Dr. Mark R. McCord
Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science
470 Hitchcock Hall
2070 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH  43210
Telephone:  614-292-2388
Fax:  614-292-3780
E-mail:  mccord.2@osu.edu

Education & Degrees

  • Ph.D., Civil Eng. (Transportation Systems), MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1983
  • MS, Industrial Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1978
  • BS, Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1977
Other education:
  • Chateubriand Fellow: Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, 1981-82
  • Rotary International Fellow: Hautes Etudes Commerciales and Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1978-79
  • Purdue University/Indiana University Study Abroad Program: Ecole Nationale des Arts et Industries and Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, 1975-76

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Multicriteria Evaluation
  • Transportation Systems
  • Remote Sensing Applications in Transportation
  • Applied Decision Analysis
  • Transportation Planning
  • Incorporate the use of subjective probability theory in transportation forecasting methodologies.
  • Develop and test practical methods combining behavioral realism and axiomatic foundations for multi-objective evaluation.
  • Apply and determine the limits of multicriteria evaluation techniques to transportation, service and engineering systems.
  • Assess future value of new technologies, especially satellite-based technologies, for transportation systems.

Selected Professional Service

  • Central Ohio Regional Transportation Management (CORTRAN) Advisory Committee, Columbus, OH, 1999-present
  • Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission Peer Review Committee--Household Activity and Travel Behavior Survey, 1998-present
  • ITS Ohio Executive Committee, 1993-present
  • Visiting Professor, Laboratoire d'Analyse Mathematique d'Aide a la Decision, Universite de Paris,Dauphine, Paris, France, 1989-1994 (short-term visits)
  • Founding Chairman, Commercial Vehicle Operations Technical Committee, IVHS-Ohio, 1993—94
  • Faculty Fellowship, A.S.E.E. at Navy Personnel Research and Development Center, San Diego, California, Summers 1984, 1985
  • Transportation Systems Engineer, Institut des Transports et Planification, Lausanne, Switzerland, Summer 1980
  • Highway Engineer, Indiana State Highway Commission, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1997, 1998 (summers)
  • Transportation Research Board, Supply/Network Analysis Committee
  • ASCE National Committee on Urban Transportation Economics

Selected University Service

  • Steering Committee, Engineering Center for Intelligent Transportation Research
  • Representative to International Road Federation
  • Transportation Research Endowment Program Advisory Committee
  • College of Engineering Undergraduate Honors Committee
  • Mens Water Polo Club, Faculty Advisor
  • Womens Water Polo Club, Faculty Advisor

Selected Research

  • B. Roy, Multicriteria Methodology for Decision Aiding. Kluwer AcademicPublishers, Dordrecht, NL, 1996, 292 pp. (translated from French by Mark McCord)
  • McCord, M., Y-K. Lee, and H. Lo, "Ship Routing through Altimetry-Derived Ocean Currents," Transportation Science, 33(1), February 1999.
  • McCord, M.R., C.J. Merry, and P. Goel, "Incorporating Satellite Imagery in Traffic Monitoring Programs," Proceedings of North American Traffic Monitoring Exhibition and Conference, NATMEC 1998, Charlotte, NC, May 11-15, CD-ROM from Federal Highway Administration: Washington D.C., 1998.
  • McCord, M., D. Hidalgo, P. Goel, and M. O'Kelly, "Value of Traffic Assignment and Flow Prediction in Multiattribute Network Design: Framework, Issues, and Preliminary Results," Transportation Research Record, 1607, 1997, pp. 171-177.
  • McCord, M. R. and A. Y. C. Leu, "Sensitivity of Optimal Hazmat Routes to Limited Preference Specification," Information Systems and Operational Research, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 68-83, May 1995.