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- Dr. David Boyce, P.E., is Professor of Transportation and Regional Science in the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- During 36 years of research and teaching, Professor Boyce has addressed key methodological issues related to metropolitan transportation and land use planning. His early monograph, Metropolitan Plan Making, critically examined the experience with the land use and travel forecasting models during the 1960s. Recognizing that these methods lacked an adequate scientific basis, he has since devoted himself to the formulation and solution of urban travel and land use forecasting models as constrained optimization problems and related constructs, which synthesize elements of network analysis and modeling, stochastic discrete choice theory and entropy-based methods.
- Through this research, he has concluded that the conventional travel forecasting paradigm, widely known as the four-step travel forecasting procedure, may now be seen to be a counter-productive concept. By focusing research on individual elements of daily travel decisions, mainly represented as having fixed travel times and costs, the conventional point of view obscures the overall equilibria and interdependence of travel choices. To offer an alternative perspective, Professor Boyce has rigorously formulated, implemented, estimated and validated large-scale, integrated models of travel behavior. This ongoing research offers an alternative both to the conventional viewpoint, and to newer initiatives, which also lack a rigorous scientific foundation. He has also extended this integrated approach to the study of regional economies, interregional commodity flows and freight transportation systems.
- In addition to this primary research theme, from 1986-1996, Professor Boyce was an early innovator of in-vehicle dynamic route guidance systems, a principal element of the emerging field of Intelligent Transportation Systems. This research culminated in his leading a multi-university team that performed development and evaluation tasks for the ADVANCE Project, a large-scale field test of a prototype route guidance system, in conjunction with Motorola, Inc., and federal and state transportation departments. In this role he also conducted theoretical and modeling studies of the performance of route guidance systems on urban road networks.
- Following the completion of his Ph.D. in the field of regional science in 1965, Professor Boyce in various roles has provided institutional support and leadership to the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) in North America, Europe and Asia. For twenty years, he organized the North American Meetings of this academic society. He served as co-editor of a principal journal in the field of urban and regional research and as associate editor of the archival journal in the transportation research field. In addition, he has served on many editorial boards in regional science and transportation. In 1985, he directed a National Science Foundation workshop on transportation research.
- In recognition of his research and service contributions to the field of Regional Science, in 2000 he was awarded the Founder’s Medal of the RSAI; in 2002, he was elected as a Fellow of the RSAI. In 2000, he received the UIC Inventor of the Year and the UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Awards for his contributions to transportation modeling and algorithms. He also received the University of Illinois Alumni Association’s UIC Flame Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001. In 2003, he was awarded emeritus member from Transportation Research Board (TRB), The National Academies, USA.
- During his career, David Boyce served as a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania (1966-77), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1977-88), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (1988-present). From 1988-1996, he served as Director of the Urban Transportation Center at the last university. Professor Boyce received his B.S. in civil engineering from Northwestern University in 1961, and his Ph.D. in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. He also received his Master of City Planning degree from Penn. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio and a Life Member of ASCE. He has published 160 journal articles, books, book chapters and reports during the past 36 years.
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