Khandker Nurul Habib is the Percy Edward Hart Professor in Civil & Mineral Engineering at the University of Toronto. Professor Khandker Nurul Habib completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto (CIV PhD 0T7). After finishing his PhD, he joined the University of Alberta as an assistant professor in civil engineering. He worked for the University of Alberta from 2008 to 2010 and was responsible for re-building the graduate program in transportation engineering. He moved to Toronto to join his Alma Mater in 2010. Currently, he is leading the research programs in sustainable transportation planning, demand modelling and travel survey methods (the Travel Demand Modelling Group: TDMG) at the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI) of the civil engineering department. 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 a number of national and international awards. These include “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 Fleming 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 the member of two standing Committees of Transportation Research Board (TRB): AEP30: Travel Behavior and Values and AEP50: Travel Demand Forecasting. He served on the committee of ADB20: ICT and Transportation for 10 years (2010 to 2020). He served as the Committee Research Coordinator (CRR) and Paper Review Coordinator of AEP30 (formerly ADB10) for 5 years (2016 to 2021). He is the current chair of AEP30: Traveler Behaviour and Values.

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