About The Director

Dr. Lazar N. Spasovic

Lazar N. Spasovic, a professor of management and transportation at NJIT, has been appointed Director of the International Intermodal Transportation Center as of March 2000. In this position he assumes responsibility for a U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Grant of $2 million, funded under the High Priority Projects Program of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.

An expert in the areas of freight transportation, business logistics and transportation systems analysis, Dr. Spasovic has been a leader in NJIT's transportation research and education programs and has more than ten years of corporate and academic transportation experience. Having worked within both the public and private sectors, he has a proven track record in funded research and scholarly activities, and has more than 60 refereed journal and proceedings papers and professional presentations to his credit. Spasovic has taught courses in multi-modal freight transportation systems analysis, urban transportation planning, urban systems engineering, demand forecasting, and quantitative methods for business. He is currently principal investigator on two major research efforts in freight transportation.

A member of the NJIT faculty since 1990, with a dual appointment to the School of Management and the Interdisciplinary Program in Transportation, Spasovic is also a faculty member at the Graduate School of Management at Rutgers University-Newark. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Freight Transportation Planning and Logistics, and the Transportation Research Forum.

Dr.Spasovic holds a Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park, and Diploma in Transportation Engineering from Belgrade University.

IITC is a university-based resource Center for advanced intermodal transportation research and economic planning. It will support the development and maintenance of a safe, efficient, integrated regional multimodal transportation system serving the communities of northern New Jersey and beyond.

Dr. Spasovic is also Director of the National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity.