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Arman Hamidi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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)
  • Road Design Engineer, Mahab Ghodss Consulting Engineering Company (2015)

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. & Mirhosseini, A.F. (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 (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)