• Staff Directory
• UGPTI in the News
• Annual Reports
• Advisory Council
• Directions to UGPTI

Staff Bio

Diomo Motuba, PhD
Associate Research Fellow
Phone: (701)231-1088
Fax: (701)231-6265
diomo.motuba@ndsu.edu

 

Diomo Motuba is Associate Research Fellow with UGPTI's Advanced Traffic Analysis Center (ATAC) as a student and professionally since 2004. He has several years experience in developing regional travel demand models and researching methods to enhance transportation modeling systems. Diomo provides support to state and local agencies in developing transportation models, improving data collection to support modeling and in developing their transportation plans.

Research Interests

• Freight modeling
• Urban travel demand models
• Regional transportation issues and their economic impacts
• Intermodal transportation
• Logistics and supply chain management

Recent Research Activities/Major Programs of Activity

• Spatial Price Effects of Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat and Barley
• Use of GPS Technologies to Improve Travel Demand Models
• Truck Trip Generation in Small and Medium-Sized Urban areas

Employment

• 2009-Present, Associate Research Fellow, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, NDSU
• 2004-2009, Graduate Research Assistant, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, NDSU

Education

• Ph.D., Transportation and Logistics, North Dakota State University, ND, 2009
• M.S., Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University, ND, 2006

Page updated/verified on Jul. 27, 2010