Mehrnaz Ghamami

About

Dr. Mehrnaz Ghamami is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Ghamami’s research is focused on transportation systems analysis, with applications in sustainable transportation, transit operations and travel reliability. She has developed a comprehensive modeling framework for analyzing various policy and planning issues related to plugin electric vehicles. She has also conducted research on urban travel reliability using consumer GPS data (funded by Transportation Research Board) and operational reliability of bus routes for Chicago Transit Authority (funded by Center for Commercialization of Innovative Transportation Technology).

Education

• Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University 2015
• M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University 2015
• B.S., Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology 2008

Selected publications

• Kavianipour, M., Verbas, O., Rostami, A., Soltanpour, A.*, Gurumurthy, K. M., Ghamami, M., & Zockaie, A. (2023). Deploying Fast Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles in Urban Networks: An Activity-Based Approach. Transportation Research Record, 03611981231189742.
• Singh, H.*, Kavianipour, M., Ghamami, M., & Zockaie, A., (2023). Adoption of autonomous and electric vehicles in private and shared mobility systems, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Vol. 115, 103561.
• Kavianipour, M., Mozafari, H.*, Kamjoo, E., Zockaie, A., Ghamami, M., Jackson, R. (2023). Effects of electric vehicle adoption for state-wide intercity trips on emission saving and energy consumption, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 17(8), 883-896.
• Kamjoo, E., Saedi, R., Zockaie, A., Ghamami, M., Gates, T., & Talebpour, A., (2023). Developing Car-Following Models for Winter Maintenance Operations Incorporating Machine Learning Methods, Transportation Research Record, 2677(2), 519-540.
• Soltanpour, A*, Ghamami, M., Nicknam, M., Ganji, M., (2023) Charging Infrastructure and Schedule Planning for a Public Transit Network with a Mixed Fleet of Electric and Diesel Buses, Transportation Research Record, 2677(2), 1053-1071.