Larry Head

Larry Head PhD is a professor of systems and industrial engineering and director of the Transportation Research Institute at the University of Arizona. He has over 25 years of research and development experience in adaptive traffic signal control, signal priority and traffic management. He is currently the principle investigator for the Multi Modal Intelligent Traffic Signal System Pooled Fund Project that is tasked with developing an intelligent traffic signal control system in a connected vehicle environment.

Larry is the chair of the Executive Board of the Council of Engineering Systems Universities, serves on the Arizona Governor’s Task Force for Self Driving Vehicles and is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Freeway Operations Committee and Intelligent Transportation Systems Committee. He serves as an associate editor of Transportation Research – Part C. He is a member of TRB, INFORMS, IIE and IEEE.