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Dr. Alex Hainen
Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Transportation Operations, Planning, and Safety
Contact
- 2030 Smart Communities and Innovation Building (SCIB)
- phone (205) 348-3139
- fax (205) 348-6959
Research Areas
Education
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2014
- M.S., Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2011
- B.S., Civil Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 2009
Dr. Alex Hainen is an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) in the College of Engineering (CoE) at The University of Alabama (UA) and serves as the director of the Center for Transportation Operations, Planning, and Safety (CTOPS). He received his BSCE from Michigan Technological University and his MSCE and PhD from Purdue University. At UA, Dr. Hainen is affiliated with the Alabama Transportation Institute (ATI), the Center for Advanced Vehicle Technology (CAVT), and the Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS).
As an academic, Dr. Hainen has been heavily involved with planning, designing, deploying, and publishing in the areas of traffic engineering, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), transportation systems management and operation (TSMO), and connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). He has been involved with 50 transportation research and deployment projects representing nearly $45 million of funded research efforts.
All of this work has been funded by a variety of agencies including state departments of transportation, the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the United States Department of Energy (USDOE), the Federal Transit Agency (FTA), the United States Department of Defense (DOD) through the United States Army’s Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) and Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL), and the American Automobile Association (AAA) foundation. He has more than 50 peer reviewed journal articles and 50 conference proceedings.
He and his wife have three kids and attend One Hope Church in Tuscaloosa.
Affiliated Areas
Center for Transportation Operations, Planning and Safety, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Selected Publications
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Talukder, S., A. D. Lidbe, E. G. Tedla, A. M. Hainen, T. L. Atkison. “Trajectory-Based Signal Control in Mixed Connected Vehicle Environments”. Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems. 147(5). 2021. https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/JTEPBS.0000510
- Talukder, M., Tedla, E., Hainen, A. and Atkison, T. “Analytical and Empirical Evaluation of Freight Priority System in Connected Vehicle Environment”. Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A: Systems. 148(6). June 1, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1061/JTEPBS.0000673
- Hainen, A.M., J.S. Wasson, S.M.L. Hubbard, S.M. Remias, G.D. Farnsworth, and D.M. Bullock, “Estimating Route Choice and Travel Time Reliability with Field Observations of Bluetooth Probe Vehicles,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2256, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., pp. 43-50, 2011. DOI: 10.3141/2256-06.
- Adanu E.K., A. M. Hainen, S. L. Jones, Jr. “Latent class analysis of factors that influence weekday and weekend single-vehicle crash severities”. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 2018 Apr;113:187-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2018.01.035
- Liu, J., A. Hainen, X. Li, Q. Nie, S. Nambisan. “Pedestrian injury severity in motor vehicle crashes: An integrated spatiotemporal modeling approach”. Accident Analysis and Prevention. Volume 132, November 2019, 105272. August 14, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2019.105272
Awards and Honors
- Donald H. McLean Civil Engineering Professor of the Year, 2023
- Institute of Transportation Engineers’ Transportation Safety Award, 2022
- Educator of the Year Award, Engineering Council of Birmingham, 2020
- Faculty Excellence in Research & Innovation Emerging Scholar Award, 2019
- Donald H. McLean Civil Engineering Professor of the Year, 2019