Michael Mauch

Job title: 
Assistant Research Engineer
Department: 
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
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Dr. Mauch is an Assistant Research Engineer at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) and California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH).  Dr. Mauch supports all phases of research projects including proposal writing, designing and performing technical analysis, developing and delivering presentations and project management, and is responsible for crafting complete reports of research findings. Dr. Mauch’s current research collaborator at CA PATH is Professor Alexander Skabardonis. 

From 2002 to 2007, Dr. Mauch served as a Senior Development Engineer with UC Berkeley’s Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) and California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH).  He also has considerable consulting experience in transportation planning and modeling.  In addition, Dr. Mauch supervised and mentored junior researchers and graduate student researchers. 

Dr. Mauch earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Marquette University in 1982, a B.S in Computer Science from Chapman University in 1988, a M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA in 1996, a M.S in Civil Engineering from U.C.  Berkeley in 1999 and a PhD in Civil Engineering from U.C. Berkeley in 2002.  His doctoral thesis focused on identifying and quantifying the properties of start-stop waves in congested freeway traffic.

Research interests: 
  • Transportation data analysis
  • Applications programming
  • Mathematical model building
  • Travel demand forecasting.
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