School of Engineering

Jose Holguin-Veras
Professor
http://www.rpi.edu/~holguj2/

Department Affiliation:

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Education:

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Transportation

M.S., Universidad Central de Venezuala
Transportation

B.S., Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo
Civil Engineering

Background:

Academic:

• Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (since July 2002) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (2001-2002) The City College of New York
• Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (1998-2001), The City College of New York.
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York (1997)
• Visiting Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (1996-1997)

Administrative:

• Deputy Director, Transportation Planning Directorate, Ministry of Public Works, 1986-1987
• Head of the Transportation Planning Department, Ministry of Public Works, 1984-1986
• Head of the Special Studies Unit, Ministry of Public Works, January 1981-August 1984

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Research Interests:

Research:

• "Dynamic Game Theoretic Models for Urban Freight Systems" (National Science Foundation CMS-0324380); August 2003-July 2005; Professors Terry Friesz and Warren Powell, Co-PIs
• "Impacts of Extreme Events: A Systematic Analysis of Individual Travel Choice Decisions" (National Science Foundation; CMS-0301391, May 2003-October 2004; Professors Robert Paaswell and Chandra Bhat are Co-PIs.
• "Evaluation Study of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's Value Pricing Initiative" (Federal Highway Administration Value Pricing Program; January 1, 2002 , August, 2005).
• "Evaluation Study of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority's Value Pricing Initiative" (Federal Highway Administration Value Pricing Program; January 1, 2002 , August, 2005).
• "Potential for Off-Peak Deliveries to Commercial Areas" (New York State Department of Transportation) with George List, Jorge Haddock and John Polimeni.
• "Impacts of Extreme Events on Passenger Travel Behavior" (Professor R. Paaswell is Co-Principal Investigator) (National Science Foundation; April 1, 2002 , March 31, 2003.
• Synthesis of Freight Origin-Destination Matrices from Intelligent Transportation Systems Data (CAREER Award) (National Science Foundation, March 2001- February 2006) (Principal Investigator)
• Integrative Freight Market Simulation (Principal Investigator). (National Science Foundation, September 2000- August 2002).
• New Jersey's Link to the 21st Century: Maximizing the Impact of Infrastructure Investment (New Jersey Department of Transportation), 2000-2002 (Principal Investigator).
• Human Factors in Nighttime Construction Zones (Principal Investigator) (New Jersey Department of Transportation, October 2000-February 2001).
• Strategic Plan for the Development of the Regional Freight Model (New York Metropolitan Transportation Council), 2000 (Principal Investigator).
• Operational Evaluation of the Integrated Incident Management System (IIMS) (New York State Department of Transportation), 2000-2001 (Principal Investigator).
• Trip Generation at Container Terminals (PSC-CUNY), 1999-2000
• Range of Applicability of Priority Systems, 1995-1996.
• Landside Terminal Priority Systems for Intermodal Containers, 1994-1995.
• Assessment of the Tradeoffs Among Container Handling Technologies, 1991-1993.

Professor Holguin-Veras’s research emphasizes: the integration of state of the art economic principles into transportation modeling, so that a complete picture could be developed on the broader impacts of transportation activity on the economy and the environment; and the study of the behavior of the participating agents to support sustainable policies. His work includes a broad spectrum of research tracks ranging from: basic research on transportation modeling, research on the behavioral responses of agents to pricing and other sustainable policies, research on simplified modeling techniques, i.e., to estimate demand using secondary data. The latter techniques are bound to benefit developing countries because they minimize the need for expensive data collection efforts.

His leadership positions at key international research organizations include: Vice-President for Logistics of the Pan-American Conferences of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Elected Member of the Council for the Association for European Transport, member of the International Organizing Committee of the City Logistics Conferences, member of three Technical Committees and invitational Task Forces on freight modeling at the Transportation Research Board. He is member of a number of editorial boards, Review Chair for freight transportation at the Transportation Research Board, and Transportation Editor at Networks and Spatial Economics.

Holguin-Veras is the author of dozens of articles on transportation modeling and economics.