Dr. Michael Hunter

Biography

Michael P. Hunter is a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His primary teaching and research interests lie in transportation operations design, with a particular focus on adaptive signal control, traffic simulation, freeway geometric design, and arterial corridor operations. Dr. Hunter received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992, followed by an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. He completed his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. Before obtaining his M.S., he worked as a transportation engineer at Sear-Brown Group in Rochester, NY, where he conducted numerous traffic impact studies, signal timing projects, freeway operation evaluations, and toll plaza analyses. Over the years, Michael Hunter has contributed to various projects and initiatives related to traffic science engineering and smart city infrastructure.

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