Transportation and Freight Security

Hani S. Mahmassani - director, Maryland Transportation Initiative and Charles Irish Sr. Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland Expertise: intelligent transportation systems; real-time routing and tracking of freight; real-time traffic estimation and prediction; evacuation planning; multi-modal transportation analysis; transport system modeling and optimization; transportation infrastructure engineering; estimating transportation behavior; telecommuting; bicycle transportation behavior

Credentials: founding director of the Maryland Transportation Initiative - a new cross-disciplinary institute for transportation systems research and education; chaired various committees for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies; editor-in-chief of Transportation Science; past president, Transportation Science Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences; immediate past president, International Association of Travel Behavior Research; published numerous refereed articles, conference proceedings and technical reports; principal investigator on numerous research projects; industry and government consultant in the areas of transportation modeling, operations, logistics and intelligent transportation systems
Contact: 301-405-0221 (office); masmah@umd.edu; or Lee Tune, 301-405-4679 (office), 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.mti.umd.edu/mahmassani/

Ali Haghani - professor of transportation engineering and chair, civil and environmental engineering, University of Maryland
Expertise: real-time transportation system tracking and routing; real-time routing of emergency response crews; transportation system analysis and modeling; logistics and carrier operations

Credentials: member National Academies' Transportation Research Board (TRB); chairs TRB Transport Network Modeling Committee; published numerous research articles including Testing and Evaluation of a Multi-Commodity, Multi-Modal Network Flow Model for Disaster Relief Management (co-author)
Contact: 301-405-1963 (office); haghani@eng.umd.edu; or Lee Tune, 301-405-4679 (office), 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.cee.umd.edu/annualreport/1997/haghani.html

William J. Lahneman - program coordinator, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, University of Maryland School of Public Affairs
Expertise: maritime security; counterterrorism; national and international security; future of intelligence analysis; training future intelligence analysts

Credentials: coordinates Maryland's National Intelligence Council Project, providing a liaison between the intelligence community, academia and other nongovernmental sources; Commander, U.S. Navy (retired), served on a number of combatant ships; consultant on maritime security issues
Contact: 301-405-7602 (office); 410-741-5905 (home); lahneman@umd.edu
Web site: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/lahnemanm.html