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Adjo Akpene Amekudzi

Associate Professor

Presentations

  1. Invited Talk: Capital Asset Management, Sustainable Development and Timeframes, 2012 Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchange on Sustainability Scientific Workshop, Graz, Austria, Sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Austrian Ministry of Science and Education, April 23-25, 2012.
  2. Invited Talk: Toward Low Carbon Cities: Achieving Reduction in Global Cities in the Context of Local Sustainable Development Priorities, Joint U.S. China Workshop: Pathways Toward Low Carbon Cities: Quantifying baselines and Interventions, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, December 13-14, 2010.
  3. Invited Seminar: Risk-Theoretical Foundations for Sustainable Development Priorities: A Global Perspective, Department of Systems Engineering and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia, October 15, 2010.
  4. Invited Workshop: ASCE Workshop for Professional Certification in Sustainable Engineering, (Workshop to develop curriculum content for five fundamental courses for professional certification in Sustainable Engineering), ASCE Headquarters, Reston, VA, September 24-25, 2010.
  5. Invited Workshop: United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration Sustainable Highway Peer Exchange, June 3-4, 2010.
  6. Using Sustainability Resource and Waste Footprints to Evaluate Progress toward Transportation Systems Sustainability. Engineering Sustainability 2009: Innovations that Span Boundaries, April 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
  7. Invited Panel: What can Educational Institutions do to Meet the Challenges? 21st Century Transportation Workforce Summit, National Center for Freight and Infrastructure, University of Wisconsin, Madison, December 8-9, 2008.
  8. Invited Panel: Education Infrastructure, African Technology Conference, Accra, Ghana, July 17, 2008.
  9. Transportation Issues in Major Cities and Megacities. 11th World Congress on Transportation Research (WCTR), Berkeley, California, June 25-28, 2007.
  10. Invited Seminar: Sustainability in Infrastructure Decision Making, Rice University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. March 23, 2007.
  11. Results of the Peer Exchange on the Evolving Role of Statewide Planning in an Era of Regional Funding and Governance. 2007 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 21-25, 2007.
  12. Invited Seminar: Transportation Asset Management in the ‘90s, ‘00s and Beyond, Ghana Institution of Engineers, July 25, 2005, Engineering Center, Accra, Ghana.
  13. Invited Panel: 2005 ASCE Construction Research Congress, Civil Infrastructure and Information Systems Proposal Preparation Workshop, Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, April 6, 2005
  14. The Civil Engineering Systems Course at Georgia Institute of Technology. 2004 Engineering Systems Symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2004.
  15. Asset Valuation for Toll Bridges: Health Index and Income Capitalization Approaches. 2004 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 2004.
  16. Exploration of Portfolio Theory Applications in Bridge Security Management. 2003 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October 2003.
  17. Transportation and Brownfield Developments: Review and Analysis of Current Practice. 2003 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D. C., January 2003.
  18. Consideration of Environmental Factors in Transportation Planning: Review and Analysis of Current Policies, Practices and Trends. 2003 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 2003.
  19. Using Remote Sensing, Image Processing and GIS Techniques for Transportation Infrastructure and Environmental Capital Asset Management. 2002 International Congress on the Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 2002.
  20. Invited Seminar: Portfolio Management of Civil Infrastructure, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, City University of New York (CUNY), May 17, 2002.
  21. Invited Seminar, Development of an Environmental Justice Analysis Methodology for Georgia Department of Transportation’s Multimodal Transportation Planning Tool, Department of Engineering, Clark Atlanta University, September 14, 2001.
  22. Application of Shortfall Analysis and Markowitz' Theory in Investment Tradeoff Analysis for Competing Infrastructure: Using HERS and NBIAS for Integrated Asset Management. Fifth International Conference on Managing Pavements, Seattle, Washington, August 2001.
  23. Development of an Environmental Justice Analysis Methodology for Georgia Department of Transportation’s Multimodal Transportation Planning Tool. Eighth Transportation Research Board Conference on Planning Applications, Corpus Christi, Texas, April 2001.
  24. Invited Seminar: Key Factors Affecting Environmental Justice Analysis, Urban Transportation Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 6, 2001.
  25. Interdisciplinary Education: Civil Infrastructure Systems Management. Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Education in the 21st Century, Southampton, England, April 2000.
  26. Measuring Information Continuity in Evolving Decision Support Systems. 2000 Conference on Information Quality, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2000.

Reports

  1. Amekudzi, A., and M. Meyer. Comprehensive Transportation Asset Management: Risk-Based Data Expansion and Inventory Needs. Report prepared for the Georgia Department of Transportation, December 2011.
  2. Amekudzi, A. and C. R. Ross. Impact of Environmental Justice on Transportation. Report prepared for the Georgia Department of Transportation. December 2011.
  3. Amekudzi, A., M. Meyer. Best Practices in Selecting Performance Measures and Standards for Effective Asset Management. Report prepared for the Georgia Department of Transportation, November 2011.
  4. Amekudzi, A. A., Meyer, M. D., Ross, C. L., and E. Barrella. Transportation Planning for Sustainability Guidebook. Report prepared for the Federal Highway Administration, January 2011.
  5. Amekudzi, A. Evolving Role of Statewide Planning in an Era of Regional Funding and Governance: A Peer Exchange. Transportation Research E-Circular No. E-C125, Transportation Research Board, National Academy Press, 2008.
  6. Amekudzi, A., and K. Dixon. Georgia Guidebook for Pedestrian Planning. Prepared for the Georgia Department of Transportation, June 2006.
  7. Amekudzi, A., Zureick A., and D. Folds. Comprehensive Evaluation of Guardrail Delineation Systems. Report prepared by for the Georgia Department of Transportation, April 2004.
  8. Fomunung, I., and A. Amekudzi. Transportation Improvements and Systems-Level Brownfield Development Programs. Report prepared for the Federal Highway Administration, August 2003.
  9. Fomunung, I., and A. Amekudzi. Transportation Options for Brownfields Development. Report prepared for the Federal Highway Administration, May 2002.
  10. Amekudzi, A., and M. Meyer. Consideration of Environmental Factors in Transportation Systems Planning. NCHRP Report 541. Prepared for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board, June 2003.