Baher Abdulhai

CivMin's Professor Baher Abdulhai

Baher Abdulhai

Professor
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering

 

Email: baher.abdulhai@utoronto.ca
Office: SF3001G
Tel: 416-946-5036

Personal website

Expertise:  

Areas of Specialization: 

Traffic Management

Transportation Engineering + Planning

Background
Background

Background

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS); advanced traffic management, control and information systems, emergency evacuation optimization, dynamic congestion pricing, modelling and simulation for dynamic transportation networks, artificial intelligence for optimization and control of traffic systems, application of emerging technologies to transportation.

Links

Transportation Engineering and Planning
University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute
ITS Centre

Research Interests
Education
Affiliations
Teaching

Publications

Reinforcement Learning for True Adaptive Traffic Signal Control
B Abdulhai, R Pringle, GJ Karakoulas
Journal of Transportation Engineering 129 (3), 278-285

Multiagent reinforcement learning for integrated network of adaptive traffic signal controllers (MARLIN-ATSC): methodology and large-scale application on downtown Toronto
S El-Tantawy, B Abdulhai, H Abdelgawad
IEEE transactions on Intelligent transportation systems 14 (3), 1140-1150

Genetic algorithm-based optimization approach and generic tool for calibrating traffic microscopic simulation parameters
T Ma, B Abdulhai
Transportation research record 1800 (1), 6-15

Short-term traffic flow prediction using neuro-genetic algorithms
B Abdulhai, H Porwal, W Recker
ITS Journal-Intelligent Transportation Systems Journal 7 (1), 3-41

Enhancing the universality and transferability of freeway incident detection using a Bayesian-based neural network
B Abdulhai, SG Ritchie
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 7 (5), 261-280

Traffic capacity implications of automated vehicles mixed with regular vehicles
A Olia, S Razavi, B Abdulhai, H Abdelgawad
Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems 22 (3), 244-262

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News Mentions

CivMin professor and alumni receive Ontario Professional Engineers Awards

By Phill Snel | April 7, 2021
Professor Baher Abdulhai (CivMin), recipient of the Engineering Excellence medal, speaks to students in the Intelligent Transportation Systems lab at the University of Toronto. This photo was shot prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Laura Pedersen)
Professor Baher Abdulhai (CivMin), recipient of the Engineering Excellence medal, speaks to students in the Intelligent Transportation Systems lab at the University of Toronto. This photo was shot prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Laura Pedersen) A CivMin professor and two alumni are among the two U of T Engineering...

Five U of T engineers elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering

By Phill Snel | June 15, 2020
CivMin's Professor Baher Abdulhai
CivMin's Professor Baher Abdulhai Five members of the U of T Engineering community have been elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). Professors Baher Abdulhai (CivMin), Geoff Fernie (IBBME), Reza Iravani (ECE), and Charles Jia (ChemE), along with Dr. Emily Moore, Director of Troost ILead, are among the CAE’s 52 new fellows...

Driverless cars, artificial intelligence and e-sharing are transforming transportation. Are our cities ready?

By Dept. of Civil + Mineral Engineering | May 29, 2017
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Originally posted on U of T News  |  May 26th, 2017 by Tyler Irving This story is the first in a news series on artificial intelligence and machine learning, published throughout the spring and summer of 2017. Professor Baher Abdulhai, seen here with civil engineering undergraduate students Andrew Lau and...

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