Lovell, David
Professor
Director of Gemstone Honors Program
Director of Gemstone Honors Program
Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Institute for Systems Research
Maryland Robotics Center
The Institute for Systems Research
Maryland Robotics Center
1184 Glenn L. Martin Hall
David Lovell has a B.A. in mathematics from Portland State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in transportation consulting and was a combat engineer with the U.S. Marine Corps. His research interests include facility design, management, and control; computational and differential geometry; numerical methods; and the probabilistic structure of sports and tournaments.
Dr. Lovell is an affiliate of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997
- M.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1993
- B.A., Portland State University, 1990
Honors and awards
- ODK Leadership Fraternity, 2015
- Poole & Kent Senior Faculty Teaching Award, 2014
- EWB-USA Peter J. Bosscher Faculty Adviser Award, 2012
- Clark School ENGAGED Faculty, 2011
- CEE Department Faculty Service Award, 2009
Professional memberships
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA)
- Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Geometric methods of transportation facility design; sensors in civil engineering applications; vehicle technology; traffic engineering, operations and control; air traffic management; data compression
Small Airport Capacity Modeling Factors
Principal Investigator(s)
Lovell, David J.
Sponsors
Federal Aviation Administration
This project is a joint effort between researchers at the University of Maryland and the Ohio State University. 
The Federal Aviation Administration is interested in developing new capacity modeling factors for small aircraft operations at busy general aviation airports, as current estimates for small airport operating capacity are dated. This research seeks to identify specific data that will contribute to the development of modernized airport capacity models for small aircraft operations. You can visit the project web page here.
- ENCE 201 - Engineering Information Processing
- ENCE 302 - Probability and Statistics for Civil and Environmental Engineers
- ENCE 402 - Simulation and Design of Experiments
SELECT REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (within last 10 years)
- Churchill, A.M. and D.J. Lovell (2012). Coordinated aviation network resource allocation under uncertainty. Transportation Research Part E, 48(1), pp. 19-33.
- Churchill, A.M., Y. Tripodis, and D.J. Lovell (2012). Sun glare impacts on freeway congestion: A geometric model and empirical analysis. ASCE J. Transportation Engineering, 138(10), pp. 1196–1204.
- Lovell, D.J., K. Vlachou, T. Rabbani, and A. Bayen (2013). A diffusion approximation to a single airport queue. Transportation Research Part C, 33, pp. 227-237.
- Vlachou, K. and D.J. Lovell (2013). Mechanisms for equitable resource allocation when airspace capacity is reduced. Transportation Research Record 2325, pp. 97-102.
- Churchill, A.M., D.J. Lovell, A. Mukherjee, and M.O. Ball (2013). Determining the number of airport arrival slots. Transportation Science, 47(4), pp. 526-541.
- Maring, E., G. Raspanti, G. Jaschek, K. Hogan, C. Farmer, D. Lovell, S. Grutzmacher, P. Parikh, and S. Olcese (2014). Engineering and public health: An interdisciplinary approach to addressing water quality in Compone, Peru. Annals of Global Health, Volume 80, Issue 3, May–June 2014, Page 238.
- Jones, J.C. and D.J. Lovell (2014). Methods for curbing the exemption bias in Ground Delay Programs through speed control, Transportation Research Record 2400, pp. 37-44.
- Brown, C.Y., T.A. Brubaker, A.M. Churchill, G.M. Crosswhite, D. Fried, L. Kirsch, D.A. Zelman, and D.J. Lovell (2015). Development of an electrophoretic display technology for selectively retroreflective signs and pavement markers. ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, 141(1), pp. 04014067-1-9.
- Shrestha, D., D.J. Lovell, and Y. Tripodis (2017). Hardware and software for collecting microscopic trajectory data on naturalistic driving behavior. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 21(3), 202-213.
- Jones, J.C., D.J. Lovell, and M.O. Ball (2018). Stochastic optimization models for transferring delay along flight trajectories in order to reduce fuel usage. Transportation Science, 52(1), 134-149.
- Lovell, D.J. (2018). Lossless compression of all vehicle trajectories in a common roadway segment. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 33, 481-497.
- Estes, A., D.J. Lovell, and M.O. Ball (2019). Unsupervised prototype reduction for data exploration and an application to air traffic management initiatives. EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics 8(5), 467-510.
- Lovell, D.J. (2019). Kinematics-enabled lossless compression of freeway and arterial vehicle trajectories. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems 23(5), 452-476. Doi: 10.1080/15472450.2018.1560280
- Estes, A., M. O. Ball, and D. J. Lovell (2021). Data exploration by representative region selection: Axioms and convergence. Mathematics of Operations Research, 46(3), 970-1007.
- Liu, Y., M. Hansen, M.O. Ball, and D.J. Lovell (2021). Causal analysis of en route flight inefficiency. Transportation Research Part B, 151, 91-115.
NEXTOR III research helping general aviation airports track usage
Autonomous ADS-B data collection units and new models could help small airports estimate capacity needs.Congratulations ISR Spring 2022 graduates!
We congratulate graduates at all levels who have ISR advisors!New Research Showcased at TRB
Transportation safety, impact of telecommuting among topics covered by UMD experts.Congratulations to our December 2021 ISR graduates!
