International Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering

International Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancement of transportation technologies and engineering. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the- art research and promote the research work in the areas.

Luis Esteban Amador-JiméNez

Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering

Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Canada

Research Areas

Pavement Management, Infrastructure Management Systems, Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, Land Use and Transport Modeling, Civil Engineering Systems

Education

2010Philosophic DoctorCivil Engineering University of New Brunswick (UNB)
2006Master Business Administration with mention in Public Tendering Universidad Fidélitas of Science
2002Bachelor Civil Engineering Universidad Fidélitas
1997Bachelor Business Administration with emphasis in Finance & Bankx Universidad Fidélitas

Experience

2010-presentAssistant Professor, Civil Engineering in Concordia University
2010Director of Engineering Services and Community Planningx in Urban Municipality Town of Kindersley
2005-2006Director of Technical Studies in Costa Rica Construction Association
2002-2005Civil (Structural) Engineer & Properties Appraiser in Luis Rojas Engineers & Associates
2006-2009Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant in University of New Brunswick
2005-2006Member of the Board of Directors in Costa Rica Roads Agency
2008Instructor in University of New Brunswick
2002-2005Part Time Lecturer in Universidad Fidelitas

Academic Achievement

2011 Transportation and Development Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers: Best Young Professional Paper at the Transportation and Development Institute's first Congress
2007-2008 Nason Prize (University of New Brunswick): Best Paper in Transportation Policy Analysis

Membership

Member, Federative College of Engineers & Architects of Costa Rica 2003
Member, College of Professionals in Economic Sciences of Costa Rica 1999
Associate member, American Society of Civil Engineering 2011
Associate member, Canadian Society of Civil Engineering 2011
Registration in progress for Professional Engineer, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientist of New Brunswick 2011

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]   Oum, N. and Amador, L. 2012. Social Cost for the Coordination of Investments in Infrastructure Management. Submitted for presentation and publication to the 91st Annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Washington DC.
[2]   Amador, L. and Mrawira. D. 2012. Measuring the Benefits of Integral Management of Road Networks: New Brunswick Highways, Bridges and Culverts. Submitted for presentation and publication to the 91st Annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Washington DC.
[3]   Amador, L, and Afghari, A. 2012. Lifecycle Optimization and Tradeoff Analysis among competing objectives for a road corridor. Submitted for presentation and publication to the 91st Annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Washington DC.
[4]   Heydari, M. and Amador, L. 2012. A fully Bayesian approach to Road Safety: applying Poisson and conjugated Poisson likelihoods with a relative risk assessment. Submitted for presentation and publication to the 91st Annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Washington DC.
[5]   Amador, L. and Afghari, A. 2012. Developing an initial road management system for optimizing pavement condition and road safety: case study of the Tanzania Road Network. Submitted for presentation and publication to the 91st Annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Washington DC.
[6]   Amador, L. 2012. Integral Infrastructure Management: Measuring Economic and Performance Benefits of Trade-off Analysis. Submitted to the Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society. Elseiver.
[7]   Amin, M.S.R. and Amador, L. 2012. Behavior of Land prices in a satellite town of a Mega city: Case study of the Municipality of Savar. Submitted to the Journal of Urban Planning and Development of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
[8]  Amador L., Mrawira D. 2009. "Roads Performance Modeling & Management System from two condition data points: case study of Costa Rica". ASCE, Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol 135 No12. pp: 999-1007
[9]  Amador, L. and Mrawira, D. 2011. "Capturing Variability in Pavement Performance Models from Sufficient Time-Series Predictors: A Case Study of the New Brunswick Road Network". Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 38(2): 210–220
[10]  Amador, L. and Mrawira, D. 2011. "Practical Development of Bayesian Performance Deterioration Modeling in the presence of few time-series & predictors: A case study of the Costa Rica road network". International Journal of Pavement Engineering. Volume 12, Issue 2 April 2011, pages 177-186
[11]  Amador, L. and Magnuson, S. 2011. "Adjacency Modeling for the Coordination of Investments in Infrastructure Asset Management: Case Study of the Town of Kindersley". In press, Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Washington D.C., 2011.

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]   Amador, L. 2011. Relating Land Use and Transport modeling with transportation asset management. Proceedings of the 1st Congress of the Transportation and Development Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Chicago, U.S.
[2]  Amador, L. and Mrawira, D. 2011. "Bayesian Regression in Deterioration Modeling: Revisiting theAASHO Road Test Rut Depth Model". Proceedings of the 90th Annual Congress of the Transportation Research Board. Washington DC, 2011.
[3]   Mrawira, D. Kachua, S., and Amador, L. 2010. "Across Asset Trade-off Analysis and Framework for Adjacency Consideration in Long-term Planning for Transportation Asset Management". Proceedings of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board Washington. D.C.
[4]   Amador, L. 2009. "Multilevel Bayesian Accident Prediction Modeling for Multi-objective Road Management Systems". Proceedings of the XV Ibero-Latin American Asphalt Pavement Congress. Lisbon, Portugal.
[5]   Mrawira D., Amador L. 2009. "Cross-Assets Trade-off Analysis: Why Are We Still Talking About It?". Proceedings of the 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board Washington. D.C.
[6]   Mrawira D., Amador L., 2008. "Breaking the Silos in Asset Management: Comprehensive Optimization in Long-Term Planning over multiple asset types". Proceedings of the 3rd European Pavement and Asset Management Conference. Lisbon, Portugal.
[7]   Amador L., Mrawira D. 2008. "Asset Performance Modelling: What to do when you only have two condition data points". Proceedings of the 87th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board Washington. D.C.
[8]   Mrawira D., MacNaughton J., & Amador L., 2008. "Pushing the frontier of Asset Management: using trade-off analysis across asset-types to support agency's budget exercise". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Managing Public Assets. Calgary Alberta.
[9]   Mrawira D., Amador L., Zhong M. 2007. "Application of GIS-T to Develop Asset Performance Modelling and Long Term Investment Planning for a Road Network". Proceedings of the XIV Ibero-American Asphalt Congress. Cuba.