Nationality Canadian | Name Eric Miller | |
Born June 9, 1951
Fort Erie, Ontario ( 1951-06-09 ) Occupation Professor
Transport and Land Use Planner
Transport and Land Use Modeller Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Toronto | ||
Key Steps to Better Transit: Professor Eric Miller (Part 1)
Eric J. Miller (born June 9, 1951 in Fort Erie, Ontario) is Professor of civil engineering at the University of Toronto. His main research areas include microsimulation modelling methods, analysis of transportation - land use interactions, development and applications of disaggregate travel choice models, transportation energy/emissions modelling, analysis of transit demand and operations.
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Early life and education
Miller received a bachelor's degree in engineering science from the University of Toronto in 1973, a master's degree in aerospace studies from the same university in 1975, and a Ph.D. in civil engineering (Transportation Systems) in 1978 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After a brief position at McMaster University he joined the Toronto faculty in 1979 where he became Bahen–Tanenbaum Professor in 2000.
He is the author of the textbook Urban Transportation Planning: A Decision-oriented Approach (2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2001) and was editor-in-chief of the journal Transportation from 2002 to 2004.