Dr. Shankar is a Professor of Civil Engineering, and also serves as Graduate Faculty in Operations Research in the College of Engineering at Penn State. He has served as a faculty member at the University of Washington, Seattle and at Penn State for about 14 years. He is a highly cited author in the field of econometric modeling of traffic safety, with numerous articles that are denoted for their top-ten cited standing in the history of high-impact safety journals. One of his recent articles has been cited as the number one cited article in the most recent five year period 2008-2013 in Accident Analysis and Prevention, the journal with the highest impact factor in traffic safety.
Dr. Shankar has served as PI/co-PI/investigator on nearly 5 million dollars of sponsored research for agencies such as the Department of the Military, California Department of Transportation, Washington State Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, the National Traffic Safety Administration, the National Cooperative Highway Research Programs, and the national Strategic Highway Research Programs. He has also led over 5 million dollars of consulting and state DOT corridor studies, having served as project and transportation group manager on 34 critical regional projects in the states of Washington, Oregon and Alaska.
Dr. Shankar currently serves as Founding Associate Editor of the Elsevier journal Analytical Methods in Accident Research, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Microsimulation, as Editorial Board member of Transportation Research – Part B as well as Accident Analysis and Prevention (the two top impact journals in transportation and safety), as Editorial Advisory Board member for the International Journal of Applied Logistics, and Editorial Advisory Board member for the IGI Book series on smart manufacturing. He has served on four national Transportation Research Board committees, including two as current member, and as expert reviewer for a task force for the National Academies on the preparation of the inaugural edition of the Highway Safety Manual, currently published by AASHTO for safety researchers and practitioners nationwide.
A modeling framework for the analysis of detailed activity data will be presented using a discrete outcome approach.
In this framework, a technique for handling large fine resolution activity data will be discussed, and the implications of using that technique for application to aggregate origin-destination databases will be presented.