
Behzad BamdadTransport & Mobility Leuven
Behzad Bamdad
Ph.D
I am working on Traffic Simulation, Transportation Modelling, and Data Analysis projects
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Introduction
Behzad Bamdad Mehrabani, a Traffic Engineer based in Belgium, excels in addressing transportation and mobility challenges through advanced traffic simulation models. Currently leading several projects at Transport & Mobility Leuven, his work involves developing traffic simulation and travel demand models. With a Ph.D. in Transportation and Mobility from UC Louvain, Belgium, Behzad’s research focuses on enhancing road network resilience in the new mobility era.
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Education
February 2020 - February 2024
Université Catholique de Louvain
Field of study
- Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering
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Publications (16)
Development of large-scale traffic simulation models have always been challenging for transportation researchers. One of the essential steps in developing traffic simulation models, which needs lots of resources, is travel demand modeling. Therefore, proposing travel demand models that require less data than classical travel demand models is highly...
One of the potential capabilities of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) is that they can have different route choice behavior and driving behavior compared to human Driven Vehicles (HDVs). This will lead to mixed traffic flow with multiple classes of route choice behavior. Therefore, it is crucial to solve the multiclass Traffic Assignment Pr...
Evaluating road networks’ performance during and after a disruption and/or malfunction is of great importance. The performance of the road networks includes four concepts: reliability, vulnerability, robustness, and resilience. Among these concepts, the concept of resilience, which evaluates the road network’s performance after a disruption/malfunc...
User equilibrium (UE) and system optimal (SO) are among the essential principles for solving the traffic assignment problem. Many studies have been performed on solving the UE and SO traffic assignment problem; however, the majority of them are either static (which can lead to inaccurate predictions due to long aggregation intervals) or analytical...
Fundamental diagrams (FDs) present the relationship between flow, speed, and density, and give some valuable information about traffic features such as capacity, congested and uncongested situations, and so forth. On the other hand, high accuracy speed-density models can produce more efficient FDs. Although numerous speed-density models are present...
Evaluating road networks' performance during and after a disruption and/or malfunction is of great importance. The performance of the road networks includes four concepts: reliability, vulnerability, robustness, and resilience. Among these concepts, the concept of resilience, which evaluates the road network's performance after a disruption/malfunc...
Road transport is a major source of environmental pollution. Cars and trucks, which are the most common types of vehicles, exhaust a variety of pollutants (e.g., nitrogen oxides and particulate matter) that are detrimental to human health. Research on the ecological impacts of road vehicles has highlighted the importance of reducing pollutant emiss...
In road network resilience studies, network performance is examined when disruption and/or malfunction occurs in the network. Most previous studies have examined network resiliency when a natural disaster (e.g. earthquake, flood, etc.) occurs in the network, and less attention has been paid to network performance when road maintenance sites are bei...
The aim of this research was to predict operating speed by considering geometric and roadside factors. Although most previous studies have employed linear regression modelling (LRM) to predict operating speed, this study recommends structural equation modelling (SEM) for the prediction of operating speed on rural multi-lane highways. In addition to...
Shortly, Automated Vehicles (AV) will be used in urban streets in many countries. On the other hand, many countries are faced with congested problems and are looking for some way to solve congestion problems. Therefore, it is necessary to find the impact of these vehicles on different aspects of transportation planning. In recent years many researc...
Road transport is a major source of environmental pollution. Cars and trucks, which are the most common types of vehicles, exhaust a variety of pollutants (e.g. NOx and PM) that are detrimental to human health. Research on the ecological impacts of road vehicles has highlighted the importance of reducing pollutant emissions. This chapter aims to in...
Operating speed is an index that represents drivers' speeding behaviors on different highways and shows the comfort and safety levels they experience. Many models had been proposed in previous studies to predict operating speed and most of these works had used geometric, with few of them conducted using roadside variables to predict operating speed...
Speed is one of the most important issues that affect rural highways’ safety. Many researchers have reported that an increase in vehicles’ speed is accompanied by the increase of accident severity and probability of accidents occurring. Many models had been presented in previous studies to predict operating speed in four-lane highways. Most of thes...
Speed is one of the main functional factors that affect road safety in terms of both collision occurrence and collision severity. Previous studies have shown that several roadside and geometric features affect road safety and operating speed. This paper aims to evaluate the effects of roadside and geometric features on operating speed and collision...