Robert Bertini

Dissertation: Time Dependent Traffic Flow Features at a Freeway Bottleneck Downstream of a Merge

Advisor: Machael Cassidy

PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1999

MS Civil Engineering, San Jose State University, 1991

BS Civil Engineering, Cal Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, 1988

University of Alabama - Present 

• Professor and Head of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Robert L. Bertini is Professor and Head of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering. He also serves as Chief Transportation Science Research and Development Officer with the Alabama Transportation Institute.

Founding director of the Portland State University Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory and the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium. Served as director or associate director for five National and Tier One University Transportation Research Centers. Served as the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Deputy Administrator for Research and Innovative Technology, where he led the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, strengthened collaboration with the European Commission and Japan, and chaired the U.S. DOT Innovation Council.

Received NSF CAREER Award for development of online multimodal transportation data repository that is a platform for performance measurement, modeling, and prediction. He has delivered the Ogden Lecture (Monash University), the Melvin Webber Memorial Lecture (UC Irvine), and the Warren Lecture (University of Minnesota). Recognized a fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Transportation Engineers and as a senior member of IEEE. Longtime volunteer with the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board, where he chairs the Safety and Operations Group and is a member of Technical Activities Council.

He earned a bachelor’s in civil engineering from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, a master’s in civil engineering from San José State University, and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a licensed professional engineer in California, Florida, and Oregon.