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Rodrigo Fernandez was born in Santiago de Chile in 1958. He is Civil Engineer from the University of Chile, Diploma of Imperial College (DIC), MSc and PhD in Transport of University of London. He has 35 years of professional and academic experience. In 1986 he began in the academic career in the Department of Civil Engineering of University of Concepción (Chile) where he founded the Transport Engineering Group. In 1992 he moved to the Department of Civil Engineering of University of Chile, becoming Head of the Transport Division. In March 2006 he joined the University of the Andes (Santiago-Chile), being Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences between 2010 and 2013. He is currently Full Professor of this academic unit. His research interests are traffic modelling, traffic engineering and management, and public transport. He has worked in more than a dozen research projects on these topics. Professionally he has worked as a free lance consultant in about forty transport engineering studies. He is author of two books, four chapters in books, more than thirty publications in journals, and seventy articles in national and international conferences.
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Profesor Asistente, Universidad de Chile
1 Nov 1992 → 28 Feb 2006
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TRANSPORT ALLIANCE BASED ON LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS (TABLE)
Seriani, S., Delpiano, J. F., Fernández, R. & Delpiano, R.
3/01/20 → 2/01/22
Project: Research
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Properties of delay and queue length functions at bus stops
Fernández, R. & Depiano, R., 2024, In: Transportation Research Procedia. 78, p. 491-498 8 p., 197713.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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Riots and subways, a relationship moderated by the neighborhood’s income level
Cartes, C., Asahi, K. & Fernández, R., Dec 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 1, 10557.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multiple object tracking for robust quantitative analysis of passenger motion while boarding and alighting a metropolitan train
Gómez Meza, J. S., Delpiano, J., Velastin, S. A., Fernández, R. & Awad, S. S., 7 Oct 2021, 11th International Conference of Pattern Recognition Systems (ICPRS 2021). 1 ed. Institution of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 2021. p. 231-238 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The impact of gap dimensions on passengers boarding and alighting using different mobility aids at railway stations by laboratory experiments
Seriani, S., Fernández, R. & Oyanedel, C., 2021, In: International Journal of Rail Transportation. 9, 2, p. 186-202 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Detecting, tracking and counting people getting on/off a metropolitan train using a standard video camera
Velastin, S. A., Fernández, R., Espinosa, J. E. & Bay, A., 1 Nov 2020, In: Sensors. 20, 21, p. 1-20 20 p., 6251.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access37 Scopus citations