Name Country Khandker Nurul Habib Canada Kara Kockelman USA Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian USA Amanda Stathopoulos USA Joan L. Walker USA
Regular Board Member
Name Country Julián Arellana Colombia Camila Balbontín Chile Cynthia Chen USA Joao de Abreu e Silva Portugal Naveen Eluru USA Annesha Enam Bangladesh Domokos Esztergár-Kiss Hungary Tao Feng Japan Angelo Guevara Chile Rico Krueger Denmark Patricia Sauri Lavieri Australia Huyen Le USA Jai Kishan Malik USA Giancarlos Parady Japan Rumana Sarker Australia Atiyya Shaw USA Patrick Singleton USA Aruna Sivakumar UK Brett Smith Australia Amanda Stathopoulos USA
Candidates for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of IATBR
1. Khandker Nurul Habib (Canada) Professor Khandker Nurul Habib is a globally recognized scholar of travel behaviour, activity-based demand modelling, and transport economics at the University of Toronto. For more than two decades, he has combined methodological innovation with impactful partnerships with cities, transit agencies, and industry in Canada and abroad. He has trained a large, diverse cohort of graduate students and early-career researchers, many of whom are now active in IATBR. He has also provided sustained leadership through editorial service, major international research initiatives, and long-standing engagement with TRB committees on travel behaviour and demand forecasting (past Chair of AEP30, ADB10). As Vice-President, he will strengthen IATBR’s global reach, support young scholars from underrepresented regions, and ensure the Association remains the premier home for innovative, inclusive, and policy-relevant travel behaviour research. He brings deep IATBR experience and a strong commitment to transparent, collaborative governance.
2. Kara Kockelman (USA)Kara Kockelman has PhD, MS, and BS degrees in civil engineering, master’s in city planning, and minor in economics from UC Berkeley. UT Austin Professor of transportation engineering for 27 years, and IATBR Board member for 4 years. Courtesy appointments in Public Affairs and Economics, 2025 MIT Mobility Fellow, & Site Director of the NSF Center for Sustainable Transport. Received NSF CAREER Award, Google Research Award, MIT Technology Review Top 100 Award, UC Berkeley Medal, Vulog’s Top 20 Women in Mobility, and various ASCE, RSAI, NARSC, and WTS awards. Served as President of North American Regional Science Association and Chaired UT Austin’s Faculty Women’s Organization. Member of 7 editorial boards and co-author of 240+ journal articles (and two books), with emphasis on SAV operations, forecasting urban systems, energy and transport economics. Her papers have been cited over 37,000 times and pre-prints of all work can be found at her website.
3. Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian (USA)Kouros Mohammadian is a Distinguished Professor of Transportation Systems and head of the Department of Civil, Materials and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago. He also serves as a board member of Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Kouros holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, Canada. His research has covered various areas of transportation planning including travel behavior analysis, travel survey methods, agent-based microsimulation, emerging mobility services, and goods movement and logistics. He is a proud supervisor of 27 PhD graduates and has widely published in academic literature. He is co-editor-in-chief of Transportation Letters and an associate editor of Transportation Research Records. He served as the chair of TRB’s Traveler Behavior and Values committee from 2015 to 2021. Kouros has served IATBR as a board member, conference organizer team member, and jury member.
4. Amanda Stathopoulos (USA) Amanda Stathopoulos is Associate Professor and William Patterson Junior Professorship Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University. Her research advances travel behavior modeling for passenger and freight systems, exploring how individuals, communities, and businesses make mobility and logistics decisions amid technological change and disruptive events. By combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, she develops innovative frameworks and data-collection strategies to understand adoption of new mobility and freight solutions, aiming to design systems that are socially responsible, equitable, and resilient. Amanda is a recognized leader in the travel behavior research community: past member of TRB Standing Committees on Travel Demand Forecasting and Statistical Methods, and Zephyr Foundation Board member. Her work has been supported by NSF, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the Health Effects Institute, including the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. She is deeply committed to mentoring future transportation scholars and fostering inclusive, impactful research.
