AV俱乐部

 

DalTRAC

Faculty

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Ahsan Habib, PhD

Professor and Director
AV俱乐部 Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC)
School of Planning, and Department of Civil听and Resource Engineering (cross)

Phone: 902-494-3209
Email:听ahsan.habib@dal.ca

Biography

Ahsan Habib is a transportation professor at AV俱乐部. He received a PhD degree in civil engineering from the University of Toronto in 2009. He held a professional position at the Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)prior to joining AV俱乐部 in 2010. He is the founder of the AV俱乐部 Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC) under the Leaders Opportunity Grant program of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). His research interests include travel behavior analysis, travel demand forecasting, and the microsimulation of urban systems. Dr. Habib believes multi-modal mobility options are the key to ensuring sustainability for Canadian cities.

Education

2005 鈥� 2009 PhD (Transportation Engineering and Planning)
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto

2004 鈥� 2005 Master of Applied Science (transferred to the PhD Program) Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto

2002鈥�2004 Master of Urban and Regional Planning
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, BUET, Dhaka

1996鈥�2002 Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, BUET, Dhaka

Research Interests

  • Travel Behaviour Analysis
  • Travel Demand Forecasting
  • Integrated Transportation, Land Use and Energy Modeling
  • Transport Data Collection and Survey Methods
  • Microsimulation of Urban Systems
  • Transportation Planning and Policy
  • Sustainability Indicators and Issues in Transportation
  • Road Safety and Collision Analysis
  • Transportation in Developing Countries

Major Grants
Climate Action Awareness Fund (CAAF), "Development of a Bottom-Up, Activity-Based Transport Network and Emissions Modelling System", Awarded (PI: Dr. Habib)
NSERC Discovery Grant,听鈥淒eveloping Longitudinal Bottom-up Models of Land Use, Transport and Energy Use鈥�, Awarded (PI: Dr. Habib)
The Province of Nova Scotia, NS DoE, 鈥淪ustainable Transportation 听 Indicators: Transportation Data Collection and Modelling鈥�, Awarded (PI: Dr. Habib)
Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF),听Canada Foundation for听Innovation (CFI), 鈥淎V俱乐部 Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC) Infrastructure Project鈥�, (funding partners: NSRIT and HRM), Awarded (PI: Dr. Habib)
The Province of Nova Scotia, NS DoE, 鈥淭ransportation Data Collection and Modelling Centre for Sustainable Transportation Planning鈥�, Awarded (PI: Dr. Habib)
SSHRC Insight Grants, 鈥淐oordinating Land Use Planning in the Context of Multiple Plans鈥�, Awarded, (PI: Dr. Grant, [AV俱乐部]; Co-PIs: Drs. Habib, Manuel & Rapaport [AV俱乐部] and听 Dr. Filion [Waterloo])