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Lovell, David

Lovell, David

Professor
Director of Gemstone Honors Program
Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Institute for Systems Research
Maryland Robotics Center
1184 Glenn L. Martin Hall

David Lovell has a B.A. in mathematics from Portland State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in transportation consulting and was a combat engineer with the U.S. Marine Corps. His research interests include facility design, management, and control; computational and differential geometry; numerical methods; and the probabilistic structure of sports and tournaments.

Dr. Lovell is an affiliate of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997
  • M.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1993
  • B.A., Portland State University, 1990

Honors and awards

  • ODK Leadership Fraternity, 2015
  • Poole & Kent Senior Faculty Teaching Award, 2014
  • EWB-USA Peter J. Bosscher Faculty Adviser Award, 2012
  • Clark School ENGAGED Faculty, 2011
  • CEE Department Faculty Service Award, 2009

Professional memberships

  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA)
  • Transportation Research Board (TRB)

 

Geometric methods of transportation facility design; sensors in civil engineering applications; vehicle technology; traffic engineering, operations and control; air traffic management; data compression


Small Airport Capacity Modeling Factors

Principal Investigator(s) 



Lovell, David J.

Sponsors 



Federal Aviation Administration

This project is a joint effort between researchers at the University of Maryland and the Ohio State University. The Federal Aviation Administration is interested in developing new capacity modeling factors for small aircraft operations at busy general aviation airports, as current estimates for small airport operating capacity are dated. This research seeks to identify specific data that will contribute to the development of modernized airport capacity models for small aircraft operations. You can visit the project web page here.

 

 

 

 

  • ENCE 201 - Engineering Information Processing
  • ENCE 302 - Probability and Statistics for Civil and Environmental Engineers
  • ENCE 402 - Simulation and Design of Experiments

 

SELECT REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (within last 10 years)

  • Churchill, A.M. and D.J. Lovell (2012). Coordinated aviation network resource allocation under uncertainty. Transportation Research Part E, 48(1), pp. 19-33.
  • Churchill, A.M., Y. Tripodis, and D.J. Lovell (2012). Sun glare impacts on freeway congestion: A geometric model and empirical analysis. ASCE J. Transportation Engineering, 138(10), pp. 1196–1204.
  • Lovell, D.J., K. Vlachou, T. Rabbani, and A. Bayen (2013). A diffusion approximation to a single airport queue. Transportation Research Part C, 33, pp. 227-237.
  • Vlachou, K. and D.J. Lovell (2013). Mechanisms for equitable resource allocation when airspace capacity is reduced. Transportation Research Record 2325, pp. 97-102.
  • Churchill, A.M., D.J. Lovell, A. Mukherjee, and M.O. Ball (2013). Determining the number of airport arrival slots. Transportation Science, 47(4), pp. 526-541.
  • Maring, E., G. Raspanti, G. Jaschek, K. Hogan, C. Farmer, D. Lovell, S. Grutzmacher, P. Parikh, and S. Olcese (2014). Engineering and public health: An interdisciplinary approach to addressing water quality in Compone, Peru. Annals of Global Health, Volume 80, Issue 3, May–June 2014, Page 238.
  • Jones, J.C. and D.J. Lovell (2014). Methods for curbing the exemption bias in Ground Delay Programs through speed control, Transportation Research Record 2400, pp. 37-44.
  • Brown, C.Y., T.A. Brubaker, A.M. Churchill, G.M. Crosswhite, D. Fried, L. Kirsch, D.A. Zelman, and D.J. Lovell (2015). Development of an electrophoretic display technology for selectively retroreflective signs and pavement markers. ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, 141(1), pp. 04014067-1-9.
  • Shrestha, D., D.J. Lovell, and Y. Tripodis (2017).  Hardware and software for collecting microscopic trajectory data on naturalistic driving behavior. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 21(3), 202-213.
  • Jones, J.C., D.J. Lovell, and M.O. Ball (2018).  Stochastic optimization models for transferring delay along flight trajectories in order to reduce fuel usage.  Transportation Science, 52(1), 134-149.
  • Lovell, D.J. (2018). Lossless compression of all vehicle trajectories in a common roadway segment. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 33, 481-497.
  • Estes, A., D.J. Lovell, and M.O. Ball (2019). Unsupervised prototype reduction for data exploration and an application to air traffic management initiatives. EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics 8(5), 467-510.
  • Lovell, D.J. (2019). Kinematics-enabled lossless compression of freeway and arterial vehicle trajectories. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems 23(5), 452-476. Doi: 10.1080/15472450.2018.1560280
  • Estes, A., M. O. Ball, and D. J. Lovell (2021). Data exploration by representative region selection: Axioms and convergence. Mathematics of Operations Research, 46(3), 970-1007.
  • Liu, Y., M. Hansen, M.O. Ball, and D.J. Lovell (2021). Causal analysis of en route flight inefficiency. Transportation Research Part B, 151, 91-115.

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Lovell Recognized for Service Leadership

Engineers Without Borders faculty advisor recognized by national EWB organization.

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