Vukan R. Vuchic, Head, Urban Transportation Systems, Professor of Transportation Engineering, and Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania

Vukan R. Vuchic, Professor of Transportation Engineering, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, and Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania . He holds a Dipl oma from University of Belgrade , 1960 ,a M. Eng. From University of California Berkeley, 1965 and a Ph.D., from University of California Berkeley , 1966.

He is the First recipient of the Dr. Friedrich Lehner Medal, Munich , Germany , 1982 . A foreign member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1993 . A foreign member of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences from 2005.

His research focused on: Urban Transportation: Systems and their relationships. Intermodal and balanced transportation systems. Urban Public Transportation: Technology, planning, design and operation of transit systems. Automated and special transit modes. ITS applications. Highway Transportation: Design of highways and streets. Traffic engineering. Traffic flow and control of Signal timing. Transportation Networks: Characteristic design and operation of freeway and street networks, bus and rail transit systems networks.

维坎.维契克，宾西法尼亚大学电子及信息系统工程系，交通工程学教授，城市及区域规划教授。他于1960年毕业于贝尔格莱德大学，1965年取得加州大学伯克利分校硕士学位，一年后在该校获得博士学位。

他于1982年成为年德国慕尼黑弗里德里希－列农博士奖章的第一个获得者，1993年成为塞尔维亚国家科学院外籍会员，2005年成为俄罗斯建筑科学院外籍会员。

他的研究主要包括：城市交通方向：系统及其内在关联，平衡的交通系统和内在模式；城市公共交通方向：城市公共交通的技术、规划、设计和运营，自动化和特殊交通模型，智能交通系统（ITS）应用；公路交通方向：高速路及道路设计；交通运营管理方向：交通流量和信号控制；交通系统方向：城市道路网络及街区道路网络的特性设计和运营管理。以及公共汽车和轨道交通的转乘系统。