Yoram Shiftan

Yoram Shiftan
Born1958 (age 65–66)
Alma materTechnion, MIT
Scientific career
Fieldstravel behavior, transportation system
InstitutionsTechnion
Thesis Transportation Workforce Planning in the Transit Industry: Incorporating Absence, Overtime, and Reliability Relationships  (1991)
Doctoral advisorNigel Wilson

Yoram Shiftan (born: 1958; Hebrew: יורם שיפטן) is a professor in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he holds the Joseph Meyerhoff Chair in Urban and Regional Planning.[1]

Shiftan's research focuses on travel behavior and transportation system analysis. He is the head of the Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center[2] and a consultant to major strategic transportation projects in Israel and abroad.[3]

  1. ^ "People". Technion. Archived from the original on 2023-05-27.
  2. ^ "Establishment of a National Center for the Promotion of Smart Transportation Research". המועצ. 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  3. ^ "Professor Yoram Shiftan Gave a Special Seminar on "Travel Behavior Implications of Automated Vehicles" | INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS LAB". its-archive.mit.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-08.