Panos D. Prevedouros
Encyclopedia
Panos D. Prevedouros is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
, subcommittee chair of the Transportation Research Board
(a unit of the National Academy of Engineering
), co-author of a textbook Transportation Engineering and Planning, Prentice Hall, 1993 and 2001, and two-time candidate for Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu.
, Greece
on October 2, 1961, and obtained an Engineering Diploma (5-year program) in Land Surveying from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
, Greece in 1985. He earned Masters and Doctorate degrees in Civil Engineering (in 1987 and 1990, respectively) from Northwestern University
’s McCormick School of Engineering
and its Transportation Center in Evanston, Illinois
. He moved to Hawaii
in July 1990 as Assistant Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
, and became Full Professor in 2004. He was Graduate Program Chair in the CEE Department from 1998 to 2003.
called "Fix Oahu!".
He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the European Union, and court-qualified Traffic and Transportation Engineering expert, State of Hawaii. His professional expertise is in urban road network management, including freeway and corridor management, incident management, traffic flow analysis and simulation, traffic signal optimization, traffic sensors and intelligent transportation systems, demand forecasting, evaluation of transportation alternatives, sustainable infrastructure and transportation systems, policies, and regulations.
Prevedouros assisted both Hawaii Department of Transportation
and Attica Tollway (Attiki Odos
) in constructing to lessen the impact of bottlenecks, such as the Lunalilo on-ramp management, the Liliha-Pali couplet of ramps, the planned Middle Street improvements, and PM zipper lane deployments on Oahu
; and the rerouting of the Peripheral Freeway connector onto Attica Tollway as well as a new interchange between Attica Tollway and Greek National Road 1
in Athens
.
Prevedouros received the best Paper Award on Transportation Noise, Transportation Board, National Academies, 1995, the Outstanding Faculty Award, American Society of Civil Engineers-Hawaii, 1996, the Van Wagoner Award for Urban Underpasses, Institute of Transportation Engineers, 2005, and the Freeway Operations Service Award, Transportation Research Board, National Academies, 2009.
Prevedouros is chairman of the Subcommittee on Freeway Simulation, Transportation Research Board
, National Academies since 2005. He was Co-chair of the 1st International Symposium of Freeway and Tollway Operations, Athens, Greece, June 4–7, 2006, and Chair of the 2nd International Symposium of Freeway and Tollway Operations, Honolulu, Hawaii
, June 21–24, 2009.
and City Council member Ann Kobayashi
. He received 17.2% of the vote. In spring 2010 mayor Hannemann resigned to run for governor and lost in the primary election to US Congressman Neil Abercrombie
who was elected Governor in November 2010. Prevedouros was one of four main candidates in the special election for mayor for the remaining two years of the term. He ran against veteran city prosecutor Peter Carlisle
(who won the race with 39% of the vote), city manager and acting mayor Kirk Caldwell
, and term-limited council member Rod Tam. Prevedouros came third after receiving 18.5% of the votes in the 2010 primary election. Prevedouros gained nearly 10,000 votes from 28,792 in 2008 to 38,408 in 2010.
Prevedouros served on the Technical Advisory Committee of Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization, 2003–2004, was a member of the Transit Advisory Task Force (Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project
), Honolulu, 2006, and was the Council Chair's appointee on the expert panel for the selection of fixed guideway technology for Honolulu, 2008. From 2006 to 2008 he was president of the Hawaii Highway Users Alliance. He was named one of the "50 people who Rocked Hawaii in 2003 " by the Hawaii Reporter, one of Ten People Who Made a Difference in Hawaii in 2008, by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
, and one of Hawaii’s 7 "superheroes", by the Hawaii Reporter in 2009.
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...
, subcommittee chair of the Transportation Research Board
Transportation Research Board
The Transportation Research Board is a division of the National Research Council, which serves as an independent adviser to the President, the Congress and federal agencies on scientific and technical questions of national importance...
(a unit of the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
), co-author of a textbook Transportation Engineering and Planning, Prentice Hall, 1993 and 2001, and two-time candidate for Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu.
Life
Prevedouros was born in PatrasPatras
Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
on October 2, 1961, and obtained an Engineering Diploma (5-year program) in Land Surveying from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the largest Greek university, and the largest university in the Balkans. It was named after the philosopher Aristotle, who was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, about 55 km east of Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia...
, Greece in 1985. He earned Masters and Doctorate degrees in Civil Engineering (in 1987 and 1990, respectively) from Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
’s McCormick School of Engineering
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Established in 1909, the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science is one of eleven schools at Northwestern University. Most engineering classes are held in the Technological Institute, which students often refer to as "Tech." In October 2005, another building called the Ford...
and its Transportation Center in Evanston, Illinois
Evanston, Illinois
Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan...
. He moved to Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
in July 1990 as Assistant Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...
, and became Full Professor in 2004. He was Graduate Program Chair in the CEE Department from 1998 to 2003.
Academic career
As of March 2010, Prevedouros is the author of 43 Technical Reports, 64 Engineering Journal Papers, 22 Engineering Proceedings papers. He publishes his opinions on infrastructure, energy, sustainability and policy issues on a blogBlog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
called "Fix Oahu!".
