Justice Appiah, Ph.D., P.E.

Research Interests:

• Traffic modeling and simulation
• Traffic engineering and traffic control devices
• Highway safety analysis
• Traffic signal operations

Education:

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• M.S., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station
• B.Sc., Kwame Nkrumah Univ. of Sci. & Tech, Kumasi, Ghana

Registrations:

• Registered Professional Engineer, Commonwealth of Virginia
• Registered Professional Engineer, State of Michigan

Memberships:

• Institute of Transportation Engineers 
• Standing Committee on Traffic Control Devices (AHB50), Transportation Research Board
• Advanced Technologies Committee, ASCE Transportation and Development Institute
• Transportation Statistics Interest Group, American Statistical Association

Awards:

• VTRC Jack H. Dillard Best Paper Award, "Examination of Features Correlated with Roadway Departure Crashes on Rural Roads" (with M. Zhao), 2021
• Best Paper Award for “Safety Effects of Flashing Yellow Arrows Used in Protected Permitted Phasing: Comparison of Full Bayes and Empirical Bayes Results", (with King, Fontaine, and Cottrell), TRB Committee AHB50 (Traffic Control Devices), 2018
• VTRC Horizon Award for Significant Impact on the State of Practice in Transportation, 2016
• International Road Federation Fellow, 2009
• Charley V. Wootan Award for “Outstanding MS Thesis in Transportation Policy and Planning,” Council of University Transportation Centers, Washington DC, 2005

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