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Helsinki Summer School in Transportation 2012

Instructors

The lecturers are leading world experts from universities, think-tanks, consultancies, and transport organizations, and selected based on their academic credentials and proven experiential competence. 

  • Shinya Kikuchi, Professor, Virginia Tech, USA
    Shinya Kikuchi is the Charles E. Via Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, USA. His area of interest is in application of the concept of systems analysis, operations research to planning and design of urban transportation systems. In particular, he has been involved in dealing with uncertainty in planning; such as the use of fuzzy logic to deal with knowledge that is expressed in natural language, various forms of uncertainty measurement, and optimization based on the desires of various stakeholders and approximate relationships among the decision variables. Since 1982, he has taught transportation engineering and planning at the University of Delaware and Virginia Tech. He received a honorary doctorate of Science in Technology in the ceremonial conferment of doctoral degrees of the Aalto University School of Science and Technology on 1 October 2010.

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  • Antti Talvitie, Professor emeritus, Chief Researcher, Aalto University School of Engineering, Finland
    Antti Talvitie, is a Professor emeritus and Chief Researcher at Aalto University School of Engineering. He has private practice as consultant and as psychoanalyst in the Washington DC area. Previously, Mr. Talvitie worked in the World Bank; was GM of Viatek Consulting Engineers in Espoo Finland; served as Director of Highway Construction and Maintenance in the Finnish Road Administration; and was Professor in the US, including Chairmanship of the Department Civil Engineering at the University of Buffalo. Mr. Talvitie holds Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.

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