Mohammad Elayan
A decade of transportation engineering practice in the MENA region, now paired with graduate research and teaching at UNL.
§01 · Positions
Lincoln, NE, USA
Member of Dr. Wissam Kontar's research team at the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and Nebraska Transportation Center, focusing on traffic agent heterogeneity and automated vehicle behavior control. As a teaching assistant, supports CIVE 202, Civil Engineering Analysis II, a project-based programming course, and CIVE 361, Principles of Transportation Engineering, covering highway design, traffic operations, and planning.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Led over 100 projects across the UAE and MENA region, including transportation master plans, traffic impact studies, and multimodal integration initiatives. Work spanned demand forecasting, traffic operations analysis, multimodal connectivity evaluation, microsimulation, safety analysis, geometric design, and technical reporting, serving as project manager for most of these efforts.
| Project Category | Total | Engineer | Manager |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transportation Master Plan | 20 | 12 | 8 |
| Traffic Impact Study | 64 | 24 | 40 |
| Transportation Integration Study | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| Strategic Freight Transport Study | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Parking Study | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Traffic Management Plan | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Evacuation Plan | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 109 | 46 | 63 |
Irbid, Jordan
Research work focused on data collection, experiments, statistical analyses, and technical writing in traffic operations optimization, highway material performance, and waste management. As a teaching assistant, supported courses and labs including Surveying, Highway Materials, and Engineering Statics.
§02 · Grants & Fellowships
2025 · National Science Foundation
"Consensus-Seeking Autonomous Agents in Complex Cyber-Physical Transportation Systems" (Award No. NAIRR250132). Role: Researcher.
2025, 2026
2025, 2026
2024, 2025, 2026
§03 · Mentorship
Jun to Aug 2026 · NSF REU Program, UNL
Supervised research on the geospatial indexing of pharmaceutical deserts in Nebraska and optimization-based analysis of conventional and autonomous delivery options.
Jun to Aug 2025 · NSF REU Program, UNL
Supervised research on autonomous electric mobility systems in rural Nebraska.
§04 · Toolkit
§05 · Connect
melayan2@nebraska.edu