Ideas That Shape How We Move
Advanced Crash Analytics & Predictive Safety
Investigating the complex interplay of human behavior, roadway geometry, and environmental factors that lead to crashes. Expertise lies in developing predictive safety models, identifying systemic improvements, and implementing state and federal data-driven countermeasures designed to drastically reduce traffic fatalities.
Connected Infrastructure & Intelligent Transportation Systems
Harnessing the power of real-world connected vehicle (CV) data, cloud-based telematics, and AI-driven spatial simulations to optimize corridor performance, assess autonomous vehicle readiness, and build future-proof, resilient municipal highway networks.
Inclusive Infrastructure Design
Championing human-centric transit solutions that serve all populations. Expertise includes adapting spatial data workflows to identify and rectify infrastructure disparities in underserved communities, enhance pedestrian networks, and improve mobility in both domestic and international contexts.
Published research on Google Scholar
Google Scholar hosts Dr. Okafor's verified academic profile — peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, and his doctoral dissertation. His listed research areas are road traffic safety, connected vehicles, and sustainable transportation, with work spanning crash-severity modeling, pedestrian injury pathways, large-truck safety, and connected-vehicle hard-braking data for proactive safety improvement.
- Road traffic safety · connected vehicles · sustainable transport
- Dissertation on connected-vehicle data for proactive road safety
- Collaborations with Alabama Transportation Institute researchers
Moments that carry the work forward
Moments where research shows up in practice, professional forums, and the national safety community.
LIFESAVERS 2023
Selected as a Traffic Safety Scholar at the national conference on highway safety priorities — recognizing emerging researchers shaping safer roads.