Dr. Liping (Lee) Fu, PhD, P.Eng., Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Waterloo
Office: Engineering2-2310
Phone: (519)888-4567, ext. 33984
E-mail: lfu@uwaterloo.ca
About Dr. Liping Fu
Dr. Liping Fu joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Waterloo in 1998 as an assistant professor. He is now a full professor and a director of the Innovative Transportation System Solutions (iTSS) Lab at the University of Waterloo. Since the time when he first became a faculty member, he has supervised and graduated a total of 23 students (i.e., 7 PhD and 16 MASc). There are currently 8 graduate students under supervision of Dr. Fu.
Dr. Fu has a long track record of research contributions to the areas of intelligent transportation systems, public transit, road safety, and winter road maintenance. He has published over 110 journal and conference publications, five software packages for transportation applications, and one patent.
He has provided technical services to many transportation agencies, including Transport Canada, Ministry of Transportation Ontario, and several municipalities in Canada. Dr. Fu is the principal investigator of a number of winter snow and ice control related projects funded by NSERC, MTO, Landscape Ontario, several municipalities, and salt institute.
Dr. Fu has served on numerous technical committees of various professional organizations, such as, Transportation Research Board’s Committee, Editorial Advisory Board of the journal of Transportation Research. He was the past Chair of Transportation Division of Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.
Dr. Fu recently received Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)'s 2011 Academic Merit Award sponsored by Transport Canada for his long-term contribution to the advancement of the academic field and to the development of tomorrow's transportation leaders.
Research Interests
Intelligent Paratransit: scheduling, dispatching and simulation
Travel time modeling and estimation for advanced traveler information systems
Shortest path algorithms for in-vehicle route guidance systems
Artificial Intelligence, Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Courses
CIV E 745 - Intelligent Transportation System
CIV E 643 - Fundamentals of Traffic Flow Theory
CIV E 444/640 - Urban Transportation Planning Models
CIV E 342 - Transport Principles and Applications
CIV E 224 - Probability and Statistics
Awards and Patents