Keynote 2 : Achieving Smart Urban Mobility at Scale: Beyond ACES

Dr. Hani S. Mahmassani holds the William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation at Northwestern University, where he is Director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center, and Director of the US-DOT Center of Excellence on Telemobility. Prior to Northwestern, he served on the faculties of the University of Maryland and the University of Texas at Austin. He has over 35 years of professional, academic and research experience in the areas of intelligent transportation systems, freight and logistics systems, multimodal systems modeling and optimization, pedestrian and crowd dynamics, traffic science, demand forecasting and travel behavior, and real-time operation of transportation and distribution systems. He is past editor-in-chief of Transportation Science, senior editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, founding (past) associate editor of Transportation Research C: Emerging Technologies, and associate editor of Transportation Research Record. He is a past president of the Transportation Science Section of INFORMS, past President of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research, and the Convenor-elect of the ISTTT International Advisory Committee. He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the American University of Beirut (2006), the Intelligent Transportation Systems Outstanding Application Award of IEEE (2010), and the Transportation Research Board’s Thomas Deen Distinguished Lectureship (2016). He was elected Emeritus member of the Transportation Research Board committees on Telecommunications and Travel Behavior, Transportation Network Modeling, and Traveler Behavior and Values. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 “for contributions to modeling of intelligent transportation networks and to interdisciplinary collaboration in transportation engineering”. Mahmassani received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in transportation systems and MS in transportation engineering from Purdue University.