He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the European Union, and court-qualified Traffic and Transportation Engineering expert, State of Hawaii. His professional expertise is in urban road network management, including freeway and corridor management, incident management, traffic flow analysis and simulation, traffic signal optimization, traffic sensors and intelligent transportation systems, demand forecasting, evaluation of transportation alternatives, sustainable infrastructure and transportation systems, policies, and regulations.
Prevedouros assisted both Hawaii Department of Transportation
Hawaii Department of Transportation
The Hawaii Department of Transportation is a state government organization which oversees transportation in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The agency is divided into three divisions dealing with aviation, maritime, and roads.-Airports Division:...
and Attica Tollway (Attiki Odos
Attiki Odos
Attiki Odos is a privately owned toll motorway in Greece. The Proastiakos high-speed suburban rail is set almost entirely in the median of the motorway, along its main section. The motorway's numbers are 6 for the main section, 64 for the Hymettus Beltway and 65 for the Aigaleo Beltway...
) in constructing to lessen the impact of bottlenecks, such as the Lunalilo on-ramp management, the Liliha-Pali couplet of ramps, the planned Middle Street improvements, and PM zipper lane deployments on Oahu
Oahu
Oahu or Oahu , known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The state capital Honolulu is located on the southeast coast...
; and the rerouting of the Peripheral Freeway connector onto Attica Tollway as well as a new interchange between Attica Tollway and Greek National Road 1
Greek National Road 1
The Greek Motorway 1 is a motorway, partly under construction, and the 2nd longest in Greece. It is the principal north-south road connection in Greece, connecting the country's capital Athens with the regions of Thessaly and Macedonia, as well as the country's second largest city,...
in Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
.
Prevedouros received the best Paper Award on Transportation Noise, Transportation Board, National Academies, 1995, the Outstanding Faculty Award, American Society of Civil Engineers-Hawaii, 1996, the Van Wagoner Award for Urban Underpasses, Institute of Transportation Engineers, 2005, and the Freeway Operations Service Award, Transportation Research Board, National Academies, 2009.
Prevedouros is chairman of the Subcommittee on Freeway Simulation, Transportation Research Board
Transportation Research Board
The Transportation Research Board is a division of the National Research Council, which serves as an independent adviser to the President, the Congress and federal agencies on scientific and technical questions of national importance...
, National Academies since 2005. He was Co-chair of the 1st International Symposium of Freeway and Tollway Operations, Athens, Greece, June 4–7, 2006, and Chair of the 2nd International Symposium of Freeway and Tollway Operations, Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
, June 21–24, 2009.
Political career
Prevedouros was candidate for Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu in the primary election in September 2008, against incumbent mayor Mufi HannemannMufi Hannemann
Muliufi Francis "Mufi" Hannemann is an American politician. He is the former Mayor of Honolulu. Hannemann has served as a special assistant in Washington, D.C., with the Department of the Interior, where he was selected for a White House fellowship in the Reagan administration under Vice President...
and City Council member Ann Kobayashi
Ann Kobayashi
Ann Kobayashi is a politician and businesswoman from Honolulu, Hawaii. She is a member of the Honolulu City Council, representing District 5. She previously held the same City Council seat between 2002 and 2008, but resigned from the seat to unsuccessfully run for Mayor of Honolulu against...
. He received 17.2% of the vote. In spring 2010 mayor Hannemann resigned to run for governor and lost in the primary election to US Congressman Neil Abercrombie
Neil Abercrombie
Neil Abercrombie is the 7th and current Governor of Hawaii. He was the Democratic U.S. Representative of the First Congressional District of Hawaii which comprises urban Honolulu. He served in Congress from 1986 to 1987 and from 1991 to 2010 when he resigned to successfully run for governor...
who was elected Governor in November 2010. Prevedouros was one of four main candidates in the special election for mayor for the remaining two years of the term. He ran against veteran city prosecutor Peter Carlisle
Peter Carlisle
Peter Benson Carlisle is the current Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii. He previously was the Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu, from 1996 to 2010.-Life:...
(who won the race with 39% of the vote), city manager and acting mayor Kirk Caldwell
Kirk Caldwell
Kirk Caldwell is an American politician who was Acting Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu in 2010.-Life:Caldwell represented the 24th Representative District in the Hawaii State House of Representatives of the Hawaii State Legislature from 2002 to 2008, serving as the House Majority Leader...
, and term-limited council member Rod Tam. Prevedouros came third after receiving 18.5% of the votes in the 2010 primary election. Prevedouros gained nearly 10,000 votes from 28,792 in 2008 to 38,408 in 2010.
Prevedouros served on the Technical Advisory Committee of Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization, 2003–2004, was a member of the Transit Advisory Task Force (Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project
Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project
The Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project is the official name for the plan to construct an elevated rapid transit line serving the City and County of Honolulu on the island of Oahu. Plans for a mass transit line to connect Honolulu's urban center with outlying areas began in the 1960s,...
), Honolulu, 2006, and was the Council Chair's appointee on the expert panel for the selection of fixed guideway technology for Honolulu, 2008. From 2006 to 2008 he was president of the Hawaii Highway Users Alliance. He was named one of the "50 people who Rocked Hawaii in 2003 " by the Hawaii Reporter, one of Ten People Who Made a Difference in Hawaii in 2008, by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin was a daily newspaper based in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. At the time publication ceased on June 6, 2010, it was the second largest daily newspaper in the state of Hawaii...
, and one of Hawaii’s 7 "superheroes", by the Hawaii Reporter in 2009.