Sandford Fleming Award to Khandker Nurul Habib

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Professor Khandker Nurul Habib

UTTRI associated faculty Professor Khandker Nurul Habib has been awarded the 2020 Sandford Fleming Award by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE).

Professor Habib’s citation for the Sandford Fleming Award is quoted below.

Khandker Nurul Habib has been a professor at the University of Toronto since 2010. Habib received his BSc (2000) and MSc (2002) degrees in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He received his PhD (2007) from the University of Toronto. Before joining the University of Toronto, he served as a Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering of the University of Alberta (2007-2010).

Habib received several awards including Eric Pass Award (Honorable mention) from the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research; Early Researcher Award from Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation; Minister’s Award for (transportation) Process Innovation from Alberta Ministry of Transportation; Pyke Johnson Award and numerous best paper awards as well as certificates of appreciation from the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine; Educational Achievement Award from the Transportation Association of Canada, Trottier Fellowship at the Institut de Energie Trottier in Montreal; Dean’s Merit Pool awards and Percy Edward Hart Professorship from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto.

He serves editorial boards of several top-tier transportation journals and works as an editor of two journals. He is a member of TRB’s standing committees on transportation demand forecasting and travel behaviour analysis.

Areas of Expertise: Strategic transportation planning, travel demand modelling, travel survey methods, transport economics, transport policy, econometric choice modelling, emerging transportation technologies, and smart cities in the era of automated and transformative transportation (on-demand mobility, ride-sourcing and sharing economy).

About the Sandford Fleming Award

The Sanford Fleming Award was established in 1999 to recognize outstanding achievement in the transportation field. It is the pre-eminent award of the Transportation Division of CSCE.

The award criteria include:

  • outstanding contributions of a professional nature and/or in the
    area of education and research;
  • a demonstrated record of service to both the nominee’s organization
    and to CSCE, and;
  • demonstrated innovation and an overall contribution to practice and/or
    education and training and/or research of a lasting nature.

About the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

The CSCE is a not-for-profit learned society created to develop and maintain high standards of civil engineering practice in Canada and to enhance the public image of the civil engineering profession.