Dr. Paul P. Jovanis
Professor Emeritus
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Penn State University |
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| Research | Courses | Vitae |
Primary Research Interests
Advanced traveler information systems; motor carrier safety; intelligent
transportation systems and services.
Specific Research Topics
Transportation system safety
o models of accident occurrence
o safety consequences and risk perception of in-vehicle technologies
o driver fatigue and motor carrier safety
Transportation system operations
o intersection capacity analysis
o traffic signal and freeway entry control strategies
Courses Taught at Penn State
University
C E 300, The Civil Engineering Profession
C E 597, Intelligent Transportation Systems
Professional Service
Electrical Engineer, Federal Highway Administration. (1974-1975)
Taught courses in computerized traffic, signal control with particular
emphasis on
street hardware and communications, software control logic and operations.
Referee for:
o Transportation Research
o Transportation Research Board
o National Cooperative Highway Research Program
o Accident Analysis and Prevention
Education
1980 Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,
majoring in Transportation Engineering
1976 M.S.,Civil Engineering, University of Maryland, majoring in
Transportation Engineering
1969 B.E., Electrical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
Experience
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, (7/2001 -
present
Department Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA., (9/97-7/2001)
Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Davis, CA., (1/97-8/97).
Associate Director, Institute of Transportation Studies,
University of California, Davis, CA., (10/92-8/97)
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Institute
of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, (7/90-8/97)
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Institute
of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, CA., (9/88-7/90)
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, (1/86-9/88)
Joint Appointee, Faculty Affiliate (1981-1983), Transportation Center,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, (9/83-9/88)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois, (1/80-12/85)
Sperry Systems Management. Member of engineering team responsible
for installation, operation and maintenance of the UTCS computerized
traffic control system in Washington, D.C. Supervised installation
of street hardware;
responsible for system operation, software maintenance and updating.
Conducted field studies of transit operations for Bus Priority System.
(6/69-8/74)
Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley. Developed
models for freeway and arterial traffic analysis. Modeled travel impacts
of flexible work hours. (9/76-12/79)
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland. Developed
computer simulation model of traffic flow in vehicular tunnels. (8/74-8/76)
Professional Memberships
Transportation Research Board, Member
World Conference on Transportation Research
Co-chair of Special Interest Group on Safety Policy
Recent Publications
Srinivasan, K., I. Chen, P. Reddy, and P. P. Jovanis, Pre-Trip Information
Systems (PTIS): An Investigation Into Users' Information Acquisition
Process, In Review, Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting,
January 1999.
M. Abdel-Aty and P. Jovanis, A Survey of the Elderly: Assessment of their Travel Characteristics, Transportation Research Record (forthcoming), Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. January 1998.
M. Abdel-Aty and P. Jovanis, Modeling Incident-Related Routing Decisions Including Effect of Traffic Information Using Nested Logit Structure, Transportation Research Record (forthcoming), Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. January 1998
Kitamura, R. P. Jovanis, M. Abdel-Aty, K. Vaughn, P. Reddy, "Effect of Pre-trip and En-route information on Driver Route Choice", chapter in book, Impact of Traveler Information Systems on Driver Behaviour and Network Performance, (In Press) edited by P. Nijkamp and R. Emmerink, 1998.
Srinivasan, R. and P.P. Jovanis, "Effect of Selected In-Vehicle Route Guidance Systems on Driver Reaction Times", Human Factors, Special Section: Intelligent Transportation Systems, Volume 39, Number 2, p 200-215, June 1997.
Jovanis, P.P., J. Campbell, K. Klaver, and W.H. Chen, "Driver Preferences for Visual and Auditory Collision Warning Alerts", Proceedings of the Fourth ITS International Congress, Berlin, October 1997 (published on Congress Compact Disk).
Srinivasan, K. and P.P. Jovanis. "Estimating the Number of Probe Vehicles Required for Effective Monitoring of Network Travel Conditions," Transportation Research Record 1537, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, pp. 15-22, 1997.
Abdel-Aty, M., R. Kitamura and P. P. Jovanis. "Investigating the Effect of Advanced Traveler Information on Commuters' Tendancy to Use Transit," Transportation Research Record . In Press, 1995.
Srinivasan, R. and P.P. Jovanis. "Effect of In-Vehicle Driver Information Systems on Driver Workload and Choice of Vehicle Speed: Findings from a Driving Simulator Experiment". Ergonomics and Safety of Intelligent Driver Interfaces (Ed. I.A. Noy), Book Series: Human Factors in Transportation. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997, pp. 97-114. Abdel-Aty, M.,
P. P. Jovanis and R. Kitamura. "The Impact of Advanced Transit Information on Commuters Mode Changing." ITS Journal Vol. 3 (2), pp. 129-146, 1996.
Abdel-Aty, M.A., R. Kitamura and P.P. Jovanis. "Investigating the Effect of Travel Time Variability on Route Choice Using Repeated-Measurement Stated Preference Data," Transportation Research Record 1493, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, pp. 39-45, 1995.
Abdel-Aty, M.A., R. Kitamura, P.P. Jovanis, P.D. Reddy, and K.M. Vaughn. "A New Approach to Route Choice Data Collection: Multi-Phase, CATI Panel Surveys Using a Geographical Information System Database," Transportation Research Record 1493, Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, pp. 159-169, 1995.