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Joseph
M. Sussman
JR
East Professor of Civil
and Environmental Engineering
and Engineering Systems
Dr.
Joseph M. Sussman is the JR East Professor (endowed by the
East Japan Railway Company) in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where
he has served as a faculty member for 40 years. He is the
author of Introduction to Transportation Systems,
a graduate text published in 2000, in use at a number of
universities in the U.S. and abroad. It has been translated
into Greek, Chinese and Spanish. His book Perspectives
on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) was published
in 2005. Sussman received the Roy W. Crum Distinguished
Service Award from TRB, its highest honor, “for significant
contributions to research” in 2001, and the CUTC Award
for Distinguished Contribution to University Transportation
Education and Research from the Council of University Transportation
Centers in 2003. In 2002 ITS Massachusetts named its annual
“Joseph M. Sussman Leadership Award” in his
honor. He became a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science in 2007. The Engineering School
Alumni of the City College of New York (CCNY) gave him its
2008 Career Achievement Award.
He
initiated the transportation systems focus area for the
MIT-Portugal Program, a major $40 million, five-year program
of education and research that was launched in 2006. His
work here includes participation in the development of a
new international MSc degree in transportation systems in
collaboration with three Portuguese universities, and research
in Regional Strategic Transportation Planning (RSTP), Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) and High-Speed Rail.
Dr.
Sussman specializes in the study of “Complex, Large-Scale,
Interconnected, Open, Sociotechnical” (CLIOS) Systems,
working in many applications areas, and has developed the
CLIOS Process to study such systems. He has focused recently
on developing a new methodology for regional strategic transportation
planning (RSTP) as a special case of the CLIOS Process,
integrating ideas from strategic management, scenario-building,
and technology architectures, and applying it to cases in
the U.S. and abroad. Currently his work in this area deals
with transportation, technology and sustainability in Mexico
City and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and most recently in Portugal.
He
has worked extensively on Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS), helping to build the U.S. national program. While
serving as the first Distinguished University Scholar at
IVHS AMERICA (1991–1992), he was a member of the core
group that wrote the Strategic Plan for IVHS in the U.S.,
a 20-year plan for research, development, testing and deployment
that has shaped the U.S. ITS program. He has worked on the
development of an “intelligent corridor” in
Bangkok, a comparison of ITS programs in Western Europe,
Japan and the U.S., commercial vehicle operations, building
regional ITS architectures, emergency response and institutional
issues concerning ITS and the provision of “flexibility”
in surface transportation through ITS technologies, including
studies in Houston, Portugal and in connection with Vehicle-Infrastructure
Integration (VII). He was the program chair of the ITS America
Annual Meeting in 2000, and has conducted short courses
in ITS for practicing professionals in the U.S. and abroad.
Currently, he serves as the chairman of the ITS Advisory
Committee—mandated by SAFETEA-LU—for the US
DOT, charged with advising the department on all facets
of the ITS program.
Dr.
Sussman's research in railroads focuses on service reliability,
rail operations, maintenance, high-speed rail (HSR), and
risk assessment; he has had a major impact on the railroad
industry in the U.S. and abroad, and has several prize-winning
papers. He has worked with the Union Internationale des
Chemins de Fer (UIC) on technology scanning for the international
freight and passenger railroad industry, and most recently
with Portugal.
Dr.
Sussman chaired the TRB committee overseeing the Federal
Railroad Administration’s R&D program from 1996
to 1999 and in 2006 chaired, in 2006, a TRB panel reviewing
the federal transportation strategic plan for R&D. Further,
he chaired a TRB Task Force that produced a major report
entitled “Airport System Capacity — Strategic
Choices” in 1990.
He
has worked on the application of computers to engineering
problem solving, specializing in simulation methods and
their application to the transportation area, and he contributed
to the development of ICES (Integrated Civil Engineering
System), among the most widely-used computer systems in
the engineering field. He has developed and taught undergraduate
and graduate subjects in transportation, engineering systems,
information systems, simulation methods, intelligent transportation
systems, and technology and policy, and has written extensively
on transportation education philosophy and program design.
