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Dr. Didier M. Valdés-Díaz
| Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez | |
| E-mail: dvaldes (at) uprm . edu | |
| Telephone: (787) 832-4040 x2179 | |
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University Affiliations
Regional Transportation Center Affiliations
Research Interests
- Transportation and Simulation, Specifically the use of Computational Algorithms to Network Problems
- Integration of Information and Traffic Control Strategies on Urban Networks
- The use of Information Supply Strategies during Incident Situations
- Intelligent Transportation Systems, Specifically Advanced Traveler Information Systems and Advanced Traffic Management Systems
- Urban Public Transportation Systems mainly Trains, Buses and Bus Rapid Transit
- Conceptual Geometric Design of Transportation Systems
- Optimal Control and its Applications to Traffic Control
- Control Systems based on Fuzzy Logic and their Applications to Traffic Control
- Applications of Operations Research tools to the Analysis, Modeling, and Control of Transportation Systems
- Graduate and Undergraduate Engineering Education
- Pre-College Outreach Programs
Education
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, Dec.1999
- M.S., Traffic and Transportation Engineering, El Cauca University, Popayan, Colombia, Dec. 1989
- B.S., Civil Engineering, La Gran Colombia University, Bogotá, Colombia, Dec. 1985
