Archived Transportation Center Seminars

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Date	Speaker	Title and Links
06/05/2008	Roger Chen Post Doctoral Fellow, The Transportation Center, Northwestern University	"A Queuing Model of Activity Scheduling Behavior"
05/29/2008	Robert Lien PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial Eng. & Management Sci. Northwestern University; Transportation Center 2008 Dissertation Year Fellow	"Sequential Resource Allocation for Nonprofit Operations"
05/22/2008	Jeffrey Newman PhD Candidate, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University; Transportation Center 2008 Dissertation Year Fellow	"Normalization and Disaggregation of Network-GEV Models"
05/13/2008	Marshall Fisher Operations & Information Management Dept., Wharton School University of Pennsylvania	"Retail Assortment Optimization"
04/21/2008	Michael Gastner Sante Fe Institute	"The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks"
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	"Collaborative Decision Making in Air Traffic Flow Management"
04/03/2008	Eric Petersen Associate, Cambridge Systematics	"Advanced Modeling in London: Issues and Opportunities"
02/21/2008	Michael J. Shiffer Clinical Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago	"Emerging Technologies and Mass Transit Planning: Moving Bits to MovePeople"
02/18/2008	Dr. Kara Kockelman Assoiate Prof. - Civil, Architectural & Environmental Eng & William J. Murray Jr. Fellow University of Texas at Austin	"Addressing Spatial Autocorrelation in Transportation & Lank Use Data: Opportunities for Behavioral Forecasting"
02/14/2008	Michael G. Dreznes International Road Federation Deputy Director General-Washington Program Center	"Forgiving Highways"
02/06/2008	Ron Huberman President, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)	*Special Presentation and Inagural CTA Presidential Fellowship Unveiling Chicago Transit Authority: Agency on the Move Presentation
01/31/2008	Kuilin Zhang PhD Candidate Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University	A Probit-based Time-Dependent Stochastic User Equilibrium Traffic Assignment Model Presentation Paper
01/24/2008	Kermit Wies Deputy Executive Director for Research and Analysis Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)	CMAP's Research and Analysis Work Program Presentation
11/15/2007	Paul Waddell Professor Department of Urban Design & Planning Director Center for Urban Simulation & Policy Analysis University of Washington	Integrating Land Use and Activity-based Transport Modeling: a Framework and Application to San Francisco
09/27/2007	Takuya Maruyama Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Scholar, University of Texas, Austin	Comparing Congestion Pricing Schemes: Cordon-based Pricing, Area-based Pricing and Parking Deposit System Flyer

2006-2007
Date	Speaker	Title and Links
06/06/2007	Mark Hemphill Senior Rail Project Manager, HDR Engineers	Experiences as Advisor to the Iraqi Republic Railways
05/31/2007	Viswanath Pingali PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Northwestern University; Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow	Zonal Pricing in the Italian Electricity Market Paper Presentation
05/04/2007	Don Wuebbles Department Head and Professor, Department of Atmosphere Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Evaluating the Impacts of Aviation on Climate Change Presentation
05/03/2007	H. Michael Zhang Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis	Modeling Vehicular Traffic Flow as "Conservation" Laws Presentation
04/26/2007	Srinivas Peeta Professor of Civil Engineering; Director, NEXTRANS Center, Purdue University	Behavior-Consistent Information-Based Route Guidance: Integrating Network Interactions and Traveler Response
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.	Transportation Policy and Politics Presentation
04/05/2007	Julie Hamos Illinois State Representative, 18th District Chair, House Mass Transit Committee	The Politics of Chicago Transit Finance Presentation
03/29/2007	Kristin Sahyouni PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, Northwestern University	Logistic Network Design For Closed-Loop Supply Chains Presentation
03/08/2007	Hani S. Mahmassani Charles Irish Sr. Chair in Civil & Environmental Engineering; Director, Maryland Transportation Initiative, U. of Maryland	Real-Time Transportation Network Decision-Making: Pricing, Auctions, and Learning Dynamics
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	Supply Chain Design to Mitigate Disruption Impacts Presentation
02/22/2007	Martin Savelsbergh Professor, School of Industrial and Engineering Systems & Research Director, The Logistics Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology	Analysis of Dispatch Policies for a Dynamic Multi-Period Routing Problem Presentation Relevant Publications [-1-] [-2-]
02/08/2007	Guangming Zhang PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Science, Northwestern University & Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow	Operational Flexibility in Drayage Vehicle Routing Presentation
02/01/2007	Piyapong (Joey) Jiwattanakulpaisarn PhD student, Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London	Transport Infrastructure Investment and Its Effects on Employment: Theoretical Linkages, Estimation Issues, and Recent Evidence
01/30/2007	Chandra Bhat (NU CEPhD ’91), Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor of Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin	Modeling Consumers’ Choice of Multiple Items Simultaneously: A Methodological Approach with Application to Household Vehicle Holdings and Use Presentation Relevant Publications [-1-] [-2-] [-3-]
01/11/2007	James Chu PhD Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University & Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow	Dynamic Performance Models for Transportation Infrastructure Management Presentation Relevant Publication
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	Expanding the Panama Canal Presentation
11/30/2006	Joseph A. Gustin Deputy Commissioner, Public-Private Partnerships Indiana Department of Transportation	“The Arrow....seen before” Indiana's Public-Private Transportation Initiative
11/02/2006	Kenneth P. Laberteaux Principal Research Engineer for the Toyota Technical Center	Information-Rich Vehicular Safety System Presentation
10/19/2006	Chris Hendrickson Duquesne Light Company Professor of Engineering; Co-Director of the Green Design Institute and Director, Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education & Research Carnegie Mellon University	Construction and Management Practices on the Boston Central Artery (Big Dig) Project Presentation
09/28/2006	Mike Blaszak Chicago Attorney: Senior Counsel, Earth Tech Inc.	Reregulation: The Struggle for Prosperity Presentation