5. Joan L. Walker (USA) Joan Walker is the T.Y. and Margaret Lin Professor at UC Berkeley, where she currently serves as Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research focuses on travel behavior and data analytics to understand and predict human decision-making, with the goal of improving efficiency, equity, and sustainability in urban mobility. She received her BS from Berkeley and PhD from MIT. She has received the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies Faculty of the Year, the Zephyr Leadership Award, the TRB Kitamura Paper Award, the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the Eric Pas Dissertation Prize. She has served as Chair of TRB’s Committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting, Co- Director of Berkeley’s Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, and Acting Director of Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies. She co-founded the nonprofit Zephyr Foundation, which works to advance travel analysis to improve society.
CandidatesforRegularBoardMembershipofIATBR
1. Julián Arellana (Colombia) Julián Arellana is the Dean of the Engineering College at Universidad del Norte (Colombia) and President of the Colombian Association of Engineering Schools. He holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences (Transportation Engineering) from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and is a Senior Researcher accredited by the Colombian Ministry of Science. His research is centred on travel behaviour analysis, with a strong emphasis on the use of choice experiments and advanced econometric models to understand individual decision-making, value transport externalities, and support evidence-based transport policy, particularly in developing contexts. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, supervised more than 20 graduate students, and led research and consulting projects across Latin America. He has received several international best paper awards, including those from WCTRS (2023) and ANPET (2020, 2022, 2025). He actively collaborates with international research networks, contributing to the advancement of inclusive, policy-relevant, and globally connected travel behaviour research.
2. Camila Balbontín (Chile)Camila Balbontin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). She is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), University of Sydney; Researcher in the Institute of Complex Systems in Engineering and the Centre of Sustainable Urban Development; and, until December 2025, president of the Chilean Society of Transport Engineering. In 2018, she completed her PhD under the supervision of Professor David Hensher where she focused on integrating heuristics and behavioural refinements into travel choice models and was awarded the ITLS prize for Research Excellence in Transport or Logistics 2017. She did her MSc degree at PUC under the supervision of Professor Juan de Dios Ortúzar. Her MSc thesis estimated the valuation of households and neighbourhood attributes in Santiago. Her research focuses on transport demand modelling, discrete choice models, and survey design.
3. Cynthia Chen (USA) Cynthia Chen is a professor in the Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering at University of Washington (UW) and a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences. Cynthia directs the THINK (Transportation–Human Interaction and Network Knowledge) Lab at UW. Her research tackles challenges in mobility and resilience: quantifying biases in big data, developing methods to fuse big and small data, modeling mobility behaviors of individuals and cascading processes on networks, and designing interventions that promote healthier and resilient communities through personalized recommendations and place-based peer-to-peer sharing. Prof. Chen’s scholarship is published in top journals across travel behavior and system engineering, as well as high-impact interdisciplinary journals. Her work has been supported by numerous federal, state, and local agencies. Currently, she serves as an Associate Director of the USDOT-funded National Center for Understanding Future Travel Behavior and Demand (led by UT Austin) and an Associate Editor for Transportation Science.
4. Joao de Abreu e Silva (Portugal) João de Abreu e Silva is an Associate Professor with habilitation in Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. João´s research focuses strongly on the relationships between travel behavior and land use patterns. He has been involved in several research projects related to Sustainable Urban Mobility, Transport Land Use Interactions, Demand Modelling, Data Collection, Intelligent Transport Systems, Social Networks, Telework and Equity, topics in which he has published extensively. He supervised 24 master students and 14 PhD students (plus 4 ongoing). João has also been involved in several international networks, including several TRB committees, WSTLUR, of which he was the chair between 2020 and 2024, and he is currently a board member of ISCTSC (International Steering Committee for the Transport Survey Conference). He is Editor of the Journal of Transport and Land Use.
