Research Grants

1998           The Technion-Haifa University Grant, Estimating the cost of air pollution from vehicles, $5,000 (Technion Share – $2500), Yoram Shiftan and Mordechai Shecter (Haifa University).

2001           The European Fifth Framework Program, CyberCars: Cybernetic Technologies for the Car in the City, 128,000 EURO.(approx. $120,000), Y. Zvirin, Y. Shiftan, and S. Bekhor.

2003           The European Fifth Framework Program, CyberMove: Cybernetic Transportation Systems for the City of Tomorrow, 182,000 EURO, (approx. $190,000), Y. Zvirin, Y. Shiftan, and S. Bekhor.

2003           The Israel Ministry of Transport: Definition of Data Needs for Transportation Planning Models, 298,000 NIS (approx. $62,000),  J. Prashker, S. Bekhor, Y. Shiftan.

2004           The Israel Science Foundation: Framing the impact of Information Communication Technologies on travel behavior and social changes, 171,000 NIS (approx. $40,000), Y. Shiftan and S. Bekhor.

2006           The Israel Ministry of Science: The Evaluation of an Electronic Co-Pilot (ECP) in Motor-Vehicles.  120,000 NIS (approx. $26,000), Y. Shiftan.

2006           Ran Naor Foundation: Analysis and Modeling of Driving Behavior using In-Vehicle Data Recorder,  98,000 NIS (approx. $21,000), Y. Shiftan.

2006           Ran Naor Foundation: The Effect of Construction of a Bypass Road on Safety, 30,000 NIS (approx.. $6,500), Y. Shiftan.

2006           The European 6th Framework: CityMobil, 60,000 EURO (approx. $71,000), Y. Zvirin, J. Prashker, Y. Shiftan, and S. Bekhor.

2007           NTA (Metropolitan Mass Transit System): The impact of light rail on land values along the line, 100,000 NIS (approx.. $24,000),  With Daniel Shefer, Amnon Frenkel, and Yoram Shiftan.

2008           Ran Naor Foundation: The Effect of Employer Car Taxation Policy on Road Safety, 60,000 NIS (approx.. $15,500), Y. Shiftan.

2008           The Israel Ministry of the Interior: A New Paradigm for Transportation Planning and Urban Street Design: Towards a Transit and Walking Friendly Region, Technion share 23,000 NIS. (approx. $6,000),  Y. Shiftan and Yodan Rofe, Ben-Gurion University.

2009           The Israel National Authority for Road Safety:  The factors for non-compliance with traffic regulations in the Arab sector, 240,000 NIS (approx.. $63,500), Y Shiftan.

2009           The Israel Insurance Companies Research Fund: Children involvement in car crashes in the Arab sector – Identifying their characteristics and ways to reduce

them. 200,000 NIS  (approx.. $53,000), Y. Shiftan.

2010           The Israel Science Foundation, Integrating Activity Based Travel Demand Models with Land Use and Other Long Term Life Style Decisions, 200,000 NIS (approx.. $59,000), Y. Shiftan.

2010           The Britain Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership, BIRAX, The use of state-of-the-art models by policy makers to address global energy and environment challenges: the case of transport policy, 27,500 Pounds (Technion share: 16,750 Pounds, approx.. $27,000), Y. Shiftan

2010           The Israel National Authority for Road Safety: Exploring the factors behind alcohol-impaired driving among Arab young adult in Israel by applying a socio-ecological model, (Through Haifa University, Technion share: 35,000 NIS, approx.. $8,000), Y. Shiftan

2011           Ran Naor |Foundation, Road safety research: Enforcement effectiveness, 55,000 NIS. (approx.. $15,500), Y. Shiftan.

2011           The Technion Autonomous Systems Program (TASP): Autonomous Collaborative Data Fusion and Optimization Infrastructure for Transportation Systems, $17,250, Y. Shiftan and Alfred Bruckstein.

2011           The Israel National Authority for Road Safety: Mapping high risk locations using green boxes devices as a mean to efficient treatment, 203,500 NIS (approx.. $57,000), Y. Shiftan

2011           Peres Peace Institute: The economic benefits from regional transportation development with peace in the Middle East, 2,000 EURO. (approx.. $2700), Y. Shiftan

2011           The Ministry of National Infrastructure: The environmental Impact of alternative energy sources for transportation in Israel in 2020 (Through Tel Aviv University, Technion share 17,500 NIS, approx.. $5000), Y. Shiftan.

2011           The Israel Insurance Companies Research Fund: The factors affecting over involvement of the Arab sector in road crashes, 238,600 NIS (approx.. $67,000), Y. Shiftan

2012           The Technion Autonomous Systems Program (TASP): Autonomous Collaborative Data Fusion and Optimization Infrastructure for Transportation Systems, Second Year, $32,000, Y. Shiftan and A. Bruckstein.

