

Tampere University
arman.hamidi [at] tuni.fi (arman[dot]hamidi[at]tuni[dot]fi)
About me
Education
- PhD, Road and Pavement Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, 2025
- MSc, Road and Pavement Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2018
- BSc, Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2015
Working Experience
- Pavement Research Engineer, Roadscanners Oy (2025-present)
- Lecturer, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran International Campus (2020-2021)
- Research Assistant, Hami Pavement Laboratory, University of Tehran (2018-2020)
- Highway Engineer, Technical and Soil Mechanics Laboratory (TSML) Company (2019)
- Scientific Editor, Serie Omran Publication (2016-2017)
Research fields
- Structural Evaluation of Pavements
- Pavement Management Systems
- Pavement Materials and Design
- Highway Geometric Design
Selected publications
Journal papers
- Hamidi, A., Hoff, I., & Mork, H. (2025), "Evaluation of the Measure deflectometer for pavement structural assessment", Measurement, Volume 256, Part C: 118304 (Link)
- Hamidi, A., Foroutan Mirhosseini, A., Hoff, I., Mork, H., Grannes, K. B. & Aursand, P. O. (2025), "Comparative evaluation of falling weight deflectometer, traffic speed deflectometer and rapid pavement tester in deflection measurement", Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Volume 2679, Issue 2: 1475–1494. (Link)
- Hamidi, A., Hoff, I., & Mork, H. (2024), "A sensitivity analysis on the simulated measurements of traffic speed deflection devices", International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Volume 25, No. 1: 2447461. (Link)
- Hamidi, A., Hoff, I., & Mork, H. (2024), "Elastic and viscoelastic back-calculation of pavement layers' moduli using data obtained from traffic speed deflection devices", Construction and Building Materials Volume 447: 138035 (Link)
- Hamidi, A. & Aghabayk, K. (2020) “Introducing a new curve with symmetrical parabolic curvature for horizontal alignment”, Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems (ASCE), Volume 146, Issue 6: 04020047 (Link)
- Sabouri, M. & Hamidi, A. (2020) “Introducing a revised model for determination of rollover threshold speed of buses”, International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems, Volume 27, Number 6, Pages 723-742 (Link)
- Bagherian, P., Aghabayk, K., Hamidi, A., Shahrbabaki, A., & Young, W. (2020) “Pavement performance prediction model development for Tehran”, International Journal of Transportation Engineering, Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 391-413 (Link)
- Hamidi, A. & Motamed, A. (2019) “The effect of filler type and content on rutting resistance of asphaltic materials”, International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 249-258 (Link)
Conference papers and seminar presentations
- Hamidi, A., Saarenketo, T. & Maijala, P. (2026) “A temperature and speed correction factor for the fatigue strain index obtained from traffic speed deflectometer”. 12th International conference on Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways, and Airfields (BCRRA), Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 22-24 (Accepted)
- Hamidi, A., Saarenketo, T., Maijala, P. & Foroutan Mirhosseini, A. (2026) “Introducing a New Model for Temperature Correction of Falling Weight Deflectometer Deflections”. 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington D.C., USA, January 11-15 (Link)
- Hamidi, A., Hoff, I., Mork, H. & Foroutan Mirhosseini, A. (2024), "A new curve fitting procedure for obtaining deflections from traffic speed deflectometer", 8th International Conference Bituminous Mixtures and Pavements, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 12-14 (Link)
- Hamidi, A., Hoff, I., & Mork, H. (2024), "Introducing a new pavement structural index based on measurements of falling weight deflectometer", 14th National Congress on Civil Engineering (NCCE), University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran, 21-22 May (Link)
- Hamidi, A., Foroutan Mirhosseini, A., Hoff, I., Mork, H., Grannes, K. B. & Aursand, P. O. (2024), "Consistency between traffic speed deflection devices and falling weight deflectometer", 103rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington D.C., USA, January 7-11 (Link)
- Hamidi, A. (2023), “Comparison of deflection measurements with RAPTOR/TSD/FWD”, Seminar of the Dimensioning Group in the Norwegian Asphalt Association (NADim-seminar 2023), Oslo, Norway, November 30 (Link)
- Hamidi, A. (2023), "A comparison between rapid pavement tester and falling weight deflectometer", 10th European FWD User Group Meeting in conjunction with the XXVIIth PIARC World Road Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, October 2
- Hamidi, A., Foroutan Mirhosseini, A., Hoff, I., Grannes, K. B., Anastasio, S., & Aursand, P. O. (2023), "Revising the Norwegian formula for bearing capacity by applying a temperature correction factor", 7th Chinese-European Workshop (CEW) on Functional Pavement, Birmingham, UK, July 2-4 (Link)
- Hamidi, A., Hoff, I., & Foroutan Mirhosseini, A. (2022) “Highway geometric design and traffic safety in Norway”, 6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 26-29 (Link)
- Alavi, Z., Hamidi, A., & Mahpour, A. (2022) “Highway geometric design guidelines and traffic safety practices in Iran”, 6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 26-29 (Link)
- Sabouri, M., & Hamidi, A. (2020) “Evaluating the effect of payload on the rollover threshold speed of vehicles”, 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington D.C., USA, January 12-16 (Link)