Dr. Habibollah Nassiri

Associate Professor
and Chairman
Civil Engineering Department,
Sharif University of Technology,
Tehran, Iran.

Contact Information

Room: #503- Civil Department Office

Phone: +98 (21) 6616- 4201,02
Fax: +98 (21)6601-4828

address: P.O.Box 11155-4313
Azadi Ave.
431 Civil Engineering Department
Sharif University of Technology,
Tehran, Iran 1458889696

Email: nassiri@sharif.edu

Home Page: http://sharif.edu/~nassiri

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

PHD 1989 Texas A&M University, College Station TX., U.S.A.
MSC 1981 Auburn University, Auburn, AL., U.S.A.
BSC 1979 Auburn University, Auburn, AL., U.S.A.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Date Position Place City-Country
2003-present Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran
1994-2002 Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran

Positions

2013-Present Chairman of Civil Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2012-2013 Chairman for Education, Civil Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2001-2007 Transportation Engineering Division Head, Civil Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
1997-2000 Chairman for Education, Civil Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Society Membership

National Civil Engineering Honor Society, Chi Epsilon

Research Interests

Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering
Highway Design & Safety
Traffic Monitoring

Projects & Activities

2006 Identification of High Accident Locations on Rural Highways, (In Farsi)
2005 Analysis of Vehicle Operating Costs at Construction Zones (In Farsi)
2004 Simulation of Vehicle Delays at Electronic Toll ways (In Farsi)
2003 Modeling Vehicle Delay Distributions at Signalized Intersections (In Farsi)
2002 Highway Traffic Noise Modeling (In Farsi)
2001 Evaluation of Traffic Operation at Roundabouts (In Farsi)
2000 Evaluation and Analysis of Accidents on Highway Performance, (In Farsi)
1999 Left-Turn Adjustment Factor for Permitted Phasing at Signalized Intersections, (In Farsi)
1998 Warrants for Traffic Signal Design at Intersections, (In Farsi)
1997 Evaluation & Design of Street Lighting (In Farsi)
1996 Analysis of Driver Behavior at the Onset of the Yellow Interval at Signalized Intersection, (In Farsi)

Journals

Adverse effect of red light violation (RLV) in urban intersections in Iran, December 2017, Pending Publication.

Delay-based Passenger car equivalent at signalized intersections in Iran, PROMET, December 2017, Pending publication.

Optimization of maintenance costs on two-lane highways, Rafegh Aghamohamadi, Habibollah Nassiri, Journal of Transportation Technology (In Farsi), Sep. 23, 2015.

Reliability of Tehran Transportation Network during Earthquake, Kaveh Shabani, Habibollah Nassiri, Scientia Iranica, Vol. 23, Number 4, August 2016. pp. 1618-1626.

Habibollah Nassiri, Pouya Najaf, and Amir Mohamadian Amiri "Prediction of Roadway Accident Frequencies: Count Regressions versus Machine Learning Models” Scientia Iranica, Vol. 21, Number 2, 2014, pp. 263-275.

Ali Edrissi, Hossain Poorzahedy, Habibollah Nassiri, and Mehdi Nourinejad, “A multi-agent Optimization Formulation of Earthquake Disaster Prevention and Management” European Journal of Operation Research, Vol. 229, 2013, pp. 261-275.

Ali Edrissi, Habibollah Nassiri, and Ali Babaei, “Estimation of the Logit Model for the Online Contra Flow Problem, Transport, Vol. 25, Number 4, pp. 433-441.

Ali Rezaei, Sean Puckett, Habibollah Nassiri “ Hetergenity in Preferences of Air Travel Itinerary in a Low Frequency Market, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2214, pp. 10-19.

Habibollah Nassiri, and Ali Rezaei. “Air Itinerary Choice in a Low-frequency Market: A Decision Rule Approach”, Journal of Air Transport Management, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp.34-37.

Ming-Heng Wang, R. F. Benekohal, H. Ramezani, Habibollah Nassiri, Juan C. Medina, and Ali Hajbabaie, “ Safety and Headway Characteristics in Highway Work Zones with Automated Speed Enforcement”, Advances in Transportation Studies, Vol. 23, 2011, pp. 67-76.

Habibollah Nassiri, Application of Logit Modeling to the Decision-Making Process of Drivers at the Onset of the Yellow Signal, Scientia Iranica, Vol. 8/Number 1/ Winter 2001.

T. Chira-Chava, Donald Maxwell and Habib S. Nassiri, Weigh-in-Motion Sampling Plan for Truck-Weight data in Texas: Methods and Plan Development, TRB Record No. 1060, 1986, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

Conference Proceedings

Habibollah Nassiri, Rafegh Aghamohammadi, A New Analytic Neuro-Fuzzy Model for Work Zone Capacity Estimation, Proceedings of 96th Annual Transportation Research Board, January 2017, Washington D.C.

Sina Sahebi, Habibollah Nassiri, Assessing Public Acceptance of Connected Vehicle Syatems in a New Acheme of Usage-based Insurance” Proceedings of 96th Annual Transportation Research Board, January 2017, Washington D.C.

Rafegh Aghamohammadi, Habibollah Nassiri, Introducing a new formula for vertical curves based on the passenger comfort factor, Fifth International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design, June 21-22, 2015, Vancouver, Canada.

