Mehrnaz Ghamami
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), College of Engineering
1460 Middlevale Rd Ste 172B
Biography
Dr. Mehrnaz Ghamami is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Ghamami’s research is focused on transportation systems analysis, with applications in sustainable transportation, transit operations and travel reliability. She has developed a comprehensive modeling framework for analyzing various policy and planning issues related to plugin electric vehicles. ... She has also conducted research on urban travel reliability using consumer GPS data (funded by Transportation Research Board) and operational reliability of bus routes for Chicago Transit Authority (funded by Center for Commercialization of Innovative Transportation Technology).
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Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University 2015
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University 2015
B.S., Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology 2008
Awards
Recognition of Outstanding Subcommittee Leadership and Paper Review Coordination (AMS30) (2024)
Recognition of Outstanding Subcommittee Leadership and Paper Review Coordination (AMS30) (2023)
Recognition for Leadership Integrating Travel Demand and Energy Committee (ADB40) (2019)
Walter & Pauline Adams Academy of Instructional Excellence and Innovation Fellow The academy advocates for instructional innovation, and 12 fellows are selected each year. The selection is based on instructional excellence. The academy was a one-year commitment to learning new teaching techniques, finding applications for each technique, and discussing the challenges (2019)
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Kavianipour, M., Verbas, O., Rostami, A., Soltanpour, A.*, Gurumurthy, K. M., Ghamami, M., & Zockaie, A. (2023). Deploying Fast Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles in Urban Networks: An Activity-Based Approach. Transportation Research Record, 03611981231189742.
Singh, H.*, Kavianipour, M., Ghamami, M., & Zockaie, A., (2023). Adoption of autonomous and electric vehicles in private and shared mobility systems, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Vol. 115, 103561.
Kavianipour, M., Mozafari, H.*, Kamjoo, E., Zockaie, A., Ghamami, M., Jackson, R. (2023). Effects of electric vehicle adoption for state-wide intercity trips on emission saving and energy consumption, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 17(8), 883-896.
Kamjoo, E., Saedi, R., Zockaie, A., Ghamami, M., Gates, T., & Talebpour, A., (2023). Developing Car-Following Models for Winter Maintenance Operations Incorporating Machine Learning Methods, Transportation Research Record, 2677(2), 519-540.
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