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Prof. Yoram Shiftan
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Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Office: Rabin Building, 710
Phone: +972 -77 -887- 2381

Yoram Shiftan is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Technion specializing in travel behavior, transport policy, and transport project evaluation. He is the head of the Israeli Center for Smart Transpotation Research and was the editor of the journal Transport Policy and the chair of the International Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR).  He received his Ph.D. from MIT and since then has published over hundred papers and co-edited five books.  Overall, he spent 4.5 years as a visiting professor in leading universities in Europe and the US, most recently at Northwestern University in Chicago.