Transportation and pavements faculty
Where research meets the road
Our faculty use their knowledge and research to improve how we get to where we are going. Their research specialties include multimodal transportation system planning, travel behavior, sustainable and equitable transportation, emerging transportation technologies, travel demand forecasting, transportation policy, smart cities, application of new technology to surveys, evaluation of transportation projects, changes in travel behavior and consequences of technology changes on travel.
They are sought-out experts in infrastructure resilience and sustainability, climate change and extreme events, interdependent infrastructure systems, transportation life cycle assessment, infrastructure complexity and adaptation, pavements, urban heat island, pavement evaluation, material characterization, activity-travel behavior analysis, transportation demand forecasting/modeling, travel surveys and data analytics and land use-transportation policy analysis.
Faculty research also focused on airfield and highway pavements, asphalt materials characterization, pavement design and structural analysis, computational fracture mechanics, life-cycle assessment and sustainability, preservation and rehabilitation of pavements, highway safety, traffic engineering, vulnerable road users, human factors in design, human behaviors in safety, transportation network modeling, railway engineering, intelligent transportation systems and dynamic traffic assignment.
Irfan Batur
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Irfan Batur is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. He holds a PhD in Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering from Arizona State University, along with an MS in Industrial and System Engineering from Istanbul Sehir University and a BS in Industrial Engineering from TOBB Economy and Technology University. Additionally, Dr. Batur is a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Travel Behavior and Values (AEP30) and serves as the Research Communications and Technology Transfer Coordinator at the TOMNET University Transportation Center. His research interests include travel…
Mikhail Chester
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
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- 480/965-9779
- College Ave Commons 660 S College Ave
Chester’s long-term goals are to advance understanding of how urban infrastructure design should balance the life-cycle benefits and costs of integrated systems with sensitivity to social-equity, growth and future climate.
Angeli Jayme
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Jayme’s expertise is in tire-pavement interaction, asphalt concrete, pavement structural mechanics, pavement rehabilitation and preservation, energy harvesting and advanced mobility.
Kamil Kaloush
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
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- 480/965-5509
- School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environ 660 South College Avenue 527B
Kaloush’s areas of expertise include pavement materials design, thermal properties, advanced laboratory testing, field performance evaluation, and pavement management systems.
Kohinoor Kar
Faculty Associate
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
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- Civil, Environmental & Sustainable Engineering CAVC Building 660 S College Ave
Michael Mamlouk
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Dr. Mamlouk’s main area of expertise includes pavement analysis and design, pavement maintenance and rehabilitation, and highway materials.
Hossein Noorvand
Research Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Hasan Ozer
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Ozer develops computational mechanics methods for structural performance modeling of pavements and uses life-cycle assessment tools for advancing sustainable transportation infrastructure.
Ram Pendyala
School Director and Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
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- 480/965-3589
- Paul C. Helmick Center (HLMK) Room 502 Arizona State University 660 S. College Avenue
Pendyala’s research expertise ranges from travel demand modeling and forecasting and activity-travel behavior analysis to multimodal transportation planning and policy analysis.
Steven Polzin
Research Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Dr. Polzin is a Research Professor at the, TOMNET University Transportation Center, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, and conducts transportation policy analyses.
Peter Stopher
Research Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
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- 435/592-4023
- 8788 Wyeth Drive
Yanbing Wang
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Wang’s contributions have been recognized with the NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Rising Star award in 2023 and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship awarded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) five times.
Xuesong Zhou
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Zhou specializes in multimodal transport planning and works on transportation network modeling, railway engineering, intelligent transportation systems and dynamic traffic assignment.