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Mark W. Burris, Ph.D.
Herbert D. Kelleher Professor
Associate Department Head for Research and Operations
Texas A&M University
CE/TTI Building Room
301B
3136 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843
Voice: 979-845-9875
Fax: 979-845-6481
E-Mail: MBurris@tamu.edu
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Research Area: Transportation Economics
My efforts in teaching, research,
and service all focus on improving critical analysis and decision making
processes to optimize the use of, and investment in, transportation
infrastructure. My motivation lies in knowing that there are finite
resources available for transportation and transportation engineers have
an obligation to society to maximize the benefits derived from these
resources. In addition, it is rewarding to see your ideas
implemented - resulting in improvement to people’s daily travel. To
date, much of my research has focused on innovative tolling strategies to
maximize the use of existing infrastructure. As a byproduct of this
research I have investigated traveler's true values of travel time savings and
reliability plus their behavioral change due to changes in travel cost.
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BRIEF
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Burris’s main area of interest is traveler behavior in
response to pricing, particularly congestion (or value) pricing.
He has been, and continues to be, involved in many projects in this area
and has published extensively in this area of research.
He has served in an evaluation and monitoring role for projects around
the country, including the Houston Value Pricing Project, HOT lanes in Atlanta,
Minnesota and LA, and the Lee County Variable Pricing Pilot Project.
He has also led many studies and surveys on how travelers will react to
innovative tolling strategies and the costs and benefits associated with those
projects.
His research has provided a better understanding of
traveler behavior in response to tolls and helped to improve our ability to
predict their reaction. He is the
immediate past chair of TRB’s Transportation Economics committee, a friend of
TRB’s Congestion Pricing committee and a member of the Institute of
Transportation Engineers. Prior to
joining Texas A&M in August 2001, he was a senior research associate at the
Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) in Tampa, Florida.
Dr. Burris currently serves as the Associate Department
Head for Research and Operations in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering.
Dr. Burris won the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC)
New Faculty Member Award in 2007, the Dick and Joyce Birdwell Endowed Teaching
Award in Civil Engineering in 2007 and was named the Charles H. Barclay, Jr. ‘
45 Faculty Fellow, Dwight Look College of Engineering for 2008 – 2009.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Civil Engineering,
University of South Florida, 2001.
Master of Science in Engineering,
University of New Brunswick, 1995.
Bachelor of Engineering, Civil
Engineering Co-op Program,
Technical University of
Nova Scotia, 1993.
TEACHING
Spring 2016 course:
CVEN 632 -
Transportation
Engineering: Economics - Old Syllabus
Fall 2015 course:
CVEN 454 - Urban
Planning for Engineers -
Old
Syllabus
RESEARCH
Research assistantships available
for transportation engineering graduate students
Undergraduate Fellows Summer Program -
Each summer a select few undergraduate civil engineering students
from around the country participate in the Undergraduate Summer Fellows Program at Texas A&M.
This program provides a valuable research-oriented work experience. The home page for the
program is here.
Funded
research projects
Publications
Variable
Priced Road Facilities
SERVICE
National
University
STUDENTS
Current Students:
- Kristen Novak, MS student, examining vehicle miles traveled
fee
- Kartikia Jha, MS student
- Farinoush Sharifi, MS student
- Seles Johnson, MS student
- Maryam Dastgiri, PhD student
- Arezoo Samimi, PhD student
Former Students:
- Sunghoon Lee, PhD student, value of managed lanesusing a real options
approach
-
Lisa Larson, PhD student
- Cha
o Huang, PhD student, the use of prospect theory
to
predict
managed lane decisions
- AKM Abir, MS student, value of time and relibility based on empirical
evidence from Katy freeway managed lanes
- Namoo Han, MS student, impact of incentives on managed lane use
- Medhi Mohades, ME student
-
Niel Going, ME student
-
Hemamalini Nagarajan, ME student
- Reda Dalouadi, ME student
- Santosh Rao Danda, MS student, value of
travel time and reliability using empirical data
-
Justin Carlton
,
MS student, examining mileage based
user fees
- Carl Harline, MS student, e
xamining the use of pictures in stated
preference surveys
- Negin Alemazkoor, MS student, how do travelers percieve
reliability
- Dalin Wei, ME student,
value of time and reliability using empirical data- Scott Nelson, ME student, the variation in prices of
dynamic tolling facilities
- Jose Soto, ME Student, rural versus urban equity
issues for
VMT fees
- Devin Moore, MS Student, the use of performance
measures by
small MPOs
- Prem Devarasetty, PhD student, differences in travelers stated preference and
revealed preference reponses
- Ben Sperry, PhD student, the use of high
speed
rail
by Texas cities
- Siddharth Somayajula, ME student, examined
the value of reliability and measurement of reliability
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Lisa Larson, MS student, examined equity associated with
various vehicle miles traveled fee scenarios
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Ying Li, ME student
- Partha Gupta, ME student, examined the use of I-394
HOT lanes
- Justin Clark, ME Student
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Charles Levecq, ME student, examined Active Traffic Management
practices in Europe and the U.S.