2005-2006
Date	Speaker	Title and Links
06/01/2006	Henry Liu Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering University Of Minnesota - Twin Cities	Model Reference Adaptive Control for Real Time Traffic Management under Emergency Evaculation Paper \| Presentation
05/04/2006	Jie Lin Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago	Transferability of Household Travel Data Across Geographic Areas Using NHTS 2001 Paper \| Presentation
04/20/2006	Daniel Rich Professor of Economics, Illinois State University	Occupational Labor Demand and the Sources of Nonneutral Technical Change Presentation \| Paper 1 \| Paper 2
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 Shadow Critical Project Appraisal: The Airbus A380 Program Presentation
03/02/2006	Zongzhi Li Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Architectural Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology	A Stochastic Optimization Model for Highway Project Selection and Programming Under Budget Uncertainty Presentation
02/13/2006	Ben Coifman Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science and Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University	Deconstructing Freeway Traffic Congestion
02/06/2006	Yu (Marco) Nie PhD Candidate in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis	A Variational Approach for Inferring Dynamic Origin- Destination Trip Demands Paper \| Presentation
02/03/2006	Fred Mannering Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University	The Automotive Industry and the Dynamics of Consumer Demand: The Case of Automobile Leasing
01/12/2006	Peter Francis PhD Candidate,Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University	Value of Service Choice in Period Vehicle Routing Problems
12/01/2005	Wolfgang Scherr Principal, PTV America	Transportation Modeling - the Perspective of the Software Developer
11/17/2005	Rommert Dekker Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam	Cyclic Railway Timetabling: a Stochastic Optimization Approach Article (1.36MB)
10/27/2005	Michael Gorman School of Business Administration, University of Dayton	Optimization Approaches to Gang Scheduling at BNSF
10/20/2005	Yanfeng Ouyang Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Illinois-Urbana-Champaign	System-level Stability and Optimality of Decentralized Supply Chains
10/6/2005	Bhuwan Agrawal PhD Candidate Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2005 Transportation Center Dissertation Year Fellow	A Shipper-carrier Dynamic Freight Assignment Model Using a Variational Inequality Approach

2004-2005
Date	Speaker	Title and Links
04/14/2005	Mark A. Turnquist Civil & Environmental Engineering Cornell University	Physical Security and Vulnerability Modeling for Infrastructure Facilities
03/01/2005	George Winston Senior Fellow, Economics Studies The Brookings Institute	Airlines Economics
02/17/2005	George Hamlin Director, MergeGlobal, Inc. (MGI)	Airline Industry Status Update
02/10/2005	David Greene Corporate Fellow Engineering, Science and Technology Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Transportation and Petroleum: What's the Problem?
11/11/2004	Michael Florian Centre de Recherche sur les Transports, University de Montreal
10/21/2004	Stephane Hess Doctoral Researcher Centre for Transport Studies Imperial College, London	Improvements in the efficiency of simulation-based estimation processes
10/07/2004	Christopher Barkan Director, Railroad Engineering Program University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Optimizing the Design of Railway Tank Cars to Minimize Accident-Caused Releases

2003-2004
Date	Speaker	Title and Links
05/27/2004	Kenneth Small Transportation Center Visiting Patterson Professor, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine	Does Britain or the United States Have the Right Gasoline Tax ?
05/20/2004	Deborah Bruce Director, Safety Studies Division, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)	Risk Assessments, Transportation Vehicles, and Accidents
05/13/2004	Evelyn Blumenberg Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, Department of Urban Planning	Welfare Reform and Transportation
04/22/2004	Darwin Stuart Recently Retired Director, Strategic Planning, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and NU Alum (MST'66)	Effective Ways to Improve Customer Satisfaction, and Increase Ridership in Public Transportation
04/01/2004	Michael Sivak Head, Human Factors Division, University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute	The Relative Risk of Flying and Driving after September 11: The Contribution of Bounded Rationality
03/11/2004	Michal Tzur Visiting Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University	Transshipments in Supply Chain Management
03/04/2004	Thomas N. Hubbard Associate Professor of Economics & Strategy University of Chicago Graduate School of Business	Information Decisions, and Productivity : On Board Computers and Capacity Utilization in Trucking
02/26/2004	David Boyce Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University	Urban Travel Forecasting: Revolution or Evolution?
01/29/2004	Eric Petersen Associate, PBConsult (NU MST '98;NU PhD Candidate, Sociology)	Issues in Transportation: Regional Politics, Funding Conflicts and Shifting Coalitions
12/04/2003	Piyushimita Thakuriah (Vonu) Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Policy; Associate Director, Urban Transportation Center University of Illinois at Chicago	Job Accessibility of Low-Income Workers: Needs Assessment, Trends and Evaluation
11/20/2003	Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian Civil & Materials Engineering University of Illinois at Chicago	Automobile Ownership Modeling and its Importance in Travel Behavior
11/06/2003	Kenneth D. Boyer Economics Department Michigan State University	Truck Drivers and Ballerinas: the Baumol Hypothesis and Trucking Productivity 1977-1997
10/16/2003	Susan Handy Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Policy, University of California at Davis	Driving by Choice or Necessity
10/24/2003	Tony M. Rufolo Professor of Urban Studies & Planning Portland State University	Economic Issues in Designing Alternatives to State Motor Fuel Taxes

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