Panos Prevedouros

Panos D. Prevedouros
Panos D. Prevedouros as Mayoral Candidate, City and County of Honolulu, 2008
Born	(1961-10-02) October 2, 1961 (age 55) Patras, Greece
Nationality	Greece/United States

Panos D. Prevedouros (born October 2, 1961), is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, subcommittee chair of the Transportation Research Board (a unit of the National Academy of Engineering), co-author of the textbook Transportation Engineering and Planning, published by Prentice Hall 1993 and 2001. He was a two-time unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, running on a program of absolute opposition to mass transit.

Prevedouros was born in Patras, Greece, on October 2, 1961, and obtained an Engineering Diploma (5-year program) in Land Surveying from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1985. He earned Masters and Doctorate degrees in Civil Engineering (in 1987 and 1990, respectively) from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and its Transportation Center in Evanston, Illinois. He moved to Hawaii in July 1990 as Assistant Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and became Full Professor in 2004. He was Graduate Program Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1998 to 2003.

Prevedouros is the author of numerous technical reports and scholarly journal articles. He publishes his opinions on infrastructure, energy, sustainability, and policy issues on a blog called "Fix Oahu!"

He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the European Union, and a court-qualified traffic and transportation engineering expert in the State of Hawaii. His professional expertise is in urban road network management, including freeway and corridor management, incident management, traffic flow analysis and simulation, traffic signal optimization, traffic sensors and intelligent transportation systems, demand forecasting, evaluation of transportation alternatives, sustainable infrastructure and transportation systems, policies, and regulations.