Recent Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Thakuriah, P., C. Cottrill and T. Gustafson (2008). A Networked Approach to Planning for Deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems. In Proceedings of Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress.

• Cottrill, C. and P. Thakuriah (2008). GPS Adoption by Households: Evidence from a Household Travel Survey. Published in the peer-reviewed proceedings of MobiQuitous 2008, First International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science IWCTS, held in conjunction with: The Fifth International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

• Thakuriah, P. G. Yanos, J. Lin, P. Metaxatos, R. Sulo, W. Pu and L. Mbekeani (2008). Including Weather Effects in Real-Time Traffic Information Environment - Exploratory Analysis and Alternative Models. In Proceedings of Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress.

• Thakuriah, P. and L. Tang. (2008) Longitudinal Analysis of Effect of Transportation Difficulties on Earnings Among Young Adults from Disadvantaged Families. Proceedings of 87th Transportation Research Board Annual Conference.

• Thakuriah, P., P.S. Sriraj and T. Schmidt (2008). Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Job Access and Reverse Commute Program. Proceedings of the 87th Transportation Research Board Annual Conference.

• Cottrill, C. and P. Thakuriah (2008). Evaluating Pedestrian Risk in Environmental Justice Areas. Proceedings of 87th Transportation Research Board Annual Conference.

• Tang, L. and P. Thakuriah (2007). Relationship of Attitudes towards Road and Transit Capital Investments and Propensity to Ride Transit Given Traveler Information. Proceedings of 86th Transportation Research Board Annual Conference.

• Tang, L. and P. Thakuriah (2007). An Examination of Anticipated Behavioral Responses to Real-Time Transit Information Systems. Proceedings of the World Conference on Transport Research Society, Berkeley, California.

• Thakuriah, P. (2006). An Examination of the Simultaneous Relationship between Transportation Expenditures and Household Incomes. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Kyoto, Japan.

• Sriraj, P.S. and P. Thakuriah. (2006). A Spatial Decision Support System for Transit and Housing Markets using the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Interactive GIS. In Proceedings of the Applications of Advanced Transportation Technology of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Chicago.

• Thakuriah, P. (2005). Model-Based Estimates of Transportation Safety Data Quality. Proceedings of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies 2004 Conference.

• Thakuriah, P. (2004). Job Access Services and Programs for Low-Income Workers: Some Comments. Proceedings of City Futures International Conference, Chicago, IL.

• Thakuriah, P., P.S. Sriraj and J. F. Ortega (2003). Spatial Data Integration for Low-Income Worker Accessibility Assessment: A Case Study of the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Proceedings of the Mid-Continent Transportation Symposium, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

• Thakuriah, P. (2003). Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Application for Imputation of Transportation Databases. Proceedings of the 82nd Transportation Research Board Annual Conference.

• Lee, J. and P. Thakuriah (2003). Application of Probabilistic Linkage to Commercial Motor Vehicle and Carrier Data. Proceedings of the 82nd Transportation Research Board Annual Conference.

• Lee, J. and P. Thakuriah (2003). An Evaluation of Alternative Signal Control Strategies. Proceedings of the 9th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Chicago, IL.

• Thakuriah, P. (2003). Data Quality Criteria for Evaluating Commercial Motor Carrier and Vehicle Databases. Proceedings of 82nd Transportation Research Board Annual Conference.

• Soot, S., P. Metaxatos, A. Sen and P. Thakuriah (2000). Factors Contributing to Growth in VMT. Proceedings of 79th Transportation Research Board Annual Conference.

• Thakuriah, P. (2000). Application of ITS to improve ground access control and traveler information in major airports. In Compendium of Technical Papers of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

• Thakuriah, P. (2000). Link Travel Time Estimation with Imputed Signal Control. Proceedings of the 79th Transportation Research Board Annual Conference.

 

External Funded Research

·        Evaluation of Transportation for Disadvantaged Populations. Funded by the Federal Transit Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2008-2009.

·        Academic Partnership under CFIRE. Funded by the National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education, University of Wisconsin at Madison. Co-Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2008-2009.

·        Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship. Funded by Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. Principal Investigator (Fellowship awarded to my Ph.D. Student Caitlin Cottrill). Grant Term: 2008-2010.

