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Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
3567 Engineering Building
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 353-7224
Fax: (517) 432-1827
E-Mail: abulebde@egr.msu.edu
Web: http://www.egr.msu.edu/~abulebde/
Courses Taught:
- Traffic Analysis & Control
- Traffic Flow Theory
Recent Research:
- Design of optimal policies for access control on rural arterials.
- Design of traffic control with intelligent speed adaptation.
- Capacity of signalized links with consideration to sink and source traffic.
Interests:
Dr. Abu-Lebdeh's research interests are in the area of traffic control with
focus on control of congested systems, adaptive control, and use of genetic and
neural-based computations and information technologies for design of advanced
control algorithms.
Education:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Ph.D., Transportation Engineering
Awards and Honors:
- Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship 1994-1998.
- Phi Kappa Phi Member, 1995.
- Chi Epsilon Member, 2001.
Selected Publications:
- Ahmed, K., Abu-Lebdeh, G. and Chen, H. (2008): Estimation
of Delay Induced By Downstream Operations at Signalized
Intersections Over Extended Control Time. Proceedings
of the 87th Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting,
Washington, D.C.
- Abu-Lebdeh, G., Chen, H., and Benekohal, R.F. (2007):
Modeling Traffic Output for Design of Dynamic Multi-cycle
Control in Congested Conditions. Journal of Intelligent
Transportation Systems, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 25-40.
- Chen, H., Abu-Lebdeh, G. (2007): Minimizing Speed
Variation and Speed Noise Using Dynamic Speed Control
in Signalized Networks. Proceedings of the 2008
ANNIE Conference.
- Singh, A.K. and Abu-Lebdeh, G. (2007): State Space
Neural Networks for Travel Time Predictions in Signalized
Networks. Proceedings of the 86th Annual Transportation
Research Board Meeting, Washington, D.C.
- Ghanim, M., Dion, F. and Abu-Lebdeh, G. (2007): Artificial
Neural Network Bus Arrival Time Prediction Tool for Transit
Signal Priority with Nearside Bus Stops. Proceedings
of the 86th Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting,
Washington, D.C.
- Ahmed, K, Abu-Lebdeh, G. and Lyles, R.W. (2006): Prediction
of Pavement Distress Index with Limited Data on Causal
Factors: An Autoregression Approach. In International
Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.
23-35.
- Ahmed, K. and Abu-Lebdeh, G. (2005): "Modeling
of Signalized Intersection Delay Induced by Downstream
Traffic Distrubances". In Journal of the Transportation
Research Board, No. 1920, pp. 106-117.
- Taylor, W.C., Abu-Lebdeh, G. and Rai, S. (2005): "Effect
of Continuous Shoulder Rumble Strips and Pavement Marking
on Lateral Placement of Vehicles". In Journal
of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1911, pp.
105-112.
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