Lazar Spasovic
Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
287 Tiernan Hall (TIER)
Education
Ph.D. ; University of Pennsylvania ; Systems Engineering ; 1990

B.S. ; Belgrade University ; Transportation Engineering ; 1986

M.S. ; University of Maryland-College Park ; Civil Engineering ; 1986

B.S. ; Belgrade University ; Transportation Engineering ; 1985

M.S. ; University of Maryland ; Civil Engineering ; 1985

2025 Fall Courses
CE 727 - INDEPENDENT RESEARCH III

TRAN 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

CE 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

TRAN 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

CE 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

CE 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

CE 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

CE 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

CE 490 - CIVIL ENGR PROJECTS

CE 491 - RESEARCH EXPER-CIVIL ENGR

CE 700B - MASTERS PROJECT

TRAN 650 - URBAN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

TRAN 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

TRAN 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

CE 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

TRAN 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

Past Courses
CE 650: URBAN SYSTEMS ENGINEERNG

CE 765: MULTI-MOD FREIGHT TRANS

TRAN 625: PUB TRAN OPERATNS & TECH

TRAN 650: URBAN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

TRAN 650: URBAN SYSTEMS ENGR

TRAN 765: MULTI-MOD FREIGHT TRANS

TRAN 765: MULTI-MODAL FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Research Interests
freight transportation, business logistics, transportation systems analysis
Conference Paper
"Integrated Land Use and Transportation Modeling Considering the Impact of Autonomous Vehicles"
Transportation Research Board, National Academies, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2024.

Software
"Weather Savvy Roads Integrated Mobile Observations Client Application v2023.09.12"
September, 2023.

"Weather Savvy Roads Integrated Mobile Observations Client Application, v2022.10.22"
October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2022.

"TELUS v. 4.0"
2008.

Conference Proceeding
"Practical Considerations of Geospatial Interpolation of Road Surface Temperature for Winter Weather Road Management"
New Jersey Department of Transportation, May, 2023.

"Regional Road Surface Temperature Estimation Using RWIS Dataset: A Comparison Between Ordinary Kriging, Empirical Bayesian Kriging and Regression Kriging Methods"
The 100th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board , January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2021.

"Regional Road Surface Temperature Estimation Using RWIS Dataset: A Comparison Between Ordinary Kriging, Empirical Bayesian Kriging and Regression Kriging Methods"
The 100th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board , January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2021.

"WIMAP-P: A Work Zone Impact Prediction Tool Using Big Data Analytics"
ITS World Congress 2017, November, 2017.

"Evaluation of Freeway Merging Assistance System Using Driving Simulator"
Intelligent Transportation System World Congress 2017, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2017.

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Journal Article
Branislav Dimitrijevic, Roksana Asadi, Lazar Spasovic. 2023. "Application of hybrid support vector Machine models in analysis of work zone crash injury severity." Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives , vol. 19 , pp. 100801.

Liuhui Zhao, I Jy Steven Chien, Lazar Spasovic, Xiaobo Liu. 2018. "Modeling and Optimizing an Urban Bus Transit Considering Headway Variation for Cost and Service Reliability Analysis." Transportation Planning and Technology , vol. 41 , no. 7 , pp. 706-723.

Slobodan Gutesa, Branislav Dimitrijevic, Joyoung Lee, Yuchan Zhang, Cecilia Feely, Lazar Spasovic. 2018. "Smart Arrival Notification System for ADA Passenger Paratransit Service Using Consumer Mobile Device." Transportation Research Record , vol. 2650 , no. 5 , pp. 8.

Joyoung Lee, Slobodan Gutesa, Branislav Dimitrijevic, Lazar Spasovic, Jeevanjot Singh. 2017. "Deployment and Field Evaluation of In-Vehicle Traffic Signal Advisory System (ITSAS)." Information , vol. 8 , no. 3 .

Bo Du, I Jy Steven Chien, Joyoung Lee, Lazar Spasovic. 2017. "Predicting Freeway Work Zone Delays and Costs with a Hybrid Machine-Learning Model." Journal of Advanced Transportation , vol. 2017 , pp. 8.

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Technical Report
"Weather-Savvy Roads Pilot Program"
New Jersey Department of Transportation, December, 2020.

"NJDOT eProMPTS (Electronic Research Project Management and Progress Tracking System) Administrator Manual"
New Jersey Department of Transportation, August, 2016.

"NJDOT eProMPTS (Electronic Research Project Management and Progress Tracking System) Final Report"
New Jersey Department of Transportation, August, 2016.

"NJDOT eProMPTS (Electronic Research Project Management and Progress Tracking System) User Manual"
New Jersey Department of Transportation, August, 2016.

"Super Bowl XLVIII New Jersey: Touchdown for Transportation Systems Management & Operations (TSM&O)"
New Jersey Department of Transportation, August, 2014.

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Chapter
Qingfeng Liu, Yukhe Lavinia, Abhishek Verma, Joyoung Lee, Lazar Spasovic, Chengjun Liu. "Feature Representation and Extraction for Image Search and Video Retrieval." Springer, 2017.

Ajit Puthenputhussery, Shuo Chen, Joyoung Lee, Lazar Spasovic, Chengjun Liu. "Learning and Recognition Methods for Image Search and Video Retrieval." Springer, 2017.

Kitae Kim, Slobodan Gutesa, Branislav Dimitrijevic, Joyoung Lee, Lazar Spasovic, Wasif Mirza, Jeevanjot Singh. "Performance Evaluation of Video Analytics for Traffic Incident Detection and Vehicle Counts Collection." Springer, 2017.

Kitae Kim, Slobodan Gutesa, Branislav Dimitrijevic, Joyoung Lee, Lazar Spasovic, Wasif Mirza, Jeevanjot Singh. "Performance evaluation of video analytics for traffic incident detection and vehicle counts collection." "Intelligent Systems Reference Library," pp. 213-231. 2017.

Slobodan Gutesa, Branislav Dimitrijevic, Joyoung Lee, Yuchuan Zhang, Cecilia Feeley, Lazar Spasovic. "Smart arrival notification system for americans with disabilities act passenger paratransit service with a consumer mobile device." "Transportation Research Record," pp. 33-40. 2017.

Conference Abstract
"Smart Arrival Notification System for ADA Passenger Paratransit Service Using Consumer Mobile Device"
Transportation Technology Summit, December, 2016.

Broadcast Media
"Inteviewed in the WHYY regarding NJ law that would require oil train companies to publicize train routes and emergency plans"
August, 2016.

"Inteviewed in the PBS show on freight transportation “Keep on Trucking” within “Now on PBS” program http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/535/index.html"
September, 2009.