Alex de Barros

Alex de Barros

Positions

Professor

Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

Contact information

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-6713

Background

Educational Background

B.S. Civil Engineering, Unicamp, 1991

Doctor of Philosophy Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, 2001

M.S. Other Engineering, Techngcl Inst Aeronautics, 1994

Biography

Dr. de Barros has several years of experience both in academia and in the industry, where he worked as a consultant in transportation planning and airport planning and engineering. He is also the former Director, Airport Infrastructure of the Brazilian National Civil Aviation Agency. He has several publications in aviation, airports and traffic safety, and is the winner of the 2004 ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering Best Paper Award (with Dr. Chan Wirasinghe).

Research

Areas of Research

Transportation safety
Transportation security
Aviation planning and operations
Airports and airspace design
Airport and airspace planning and operations
Activities

Dr. de Barros, P.Eng. has an extensive experience in the industry having worked for five years in transportation engineering consulting firms, and is the former director, airport infrastructure of the Brazilian National Civil Aviation Agency, where he was responsible for regulation and oversight of airport standards, operations and safety. He also has a solid academic record in the field of transportation engineering, with several academic research projects and publications on transportation and aviation planning and safety. Both in academia and in the industry, he has modeled transportation systems including road, rail, port and airport systems using a variety of operations research techniques. 

Publications

  • Risk-based Approach for Vehicle Route-choice with Interacting Objectives. Markus Dann; Alexandre Gomes De Barros; Iyad Sahnoon. (2019)
  • Road safety issues on two major intercity highways (A001 and A004). Asiri Senasinghe; Sumedha Chandana Wirasinghe; Alexandre Gomes De Barros. (2019)
  • Supervised Neural Network with multilevel input layers for predicting of air traffic delays. Elcio Hideiti Shiguemori; Claudio Alves; Alexandre Gomes Barros; L i Weigang; Daniel Alberto Pamplona. (2018)
  • Meta-Analysis of the Traffic Safety Effect of Reversible Lanes. Richard Tay; Alexandre Gomes De Barros; Aaron Manuel. (2019)