Prof. Antoine Hobeika

Department of Civil Engineering

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, USA

Professor

Email: hobeika@vt.edu

Qualifications

1973 Ph.D., Purdue University, Civil Engineering (Transportation)

1970 M.Sc., American University of Beirut, Civil Engineering

1967 B.Sc., American University of Beirut, Civil Engineering

Publications(Selected)

1. El-Khoury, J., and Hobeika A.G. “An Integrated Stochastic Approach for Risk and Service Estimation: A Passing Sight Distance Application” Published in the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, May issue, 2012.
2. Lee, Kwang-Sub, Hobeika, A.G.,  Zhang, Hong Bo, and Jung, Hee Jin “Traveler’s Response to Value Pricing: Application of Departure Time and Route Choices to TRANSIMS” published in the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering Vol. 136, No. 9, 13 August, 2010.
3. Sherali, H., Hobeika, A.. and Jeenanunta, C., “An optimal constrained Pruning Strategy for decision trees” INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol.21, N0.1 Winter 2009, pp. 49-61.
4. Lee, K.S., and Hobeika, A.G., “Application of Dynamic Value Pricing Through Enhancements to TRANSIMS” Journal of the Transportation Research Board No. 2003, pp 7-16, November 2007.
5. El-Khoury, J., and Hobeika A.G., “Incorporating Uncertainty into the Estimation of the Passing Sight Distance Requirements” Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (CACIE) Journal, Vol. 22, Issue 5, pp 347-357, July 2007.
6. El-Khoury J. & Hobeika, A.G. “Assessing the Risk in the Design of Passing Sight Distances” ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Volume 133, Issue 6, pp 370-377, June 2007.
7. Sherali, H., Jeenanunta, C., And Hobeika, A. “The Approach Dependent, Time-Dependent, Label-constrained Shortest Path Problem” Published in The Networks Journal, June 2006.
8. Jeihani, M., Sherali, H. and Hobeika A. “Computing Dynamic User Equilibria for Large-Scale Transportation Networks” Published in the Journal of Transportation (2006) 33:589-604, September 2006.
9. Sherali, H.D., Hobeika, A.G., and Kangwalklai, S., “Time Dynamic Label-Constrained Shortest Path Problems with Application to TRANSIMS- A Transportation Planning System,” Transportation Science Journal, Vol.37, No. 3, 2003.
10. Hobeika, A.G. and Kim, C.K., “Comparison of Traffic Assignments in Evacuation Modeling,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 45, No. 2, May 1998.
11. Hobeika, A.G., Kim, S., and Beckwith, R., “A Decision Support System for Developing Evacuation Plans Around Nuclear Power Stations,” Interfaces Journal, Institute of Management Science, Operations Research Society of America, Vol. 24, No. 5, September-October, 1994.
12. Hobeika, A. G., Dhulipala, S. “Estimation of Travel Times on Urban Freeways under Incident Conditions” Transportation Research Board Journal, TRR No.1867, pg. 97, Washington D.C., 2004.
13. Hobeika, A.G., “TEDSS 3.0- A Model for Evacuating People around Nuclear Power Stations,”  Proceedings of ASCE 7^th International Conference on Application of Advanced Technology in Transportation, Cambridge, MA, August 5 – 7, 2002.
14. Hobeika, A.G., Ardekani, S. A., and Han, D. L., “Logistics Decisions Following Urban Disasters,” Journal of Microcomputers in Civil Engineering, Vol. 3, pp 18‑27, 1988.
15. Hobeika, A. G., Sivanandan, R., Subramaniam, S., Ozbay, K., and Zhang, Y., “A Real Time Diversion of Freeway Traffic: A Conceptual Approach,” ASCE’s Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 119, no.4, pp.515-534, July, 1993.
16. Sherali, H.D., Arora, N., and Hobeika, A.G., “Parameter Optimization Methods for Estimating Origin-Destination Trip Tables,” Transportation Research-B Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, 1997.