Vassili Alexiadis is the manager of the firm's Transportation Operations business line. With more than 20 years of experience in ITS and operations planning, design, and evaluation, Dr. Alexiadis has directed projects for numerous Federal, state, and local clients, including the development of the Financial Plan for California's Transportation Management Systems; the evaluation of the Twin Cities' ramp metering system; and the traffic analysis effort for the East Boston/Logan Airport area of the Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston. Dr. Alexiadis has lead several large studies using state-of-the-practice commercial microsimulation tools. He directed the development of the ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS); the FHWA's decision support methodology for selecting traffic analysis tools; and national guidelines for applying traffic simulation tools. Dr. Alexiadis received a Ph.D. in Transportation from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a Master's degree in Transportation Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the Aristotelian University at Thessalonski, Greece. |