Amy M. Kim

Dr. Amy M. Kim is a Professor of Transportation Engineering and Co-Director of URSY at the University of British Columbia (UBC), within the Faculty of Applied Science. She leads research in transportation systems analysis, focusing on multimodal networks, infrastructure planning under climate change, and resource allocation strategies. Her work integrates disciplines such as civil engineering, environmental science, and decision-making frameworks to enhance system adaptability and resilience.

Dr. Kim holds a BASc from the University of Waterloo, and MS/PhD degrees from UC Berkeley. She previously taught at the University of Alberta and worked in engineering consulting before joining UBC in 2021. Her research emphasizes wildfire evacuation planning, winter road infrastructure resilience, and airport leakage dynamics. She was awarded the 2022 UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship for her contributions.

Her research interests span transportation infrastructure adaptation, air-ground system integration, and optimization under climate uncertainty. Courses taught include CIVL 340 (Transportation Engineering I), CIVL 440 (Transportation Engineering II), and CIVL 586 (Urban Transportation System Analysis). Her Mobility Lab at UBC explores topics such as disaster response logistics, supply-demand modeling, and multi-criteria decision analysis.

Key publications focus on highway recovery post-disasters, subarctic traffic patterns, wildfire evacuation networks, and climate-driven infrastructure decisions. She collaborates widely on projects like the Mackenzie Valley Highway resilience assessment and winter road prioritization frameworks in Canada.