2012           The Technion Fund for Security Research: System for Patrolling and Monitoring Optimization on Transportation Networks, 335,000 NIS (approx.. $100,000) , A. Bruckstein, Y. Shiftan, and S. Bekhor)

2013           Cross Israel Highway: The effect of incentives on changing travel behavior, 20,000 NIS, Y. Shiftan.

2013           The Insurance Companies Research Fund: Self-enforcement of driving speeds, 248,000 NIS (approx. $69,000), Y. Shiftan and I. Erev)

2013           The Ministry of Transportation Chief Scientist: Evaluation the benefits from improved real time driving information using micro-simulation, 250,000 NIS (approx. $69,500), Y. Shiftan

2013           The Technion Fund for Security Research: System for Patrolling and Monitoring Optimization on Transportation Networks, 287,320 NIS (approx.. $80,500), A. Bruckstein,  Y. Shiftan, and S. Bekhor).

2013           Gordon Center for System Engineering: Developing a Sustainable Transportation System framework, $10,000, Y. Shiftan.

2013           The Ran Naor Foundation: The Effectiveness of Various Incentives Programs to Improve Driving Safety, 158,400 NIS (approx. $45,000), Y. Shiftan and I. Erev.

2013           Israel Science Foundation (ISF): Incorporating Equity Consideration in Transport Project Evaluation, 972,000 NIS (approx. $273,000), Y. Shiftan

2014           The Technion-Cornell Joint Research Fund: Dynamic On-Demand Efficient Urban Transportation Infrastructure, $50,000 (Technion Share $25,000), Y.Shiftan and A. Bruckstein

2014           Gordon Center for System Engineering: Balancing the considerations of stakeholders in the development of sustainable transport systems, $8,500, Y. Shiftan.

2015           Ministry of Science: Modeling and Evaluation the Potential of New Information and Communication Technologies in Changing Travel Behavior among Different Sectors of Travelers, with Rupin College (Technion share $50,000), Y. Shiftan.

2015           Greek-Israel R&D project: USMART – Personalized Smart Travel Services on Urban Environments, with Mobility Insight, Israel industrial partner and University of the Aegean, Greece, Technion Share $30,000, Y. Shiftan.

2015           Technion Security Fund: Intelligent Swarms – Optimal Dynamic Coverage Infrastructure for Large-Scale Fleets of VISINT\SIGINT Reconnaissance UAVs, $30,000, Y. Shiftan and A. Bruckstein.

2016           The Center for Transportation Innovation – Multi Modal Routing Research Application, 150,000 NIS, A. Gal and Y. Shiftan

2016           The Gordon Center for System Engineering – Balancing Stakeholders Interests in Developing Sustainable Transportation Systems, $15,000, Y. Shiftan

2017           Support Center for Traffic Management and Control, Tel-Aviv Municipality, 480,000 NIS, Y. Shiftan

2017           Chief Scientist Ministry of Transport,- Encouraging Ride-sharing in the Arab Sector in Israel, 390,000 NIS, Y. Shiftan

2017           Chief Scientist Ministry of Transport,- Examining the feasibility of electric propulsion in the urban public transportation, 339,000, S. Bekhor and Y. Shiftan

2017           Chief Scientist Ministry of Transport,- Measuring the effectiveness of public transportation on Municipal basis, 363,000 NIS, Y. Shiftan and S. Bekhor

2017           Chief Scientist Ministry of Transport,- Adoption of the shared autonomous vehicle: A Game-based model of urban travelers and transportation system co-adaptation, 500,000 NIS,(Technion Share) E. Ben-Elia (Ben-Gurion Univ.), I. Benenson (Tel-Aviv Univ.), and Y. Shiftan

2017           Israel Science Foundation, – Activity and travel behavior implications of autonomous vehicles using a naturalistic experiment, 690,000 NIS, Y. Shiftan.

2017           Municipality of Haifa – Traffic management system for Haifa, 260,000 NIS, Y. Shiftan and A. Galtzur.

2017           Yad Hanadiv –Sustainable Transportation, 55,000 NIS, Y. Shiftan.

2018           Yad Hnaadiv – Sustainable Transportation, Second Part, 400,000 NIS, Y. Shiftan

2018            The Gordon Center for System Engineering – Introducing a novel framework for very large-scale integrated systems Engineering for smart city solutions, $22,300, Y. Shiftan

2018            The Gordon Center for System Engineering – Stakeholders’ organization driving sustainable transportation systems: comparative study of ridesharing cases, $14,800, Y. Shiftan

2019           Tel-Aviv University – Center for Smart Transportation: Road user behavior in a multi-modal smart transportation system, 86,000 NIS, Y. Shiftan

2019           EU Horizon2020 – INDIMO Inclusive digital mobility solutions, Total budget 3 Million Euro, Technion Share 300,000 EURO.  Y. Shiftan and A. Galtzur

2020           European Institute of Technology (EIT) Urban Mobility – ShareMore – SHAREd MObility REwards, Total budget 350,000 EURO, Technion (Activity Leader) Share 70,000 EURO

2020           European Institute of Technology (EIT) Urban Mobility – MOBY – Living lab e-micromobility, Total budget 500,000 EURO, Technion Share 25,500 EURO.

2020           European Institute of Technology (EIT) Urban Mobility – Boost – Boosting Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge Project, Total budget – 200,000 EURO, Technion Share – 29,600 EURO.