Dr. Evangelos Kaisar is a Professor and Director of the Geomatics and Transportation Engineering program at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering at FAU. In addition, Dr. Kaisar is the Director of the Freight Mobility Research Institute (FMRI) a USDOT TIER 1 Transportation Center. He holds a BS degree in civil engineering from Greece and a BS, MS and a Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Kaisar is an expert in transportation systems analysis, large scale mathematical modeling, traffic management, logistics, and preparedness catastrophic management. Dr. Kaisar has over fifteen years of experience in research and education, as well as, vast experience in managing research programs and administrative expertise. He has served as a member in many Transportation Research Board (TRB) committees. He is also a member of the TRB standing committee on Evacuation Committee (ABR30), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), ITS America, and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Dr. Kaisar is also serving as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Transportation Research and is currently Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.