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Hani Mahmassani

Professor of Civil and Environmental and (by courtesy) Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Engineering

William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation

Publications

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Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech A335
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-467-7445Email Hani Mahmassani

Website

Northwestern University Transportation Center

Departments

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Education

Ph.D. Transportation Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA

M.S. Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

B.S.C.E Civil Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX


Research Interests

Multimodal transportation systems analysis; planning and operations; dynamic network modeling and optimization; autonomous vehicles and connected systems; transit network planning and design; user behavior and telematics; telecommunication-transportation interactions; large-scale human infrastructure systems; smart cities; real-time operation of logistics and distribution systems


Selected Publications

  • Tahlyan, Divyakant; Said, Maher; Mahmassani, Hani; Stathopoulos, Amanda; Walker, Joan; Shaheen, Susan, For whom did telework not work during the Pandemic? understanding the factors impacting telework satisfaction in the US using a multiple indicator multiple cause (MIMIC) model, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (2022).
  • Filipovska, Monika; Mahmassani, Hani S., Reliable trajectory-adaptive routing strategies in stochastic, time-varying networks with generalized correlations, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (2021).
  • Johari, Mansour; Keyvan-Ekbatani, Mehdi; Leclercq, Ludovic; Ngoduy, Dong; Mahmassani, Hani S., Macroscopic network-level traffic models, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (2021).
  • Dandl, Florian; Engelhardt, Roman; Hyland, Michael; Tilg, Gabriel; Bogenberger, Klaus; Mahmassani, Hani S., Regulating mobility-on-demand services, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 125 (2021).
  • Al Hajj Hassan, Lama; Mahmassani, Hani S.; Chen, Ying, Reinforcement learning framework for freight demand forecasting to support operational planning decisions, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 137 (2020).
  • Hyland, Michael; Mahmassani, Hani S., Operational benefits and challenges of shared-ride automated mobility-on-demand services, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 134:251-270 (2020).
  • Saedi, Ramin; Saeedmanesh, Mohammadreza; Zockaie, Ali; Saberi, Meead; Geroliminis, Nikolas; Mahmassani, Hani S., Estimating network travel time reliability with network partitioning, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 112:46-61 (2020).
  • Borowski, E.; Chen, Ying; Mahmassani, H., Social media effects on sustainable mobility opinion diffusion, Travel Behaviour and Society 19:170-183 (2020).
  • Xu, Xiang; Mahmassani, Hani S.; Chen, Ying, Privately Owned Autonomous Vehicle Optimization Model Development and Integration with Activity-Based Modeling and Dynamic Traffic Assignment Framework, Transportation Research Record (2019).
  • Pinto, Helen K.R.F.; Hyland, Michael F.; Mahmassani, Hani S.; Verbas, I. Ömer, Joint design of multimodal transit networks and shared autonomous mobility fleets, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 113:2-20 (2019).
  • Hyland, Michael; Frei, Charlotte; Frei, Andreas; Mahmassani, Hani S., Riders on the storm, Travel Behaviour and Society 13:44-60 (2018).
  • Pinto, Helen K.R.F.; Hyland, Michael F.; Mahmassani, Hani S.; Verbas, I. Ömer, Joint design of multimodal transit networks and shared autonomous mobility fleets, Transportation Research Procedia 38:98-118 (2018).
  • Hyland, Michael; Mahmassani, Hani S, Dynamic autonomous vehicle fleet operations, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 92:278-297 (2018).
  • Halat, Hooram; Mahmassani, Hani S; Zockaie, Ali; Vovsha , Peter, Activity Cancellation and Rescheduling by Stressed Households Improving Convergence in Integrated Activity-Based and Dynamic Traffic Assignment Models, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2664:100-109 (2017).
  • Talebpour, Alireza; Mahmassani, Hani S; Hamdar, Samer H., Effect of Information Availability on Stability of Traffic Flow, Transportation Research Procedia 23:81-100 (2017).
  • Mahmassani, Hani S, 50th Anniversary invited article autonomous vehicles and connected vehicle systems, Transportation Science 50(4):1140-1162 (2016).
  • Verbas, Ömer; Mahmassani, Hani S; F. Hyland, Michael, Gap-based transit assignment algorithm with vehicle capacity constraints, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 93:1-16 (2016).
  • Talebpour, Alireza; Mahmassani, Hani S, Influence of connected and autonomous vehicles on traffic flow stability and throughput, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 71:143-163 (2016).
  • Lindsey, Christopher; Mahmassani, Hani S, Sourcing truckload capacity in the transportation spot market, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 102:261-273 (2016).
  • Saberi, Meead; Mahmassani, Hani S; Brockmann, Dirk; Hosseini, Amir, A complex network perspective for characterizing urban travel demand patterns, Transportation 44(6):1383-1402 (2016).
  • Kim, Jiwon; Mahmassani, Hani S., Compound Gamma representation for modeling travel time variability in a traffic network, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 80:40-63 (2015).