Name: Amer Shalaby
Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Name: Amer Shalaby
Title: Professor
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Professor Amer Shalaby has 23 years of research and consulting experience in the areas of transit planning and intelligent transportation systems. He has supervised 47 graduate students at the Ph.D. and Master’s levels, and has published more than 150 articles in academic journals, conference proceedings and books. Amer is an appointed member of the US Transportation Research Board committees “Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies” and “Bus Transit Systems”. He also serves on the editorial boards of the international Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Journal of Advanced Transportation. In addition to academic research and teaching, Amer has led successfully numerous consulting projects for a wide variety of clients in Canada and internationally, and has offered short courses on public transit planning to the professional communities in Canada and internationally. Amer is a co-founder and president of IntelliCAN Transportation Systems Inc.
BSc. Department of Civil Engineering, Ain Shams University, Egypt 1988
MASc. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto 1991
PhD. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto 1996
2014 – William Millar Award for best paper in public transportation, Transportation Research
Board Annual Meeting
2006-2007 – Chair’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, (Bronze)
2005-2006 – Chair’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, (Silver)
2005-2006 – Chair’s Award for Excellence in Research, (Bronze)
1997-99 – NSERC Industrial Research Fellowship, IBI Group
1996-97 – Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Joint Program in Transportation, University of Toronto
1992-96 – Connaught Scholarship, University of Toronto
1996 – T-Holder Academic Excellence Award, University of Toronto
1994 – T-Holder Academic Excellence Award, University of Toronto
1992 – University of Toronto Open Fellowship
1990-91 – Department Scholarship, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
Member, Canadian Society of Civil Engineering
Member, Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO)
Member, Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA)
Member, Intelligent Transportation Systems Society of Canada (ITS Canada)
World Transit Research – Author Search
University of Toronto Staff
http://civil.engineering.utoronto.ca/staff/professors/amer-shalaby/