Gustavo Riente de Andrade

Gustavo is a Civil Engineer from UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais). He holds dual degrees, having obtained a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida and a doctoral degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP). He has over 15 years of practical experience in the field and is a member of the Capacity and Quality of Service Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

He worked on consulting projects throughout Brazil for Tectran until 2015. After completing his doctoral degree, he worked for 2 years at the Canadian engineering company Stantec as a transportation modeler, working on projects in the United States. Between 2020 and 2023, he was an associate engineer and later an associate director at the McTrans Center, involved in the design, development, and support of road capacity analysis software. He also represented the McTrans Center at events and presentations.

Gustavo has expertise in a wide range of traffic analysis tools, including the Highway Capacity Software (HCS), various traffic microsimulation packages (CORSIM, Transmodeler, and VISSIM), signal optimization (HCS and Synchro), road safety (HSM/HSS and IHSDM), transportation planning (TransCAD and Cube), statistical analysis packages (SPSS and R), GPS applications, and economic evaluation of highways using the Highway Development & Management (HDM-4).

His academic work focuses on methods from the Highway Capacity Manual and the integration of operational analysis and road safety. He has published 36 articles, with 71 citations listed by Google Scholar. He serves as a reviewer for the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting and the technical-scientific journals Transportation Research Record (TRR) and Journal of Transportation Engineering, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is also a member of the evaluation panel for the research project NCHRP 15-76 (Design for Target Speed) by the National Academy of Sciences.