Congratulations to Simita Biswas for successfully defending her PhD dissertation 

Simita Biswas successfully defended her PhD dissertation on June 13, 2024.

Dissertation Title:

Towards Strategic and Sustainable Region-wide Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) Network Planning and Management

Dissertation Description:

RWIS is a popular highway intelligent transportation system (ITS) infrastructure, that provides critical road weather data which is widely usedby road maintenance authorities to make operational decisions aimed at improving transportation safety and mobility in winter region country. My Ph.D. research aimed at developing a comprehensive and generalizable methodological framework for the strategic planning and management of RWIS networks. The framework was developed by utilizing large-scale datasets from diverse North American regions, considering the spatiotemporal characteristics of road weather and surface conditions. Network planning solutions derived from my research are conveniently implemented for real-world applications. 

A part of the research output was also integrated into LoRWIS (https://sites.google.com/view/lorwis/states/Maine), a prototype web-based RWIS location visualization platform for demonstrating the resulting solutions.

Committee Members:

Dr. Tae. J. Kwon (Supervisor), Dr. Stephen Wong (Supervisory Committee Member), Dr. Karim El-Basyouny (Supervisory Committee Member), Dr. Yong Li (Examiner), Dr. Alex Klein Paste (Examiner), and Dr. Hassan Dehghanpour Hossein Abadi (Chair)