Miguel Figliozzi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park, 2004
M.S., The University of Texas at Austin, 1998
B.S., Civil Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, 1993

Dr. Miguel Andres Figliozzi joined Portland State University in August 2007 as an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department.

Dr. Figliozzi’s research area is in transportation and freight/logistics. Current funded projects include:

• development and evaluation of algorithms for time-varying vehicle routing problems,
• the study of the impact of time windows and delivery sizes on the vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT),
• the study of transport and supply chain disruptions on shippers’ costs and operations, and
• the integration of Oregon’s freight flows with traffic and socioeconomic data. 

Additional areas of research include:

• development of new freight congestion measures,
• algorithms for vehicle routing and distribution in congested urban areas,
• the study of the impact of toll and lane pricing on freight demand and supply chains,
• the evaluation of the environmental impacts of freight transportation,
• the development of alternative sustainable freight transportation options.

His teaching includes courses in freight transportation, transportation data analysis, supply chain/logistics, networks and optimization, and the introductory course to transportation engineering.

Dr. Figliozzi holds a PhD from the University of Maryland College Park and a MSc from the University of Texas at Austin. His previous academic appointment was at the University of Sydney Business School in the Institute for Transport and Logistics.

For more information, please visit his website at http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~maf

301D Engineering Building
1930 SW Fourth Avenue
Portland, OR 97201 USA
Phone: 503-725-2836
Fax: 503-725-5950
Email: figliozzi@pdx.edu