Stephen Arhin, Ph.D.
School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Visiting Pofessor, Civil Engineering
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Research Interests
Transportation and Traffic engineering; highway and traffic signal design; traffic modeling and simulation, transportation planning, traffic analysis, highway traffic safety and control; Intelligent Transportation Systems; GIS Applications; Engineering Project Management.
Contact Information
202.274.6600 Office
202.274.6232 Fax
sarhin@udc.edu
Office Location
University of the District of Columbia
Van Ness Campus
Building 42, Suite 213D
Education
BS – Civil and Environmental Engineering; University of Science & Technology (Ghana, 1996)
MS – Transportation Engineering; Howard University (1999)
Ph.D. – D.Sc.; Civil and Environmental Engineering (Transportation Safety Engineering)
George Washington University (2004 - 2007)
Career Information / Professional Experience
Dr. Stephen Arhin is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) and a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE) with 16 years experience in all facets of transportation and traffic engineering that includes traffic safety and operations, planning and Intelligent Transportation Systems. He has extensive experience working with state and local transportation agencies on a wide variety of safety, operations, and design projects, as well as research projects. Prior to joining the academia, he was a Senior Traffic Engineer with a number of nationally-recognized engineering consulting firms. Dr. Arhin’s research interests include the following areas:
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic
- Traffic Control Devices
- Crash Data Analysis
- Pedestrian Safety and Management
- Traffic Management and Monitoring Systems
- Technology Evaluation (ITS)
- Pavement Ride Quality
- Traffic Modeling and Simulation
- Highway Safety Data Analysis
- Data Mining
- Algorithms in Vehicle Adaptation Systems
Publications
"Evaluation of Two Countdown Pedestrian Signals Displays in the District of Columbia”. Safety and Security, PP. 278-285, WIT Press; Arhin, S. and Noel, E.C. (2011)
"Establishing Red-Light Violation Index in an Urban Area". 7th Urban Transport, pp. 296-309, WIT Press; Arhin, S. and Noel, E.C. (2011)
“Driver behavior models for a driving simulator-based intelligent speed adaptation system” Urban Transport XV, WIT Press, pp. 185-198; 2009, Arhin, S., Eskandarian, A.
“Evaluation of Countdown Pedestrian Signals in the District of Columbia” (IEEE Journal, Presented at the 2007 ITS Conference, Seattle, WA):
“Effectiveness and Acceptance of Adaptive Intelligent Speed Adaptation Systems” (TRB No. 2086, pp 133-139): Arhin, S., Eskandarian, A. and Blum, J. (2007)
“Establishing International Roughness Index for a Dense Urban Area – A case study in Washington, DC.” WIT Press, 6th Sustainability City, pp. 275-286. Arhin, S., Noel, E.C., and Lakew, M.
“Measuring Speed Behaviors for Future Intelligent, Adaptive In-Vehicle Speed Management Systems” (2008 Intelligent Vehicle Conference, SAE International): Arhin, S., Pierre Delaigue, Damoon Soudbakhsh and Eskandarian, A.
“Development and evaluation of an advanced intelligent speed adaptation system” (Journal of Automotive Engineering No. 797, Vol. 222, 2008), Arhin, S., Pierre Delaigue, J. Blum and Eskandarian, A.
Courses
Transportation Engineering
Traffic Engineering I
Advanced Traffic Engineering I
Urban Transportation Planning
Probability and Statistics for Engineers & Scientists
Computer Essentials for Civil Engineers
Project Management
Construction Scheduling
Estimating
Construction Project Management
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Transportation
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