David Lovell

Job title: 
Professor
Department: 
Alumni
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Maryland
Bio/CV: 

Dissertation: Traffic Control on Metered Networks Without Route Choice

Advisor: Carlo Daganzo

PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1997

MS Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1993

BA Mathematics, Portland State University, 1990

University of Maryland - Present 

  • Professor

David J. Lovell received his B.A. degree in mathematics from Portland State University in 1990, his M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the

University of California, Berkeley in 1993, and his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997.

He has been teaching at the University of Maryland since 1997. His research interests include transportation facility design

vehicle technology, sensor systems, and air traffic management.

He held a visiting appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 2006-07 academic year.

He will be a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, for the 2017-18 academic year.

Research interests: 

Geometric method of transportation facility design

Sensors in civil engineering applications

Traffic engineering, operations, and control

Dynamic retro-reflective and electrophoretic materials for transportation applications