Benjamin Coifman

Associate Professor

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Eng., 1998
• M.Eng., University of California, Berkeley, Electrical Eng. and Computer Science, 1998
• M.S., University of California, Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Eng., 1995
• B.S., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Electrical Engineering, 1992

Research Interests

• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Traffic Surveillance
• Traffic Control
• Traffic Flow Theory
• Driver Dynamics
• Application of advanced technologies to transportation problems

Publications and Data Sets

In the Press

Honors and Awards

• ITS America - Award for The Best ITS Research in 2000.
• NSF CAREER award, "Traffic congestion on freeways: using probe vehicle data to understand bottlenecks and mitigate the resulting problems", October 2002.
• OSU College of Engineering Lumley Research Award (Individual), 2004
• OSU Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award with M. McCord, R. Mishalani, and P. Goel for Remote Sensing and Traffic Monitoring Applications in Transportation Systems, 2004.

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