Distinguished Speaker Series
Event Date

October 26, 2017 at 12:00PM - October 26, 2017 at 1:00PM

Location

Maclaurin Buildings
MIT 3-133

Guest Speaker:

Eric Miller, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
University of Toronto

Eric Miller is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Director of the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute.  He is past-Chair of the U.S. Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Travel Behavior and Values, Member Emeritus of the TRB Transportation Demand Forecasting Committee and past-Chair of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research.  He served on the US National Academy of Sciences Committee for Determination of the State of the Practice in Metropolitan Area Travel Forecasting.  He has chaired or been a member of numerous travel demand modelling peer review panels throughout North America.  He is the recipient of the 2009 Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Educator Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the inaugural winner of the University of British Columbia Margolese National Design for Living Award (2012).  He is the developer of GTAModel, a state-of-the-art agent-based microsimulation travel demand forecasting system used by municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

Eric Miller Headshot