Karim El-basyouny

Biography

Dr. Karim El-Basyouny is the City of Edmonton's Research Chair in Urban Traffic Safety at the University of Alberta. He is an expert in issues of traffic injury prevention, crash modeling, and safety intervention analysis. His research is focused on applying transportation engineering principles and research evaluation methodologies to improve urban traffic safety in the areas of traffic operations and planning, geometric and roadside design, and speed management. As the a co-investigator for multiple longitudinal safety evaluations, Dr. El-Basyouny has developed proficient skills in conducting field research including study design, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, and the timely dissemination of findings to a variety of stakeholders. Dr. El-Basyouny was the Principal Investigator on the Evaluation of the Residential Speed Limit Reduction Pilot in Edmonton, Alberta, as well as several other research and evaluation projects in Alberta and British Columbia. Currently, Dr. Karim El-Basyouny is a co-investigator on several ITS and traffic safety projects, and is working collaboratively with the City of Edmonton to develop a Master Research Plan.

Research Interest

Dr. El-Basyouny's research focuses on applying advanced statistical techniques to traffic safety and evaluating safety-based initiatives. His current research is focused on: Crash Modeling: improving the state-of-the-art in collision modeling using advanced statistical techniques. Safety Evaluation: developing new methods to analyze the results of safety intervention analysis to explore the novelty and direct treatment effects of safety countermeasures. Speed Management: developing and analyzing speed management strategies to improve compliance to speed limits and reduce speeding. Analysis of Surrogate Safety Measures: relating surrogate safety measures to crash data or specific crash types and validating the use of surrogate safety measures derived from traffic micro-simulations.