Carlos Sun, PH.D., P.E.

  for
Evaluation of Motorist Assist Programs.

Dr. Sun started in transportation engineering in 1990 and has been on the faculty at Mizzou since 2001. He has degrees in electrical engineering (B.S.) and civil/transportation engineering (M.S./Ph.D.) from the University of California, Irvine. He is currently pursuing a degree in law (J.D.) at Mizzou in order to increase his knowledge in transportation legal areas. Previously, he performed post-doctoral research at the University of California-Berkeley and taught at the University of Southern California and at Rowan University (N.J.). He and his PATH colleagues won the 2000 “best of ITS” award from the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. His research and teaching interests include safety, ITS, work zones, networks, simulation, traffic flow theory, geometric design, roundabouts, planning, security, airport engineering, and legal issues in transportation. In his career, he has been active with ASCE, Chi-Epsilon, IEEE, and ITE/CMITE. He and his wife, Janene, both enjoy mowing their lawn with their John Deere tractor.

The high quality project’s findings: The St. Louis Motorist Assist Program benefit-cost ratio is 38.25 to 1. It reduced 1,082 secondary crashes per year with annual net social benefits of $78,264,017. It reduced $1,130,000 in annual congestion costs, and supported community emergency response with safer and quicker Incident response and clearance, plus reduced ER resources for TIM activities freeing them up for other community needs. When MoDOT requested final documents separated out in two parts (which was not a part of the original request), Dr Sun went above and beyond by separating out the two parts quickly.

Congratulations Carlos!