Amer Shalaby

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)