Faculty and Professional Staff
TRI's human
resources are its greatest strength. At its disposal are a number of distinguished
faculty in several departments who have identified transportation as a
major area of concentration
John C. Falcocchio, Ph.D.,
P.E., Executive Director of the Transportation
Research Institute, has many years of academic and consulting experience
in a wide range of urban transportation issues. He is Professor of Transportation
Planning & Engineering and the Academic Coordinator of the Transportation
programs. He represents Polytechnic University at the Region II University
Transportation Research Consortium where he is currently serving as Chairman
of the Board. He has been involved in some of the most challenging transportation
research projects of local as well as national importance. His research
interests include Intelligent Transportation Systems, Integrated Decision-Making
for Urban Infrastructure Performance, Parking Policy Studies and Transportation
Systems Management.
Dimitrios G. Goulias, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, has been involved in research
related to the development of advanced highway and transportation materials
with recycled products, use of forecasting techniques for pavement performance
and pavement temperature prediction, development of performance related
specifications, use of GIS/GPS technology for infrastructure management.
He is the author of several publications and manuals, member of technical
professional committees, including ASTM and TRB, and the co-author of a
Highway and Transportation Engineering textbook to be published by Prentice
Hall. His current research interests include: Infrastructure Management
Systems; GIS & GPS Technology for Transportation Applications; Formulation
and Design of Highway and Transportation Materials; Pavement Evaluation
and Performance Modeling; Reclaiming and Recycling Materials and Techniques;
Quality Control and Specifications.
Ilan Juran, D.Sc.,
Head of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at Polytechnic
University, has extensive international experience in research, development
and technology transfer related to infrastructure engineering and management.
He has managed major infrastructure projects in the United States and France
sponsored by both industry and public agencies, including the United Nations
Development Program, US NCHRP (Transportation Research Board), Federal
Highway Administration and the National Science Foundation.
Jaqueline Llanos, Ph.D.,
Research Associate, is on the permanent research staff of France INRETS
(National Institute for Transportation and Safety Research, France Ministries
of Transportation and Research) where she has been carrying out research
on the linkages between public investments (especially transportation infrastructure)
and economic growth and regional development. She has authored several
publications, a book, and has co-edited another book—all relating to transportation
infrastructure economics and methods of evaluation of transportation project.
Dr. Llanos was a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies at John
Hopkins University. She also served as a consultant to the World Bank and
conducted field research in Guinea (Transportation Tax Policy) and Nepal
(Bridge Management System). Her current research interests include transportation
and urban infrastructure economics and the assessment of the benefits of
ITS. She is a member of the TRB Committee on Transportation and Economic
Development.
William R. McShane, Ph.D.,
P.E., Professor of Transportation and
Dean of the Long Island Campus, has spent over two decades working in traffic
and transportation, and is one of the authors of the text Traffic Engineering
(McShane, Roess) which has been used at over 50 colleges and universities.
He was also a principal contributor to the 1985 edition of the Highway
Capacity Manual. Prof. McShane's work has focused on traffic congestion,
analytical modeling, advanced control applications, and, more recently,
traffic planning. He is a member of the TRB Committee on Highway Capacity
and Quality of Service, the TRB Committee on Access Management, and an
NCHRP panel on access management. He is a Fellow of ITE and a registered
professional engineer.
Elena S. Prassas, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, focuses on two specialty areas:
traffic planning and capacity tools. She has developed an arterial planning
methodology for the State of Florida and her work on left-turn analysis
was incorporated into the 1994 Edition of the Highway Capacity Manual.
She led the capacity analysis work in the HCM/Cinema software tool, which
is used in over 1,000 installations, and developed the code from which
the HCS package was developed. She does extensive work on traffic simulation
and using simulation software for solving traffic and signal timing problems.
She has also been involved in work on parking studies, transportation demand
management, and advanced control concepts for surface transit.
Roger P. Roess, Ph.D.,
Professor of Transportation Engineering and Vice Provost for Academic Operations,
is an internationally recognized expert in highway capacity and level of
service analysis, and in the development of models supporting such analysis.
He has led significant research efforts in this area for over 20 years.
He was principal investigator of the National Cooperative Highway Research
Program project which led to the compilation and production of the 1985
Highway Capacity Manual. He is currently working on an NCHRP project to
develop a fourth edition of this document by the year 2000, most likely
in multimedia form. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board
Sub-Committee on signalized intersections, and has authored over 25 papers
on the subject of highway capacity alone. He is also the co-author, with
Dr. William McShane, of the textbook Traffic Engineering, which is used
in over 50 universities.
Dipak Roy, Ph.D., P.E.,
Professor of Environmental Engineering, has participated in many urban
pollution related problems including urban air quality monitoring and modeling,
environmental impact assessment, transportation planning and transportation
control measures to minimize impact on urban environment, hazardous waste
management and restoration of brownfield sites. He has more than 50 research
publications in leading environmental journals and has made numerous presentations
in conferences and symposia all over the world. He has received many awards
including a Fulbright Fellowship, and he has two U.S. patents to his credit
in the field of environmental engineering. He has more than 25 years of
professional experience in the academic, government and private sectors.
Eduardo C. Serafin, M.S.E., M.S.T.M,
P.E., Program Manager of the Urban ITS
Center (UITSC), handles the day-to-day operations of the UITSC. He brings
to the Center almost nine years of consulting experience in transportation
engineering and planning from California and the New York metropolitan
region. Prior to consulting, he was a researcher/instructor at the University
of the Philippines Transport Training Center. He has significant technical
experience in urban transportation planning, ITS planning, travel demand
modeling, traffic engineering/operations, traffic impact analysis and mitigation,
CADD production and management, and the application of GIS in transportation
studies.
Anthony Tzes, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace & Manufacturing Engineering,
has spent over eight years intensely involved in experimental research
related to ITS. His research interests include applications of adaptive
and fuzzy neural logic control in Advanced Traffic Management Systems;
fuzzy logic and image processing algorithms for ITS-related projects such
as design of specialized fast microprocessors based on Petri Network for
traffic simulation, with over 50 articles published in scientific journals
and conference proceedings. He has been a member of ITS America's ATMS
Committee and the representative of the IEEE Communications Society to
its Technical Activities Board Committee on ITS. His research activities
have been supported by NASA, NATO, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and
NSF and he has been a Guest Scientist at BNL.
Jose M. Ulerio, M.S.,
Research Engineer, has ten years work experience serving on numerous transportation
research projects. He has worked on several FHWA- and NCHRP-sponsored research
projects where he has implemented ITS state-of-the-art data collection/reduction
techniques using video-digitizing technology. He has worked on evaluating
the potential use of freeway simulation to expand the existing database
used in the development of regression models for freeway ramp junction
procedures of the Highway Capacity Manual with the objective to further
fine-tune the models.
Richard E. Wener, Ph.D.,
Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate
Professor of Environmental Psychology, has his area of specialization focusing
on the interaction of people and their physical setting and the impact
of environmental design on behavior. He is principal investigator for a
research project in New Jersey that is studying the effects of rail commuting
on stress experienced by commuters and collecting data before and after
improvement in rail service. He has also worked with the New York City
Transit on the development of information kiosks.