Rezaei, Mohsen, Y. Rahmati, S. Haji Vosough, B. Ghoreishi, and H. Nassiri, Signalized intersections delay calculation using the two methods HCM 2000, and mobile machine (in Farsi), 14th International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Tehran, Iran

Ali Rezaei, and Habibollah Nassiri, “ An Investigation of International Air Passengers’ Preference in a Large Middle-Eastern Market” Transportation Research Board, January 22-28, 2012.

Mahshid Kamkari and Habibollah Nassiri, “ Warrants for Installation of Protected Left-turn at Signalized Intersections” 9th International Conference on Civil Engineering, Isfahan, Iran, May 8-11, 2012.

Masoud Nadernejad, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Modeling of Over-saturated Delay at Signalized Intersection” International Road Federation Conference, May 2010, Portugal.

Ming-Heng Wang, R. F. Benekohal, H. Ramezani, Habibollah Nassiri, Juan C. Medina, and Ali Hajbabaie, “ Safety and Headway Characteristics in Highway Work Zones…”, Road Safety and Simulation International Conference, Oct. 5-7, 2009, Paris, France.

Habibollah Nassiri, Ali Edrissi, and Ali Babaei, “ Calibration of a logit Model for Online Contra Flow Problem” First International Conference on Evacuation Modeling and Management (ICEM 2009), Sep. 2009, Delft, Netherland.

Habibollah Nassiri, and Ali Edrissi “Transportation Network Evacuation Management during a Disaster” (in Farsi), Fourth National Congress on Civil Engineering, May 2008.

Yousef Sajed, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Using a Logit Model to Predict Pedestrian Crossing Behaviour Based upon Vehicle Speed and Headway on Multiple-lane Street” Proceedings of 88th Annual Transportation Research Board, January 2009, Washington D.C.

Kaveh Shabani, and Habibollah Nassiri “Reliability of Tehran Transportation Network during Earthquake”, Proceeding of 6th International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies, ICTTS 2008, August 5-7, 2008, Nanning, China.

Habibollah Nassiri, and Yousef Sajed “Modeling Pedestrian’s Decision at Street Crossing” Proceeding of 4th International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies, ICTTS 2004, August 2-4, 2004, Dalian, China.

Habibollah Nassiri, and Ali Edrissi, “Application and Comparison of Logit and Neural Network Modeling of Drivers’ Decision at the Onset of Yellow Signal”, Proceeding of the International Conference on Transportation Systems Planning and Operation, TRANSPO2004, pp.641-651, February 2004, India.

Yousef Sajed, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Logit Modeling of Pedestrian’s Decision-Making Process at Streets’ Crossing” Proceeding of 1st National Congress on Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, May 11-13, 2004 (In Farsi).

Mohammad Poureza, and Habibollah Nassiri, “ Evaluation of Road User Costs at Highway Work Zone Areas”, Proceeding of 1st National Congress on Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, May 11-13, 2004 (In Farsi).

Sara Tabatabaie, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Delay-Based Estimation of Passenger Car Equivalent at Signalized Intersections”, Proceeding of 1st National Congress on Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, May 11-13, 2004 (In Farsi).

Ehsan Jafarian, and Habibollah Nassiri, “ Evaluation of Electronic Toll Collection on User Costs, using Simulation”, Proceeding of 1st National Congress on Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, May 11-13, 2004 (In Farsi).

Habibollah Nassiri, and Ali Edrissi, “Application of Logit Modeling and Neural Network in Evaluation of Truck Accidents” 2nd Safety on Road International Conference, SORIC2002, Oct. 21-23, 2002, Bahrain.

Maziar Moshfegh Mojarad, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Highway Accident Hazard Index for Iran’s Rural Highways”, Proceeding of 6th International Conference on Civil Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, 2001 (In Farsi).

Ali Akbar Ghazvini, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Traffic Highway Noise Prediction Modeling”, Proceeding of 6th International Conference on Civil Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, 2001 (In Farsi).

Ali Edrissi, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Logit and Neural Network Modeling of Trucks’ Accidents on Two-Lane Rural Highways”, Proceeding of 6th International Conference on Civil Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, 2001 (In Farsi).

Koroush Ghaffari, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Highway Route Location Identification Using Dynamic Programming”, Proceeding of 6th International Conference on Civil Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, 2001 (In Farsi).

Mohammad Reza Faani, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Warrants for Traffic Signal Design at Signalized Intersections”, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering, University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, pp. 5-15, May 4-6, 1999 (In Farsi).

Amir Abbas Rasafi, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Identification of Accident-Prone Locations Using Fuzzy System”, Proceeding of 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering, University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, pp. 38-45, May 4-6, 1999 (In Farsi).

Bastani, Shahram, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Evaluation of Driver Behavior at the onset of Yellow Interval at Signalized Intersections, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, pp. 32-41, May 4-6, 1997 (in Farsi).

Yousef Reza Khademian, and Habibollah Nassiri, “Safety Analysis of Rural Highway and Urban Street Lighting”, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, pp. 42-48, May 4-6, 1997 (in Farsi).

Korosh Nejatian, and Habibollah Nassiri, Identification of Effective Parameters in Designing Vertical Curves (Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical)”, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, pp. 88-100, May 4-6, 1997 (in Farsi).