Akmal Abdelfatah, Assistant Professor
PhD, Civil Engineering (Transportation), University of Texas, Austin, 1999

Address:
Department of Civil Engineering
College of Engineering American University of Sharjah
P.O. Box 26666
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Room: EL127
Office: +(971) 6 515 2903
Fax: +(971) 6 515 2979
E-mail: akmal@aus.edu

Research Interests

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications, dynamic traffic assignment,
traffic signal design and operations, traffic flow theory, operations research applications in transportation networks, and urban transportation systems planning and analysis

Courses

Biography

Akmal S. Abdelfatah is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. He has been with AUS since 1999. Before that, he was a graduate research assistant at the University of Texas-Austin (1994-1999). Before 1994, Dr. Abdelfatah was a teaching assistant at Cairo University and the American University of Cairo (AUC). Also, he was working as a part-time highway and traffic engineer (1989-1994). Dr. Abdelfatah has a PhD from the University Texas-Austin (1990), an MS and BS from Cairo University (1993 and 1988, respectively), all in civil engineering with emphasis on transportation engineering. Dr. Abdelfatah is a registered professional engineer in Egypt.

Work History

Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE (1999-present, excluding leave of absence for Fall 2001)

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (July 2002-August 2002)

Transportation Expert, Development Research and Technological Planning Center, Cairo University, Egypt (July 2001-January 2002)

Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Cairo University, Fayoum Campus, Egypt (September 2001-January 2002)

Visiting Scholar, University of Texas, Austin, USA (July 2000-August 2000)

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, University of Texas, Austin, USA (January 1994-August-1999)

Graduate Teaching Assistant (part-time), American University of Cairo, Egypt (September 1992-December 1993)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cairo University, Fayoum Campus, Egypt (October 1988-December 1993)

Graduate Research Assistant (part-time), Development Research and Technological Planning Center (DRTPC), Cairo University, Egypt (March 1990-December 1993)

Highway and Transportation Engineer (part-time), Egyptian Group for Engineering Consultation (EGEC), Cairo, Egypt (January 1990- December 1993)

Scientific and Professional Societies

Registered Professional Engineer

Member of the American Society for Civil Engineers

Member of ITS-America

Member of Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

Member of the Egyptian Engineers Syndicate

Honors and Awards

Received a Research Development Grant from AUS in academic year 2005-2006.

Received a Research Development Grant from AUS in academic year 2004-2005.

Received a Research Development Grant from AUS in academic year 2002-2003.

Received a Research Development Grant from AUS in academic year 2001-2002.

Received a Research Development Grant from AUS in Summer 2000 to visit the University of Texas at Austin and serve as a visiting scholar.

Received a travel grant from the College of Engineering to visit the University of British Columbia and serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor during Summer 2002.

Elected by Civil Engineering students as the best professor for academic year 2001-2002.

Received three travel grants from AUS (2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008) to attend and present papers at conferences outside of the UAE.

Selected Publications and Presentations

1. Tabsh, S. and Abdelfatah, A. (2008) “Influence of Recycled Aggregate on Strength of Concrete," paper accepted for publication in Construction and building Materials.  (in press)
2. Abdelghany, K., Abdelghany, A., Mahmassani, H., and Abdelfatah, A., (2006) “Modeling Bus Priority Using Intermodal Dynamic Network Assignment-Simulation Methodology," paper published in the Journal of Public Transport, vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 1-22.
3. Abdelfatah, A. (2006) “Testing a Traffic Signal Optimization Algorithm”, paper published in the ICE-Transport (Institution of Civil Engineers – Transport), Vol. 159, Feb., 2006, pp. 41-49
4. Abdelfatah, A (2006). “Path-Based Signal Coordination Within a Dynamic Traffic Assignment Framework,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Civil Engineering Infrastructure Systems–CEIS, Beirut, Lebanon.
5. Abdelfatah, A, and Al-Shehi, F. (2006) “Utilizing Dynamic Traffic Assignment In Planning Applications”, the abstract has presented at the 12th Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia (REAAA) Conference, November 20-24, in Manila, Philippines. 
6. Abdelfatah, A. and Al-Ali., A. (2005) “A Web-Based Traffic Information System Using Wireless Communication Techniques,” paper presented at the 10th EWGT (Euro Working Group on Transportation) Meeting and 16th Mini-EURO Conference, organized by Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, 13-16 September 2005.
7. Abdelfatah, A. (2005) “Improving Safety Through ITS Applications”, paper presented at the First Symposium on "Traffic Safety in the UAE: Reality and Vision", organized by the Roadway, Transportation and Traffic Safety Research Center, UAE University, Al-Ain,  13-15 March 2005.
8. Ngan, V., Sayed, T., and Abdelfatah, A. (2004). “Impact of Various Parameters on Transit Signal Priority Effectiveness,” Journal of Public Transportation, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 71-93
9. Ngan, V., Sayed, T., and Abdelfatah, A. (2004). “Evaluation of Transit Signal Priority Strategy Using VISSIM,” Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board Conference.
10. Abdelfatah, A. (2004). “Robustness of a Combined Dynamic Traffic Assignment and Signal Control Algorithm,” Proceedings of the 10th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Istanbul Technical University .