

Traffic Engineering and Operations Concentration




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David LevinsonDepartment of Civil Engineering
Associate Professor David Levinson's major research focus concerns transportation economics and financing, network deployment, integrated transportation, and land use planning. He earned a doctorate in transportation engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He has worked as a transportation planner in Montgomery County, Maryland, and received the 1995 Tiebout Prize in Regional Science for research into travel behavior.
Office: 138 Civil
Engineering
Phone: 612-625-5522
E-mail: levin031@umn.edu
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page (Civil Engineering)
Gary A. Davis Department of Civil Engineering
Professor Gary Davis' major research interests involve applications of probability theory and optimization methods to problems in transportation engineering. He holds a doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Washington and has been a visiting researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden.
Office: 140 Civil
Engineering
Phone: 612-625-2598
E-mail: drtrips@umn.edu
Web page (Civil
Engineering Dept.)
Karen DonohueOperations and Management Sciences
Carlson School of Management
Associate Professor Karen Donohue's research specialties are manufacturing systems design and supply-chain coordination. Her current research concerns the impact of competition in outsourcing decisions and behavioral issues in supply-chain management. She earned a doctorate in industrial engineering from Northwestern University. She received the Operations Research Meritorious Service Award in 1998 and 1999, and the NSF Career Award (1996-2002) for "Contacts & Incentive Schemes for Coordinating Production & Sales."
Office: 3-237 Carlson School of
Management
Phone: 612-625-6320
E-mail: kdonohue@csom.umn.edu
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Henry LiuDepartment of Civil Engineering
Assistant Professor Henry Liu's major research interests include traffic control and operations, transportation network modeling, and traffic simulation. His current research activities include arterial data collection and signal optimization, real–time traffic management for emergency evacuation, analytical dynamic traffic assignment and application of microscopic traffic simulation models. Liu earned his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2000. Before joining the University of Minnesota, he was an assistant professor at Utah State University and a post-doctoral researcher at the California PATH Program of UC–Berkeley.
Office: 136 Civil Engineering
Phone: 612-625-6347
Email: henryliu@umn.edu
Web page (Civil Engineering)
Web page (Civil Engineering)