Time: 2:00PM on June 19, 2010 (Saturday)

Venue：Shunde Building N-510

Speaker: Dr. Joseph Sussman

Topic: The Future of High-Speed Rail

Host: Dr. Hai Jiang

Dr. Joseph M. Sussman is  the JR East Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division at MIT, where he has served as a faculty member for 38 years. He is the author of “ Introduction to Transportation Systems ”, a graduate text, in use at a number of universities in the U.S. and abroad. Sussman received the Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award from TRB, and the CUTC Award for Distinguished Contribution to University Transportation Education and Research from the Council of University Transportation Centers in 2003.

Dr. Sussman specializes in the study of Complex, Large-Scale, Interconnected, Open, Sociotechnical (CLIOS) Systems and he has developed the CLIOS Process to study such systems. He has focused recently on developing a new methodology for regional strategic transportation planning, integrating ideas from strategic management, scenario-building, and technology architectures, and applying it to cases in the U.S. and abroad. Currently his work in the CLIOS area deals with transportation, technology and sustainability in Mexico City; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Portugal. Dr. Sussman also has worked extensively on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), helping to build the U.S. national program and develop an “intelligent corridor” in Bangkok. He has developed a comparison of ITS programs in Western Europe, Japan and the U.S. and helped develop regional ITS architectures in the U.S. His research in both freight and passenger railroads focuses on service reliability, rail operations, maintenance, high-speed rail, and risk assessment.

Looking forward to your presence.