Seminars

Join NCTSPM for this Transportation Speaker Series event, featuring Dr. Khaled Abdelghany, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Abdelghany will be speaking on the topic of "A Real-Time Decison Support System for Robust... [...]

Join NCTSPM for this Transportation Speaker Series event, featuring Dr. Zhanmin Zhang, Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professor in Transportation Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Zhang will be speaking on the topic of "Enhancing Infrastructure Management Through Cross-asset Resource... [...]

Join NCTSPM for this Transportation Speaker Series event, featuring Dr. Hani S. Mahmassani, William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation at Northwestern University, and Director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center.  This presentation consists of two parts... [...]

Join NCTSPM for this Transportation Speaker Series event, featuring Dr. Eric Huang, Assistant Professor at Clemson University. Dr. Huang will be speaking on the topic of "Optimization of Modern Transportation Systems under Large-scale Complexity, Uncertainty, and Dynamics".  Transportation... [...]

Join NCTSPM for this Transportation Speaker Series event, featuring Dr. Imad L. Al-Qadi, P.E., Dist. M. ASCE, Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Founder and Director of the Illinois Center for Transportation, and Director of the Advanced Transportation... [...]

Dr. Asad J. Khattak, Beaman Professor and Transportation Program Coordinator at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be speaking on this March 3rd Transportation Speaker Series event, on the topic of "The Role of Connected and Automated Vehicles: How Can Urban Areas Use the Data They Create... [...]

Join NCTSPM for this Transportation Speaker Series event, featuring Dr. Venu Madhav Garikapati, Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Garikapati will be speaking on the topic of  "Activity Patterns,... [...]

Dr. Susan Tighe, PE, Canada Research Chair in Pavement and Infrastructure Management, Norman W. McLeod Professor in Sustainable Pavement Engineering, Founding Member and Director of the Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering... [...]

NCTSPM will co-host Dr. Aaron Steinfeld of Carnegie Mellon University with the Georgia Tech Robotics Club on October 22, 2015, for a Transportation Speaker Series event. Dr. Steinfeld is an Associate Research Professor with Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science and its Robotics... [...]

Join NCTSPM for our second Transportation Speaker Series event of the fall semester. Dr. Lucio Soibelman, Professor and Chair of the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California, will be the guest speaker.  Dr. Soibelman's... [...]

Join NCTSPM on Thursday, September 10, as Dr. Alex Karner, Assistant Professor in Georgia Tech's School of City and Regional Planning, will be speaking on the topic of "The Convergence of Social Equity and Environmental Sustainability: Jobs-Housing Fit and Commute Distance".  Please... [...]

Join us for Dr. Omar Smadi's presentation on "Asset Management: a New Approach to Decision Making." Dr. Smadi has over 20 years of experience in the area of infrastructure and asset management ranging from pavements, bridges, safety, pavement marking, signs and other infrastructure assets.... [...]

Dr. Geoffrey Whitfield, Epidemic Intellice Service (EIS) Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holds a master's degree in exercise physiology from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Texas School of Public Health. He is... [...]

Join NCTSPM for the second Transportation Speaker Series event of the year. Dr. Samer M. Madanat, the Xenel Professor of Engineering, and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, will be speaking on "Incorporating Environmental... [...]

Georgia Tech's Civil & Environmental Engineering Department is pleased to welcome Representative Jay Roberts (R-154)  and Senator Steve Gooch (R-51) to speak on Thursday, November 13 at 11:00 am in Mason 1133. Rep. Roberts is the Chairman of the Georgia House of Representative'... [...]

Join us for a seminar by Eric A. Morris, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at Clemson University.   IS TRAVEL REALLY THAT BAD? The question of what makes us happy is one of the most ancient in all of philosophical inquiry. But only recently have scholars begun... [...]

Join NCTSPM and Georgia Tech for this exciting, student-centric, consultant brown-bag lunch seminar this October. 

Join the Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) at GT to hear from four of Atlanta's top transportation leaders on their careers and keys to success!  WTS will host four of the top female transportation leaders in Atlanta for a panel to discuss their experiences ad insights from working... [...]

Dr. Fan Ye, P.E., spoke at Florida International University on September 12, 2014, on the topci of "High Intensity Reflective Sheeting in lieu of External Lighting for Overhead Roadway Signs in Florida." Dr. Ye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Ohio Northern... [...]

Join NCTSPM and Georgia Tech for the joint kickoff meeting for student transportation organizations ITE, WTS, and ASHE. 

Tune in on August 20 for the U.S. DOT Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R)'s "Transportation Innovation Series." Georgia Tech's own Dr. Patricia Mokhtarian will present her work in Transportation Systems Engineering, specifically travel behavior and... [...]

Florida International University welcomes Dr. Young-Jun Kweon, P.E., Senior Research Scientist at the Virginia Department of Transportation. He will be presenting on the topic of "Developing and Implementing Safety Performance Functions in Virginia."

Bill Hjeholt, Senior Vice President and Americas Director of Freight Rail presented a seminar on the topic of "Design of a New Mining Railroad in West Africa" at Florida International University (FIU) on March 7, in the FIU Engineering Center.

Florida International University and the Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center hosted a webinar by Professor Robert Bertini, Ph.D., P.E. of Portland State University on the topic of "Can Big Data Serve as a Foundation for Measuring and Improving Public... [...]

Javier Rodriguez, P.E., ITS Operations Engineer with the District 6 Florida Department of Transportation, presented a seminar at FIU entitled "FDOT District Six Intelligent Transportation Systems and the Future of Managed Lanes in Southeast Florida" on February 7, 2014. 

Join us for Ricardo Daziano's talk "On the gap between the willingness to pay for and the marginal cost of battery electric vehicles with improved driving range." Ricardo A. Daziano is the David Croll Fellow Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He... [...]

Join us Thursday, 10/31, @ 11 am in Mason 1133 for a showcase of work by students who are graduating in December 2013:  Video of the showcase

                                     Join us on October 10, 2013 at 11 am for Jonathan Gifford, Director of... [...]

Crowned the world's busiest passenger airport for 15 consecutive years, the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is a rare jewel. Representing HJAIA is a distinguished panel of women from the Planning and Development Division who are instrumental in helping to make the airport the... [...]

Professor Dominique Lord of Texas A&M University visited UCF and conducted a seminar entitled "Before-after studies: Characteristics and Site Selection Bias." The seminar was well attended by MS and Ph.D. students, as well as postdoctoral associates and a visiting professor

Ram M. Pendyala Video Abstract: Forecasting a region’s travel has long relied on models of human travel behavior capable of representing the interrelationships among a multitude of activity-travel and location choices that people make over time and space. However, an issue that is often... [...]

Dr. John E. Abraham March 7, 2013 Where:  Instructional Center, Room 109 Video Abstract: The PECAS Model of Atlanta is a spatial economic forecasting model for the 20 county region.  It forecasts development patterns, home and business locations, economic interactions... [...]