5. Naveen Eluru (USA) Dr. Naveen Eluru is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. He has contributed to academic and application-oriented research in multiple domains including transportation planning and forecasting, emerging mobility, and safety. He has been a member of the IATBR Eric Pas Dissertation Prize Jury for the submission years 2020 through 2022. He served as the Eric Pas Jury Chair for 2021 and 2022 submissions. He is actively engaged with the transportation community through his editorial service for Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Letters, Analytical Methods in Accident Research and Transportation Research Record. He also serves as a member of the TRB committee on Travel Behavior and Values.
6. Annesha Enam (Bangladesh) Dr. Annesha Enam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). She received her PhD from the University of Connecticut in 2017 – her dissertation was awarded the CUTC Charley V. Wootan Memorial Award for the best dissertation in transportation policy and planning. Following her PhD, Dr. Enam served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory in the Vehicle and Mobility Systems Division and later continued in the same division as a Computational Transportation Engineer until January 2021. During her tenure at Argonne, she received the Argonne Impact Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions toward achieving team objectives. Dr. Enam currently leads a research laboratory at BUET comprising seven postgraduate and five undergraduate students under the Transportation Engineering program. She also serves as an Associate Editor of the Transportation Letters journal.
7. Domokos Esztergár-Kiss (Hungary) Domokos Esztergár-Kiss is a senior research fellow at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). His main research topics are the optimization of multimodal activity chains, the development of Mobility-as-a-Service solutions, and the establishment of workplace mobility plans. He has published 100+ papers in leading journals with Impact Factor, and he is an editorial board member of various journals (e.g. ETRR, TRIP, Travel Behaviour and Society, Journal of Urban Mobility, Transportation, Transportation Letters). Moreover, he has participated in 20+ EU funded projects with a total partner funding of 5 M Euro. He was the main organizer of relevant international conferences (e.g. MT-ITS 2015, EWGT 2017, hEART 2019, and TRA 2026). He is involved in the work of associations, for example as a chair of IEEE HS YP, a vice president and board member of ECTRI, a council member of AET, and a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Davis.
8. Tao Feng (Japan) Tao Feng is a Full Professor at Hiroshima University, leading Urban and Data Science lab. His research interests are urban and transportation planning, particularly behavior modeling and data-driven approaches. Prof. Feng has been involved in various activities in international journals and conferences including an editorial role in Journal of Urban Mobility, Transportation Research Part A. He has obtained multiple national and international projects and published 150+ sci/ssci journal papers.
9. Angelo Guevara (Chile) Angelo Guevara is Full Professor at the Universidad de Chile. He holds a PhD and an MSc in Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as an MSc and a Civil Engineering degree from Universidad de Chile. He is Lead Researcher at the Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería, Research Affiliate at the Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory at MIT, and External Affiliate of the Choice Modelling Centre at the University of Leeds. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Choice Modelling and as an Editorial Board Member of Transportation Research Part B. He has been awarded two Fulbright Fellowships, a Martin Family Fellowship, and a Leverhulme Fellowship, and received an Honorable Mention for the IATBR Eric Pas Dissertation Prize. His main research interests include choice behavior modeling, microeconometrics, value of time, and public transportation, areas in which he has published more than 45 scientific articles.
10. Rico Krueger (Denmark) Rico Krueger is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. His research lies at the intersection of behavioural modelling, machine learning and simulation, with a focus on developing data-driven methods to plan, manage and improve human-centric and sustainable transport systems. He specialises in advanced modelling techniques, algorithmic innovation and novel data collection approaches, including immersive virtual reality, to explain and predict human decision-making in mobility contexts. His work spans travel demand forecasting, multimodal and on-demand transport, emerging mobility technologies, sustainability and health-related outcomes. He received a European Research Council Starting Grant for his project IMMERSION, which investigates decision-making by integrating choice and process data. He currently serves the research community as an Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Prior to joining DTU, he was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL, Switzerland. He holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UNSW Sydney, Australia.
