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Virginia Sisiopiku, Ph.D.

Traffic planning & operations • Transportation safety • Pedestrian behavior & safety • Driver distraction • Intelligent transportation systems • Sustainable transportation systems • Evacuation methods

Media contact: Micah Hardge, micahxh@uab.edu

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Virginia Sisiopiku, Ph.D.

Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering

  

Areas of expertise:

  • Traffic Planning & Operations
  • Transportation Safety
  • Pedestrian Behavior & Safety
  • Driver Distraction
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Sustainable Transportation Systems
  • Evacuation Methods

 

 

Sisiopiku has more than 25 years of transportation experience. Her expertise focuses on traffic safety, intelligent transportation systems, congestion management, traffic operations, simulation and modeling, non-motorized transportation and transportation security.

Sisiopiku is available to comment on transportation needs under extreme weather events, including emergency evacuation plans, transportation infrastructure repair, search and rescue operations. She can also address extreme weather plans in relations to transportation disaster planning and risk management and the challenges for vulnerable populations, infrastructure failure and evacuation and return coordination.

 

 

Media coverage:

Orlando may allow old billboards to be swapped for digital ones, Orlando Sentinel

 

 

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