ISR advisors graduated 22 Ph.D., 2 M.S., and 4 M.S.S.E. new alumni in December!NEXTOR aviation operations research uses machine learning to model system delay and predict high flight delay days
Worsening thunderstorm activity was the main cause of increased flight delays in the 2010s.Congratulations, May 2021 ISR graduates!
Institute for Systems Research faculty advised PhD, MS, BS and 12 MSSE students who graduated in May 2021.Gemstone Honors Program Marks 25th Anniversary
Groundbreaking program fosters research opportunities for undergradiate honors students.Lovell to Lead UMD’s Gemstone Honors Program
Plans include increasing diversity, drawing broader range of majors.FAA Extends Funding for NEXTOR III Aviation Operations Research Consortium
In its 23 years, NEXTOR has developed decision support tools, operational and system concepts, and policymaking tools that benefit the FAA, the airline industry and the flying public.NEXTOR II to present aviation operations research in symposium
The symposium will be held at FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C.David Lovell promoted to full professor
Lovell is a joint appointee of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research.CEE Ph.D. student James Jones wins WINFORMS Student Excellence Award
The award recognizes outstanding work in operations research in the D.C. metropolitan area.Srivastava, Dey, Mirsky, King win 2014 ISR Awards
Awards honor outstanding faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff.MSSE student Xenia Barnes wins National Academies research stipend
Barnes works on aviation operations research through NEXTOR II.New grad students: how to choose a faculty advisor
Make the transition to grad school a bit smoother by watching this informative video.Ph.D. student James Jones wins FAA research stipend
NEXTOR student's research will develop algorithms for dynamic re-sequencing of en route flights.Wang, Ball, Lovell win best paper award at ICRAT 2012
Paper discusses a new allocation method in ground delay programs for air traffic flow management.Lovell Recognized for Service Leadership
Engineers Without Borders faculty advisor recognized by national EWB organization.Vlachou, Swaroop win FAA graduate research awards
The two Ph.D. students are associated with the NEXTOR aviation operations research center.FAA approves NEXTOR II aviation operations research contract
ISR's Michael Ball and David Lovell lead the University of Maryland NEXTOR II team.Lovell honored with Clark School's ENGAGED Faculty designation
Undergraduate students nominate faculty who are mentors and role models.Clark School ENGAGED Faculty Announced
The first class of Clark School ENGAGED Faculty are announced.Lovell Named Engineers Without Borders Advisor
Civil engineering, ISR professor to lead highly-regarded chapter of student service group.ISR organizing interdisciplinary student group
Group will give graduate students opportunity for camaraderie and learning.Lovell to teach 'Engineering in the Developing World'
ISR professor will participate in new general education program for undergrads.Fourteen ISR-affiliated students receive Ph.D.s
Congratulations to our ISR-affiliated doctoral graduates!Six ISR students chosen for Clark School's Future Faculty Program
The program aims to increase the number of Ph.D. graduates who obtain academic positions in prestigious engineering schools.Six ISR students selected for Future Faculty Program
Clark School program helps students prepare for academic positions.Lovell, Sandborn join Clark School's Keystone distinguished professors
Faculty in the program help improve foundational engineering courses.NEXTOR receives $1 million NASA grant for improving air traffic control
ISR Associate Professor David Lovell is PI for Maryland portion of grant.Ball, Lovell awarded NASA grant for air traffic flows
Collaborative research will develop dynamic, stochastic modelsLovell receives NSF grant for electrophoretic displays
Research could lead to electronically switchable roadway paints; tunnel walls that display messagesTwelve REU students welcomed
Summer experience gives undergrads the opportunity to work with ISR researchersThree best paper awards for NEXTOR authors
Air traffic management seminar honors Ball, Lovell, othersLovell now ISR joint appointment, Cohen joins ISR faculty
Former ISR-affiliated CEE faculty member now holds a joint appointment.Lovell to study car-following behavior
Research will develop model to explain the stochastic effects in car-following behavior across and within drivers.- MDOT: Enhancing and Increasing State-of-the-Practice Capability of Video Pipe Inspection Technology
- LINUS: An Intelligent Digital Assistant for UAM Operators
- NEXTOR III: National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research
- Collaborative Decision Making with Time Based Flow Management
- NEXTOR II
- Similar Days and Representative TMIs
- Improving air traffic performance using system-wide coordination of flight speeds
- Balancing airspace demand and capacity
- Modeling problems in air traffic management
- Advanced Stochastic Network Queuing Models of the Impact of 4D Aircraft Trajectory Precision
- Optimization model for large-scale air traffic flow management
- Comparing Airports Based on Air Traffic Management Performance
- Resource Allocation in Flow-Constrained Areas with Stochastic Termination Times Considering both Optimistic and Pessimistic Reroutes
- Advanced Stochastic Network Queuing Models of the Impact of 4D Trajectory Precision
- Determining an Optimal Airport Slot Profile
- Resource Allocation in Flow-Constrained Areas with Stochastic Termination Times Considering both Optimistic and Pessimistic Reroutes
- Observation of Variability in Car-Following Behavior
- NEXTOR: The National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research