Dr. John Falcocchio has been a Professor of Transportation Planning & Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) since 1981, and the Director of the NYU-Poly’s Urban ITS Center since 1995. Until 2003, he was the Executive Director of NYU-Poly’s Transportation Research Institute, and was the head of its Department of Civil Engineering until 2001. He received his BCE, MS and PhD at NYU-Poly (then Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn), and a Certificate in Traffic Engineering from the Yale University Bureau of Highway Traffic where he studied on a nine-month fellowship.

Dr. Falcocchio’s transportation career has been shaped through a professional lifetime blend of academic and practical work experiences ranging from construction engineering to urban transportation planning for public agencies and the private sector. He was the Founding Principal of Urbitran Associates, a privately owned architecture and planning company, where he was responsible for the firm’s transportation projects. In the last 20 years he has concentrated on the delivery of intelligent transportation systems solutions for improving transportation system performance and travelers benefits.
Strongly committed to integrating advanced technologies into transportation infrastructure management strategies, Dr. Falcocchio in 1995, co-established the Urban Intelligent Transportation Systems Center (UITSC) at NYU-Poly. For the last 10 years the UITSC has provided the NYCDOT and NYSDOT with an effective framework to assess ITS technology deployment strategies in upgrading the performance of New York City’s transportation systems through research, professional training, demonstration projects, and international outreach.

His current research concentrates on the development and use of real-time traffic performance metrics in monitoring and managing traffic congestion. Twoon-going projects include the evaluation of traveler benefits for the Manhattan Midtown-in-Motion transportation project, and the completion of a forthcoming book on urban traffic congestion co-authored with Herbert Levinson.
Dr. Falcocchio is the author of 45 publications, has participated in twenty national and international conferences and professional presentations and has written a dozen books and reports.