James Elliott Moore, II

Biography

James Elliott Moore II, Ph.D., started his USC career in 1988, with faculty appointments in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, the Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Price School of Public Policy. He was also the director of the Transportation Engineering program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Professor Moore conducted fundamental and applied research on the engineering economic aspects of large-scale transportation and land-use systems. His research interests included risk management of infrastructure networks subject to natural hazards and terrorist threats; economic impact modeling; transportation network performance and control; large scale computational models of metropolitan land use/transport systems, especially in California; evaluation of new technologies; and infrastructure investment and pricing policies. He has been published extensively in transportation planning and engineering literature. Prior to joining USC, he was on the faculty of Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.