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Richard de Neufville

Richard de Neufville

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
44
Citations
9544
World Ranking
5728
National Ranking
1604

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1973 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1972 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard de Neufville is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has conducted research primarily in the fields of Engineering, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Ocean Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

The research topics covered by de Neufville include Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Capital Investment and Risk Analysis, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, and Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies.

Among recent publications, de Neufville is the author of "Climate adaption pathways for sea-level rise: case studies from Boston and the Netherlands" published in 2025 in Procedia Computer Science. Other papers connected to their collaborative networks and field of study include:

  • Real options analysis for valuation of climate adaptation pathways with application to transit infrastructure, 2023, Risk Analysis
  • A Flexible Design Approach to Improve Economics of Shale Well Pads: A Case Study from the Appalachian Basin, 2022, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
  • Flexible Design for Carbon Capture System Development: Economic Case of US Gulf Coast, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Practical incorporation of lifecycle flexibility into products at their early development stage, 2025, Research in Engineering Design

Frequent co-authors in connection with de Neufville's research include Michael V. Martello, Andrew J. Whittle, Perry Oddo, Imane Essaadi, and Hemant Kumar.

Publication venues where de Neufville has appeared frequently or collaborated across include Risk Analysis, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, SSRN Electronic Journal, Research in Engineering Design, and Procedia Computer Science.

Richard de Neufville has been recognized with fellowships including Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded in 1973 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 1972.

Best Publications

  • Airport Systems: Planning, Design, and Management

    Richard De Neufville;Amadeo R. Odoni;Peter Belobaba;Tom Reynolds

  • Distribution Management-Mathematical Modelling and Practical Analysis

    Samuel Eilon;C. D. T. Watson-Gandy;Nicos Christofides;Richard de Neufville

  • Flexibility in Engineering Design

    Richard de Neufville;Stefan Scholtes

  • Systems Analysis in Public Policy: A Critique

    Ida R. Hoos;Richard de Neufville

  • APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS: ENGINEERING PLANNING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

    Richard De Neufville

  • Real Options by Spreadsheet: Parking Garage Case Example

    Richard de Neufville;Richard de Neufville;Stefan Scholtes;Stefan Scholtes;Tao Wang;Tao Wang

  • Staged Deployment of Communications Satellite Constellations in Low Earth Orbit

    Olivier L. de Weck;Richard de Neufville;Mathieu Chaize

  • Systems analysis for engineers and managers

    Richard de Neufville;Joseph H. Stafford;Joseph Pistrang

  • Real Options: Dealing With Uncertainty in Systems Planning and Design

    Richard de Neufville

  • Forest fire management to avoid unintended consequences: A case study of Portugal using system dynamics

    Ross D. Collins;Richard de Neufville;João Claro;Tiago Oliveira

  • Nuclear Power: A Hedge against Uncertain Gas and Carbon Prices?

    Fabien A. Roques;William J. Nuttall;David M. Newbery;Richard de Neufville

  • Low-Cost Airports for Low-Cost Airlines: Flexible Design to Manage the Risks

    Richard De Neufville

  • MANAGEMENT OF MULTI-AIRPORT SYSTEMS: A DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

    Richard de Neufville

  • Engineering Systems Multiple-Domain Matrix: An organizing framework for modeling large-scale complex systems

    Jason E. Bartolomei;Daniel E. Hastings;Richard de Neufville;Donna H. Rhodes

  • Life cycle model of alternative fuel vehicles: emissions, energy, and cost trade-offs

    Jeremy Hackney;Richard de Neufville

  • Risk of Dam Failure in Benefit-Cost Analysis

    Gregory B. Baecher;M. Elisabeth Paté;Richard De Neufville

  • Passenger terminal design

    Amedeo R. Odoni;Richard de Neufville

  • Building Real Options into Physical Systems with Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programming

    Tao Wang;Richard de Neufville

  • HYBRID REAL OPTIONS VALUATION OF RISKY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

    James E. Neely;Richard de Neufville

  • Productivity and returns to scale of container ports

    Richard De Neufville;Koji Tsunokawa

  • Optimization of transport networks: Peter A. Steenbrink. John Wiley and Sons, New York and London, 325 pp. (1974)

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