Panos Michalopoulos
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Office: 134 Civil Engineering
Phone: 612-625-1509
E-mail: micha001@umn.edu
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Panos Michalopoulos has more than 30 years of experience in traffic engineering, management, operations and control. His main research areas include modeling of traffic flow dynamics, traffic flow theory, traffic simulation and control, and the development of advanced traffic management systems. Research by Michalopoulos led to the development of AUTOSCOPE, the first and most widely used machine vision based vehicle detection and surveillance system, with over 20,000 installations worldwide since 1993. His recent work has included continuum modeling of traffic flow dynamics in complex large-scale networks; he is a leader in the development of a wide-area vehicle detection system based on machine vision for testing and validating traffic flow models, adaptive (real time) control, and automatic incident detection.
Michalopoulos received a B.S. in civil engineering from the College of Engineering, Athens, Greece, and went on to earn M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering with specializations in transportation issues from the University of Florida. He has presented or published more than 150 papers in proceedings and peer-reviewed journals, in addition to numerous research reports. He holds U.S. and E.U. patents for machine vision based vehicle detection systems.