Mansour Rahimi

Education

Research Interests

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Environment/Safety/Human Factors in Transportation
• Industrial Ecology, Design For Environment
• Industrial Safety and Ergonomics
• Work Design and Performance Systems

• Future Fuels and Energy Initiative:  Developing USC Expertise for Life-Cycle Analysis of Distributed Alternative Fuels

• Dessouky, M., Rahimi, M., and Weidner, M. (2003). Jointly optimizing cost, service, and environmental performance in demand-responsive transit s cheduling," Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment , 8; 433-465
• Vos, R.O., Rahimi, M. and Weidner, M. (2003). Application of life cycle assessment to environmental impact assessment: A case study of the Alameda Corridor Project of central Los Angeles. (In preparation for the Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment).
• Rahimi, M. (2003). Hazard Identification and Control. In R. C. Dorf (Editor) : The Engineering Handbook, CRC Press, New York, N.Y.
• Rahimi, M., Placencia, G., Maclean, J. (2003). Human-Computer Interaction. In R.C. Dorf (Editor): The Engineering Handbook, CRC Press, New York, N.Y. (In print)
• Rahimi, M. and Weidner, M. (2002). Multi-attribute value theory (Part I): Model development from a single LCIA methodology. Journal of Industrial Ecology (under review).
• Rahimi, M. and Weidner, M. (2002). Multi attribute value theory (Part II): Model development utilizing data from multiple LCIA methods and levels of analysis. Journal of Industrial Ecology (under review).
• Dessouky, M., Rahimi, M. and Weidner, M. (2002). Green Transit Scheduler: A methodology for jointly optimizing cost, service, and environmental performance in demand-responsive transit scheduling. Journal of Transportation Research (Part D, Environment). (under review).
• Computer-aided demand-response transit dispatching: A human-computer interaction perspective. The 6th International Conference in Engineering Design and Automation, Maui, August 4-7, 2002.
• Rahimi, M. and Weidner, M. (2002). Sustainable product definition: using Design for Environment (DFE) impact matrix in Quality Function Deployment (QFD) evaluation process. Journal of Sustainable Product Design (under review).
• Rahimi, M. and Weidner, M. (2002). Environmental health and safety considerations in product design: A review of Design for Environment, Life-Cycle Design and Decision-Based Risk Analysis. Design and Manufacturing Automation (in print).
• Rahimi, M. and Dessouky, M. (2002). A usability study of a computer-aided paratransit dispatch software. Journal of Transportation Technology and Policy (under review).