Dr. Usman Ahmed is a Research Assistant Professor in Advanced Freight Technologies at the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute (UT-ORII). Dr. Ahmed completed his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and M.Sc. from the Technical University of Munich. Dr. Ahmed worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the City Logistics for the Urban Economy Lab (CLUE) and the Travel Modeling Group (TMG) at the University of Toronto. During his master’s studies, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Travel Behavior Group at the Technical University of Munich. Dr. Ahmed has experience in activity-based travel demand modeling, agent-based freight transportation modeling, land-use modeling, firm behavior, pilot studies for last-mile deliveries using new freight vehicles, data collection, and application of machine learning in land-use and transportation modeling.

Dr. Ahmed research interests include freight transportation and logistics, resilient supply-chains, travel behavior modeling, land-use modeling, transportation planning, new vehicle technologies, digital twins, choice modeling, novel data collection methods, data science, and applications of AI and machine learning in transportation systems.