Profile

Dr. Miguel Figliozzi believes that freight research and innovation not only benefit private companies but also enable the optimal use of infrastructure, as well as ensuring environmental quality, livable communities, and economic growth. Dr. Figliozzi hopes to push these ideas further and help expand his students' analytical and policy capabilities in these areas.

Dr. Figliozzi joined the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Portland State University in the fall of 2007. Originally from Cordoba, Argentina, he completed his undergraduate studies at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba. Dr. Figliozzi's later studies were completed in the U.S. at the University of Texas at Austin (M.S.) and the University of Maryland College Park (Ph.D.). He then taught at the University of Sydney, Australia in the Business School's Institute for Transport and Logistics. He was attracted to Portland State University in part because of the dynamic growth and energy of the transportation engineering research group.

Dr. Figliozzi teaches graduate courses in freight transportation, supply chain/logistics, networks and optimization, as well as the undergraduate introductory course to transportation engineering. His research interests and publications include: fleet management and ve­hicle routing, pricing in trucking and freight, the impact of conges­tion on carriers and commercial vehicle movements, web-based and GPS freight data collection and applications, maritime transportation and international freight, green logistics, shippers and carriers value of time and reliability, and transport related supply chain disruptions. Dr. Figliozzi is a key faculty members in the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC), which recently received $16 million in federal funding over the next six years for transportation research, education, and outreach programs, in collaboration with University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and Oregon Institute for Technology. Dr. Figliozzi is a member of the Transportation Research Board Network Modeling Committee and the Intermodal Terminal Design Committee. He is also a member of INFORMS (www.informs.org) Transportation and Logistics Society.

Contact Information

Professor Miguel Figliozzi
website: web.cecs.pdx.edu/~maf
phone: (503) 725-2836
email: figliozzi@pdx.edu

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
website: www.cee.pdx.edu
phone: (503) 725-4282
email: ceedept@cecs.pdx.edu

Office:
Engineering Building 301D
Portland State University

Mailing Address:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
P.O. Box 751
Portland, OR 97207-0751