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Pasi Lautala, PhD

Director, Rail Transportation Program
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, Michigan, United States

Dr. Lautala was appointed in August, 2012 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 and to Professor as well as Associate Dean for Research in 2023. He is also the founder and the Director of Rail Transportation Program (RTP) since the program was established in 2007 and is currently on his second stint of directing the Michigan Tech Transportation Institute (MTTI). Pasi has his BS from Tampere University of Technology in Finland and his MSc and PhD degrees from Michigan Tech University. Dr. Lautala has been a leader or co-leader of more than ten million dollars in external research, covering a range of topics related to the rail and other transportation, from trespasser and grade crossing safety to multimodal transportation logistics, life cycle analysis, and railway capacity related topics. Under his leadership, Michigan Tech has also expanded the rail research portfolio to various departments across the campus.

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