Congestion Pricing for Tel-Aviv: Scheme, Advanced SP Survey and Models, and Scenario Analysis using various regional models
12.11.2025 11:0012:00Speaker: Yoram Shiftan is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion, and the Joseph Meyerhoff Chair in Urban and Regional Planning. He specializes in travel behavior, transport policy, and transport project evaluation. He established and for the last five years was the head of the Israeli Center for Smart Transportation Research, the past editor of Transport Policy, and the past chair of the International Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR). He has 35 years of experience in both academic and practical work in travel behavior and travel demand model estimation for major metropolitan areas such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Tel-Aviv, and was one of the main contributors to the development of Activity-Based Models. In recent years, his research has focused on the activity and travel behavior implications of driverless cars, new mobility services, and their potential impact on our cities. Professor Shiftan also has vast experience in the evaluation and decision-making process of major transportation investments both in Israel and the US, currently consulting the Israel Government on the cost-benefit analysis of the Tel-Aviv metro system, an estimated investment of over 40 billion USD. Prof. Shiftan received his Ph.D. from MIT, has published over a hundred refereed papers, and co-edited five books. Overall, he spent 4.5 years as a visiting professor at leading universities in Europe and the US: George Mason, VA., University of Michigan, Ohio State University, ETH Zurich, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Northwestern, IL, and currently he is on Sabbatical at ETH Zurich again.
Location: GC B1 10
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: Informed public