In 1997 he won the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department’s
Effective Teaching Award. In 2002 he won the Technology
and Policy Student Society “Faculty Appreciation Award”
for his design and teaching of a new required subject called
“Introduction to Technology and Policy.” He
has served on review panels for transportation programs
at Northwestern, the University of Toronto, Cornell, and
the University of Michigan (chair). He currently serves
on advisory committees at CCNY and Cal-IT2, a
joint venture of UC-Irvine and UC-San Diego, and chairs
the Board of Advisors at the Technical University of Delft
in the Multi-Actor Systems (MAS) area in the Program on
Technology and Policy.
Dr.
Sussman earned a B.C.E. from the City College of New York
in 1961, an M.S.C.E. from the University of New Hampshire
in 1963, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering Systems from MIT
in 1967. He joined the MIT faculty in 1967. From 1977 to
1979, Professor Sussman served as the Associate Dean of
Engineering for Educational Programs. From 1980 to 1985,
he served as Head of the Department of Civil Engineering
at MIT. From 1986 to 1991, he served as Director of the
Center for Transportation Studies (CTS) at MIT. During his
term, research volume grew by 400 percent, to more than
$4 million annually at that time, reflecting an important
expansion of CTS’s research agenda.
Dr.
Sussman is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
the Transportation Research Forum, the Transportation Research
Board (Executive Committee chair in 1994; member, 1991–1998),
ITS America (Board of Directors, 1995–2001) and ITS
Massachusetts (Board of Directors, 1996–2001). He
co-founded Multisystems of Cambridge, MA in 1966 (now part
of Transystems).
Dr.
Sussman’s webpage may be accessed at by clicking here.
You
may access his books page here.
To
access his MIT OpenCourseWare sites:
Updated
June 2008
News
and announcements:
Books
Published by Joseph M. Sussman
ESD
Faculty Summer Reading List 2009 (June 19, 2009)
Prof.
Joseph Sussman honored with Joseph A. Martore Excellence
in Teaching Award (April 10, 2009)
Prof.
Joe Sussman in Newsweek on U.S. failure to invest in high-quality
rail travel – All Eyes on Amtrak (July 14, 2008)
Articles
by Professors de Neufville and Sussman in summer issue of
The Bridge, on Airport and Intelligent Transportation Systems
(June 26, 2008)
ESD
Faculty Summer Reading List 2008 (June 2, 2008)
CCNY
to honor Sussman for career achievement (April 3, 2008)
U.S.
Department of Transportation appoints Prof. Sussman to chair
Intelligent Transportation Systems Advisory Committee
(February 18, 2008)
Seven
from MIT named AAAS Fellows, including ESD/CEE Prof. Joe
Sussman (November 5, 2007)
Sussman
named AAAS Fellow (October 26, 2007)
Prof.
Joe Sussman appears in NECN segment on traffic congestion
(September 20, 2007)
Prof.
Joseph Sussman to speak at China Planning Network's First
Urban Transportation Congress (July 31, 2007)
Prof.
Joe Sussman Named to ITS Advisory Committe (July 27,
2007)
Prof.
Sussman keynotes at LNEC’s 60th anniversary symposium
(June 28, 2007)
ESD
Faculty Summer Reading List 2007 (May 29, 2007)
ITS
Oregon Luncheon with Professor Joseph Sussman (May 8,
2007)
Something
a little different from Prof. Joe Sussman (March 28,
2007)
Prof.
Sussman chaired TRB committee that reviewed USDOT strategic
research, development and technology plan (August 17,
2006)
ESD
Faculty Summer Reading List 2006 (June 5, 2006)
Prof.
Sussman on "Star Wars" exhibit (November 9,
2005)
Prof.
Joe Sussman on BBC Radio's "Masterminds" (October
5, 2005)
Prof.
Sussman offers MIT news office new "Perspectives"
on traffic (July 6, 2005)
ESD
Suggested Summer Reading 2005 (May 23, 2005)
Prof.
Sussman on NPR: Future of high-speed rail (April 21,
2005)
Prof.
Joe Sussman publishes "Perspectives on Intelligent
Transportation Systems" (April 12, 2005)
Sussman
Wins CUTC Award (December 2003)
Second
Annual Charles L. Miller Lecture Opening Remarks by Professor
Joe Sussman (April 14, 2003)
ITS
MA Establishes Joseph M. Sussman Leadership Award (October
2002)
The
ESD Working Paper Discussion Series by Professor Joseph
M. Sussman
(September 2002)
Professor
Joseph Sussman publishes
New Book on Transportation Systems
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