11. Patricia Sauri Lavieri (Australia) Dr. Patricia Sauri Lavieri is a Senior Lecturer (Tenured Assistant Professor) in Transport Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on human-centric aspects of sustainable and smart transportation planning, with an emphasis on the adoption emerging technologies like electric, automated, and shared mobility services. Dr Lavieri’s group is currently examining how automobility will change as cars become major energy assets. With over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and 3,000 citations, Dr. Lavieri has a publication record across leading transportation journals and conferences. She actively collaborates with academics across the globe and has delivered numerous keynotes and invited talks internationally. Her research has been supported by over $4.5 million from sources like the Australian Research Council and industry partners. She has supervised 6 Ph.D. completions, 2 MSc thesis, and over 17 engineering capstone projects. Dr. Lavieri is an active reviewer for leading journals and a member of IATRB.
12. Huyen Le (USA) Currently I'm working as an Associate Professor in Geography and Urban Sustainability at the Ohio State University, USA. I study travel behavior and its intersections with environmental health and equity outcomes. My work spans across a few areas: (1) behavioral, health and equity aspects of energy transition (e.g., electrification); (2) environmental exposure during daily travel; and (3) impacts of information and communications technology on transportation, energy efficiency, and climate. I'm currently serving on the editorial boards of Transport Reviews and Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research. I have been involved in several initiatives to promote the participation and retention of women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups in transportation and geospatial science, such as the American Association of Geography's Transport Geography Specialty group, University Consortium of Geographic Information Science's TRELIS and Golden Compass programs.
13. Jai Kishan Malik (USA) I am a Transport Specialist at the World Bank. I see my current work as a bridge between rigorous choice modeling and global development challenges. My foundation in advanced choice modeling was built at UC Davis and expanded at the University of Michigan, where I demonstrated the universality of our methods by applying them to educational trajectories (PNAS Nexus). Today, at the World Bank, I operationalize this rigor in data-scarce environments (Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Iraq). One relevant example is institutionalizing Call Detail Record data to guide multi-billion-dollar investments. As a Board member, I offer a unique dual perspective: a researcher deeply embedded in the transport scientific community through active engagement as a reviewer for leading journals; and a practitioner capable of expanding IATBR’s reach in the Global South. I can bring new datasets, trends, and policy challenges to our collective research agenda.
14. Giancarlos Parady (Japan) Giancarlos Parady is a lecturer at the University of Tokyo, Department of Urban Engineering. He holds a MSc and PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Tokyo. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on the causal relationship between the built environment and travel accounting for residential self-selection. In 2019 he was a Visiting Lecturer at ETH Zurich, Institute for Transport Planning (IVT) and in 2025 a Global Visiting Professor at the at Technical University of Munich, School of Governance. His research focuses on different aspects of travel behavior including (i) the causal relationship between the built environment and travel, (ii) social networks and group decision-making processes, (iii) the impact of new transportation technologies on short (activity patterns) and mid-to-long term behavior (residential location, mobility tools ownership), and (iv) travel behavior during emergency situations. He is an editorial board member of Travel Behavior and Society.
15. Rumana Sarker (Australia) Dr Rumana Sarker is a travel behaviour researcher with over 10 years of experience in public transport and mobility behaviour research. She is a Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Public Transport Research Group, Monash University. Her research examines how attitudes, perceptions, and lived experiences shape public transport use, focusing on resilience, safety, and social inequality. A defining contribution of her work is advancing gender-sensitive travel behaviour research, particularly women and gender-diverse users’ responses to transit harassment, perceived insecurity, and coping behaviour. She has led and contributed to major government-commissioned studies in Australia and Europe on post-pandemic travel change, work-from-home impacts, service disruptions, and first- and last-mile accessibility. Her research is published in leading journals including Transportation Research Part A, Part C, and Part F, and is regularly presented at conferences e.g., IATBR, TRB, and ATRF. Through IATBR membership, she is keen to support collaboration, mentoring, and policy impact.
