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About Eric I. Pas (1948-1997)
HIS LIFE AND PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Eric Pas was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and received his Bachelor and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Cape Town. He proceeded to earn his doctorate from Northwestern University in 1980, and subsequently began teaching at Duke University.
Eric's primary teaching and research interests were in the areas of activity-travel pattern analysis, time-use research, and travel demand modeling and forecasting. He was the author or co-author of more than 60 papers in the area of travel demand analysis and urban transportation planning. He served as an advisor to Federal, State, and Metropolitan Planning Organizations. He chaired the Transportation Research Board's Task Force on Transportation Modeling Research Needs and the Board’s Committee on Passenger Travel Demand Forecasting during the 1990s. Eric also served for several years on the editorial boards of Transportation, Transportation Research A, and the Journal of Advanced Transportation, and he was a member of the Executive Board of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research.
Eric was among those who laid the foundations for, and contributed substantially toward, advanced research topics in the activity-based modeling approach to travel demand analysis. He strived to integrate developments in the social sciences, such as those in time use research, sociology, psychology and micro-economic theory, with transportation behavior analysis. He took it upon himself to assess and reflect, on a periodic basis, the developments in the field of travel behavior and time-use analysis. In doing so, he focused on how recent developments fit within the larger framework of human activity behavior and, sometimes, questioned in a constructive manner some of the directions of the current research. His periodic reflections became synonymous with wafts of refreshing intellectual breeze, providing new directions for research and spurring more creative work in the field.
Eric was also a truly gifted educator. Students at Duke University voted him to be the recipient of the Earl I. Brown II Outstanding Civil Engineering Faculty Award in 1983 and the School of Engineering Faculty Teaching Award in 1989. Eric was the Civil Engineering Department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies from 1991 to 1995.
In addition to his own direct contributions to the travel behavior field, Eric contributed to the field by shaping, influencing and encouraging the work of several other colleagues and students. The IATBR Board decided to constitute the Eric Pas Dissertation Prize in 1998 as a way to keep his memory alive and recognize the best dissertation each year in the field of travel behaviour research.
(The pictures are of Eric Pas at IATBR 1997, the last IATBR conference that would be graced by the presence of Eric. The conference took place just six months before he would pass away.)
Eric Pas was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and received his Bachelor and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Cape Town. He proceeded to earn his doctorate from Northwestern University in 1980, and subsequently began teaching at Duke University.
Eric's primary teaching and research interests were in the areas of activity-travel pattern analysis, time-use research, and travel demand modeling and forecasting. He was the author or co-author of more than 60 papers in the area of travel demand analysis and urban transportation planning. He served as an advisor to Federal, State, and Metropolitan Planning Organizations. He chaired the Transportation Research Board's Task Force on Transportation Modeling Research Needs and the Board’s Committee on Passenger Travel Demand Forecasting during the 1990s. Eric also served for several years on the editorial boards of Transportation, Transportation Research A, and the Journal of Advanced Transportation, and he was a member of the Executive Board of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research.
Eric was among those who laid the foundations for, and contributed substantially toward, advanced research topics in the activity-based modeling approach to travel demand analysis. He strived to integrate developments in the social sciences, such as those in time use research, sociology, psychology and micro-economic theory, with transportation behavior analysis. He took it upon himself to assess and reflect, on a periodic basis, the developments in the field of travel behavior and time-use analysis. In doing so, he focused on how recent developments fit within the larger framework of human activity behavior and, sometimes, questioned in a constructive manner some of the directions of the current research. His periodic reflections became synonymous with wafts of refreshing intellectual breeze, providing new directions for research and spurring more creative work in the field.
Eric was also a truly gifted educator. Students at Duke University voted him to be the recipient of the Earl I. Brown II Outstanding Civil Engineering Faculty Award in 1983 and the School of Engineering Faculty Teaching Award in 1989. Eric was the Civil Engineering Department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies from 1991 to 1995.
In addition to his own direct contributions to the travel behavior field, Eric contributed to the field by shaping, influencing and encouraging the work of several other colleagues and students. The IATBR Board decided to constitute the Eric Pas Dissertation Prize in 1998 as a way to keep his memory alive and recognize the best dissertation each year in the field of travel behaviour research.
