Dr. Vikash V. Gayah is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, where he also serves as the Interim Director of the Larson Transportation Institute. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Central Florida and his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Gayah’s research focuses on urban mobility, traffic operations, traffic flow theory, traffic safety and non-motorized transportation. His research approach includes a combination of analytical models, micro-simulations and empirical analysis of transportation data. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, over 100 refereed conference proceedings, and numerous research reports to sponsors. He has worked on research contracts valued at more than $19 million, sponsored by various State Departments of Transportation (including Pennsylvania, Washington State, Montana, South Dakota and North Carolina), US Department of Transportation (via the Mineta National Transit Research Consortium, the Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center, and the Center for Integrated Asset Management for Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure Systems), Federal Highway Administration, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, and National Science Foundation.
Dr. Gayah currently serves as an editorial advisory board member of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies and Accident Analysis and Prevention, an editorial board editor of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, an associate editor for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (an international peer-reviewed journal), a handling editor for the Transportation Research Record. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committee on Access Management (ACP60) and Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (ACP50), the latter of which he serves as the committee research coordinator and a paper review coordinator, and also serves as a paper review coordinator for the TRB Safety Performance and Analysis Committee (ACS20). He has been recognized with multiple awards for his research and teaching activities, including the Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship, Gordon F. Newell Award for Excellence in Transportation Science, University of California Transportation Center Student of the Year Award, New Faculty Award by the Council of University Transportation Centers, multiple Transportation Research Board outstanding paper awards (including the Cunard, Fred Burggraf and D. Grant Mickle awards, as well as the from Standing Committee on Safety Performance and Analysis(ACS20)), Harry West Teaching Award by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, both the Outstanding and Premier Teaching Awards by the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society, and the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award by the National Science Foundation.