Professor John Falcocchio Honored for 50 Years of Service

Dr. Falcocchio has served (1995-2014) as the director of the Urban Intelligent Transportation Systems Center (UITSC), executive director of the Transportation Research Institute, and head of the Department of Civil Engineering. As director of the UITSC, and he prepared the first ITS Strategic Plan for New York City, and assisted the New York City Department of Transportation with the deployment of its first ITS projects through research, professional training, demonstration projects, and international outreach. He was the Founding Principal of Urbitran Associates, a privately owned architecture and planning company, where he was responsible for the firm’s transportation projects.

Dr Falcocchio earned his BCE from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1960, a Certificate in Traffic Engineering from the Burea of Highway Traffic, Yale University in 1964, and his PhD at the Polytechnic Institute of New York in 1972. 

His transportation career has been shaped through a blend of academic and professional practical work experiences, ranging from academic teaching and research projects in transportation planning, to professional work with regional transportation agencies and local transportation planning projects with the private sector. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, US Department of Transportation, New York State Department of Transportation, and New York City Department of Transportation. In the last 20 years he has concentrated on the delivery of intelligent transportation systems solutions for improving transportation system performance and travelers benefits.