- Young Jae Cho, ME student, examined value of travel
time variability
- Phillip Dunham, ME student
- Rahul Goel,
MS student, examined the impact of HOT lane characteristics
on mode choice
- Henry Lieu, ME student, developed an enhanced toll
viability screening tool
- John Lowery, MS student, examined managed lanes in
San Antonio
- Sunil Patil, PhD student, modeled traveler behavior
and response to value pricing mode choice options in urgent travel situations
- Mandeep Pannu, MS student, examined the
differences in managed lane use by traditonal carpools versus
fampools
- Stephen Sprague, MS student, examined the cost
effectiveness of using landfill natural gas for fuel
by refuse vehicles
- Eric Talbot, MS student, examined through trip
estimation techniques that avoidedc the need for roadside interviews
Former Students Continued:
- Glenn Anderson, ME
- Justice Appiah, MS
- Kit Black, MS
- Michael Bolin, ME
- Scott Booth, ME
- David Bruno, ME
- Geoffrey Chum, MS
- Erin Eurek, ME
- Rajaneesh Jandhyam, ME
- Karun Konduru, MS
- Kwang Kyum Lim, ME
- Lindsay Liggett, MS
- Kevin Lipnickey, MS
- Maneesh Mahlawat, MS
- Karteeka Nalli, ME
- Selvaraj Rayan, ME
- Ben Sperry, MS
- Jose Solari, ME
- Ty Thompson, MS
- Justin Winn, MS
- Lei Xu, MS
- Lin Zhou, MS
2008 Transportation Group Student Award Winners:
From left to right: Jon Re [Jack E. Leisch
Memorial National Graduate Fellowship, Transoft
Solutions Inc. Ahead of the Curve Scholarship, ITE Outstanding
Student Paper Award for District 9], Ehsanul Bari [William R. "Dick" McCasland '55 Fellowship in
Traffic Engineering]
, Byung-Jung Park [Jacobs Engineering
Scholarship & Keese-Wootan Fellowship], Mandeep Pannu
[Sherryl and Steve Hofener '77
Fellowship], Xiugang
Li [SWUTC Herman Award]
Not Pictured: Rahul Putha
[International Education Fee Scholarship]
2007 Transportation Group Student Award Winners:
Back Row:
Tom Hartmann [William R. "Dick" McCasland '55 Fellowship in
Traffic Engineering],
Rachael Stensrud [Keese-Wootan Fellowship], Ben Sperry [Keese-Wootan
Fellowship], Yuangchang Xie [SWUTC Herman Award]
Front Row: Cameron Williams
[Keese-Wootan Fellowship & ENO Fellowship], Kevin Lipnicky [Jacobs Engineering
Scholarship]
Not Pictured: Xiugang Li
[Sherryl and Steve Hofener '77
Fellowship]
2006 Transportation Group Student Award Winners:
Back Row:
Zhirui Ye [Jacobs Engineering Scholarship], Geoffrey Chum [Daniel B. Fambro '73
Memorial Scholarship], Maneesh Mahlawat [Sherryl and Steve Hofener '77
Fellowship], Kevin Lipnicky [Joe L. Cooper '56 Endowed Scholarship], Naveen
Mokkapati [Kimley - Horn Fellowship]
Front Row: Erin Saucier [E.B.
"Bill" Cape '29 Civil Engineering Scholarship], Erin Eurek [ENO Fellowship]
Not Pictured: Marshall Cheek [William R. "Dick" McCasland '55 Fellowship in
Traffic Engineering]