What Services Should You Operate in a Bus Corridor? And What Can We Achieve in Time Savings, Reliability, and Comfort if Properly Controlled?
Professor Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir from Chile's Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile presented his research on bus corridors at Volpe on June 28, 2011. Professor Muñoz Abogabir is a part of the Department of Transport Engineering & Logistics at Pontificia Universidad Catolica and was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
About the Speaker
Juan Carlos Muñoz got his PhD in CEE and his MSc in IEOR from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002. He is an associate professor at the School of Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he acted as an associate dean of academic affairs from 2007 to 2010. His main research areas are public transport, logistics, transport networks, and traffic flow theory. Since 2010, he has led the Across Latitudes and Cultures Bus Rapid Transit Centre of Excellence funded by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations.
During 2003 and 2004, Muñoz was personal advisor of the Chilean Minister of Transport on transit issues. In 2008, he was designated as one of the 12 members of a committee summoned by the Minister of Transport to suggest action lines for the recently created transit system of Santiago, Transantiago. He was a member of the board of directors of the Metro of Valparaiso and advisor of the President of the Metro of Santiago from 2007 to 2010. Muñoz also works on designing flexible work shifts for transit drivers and retail workers. Currently, he runs a project, Shift-UC, which assigns weekly work shifts to more than 45,000 workers in Chile, Colombia, Argentina, and Peru. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Trans Res Part B, of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation in Developing Countries, and of the International Scientific Committees of the CASPT (Conference on Advanced Systems of Public Transport) and Thredbo (International Conference on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport) Series. Currently, Muñoz is spending a sabbatical year at MIT in Boston.
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