16. Atiyya Shaw (USA) Dr. Atiyya Shaw is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and a Faculty Associate in the Institute of Social Research, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Shaw leads the Infrastructure for All (InfrAll) research lab, dedicated to innovating around the data and methods used in behavioral modeling and forecasting. She is also an Associate Director with the National University Transportation Center for Travel Behavior and Demand. Broadly, Dr Shaw's research vision prioritizes people as the most important element of transportation systems, with her team’s research expertise centering on survey design and analysis, passive and big data for transportation modeling, and psychometric and econometric methods for understanding and forecasting behavior.
17. Patrick Singleton (USA) Dr. Patrick Singleton is an Associate Professor of Transportation in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, United States. Patrick’s research focuses on understanding how traveler behaviors are affected by health and wellbeing considerations, including travel satisfaction, subjective well-being, travel time use, physical activity, air pollution, traffic safety, personal security, and disease transmission. He also works in active transportation (monitoring, planning, and safety) and electric/autonomous mobility (adoption). Recently, Patrick has become interested in applying causal inference techniques and contributing to infrastructure that supports open science and knowledge consolidation in the travel behavior field. Professionally, he serves on the editorial board of the Travel Behaviour and Society journal and is a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Pedestrians committee. Patrick enjoys walking, interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration, and (especially) helping to train the next generation of transportation researchers and professionals.
18. Aruna Sivakumar (UK) Aruna Sivakumar is professor of consumer demand modelling and urban systems in the Centre for Transport Engineering and Modelling, and director of the Urban Systems Lab, at Imperial College London. She has over 20 years of experience in transport, energy and urban systems research across the UK, Europe, the US, Africa and Asia. Her research integrates micro-econometric and activity-based models of consumer behaviour with urban and energy systems models, with applications such as shared mobility services, electric vehicle adoption, charging and fleet electrification, and health impacts of transport systems. Aruna has led/co-led several smart city modelling projects funded by EPSRC, ESRC, Innovate UK, Horizon Europe, Shell, SMRT Singapore, and the Singapore NRF. She serves on scientific and policy advisory committees, including for the UK Department for Transport, Transport for London, and the World Conference on Transport Research Society, and is co-chair of the World Symposium on Sustainable Transport and Livability.
19. Brett Smith (Australia) Brett Smith is Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, specialising in micro-economic analysis and choice modelling with a strong applied focus in transport and logistics. Brett’s research spans the adoption of electric and autonomous vehicles, public transport demand, residential location decisions and the economic evaluation of transport policy. He has also contributed to understanding labour conditions and worker rights in app-based ride-share and food-delivery industries. Brett has long-standing association with IATBR, having served on the Eric Pas Prize selection committee and contributed to multiple conferences through chairing sessions and facilitating workshops facilitation. He brings a commitment to strengthening the IATBR community, supporting early-career researchers and advancing rigorous, policy-relevant travel-behaviour research. He would welcome the opportunity to contribute to IATBR’s governance and international impact.
20. Amanda Stathopoulos (USA) Amanda Stathopoulos is Associate Professor and William Patterson Junior Professorship Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University. Her research advances travel behavior modeling for passenger and freight systems, exploring how individuals, communities, and businesses make mobility and logistics decisions amid technological change and disruptive events. By combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, she develops innovative frameworks and data-collection strategies to understand adoption of new mobility and freight solutions, aiming to design systems that are socially responsible, equitable, and resilient. Amanda is a recognized leader in the travel behavior research community: past member of TRB Standing Committees on Travel Demand Forecasting and Statistical Methods, and Zephyr Foundation Board member. Her work has been supported by NSF, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the Health Effects Institute, including the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. She is deeply committed to mentoring future transportation scholars
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