On August 9, 2024, Maryam Ghaffari Dolama successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled “Quantifying Mobility Impacts of Railway Grade Crossing Blockages on Vehicular Traffic and Emergency Responders”. A special thanks to Dr. Orly Linovski and Dr. Babak Mehran for serving on the Examining Committee along with external examiner Dr. Eric Hildebrand, Department of Civil Engineering at the University of New Brunswick.