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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.
He
initiated the transportation systems
focus area for the MIT-Portugal Program,
a major new $40 Million, 5-year program
of education and research, which began
in 2006. His work here includes participation
in the development of a new international
MSc 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. Dr.
Sussman 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
(1991-92), he was a member of the
core group that wrote the Strategic
Plan for IVHS in the U.S., a twenty-year
plan for research, development, testing
and deployment which 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 on the ITS Advisory Committee
for the US DOT. This committee was
mandated by SAFETEA-LU, and was appointed
by Secretary of Transportation Mary
Peters in 2007.His 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 chaired, in 2006, a TRB panel
reviewing the federal transportation
strategic plan for R&D. Further,
he chaired a TRB Task Force which
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 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% to more
than $4 million annually at that time,
reflecting an important expansion
of CTS’ research agenda.
Dr.
Sussman is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, Transportation
Research Forum, 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.
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access his MIT OpenCourseWare sites:
Updated
October 2007
News
and announcements:
Books
Published by Joseph M. Sussman
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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