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Byungkyu (Brian) Park

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

	Byungkyu (Brian) Park University of Virginia Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Thornton Hall 351 McCormick Road PO Box 400742 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4742 Phone: 434-924-6347 FAX: 434-982-2951 Email: bpark@virginia.edu

Biographical Information

Brian Park, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining at the University of Virginia, he was a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at North Carolina State University. He also worked at the Texas Transportation Institute in Texas.

He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation and the KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering. He is an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.

In 2008, Dr. Park spent his summer at the Netherlands Organization (TNO) Mobility and Logistics Department as a visiting researcher and provided research directions to their future simulation modeling.

Dr. Park received the B.S. and the M.S. from the Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, in 1993 and 1995, respectively, and the Ph.D. from the Texas A&M University in 1998.

Awards

Dr. Park is a recipient of a Charley V. Wootan Award (for best Ph.D. dissertation) from the Council of University Transportation Centers in 1999.  In 2004, he received Jack H. Dillard Outstanding Paper Award from the Virginia Transportation Research Council.

Research Interests

• Sustainable Transportation System
• Microscopic Traffic Simulation Modeling
• Simulation Model Calibration and Validation
• Stochastic Optimization
• Traffic Crash Analyses
• Application of Advanced Statistical Methods

Recent Publications

I. Yun, M. Best and B. Park, “Evaluation of Emergency Vehicle Preemption Strategies on a Coordinated Actuated Signal System Using Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation,” Accepted for publication in the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering.

Park, B., I. Yun, and K. Ahn, “Stochastic Optimization for Sustainable Traffic Signal Control,” Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2008.

J. Lee and B. Park, “Evaluation of Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) Based Route Guidance Strategies under Incident Conditions,” Accepted for Publication in the Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2008.

I. Yun, M. Best, and B. Park, “Evaluation of Traffic Controller Performance During Time-of-Day Transition at Coordinated Actuated Signal System,” Accepted for Publication in the Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2008.

B. Park, J. Lee, D. M. Pampati, and B. L. Smith, “Evaluation of an Online Implementation of DynaMIT: A Prototype Traffic Estimation and Prediction Program,” KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2008, pp. 129–140.

B. Park and J. Lee, “A Procedure for Determining Time-of-Day Breakpoints for Coordinated Actuated Traffic Signal Systems,” KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2008, pp. 37–44.

Park, B. and A. Kamarajugadda, “Development and Evaluation of Stochastic Signal Optimization Method” International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2007, pp. 193–207.

I. Yun, M. Best and B. Park, “Evaluation of the Adaptive Maximum Feature in the EPAC300 Actuated Traffic Controller Using Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation,” Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2035, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2007, pp. 134 –140.

Tanikella, H., B. L. Smith, G. Zhang, B. Park, and W. T. Scherer, “Simulating VII-Enabled Operations Applications – Traffic Monitoring Case Study”  Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2000, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2007, pp. 35–43.

Park, B. and K. Zhu, “Dynamic Origin-Destination Estimation: Genetic Algorithm-Based Optimization with Updated Assignment Matrix,” KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 4, July 2007, pp. 199–207.

Tanikella, H., B. L. Smith, G. Zhang, B. Park, J. Guo, W. T. Scherer, “Development of a Simulation Architecture to Evaluate Vehicle Infrastructure Integration,” ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 434–440, 2007.

Park, B., J. Won and I. Yun, “Application of Microscopic Simulation Model Calibration and Validation Procedure: A Case Study of Coordinated Actuated Signal System” Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1978, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2006, pp. 113–122.