(The pictures are of Eric Pas at IATBR 1997, the last IATBR conference that would be graced by the presence of Eric. The conference took place just six months before he would pass away.)
Dissertation Prize Selection Committees
2013: Junyi Zhang (Chair), ...
2012: Cynthia Chen (Chair), Junyi Zhang, ...
2011: Michel Bierlaire (Chair), Cynthia Chen, Junyi Zhang, ...
2010: Theo Arentze (Chair), Michel Bierlaire, Cynthia Chen, ...
2009: Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian (Chair),Theo Arentze, Michel Bierlaire, ....
2008: Shlomo Bekhor (Chair), Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, Theo Arentze, ...
2007: Harry Timmermans (Chair), Shlomo Bekhor, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, Ram Pendyala, ...
2006: Sean Doherty (Chair), Harry Timmermans, Shlomo Bekhor, Ram Pendyala, Hani Mahmassani, John Polak, Michel Bierlaire, Satoshi Fujii, Kai Nagel, Charles Raux, Geert Wets
2005: Gerd Sammer (Chair), Sean Doherty, Ram Pendyala, Kay Axhausen, Michael Bell, Peter Bonsall, Martin Lee-Gosselin, Jean-Loup Madre, Andres Monzon, Kai Nagel, Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Tomas Sanchez, Peter Stopher
2004: Anthony Richardson (Chair), Gerd Sammer, Sean Doherty, ...
2003: Eric Miller (Chair), Anthony Richardson, Geoff Rose, Peter Bonsall, Theo Arentze, Ram Pendyala
2002: Tommy Garling (Chair), Eric Miller, Anthony Richardson, ...
2001: Sergio Jara-Diaz (Chair), Tommy Garling, Eric Miller, ...
2000: Patricia Mokhtarian (Chair), Sergio Jara-Diaz, Tommy Garling, Eric Miller, Taka Morikawa
1999: Peter Jones (Chair), Patricia Mokhtarian, Sergio Jara-Diaz, Kay Axhausen, Ryuichi Kitamura
1998: Hani Mahmassani (Chair), Peter Jones, Patricia Mokhtarian, Sergio Jara-Diaz, Ryuichi Kitamura
2012: Cynthia Chen (Chair), Junyi Zhang, ...
2011: Michel Bierlaire (Chair), Cynthia Chen, Junyi Zhang, ...
2010: Theo Arentze (Chair), Michel Bierlaire, Cynthia Chen, ...
2009: Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian (Chair),Theo Arentze, Michel Bierlaire, ....
2008: Shlomo Bekhor (Chair), Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, Theo Arentze, ...
2007: Harry Timmermans (Chair), Shlomo Bekhor, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, Ram Pendyala, ...
2006: Sean Doherty (Chair), Harry Timmermans, Shlomo Bekhor, Ram Pendyala, Hani Mahmassani, John Polak, Michel Bierlaire, Satoshi Fujii, Kai Nagel, Charles Raux, Geert Wets
2005: Gerd Sammer (Chair), Sean Doherty, Ram Pendyala, Kay Axhausen, Michael Bell, Peter Bonsall, Martin Lee-Gosselin, Jean-Loup Madre, Andres Monzon, Kai Nagel, Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Tomas Sanchez, Peter Stopher
2004: Anthony Richardson (Chair), Gerd Sammer, Sean Doherty, ...
2003: Eric Miller (Chair), Anthony Richardson, Geoff Rose, Peter Bonsall, Theo Arentze, Ram Pendyala
2002: Tommy Garling (Chair), Eric Miller, Anthony Richardson, ...
2001: Sergio Jara-Diaz (Chair), Tommy Garling, Eric Miller, ...
2000: Patricia Mokhtarian (Chair), Sergio Jara-Diaz, Tommy Garling, Eric Miller, Taka Morikawa
1999: Peter Jones (Chair), Patricia Mokhtarian, Sergio Jara-Diaz, Kay Axhausen, Ryuichi Kitamura
1998: Hani Mahmassani (Chair), Peter Jones, Patricia Mokhtarian, Sergio Jara-Diaz, Ryuichi Kitamura
