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Ernest Tufuor, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Auburn University Transportation Research Institute
Auburn, AL, United States

Tufuor is a research assistant professor at the Auburn University Transportation Research Institute. Tufuor received his Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, holds an M.Sc. in Transport Planning and Engineering from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and received his bachelor’s
degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. He has over 8 years of transport policy and planning experience at the Ghana Ministry of Roads and Highways an equivalent to the US Federal Highway Administration. Tufuor is a registered Professional Engineer in Ghana and a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (ACP40) and Highway Traffic Monitoring Committee (ACP70). Tufuor has led and supported several state DOT projects on intelligent transportation system analysis with a total
budget of over US$ 5 million. He is currently the PI on a related study on horizontal curve studies funded by the Alabama Department of Transportation. Tufuor has authored and presented several peer-reviewed articles in internationally recognized transportation committees and journals. He has received two best paper awards from the Transportation Research Board’s standing committees ACP40 and ACP70. The American Society of Civil Engineers recently selected the calibration technical paper as one of the ASCE Editor’s Choice for the Transportation and Development Institute, and it was nominated for the prestigious Arthur Wellington Prize award for 2022. He won the 2018 International Highway Engineering Exchange Program Award and the 2018 Intelligent Transportation Systems Heartland Research Award.

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