coming as a result of trespassing, and between 300 and 400 coming as a result of incidents at grade crossings.

Mark Daskin named Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering

Hani Mahmassani joins the faculty as the William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation

Our beloved Associate Director Doug Hagestad passed away.

Pablo Durango-Cohen wins Best Paper Award at World Conference for Transport Research for his innovative work on infrastructure maintenance scheduling - paper

Jan Achenbach awarded National Medal of Science

NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker calls for improving highway safety through technology - press release

The Politics of Chicago Transit Finance
Julie Hamos, D-Evanston, Chair of the Illinois House Mass Transit Committee

Summary and audio from JetBlue Founder David Neeleman

Head of the Transportation Library, Roberto Sarmiento, co-authors TRB Report on managing future transportation knowledge networks

2006

Transportation Center's Research Director, Joseph Schofer, co-authors new TRB Research Circular on transportation information needs

Karen Smilowitz, assistant professor of industrial engineering and management sciences, has been named the first Junior William A. Patterson Chair of Transportation. More>>  

Northwestern Transportation Center Real Time Screen Saver now available for download... Displays national weather radar, airspace traffic, Chicago highway traffic and more... Details and instructions for FREE download >>>