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Easa, Said
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Said Easa is a professor of Civil Engineering at Ryerson University. Easa earned his M.Eng. from McMaster University and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include Highway Geometric Design and Road Safety, Human Factors in Transportation, Traffic Operations and Management, Modeling of Transportation Networks, Transportation Systems Logistics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Geographic Information Systems. Easa was Vice-President (Administration) of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) and member of CSCE Board of Directors. In 1996, he initiated and chaired the highly successful CSCE transportation conference series, held in Edmonton, Halifax, London, Montreal, Saskatoon, and Toronto. His international activities include serving as chair of the ASCE Intermodal Committee, as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, and as guest editor of several special issues of this journal. Easa was Chair of the Executive Committee of the ASCE Urban Transportation Division (1997) and its CSCE counterpart (1994-98), and co-chair of the ASCE conference in 1998. That same year, he led a CSCE delegation to China focusing on sustainable transportation systems. His work has received several national/international best-paper and lifetime achievement awards, including the 2005 Arthur M. Wellington Prize from ASCE for best paper, the 2003 Sandford Fleming Award from CSCE, and the 2001 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award from ASCE. He has authored and co-authored more than 350 technical works, including nearly 200 refereed journal articles and book contributions.