Dr. Omar Mansour
Department:
Civil Engineering
Role:
Lecturer
Academic Degrees
2015-2020 Ph.D. in Transportation and Highways Engineering, Technion.
2012-2015 M.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) in Transportation and Highways Engineering, Technion.
2009-2013 B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) in Mapping and Geo-Information Engineering, Technion.
Professional Expirence & Related Projects
2025-present Lecturer and researcher at Braude, Karmiel
• Automation of complex traffic light plans
• Integrating LLMs in estimating travelers’ behavior models
2020-2025 Private Consultant
• Tel-Aviv metropolitan traffic assignment model (Ayalon Highways)
o Modeling human decision making in travelling modes for long-term planes
• Congestion pricing project (Ayalon Highways)
o Setting GPS based methodology for estimating the average speed and accuracy within Tel-Aviv metropolitan (qgis, python, matlab, powerBI, sql, postgres)
• EVTOL integration in the transportation network (Ayalon Highways)
o Predicting the effect of future EVTOL network on distribution of goods and people (Transcad)
• Nativ-laskeem (Ayalon Highways)
o Data analysis for the transit system around Park-Hmdaa (matlab)
o Dashboard development (powerBI)
• Dynamic dashboard (Ayalon Highways)
o Data analysis and speed estimation within the Tel-Aviv metropolitan provided by waze, SIRI and probe vehicles (python, matlab)
o Dashboard development (powerBI)
• TMaaS product development (Mobility Insight)
o Research and tools development (main focus on GPS and camera data sources) (qgis, python, matlab, powerBI, sql, postgres, aimsun)
• Quality test for Mobileye traffic data (Ayalon Highways)
• Testing transportation implications for various projects
2020-2022 Researcher, Transportation research institute, Technion
• Macroscopics traffic assignment for large scale networks
o Developing a distributed architecture for simulating traffic dynamics within a network, case study: Tel-Aviv metropolitan (matlab, transcad)
• Calibrating a mesoscopic simulator for Jerusalem transit network (c++, python)
• Traffic light plans automation (python)
2015-2020 Traffic Engineer, Jalal Mansour Consulting Engineers Ltd
• Traffic light plans development
• Testing transportation implications for various projects
2008-2012 Surveying Team Leader, AlNur Engineers
Teaching Experience
2025-present Introduction to Transportation Engineering, Undergraduate Course.
2023-present Final Project in Transportation Planning, Undergraduate Course.
2019-2023 Introduction to surveying and mapping, Undergraduate Course.
2015-2018 Roads Design and Operation, Undergraduate Course.
2014-2018 Introduction to Transportation Engineering, Undergraduate Course.
2015-2016 Traffic Engineering and Management, Undergraduate Course.
2014-2015 Planning and Operation of Public Transportation, Undergraduate Course.
2014-2015 Traffic Engineering, Undergraduate Course.
2014-2015 Traffic Laboratory, Undergraduate Course.
Research Interests
Dynamic traffic modeling, traffic management systems, machine learning applications in travel behavior, reinforcement learning in transportation applications.
Theses
Mansour, O. (2020). Traffic Modelling with Application to Dynamic Tolling. Ph.D. Thesis, Technion, Israel.
Mansour, O. (2015). Dynamic Tolls for Managed Lanes. M.Sc. Thesis, Technion, Israel.
Refereed papers in professional journals
Published papers
Haj-Yahia, S., Mansour, O., & Toledo, T. (2025). Incorporating domain knowledge in deep neural networks for discrete choice models. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 171, 105014.
Toledo, T., Mansour, O., & Haddad, J. (2017). Optimal Dynamic Tolls for Managed Lanes. Transportation Research Record, 2606(1), 28-37.
Refereed papers in conference proceedings
Toledo, T., Mansour, O. and Haddad, J., 2015. Simulation-based optimization of HOT lane tolls. Transportation Research Procedia, 6, pp.189-197.
Conferences
Contributed Talks and Posters
Poster, “Policy learning for dynamic tolling in managed lanes”, Transportation Research Board, January 2022, Washington D.C.
Presentation, “Dynamic network loading based on link travel times”, mobil.TUM2019: International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport, September 2019, Munich, Germany.
Presentation, “Traffic assignment based on travel time dynamics”, IAPE 2019: 38th Symposium of the Israeli Association of Transportation Research, May 31, Tel-Aviv (Israel).
Presentation, “A system of optimal toll-setting on a network with managed lanes”, EURO Winter Institute on “Methods and Models in Transportation Problems”, February 2017, Bressanone, Italy.
Presentation, “Optimal Dynamic Tolls for Managed Lanes”, Transportation Research Board, January 2017, Washington D.C.Presentation, “Simulation-based optimization of HOT lane tolls”, The 4th International Symposium of Transport Simulation (ISTS’14), June 14, 2014, France.
Poster, “Optimal Dynamic Tolls for Managed Lanes”, The 4th Conference for Transportation and Infrastructure, June 17, 2014, Haifa (Israel).
Fellowships, Awarads and Honors
2021 Research Excellence (Yair Benjamini Award)
2018 Audience Favorite Research Poster Award, Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Day
2016 Research Excellence (Michael Golan Award)
2015-2020 Neubauer Scholarship
2015 Zaph and Daniel Scholarship
2013-2015 Planning and Budgeting Committee Scholarship for Outstanding Minority Students
2012 Award for Excellence from Technion Alumni Organization
2012 Award for Excellence in Geodetic Control Networks (Gershon Steinberg Award)
2011 Award for Excellence from Alrazi Organization for Undergraduates in Tira
2008-2012 President of Technion Awards for Excellence (four times)
Graduate Students
MSc theses
Omar Gaben, Automatic Policy Design of Actuated Traffic Signal Control for Adjacent Intersections, Primary Advisor: Tomer Toledo, 2023 (in progress).
Shadi Haj-Yahia, Macroscopic Dynamic Traffic Assignment Implementation on Lage-Scale Networks, Primary Advisor: Tomer Toledo, 2019.
PhD theses
Shadi Haj-Yahia, Integration of Machine Learning Methods in Travel Demand Models, Primary Advisor: Tomer Toledo, 2021(in progress).