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Mark W. Burris, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
CE/TTI Building Room
304C
3136 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843
Voice: 979-845-9875
Fax: 979-845-6481
E-Mail: MBurris@tamu.edu
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Research Area: Transportation Economics
My efforts in teaching, research,
and service all focus on improving critical analysis and decision making
processes to optimize the use of, and investment in, transportation
infrastructure. My motivation lies in knowing that there are finite
resources available for transportation and transportation engineers have
an obligation to society to maximize the benefits derived from these
resources. In addition, it is rewarding to see your ideas
implemented - resulting in improvement to people’s daily travel. To
date, much of my research has focused on innovative tolling strategies to
maximize the use of existing infrastructure and, as a byproduct of this
research, determine traveler's true values of travel time savings and
their behavioral change due to innovative tolling
scenarios.
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Civil Engineering,
University of South Florida, 2001.
Master of Science in Engineering,
University of New Brunswick, 1995.
Bachelor of Engineering, Civil
Engineering Co-op Program,
Technical University of
Nova Scotia, 1993.
TEACHING
I am moving all current course related
materials to the CENOTES website.
The CENOTES website allows students to
have password protected access to assignments, notes and grades
Spring 2008 courses:
CVEN 454 - Urban
Planning for Engineers -
Syllabus
CVEN 632 -
Transportation
System Engineering Management - Syllabus
Fall 2008 course:
CVEN 307 - Transportation Engineering -
Syllabus
RESEARCH
Research assistantships available
for transportation engineering graduate students
Undergraduate Fellows Summer Program -
Each summer a select few undergraduate civil engineering students
from around the country participate in the Undergraduate Summer Fellows Program at Texas A&M.
This program provides a valuable research-oriented work experience. The home page for the
program is here.
Funded
research projects
Publications
Variable
Priced Road Facilities
SERVICE
Civil Engineering representative for the College of Engineering's
Engineering Scholar’s Program ***An excellent opportunity for top civil engineering undergraduate students to experience the
research process and get a feel for graduate studies!
National
University
STUDENTS
Current Students:
- Sunil Patil, PhD student, working for me on modeling
traveler behavior and response to value pricing mode choice options
- Kwang Kyum Lim, ME student, exaiming value
pricing in Seoul
- John Lowery, MS student, examining managed lanes in
San Antonio
- Karteeka Nalli, MS student, examining the impact
of distribution centers
- Mandeep Pannu, MS student, working for me on HOT
lanes in Houston
- Ben Sperry, PhD student, examining the impacts of
mixed use developments
- Lin Zhou, MS student, examining the impact of pricing incentives on truck use of
toll roads
Recent Graduates:
- Glenn Anderson, ME
- Michael Bolin, ME
- David Bruno, ME
- Geoffrey Chum, MS
- Erin Eurek, ME
- Lindsay Liggett, MS
- Kevin Lipnickey, MS
- Maneesh Mahlawat, MS
- Selvaraj Rayan, ME
- Ben Sperry, MS
- Jose Solari, ME
2008 Transportation Group Student Award Winners:
From left to right: Jon Re [Jack E. Leisch
Memorial National Graduate Fellowship, Transoft
Solutions Inc. Ahead of the Curve Scholarship, ITE Outstanding
Student Paper Award for District 9], Ehsanul Bari [William R. "Dick" McCasland '55 Fellowship in
Traffic Engineering]
, Byung-Jung Park [Jacobs Engineering
Scholarship & Keese-Wootan Fellowship], Mandeep Pannu
[Sherryl and Steve Hofener '77
Fellowship], Xiugang
Li [SWUTC Herman Award]
Not Pictured: Rahul Putha
[International Education Fee Scholarship]
2007 Transportation Group Student Award Winners:
Back Row:
Tom Hartmann [William R. "Dick" McCasland '55 Fellowship in
Traffic Engineering],
Rachael Stensrud [Keese-Wootan Fellowship], Ben Sperry [Keese-Wootan
Fellowship], Yuangchang Xie [SWUTC Herman Award]
Front Row: Cameron Williams
[Keese-Wootan Fellowship & ENO Fellowship], Kevin Lipnicky [Jacobs Engineering
Scholarship]
Not Pictured: Xiugang Li
[Sherryl and Steve Hofener '77
Fellowship]
2006 Transportation Group Student Award Winners:
Back Row:
Zhirui Ye [Jacobs Engineering Scholarship], Geoffrey Chum [Daniel B. Fambro '73
Memorial Scholarship], Maneesh Mahlawat [Sherryl and Steve Hofener '77
Fellowship], Kevin Lipnicky [Joe L. Cooper '56 Endowed Scholarship], Naveen
Mokkapati [Kimley - Horn Fellowship]
Front Row: Erin Saucier [E.B.
"Bill" Cape '29 Civil Engineering Scholarship], Erin Eurek [ENO Fellowship]
Not Pictured: Marshall Cheek [William R. "Dick" McCasland '55 Fellowship in
Traffic Engineering]