This week I will be starting employment at Delta Air Lines. I will be working out of their Atlanta headquarters as a specialist in Network Strategy, part of the Network Planning department. My responsibilities will include analysis on Delta’s route network and its performance, assessing areas for growth, and long-term planning.
I haven’t posted in awhile because I’ve been preparing my dissertation for my committee. The past few months have involved extensive writing and polishing of my results. I submitted my dissertation last week, and now am preparing my presentation for my doctoral defense scheduled for next Tuesday, November 6. It will be held at 11:00 [...]
The paper which I presented at the Transportation Research Board annual meeting has been chosen to be published in the the Transportation Research Record. The paper, entitled “Levels of Overcrowding in the Bus System of Dhaka, Bangladesh”, was co-authored by my advisor at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman. This [...]
I have made the decision to pursue a Ph.D here at Georgia Tech. This decision has come after several months of tossing the idea around in my head, conversations with professors and fellow students, and discussing it with my family. My advisor does not think it too ambitious to complete an MS in Civil Engineering [...]
Today was my final day working at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education. I started the summer working on a project that looked at new pavement marking retroreflective technology. We looked at the effect of these in nighttime rainy conditions. The beginning of the summer had some potential rainy nights that had me driving [...]
For the summer, I have come on board as a research assistant on a project at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education. This research center is located on NC State’s Centennial Campus. I found myself here after emailing my friend and former classmate (while he was still a PhD candidate) Dr. Bastian Schroeder who [...]
My graduate school decision process is finally complete, I have chosen to attend Georgia Tech starting this autumn. My advisor will be Dr. Michael Meyer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. At Georgia Tech, I intend to pursue a dual degree program to earn a Master of Science in Civil Engineering and a [...]
The end of February marked my last day at the Regional Plan Association. On February 26 I presented my study on high speed rail in the Northeast Corridor to RPA staff and one of my interviewed stakeholders. I have taken comments from the presentation and used them to update my report. I still have more [...]
This weekend I am doing a “site visit” on the northern end of the Northeast Corridor (NEC). As I am writing a report on high speed rail, yet have never ridden an Amtrak train at all on the NEC, my supervisor at RPA offered this chance to experience it first hand. I am getting the [...]
This past week I began my four month internship at the Regional Plan Association. Started in 1922, RPA is a not-for-profit planning group that works in the tri-state area. Their mission is to “[improve] the quality of life and the economic competitiveness of the 31-county New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region through research, planning, and advocacy.” Their [...]