Committee Chair

Khandker Nurul Habib is the Percy Edward Hart Professor in Civil & Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto. Professor Nurul Habib has extensive research and consulting experiences in transportation engineering and planning. His overall research focus is sustainable transportation planning and policy development. For this, he recognizes that we need a clear understanding of peoples' transportation behaviour and appropriate methodology for capturing such behaviour while forecasting demand for transportation infrastructure or results of any transportation and land-use policies. For his pioneering contribution in these areas, he received many awards and accolades. These include the "Eric Pass Award (honorable mention)" from the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR); "Pyke Johnson Award" from Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, USA; "Early Researcher Award" from the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation (MEDI) Ontario; "Minister's Award of Excellent in Process Innovation" from Alberta Ministry of Transportation; "Percy Edward Hart professorship" from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering of the University of Toronto and "Sandford Flemming Award" from the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE). Professor Habib servers as an Editorial Adviser to the journal "Transportation", "Transportmetrica A", an Editor of the journal "Transportation Research Records" and an Associate Editor of the journal "Transportation Letters". He is a member of two standing committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). These are "AEP30: Traveler Behavior and Values"; and "AEP50: Travel Demand Forecasting". He served the Committee, "ADB20: ICT and Transportation" for 10 years (2010 to 2020). He served as the "Committee Research Coordinator (CRR)" and "Paper Review Coordinator" of AEP30(former ADB10) for five years (2016 to 2021)