·        Post-Implementation Evaluation Of Emissions Benefits Of CMAQ Projects. Funded by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2008-2009.

·        IGERT: Integrative Graduate Program in Computational Transportation Science. Funded by National Science Foundation. Co-Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2006-2009.

·        Design of Special Events, Weather and Construction Delay Component of a Dynamic Traveler Information System. Funded by NAVTEQ, LLC. Principal Investigator. Grant term 2007-2008.

·        Bus on Shoulders. Funded by Illinois Department of Transportation. Principal Investigator. Principal Investigator. Grant term 2007-2008.

·        A National Human Service Transportation Survey. Funded by Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA), Washington, DC, from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Program. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2007-2008.

·        Technical Studies for the Regional Transportation Authority. Funded by the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA). Co-Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2006-2008.

·        Lipinski/Randolph Scholarship. Funded by Illinois Department of Transportation. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2006-2009.

·        Planning Partners and Economic Impacts Study. Funded by Federal Transportation Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2005-2006.

·        Study on Employment Transportation Partnerships and Economic Benefits. Funded by Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA), Washington, DC, from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Program. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2005-2006.

·        Impact of Transit on Low-Income Populations. Multi-year, multiple-project grant funded by Federal Transit Administration’s Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) program, U.S. Department of Transportation. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2001-2006.

·        System-wide Information for Transportation Assessment and Research. Funded by Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2005-2007.

·        National Partnership for Low-Income Worker Accessibility. Funded by Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA), from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Joblinks Program. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2003-2004.

·        Economic Benefits of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Funded by Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative (METSI) of the Illinois Department of Transportation. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2003-2004.

·        Development, Testing and Evaluation of Intelligent Databases for Motor Carrier Safety. Funded by Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation. Principal Investigator.  Grant Term: 2000-2001.

·        Strategic Study for the Combined Development of Chongming, Chanxing and Hensgha Island of Shanghai, China. Funded by Shanghai Municipal Government, People’s Republic of China. Researcher. Grant Term: 2001-2002.

·        Initiative for Access to Jobs and Economic Opportunities. Funded by Illinois Board of Higher Education through University of Illinois at Chicago’s Office of Vice-Chancellor for Research to match FTA’s JARC grant, which requires a 50 percent match. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2001-2003.

·        Initiative for Access to Jobs and Economic Opportunities. Funded by University of Illinois at Chicago to match FTA’s JARC grant, which requires a 50 percent match. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2002-2003.

·        Development of a Midwest Personal Travel Demand Model. Funded by the Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative of the Illinois Department of Transportation. Principal Investigator.  Grant Term: 1999-2000.

·        Preliminary Technology Guidelines for an Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Deployment in Malaysia: Implications for a Revenue Model. Funded by Oyster Solutions, New Delhi, India and Sinar Dian Technologies SDN BHD, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 1999-2000.

·        Statistical Support Service for National Transit Database. Funded by Pace, the suburban Chicago bus division of the Regional Transportation Administration. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 1998-2001.  

·        Implications of the Welfare Reform Bill on Suburban Chicago Transit Demand: Some Strategies for Pace. Funded by Pace. Principal Investigator.   Grant Term: 1997-1998. 

·        Transportation and Welfare Reform. Funded by Illinois Department of Human Services. Co-Principal Investigator.  Grant Term: 1998-1998.

·        Travel Information, Access to Economic Opportunities and Issues of Environmental Justice. Funded by Chicago Area Transportation Study. Co-PI.  Grant Term: 2000-2001.

·        Transportation Infrastructure and Network Modeling. Funded by National Science Foundation's (NSF) through the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). Multi-year, multi-university research project. Researcher.  Grant Term: 1996-1999. 

·        Evaluation of RT-TRACS Adaptive Signal Control. Funded by Chicago Department of Transportation and National Institute of Statistical Sciences. Principal Investigator. Grant Term: 2000-2001. 

·        Comparison of Interstate and Intrastate Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety. Funded by Illinois Department of Transportation. Principal Investigator.  Grant Term: 1998-1999.  

·        Intermodal Safety Issues in Northeastern Illinois. Joint project with the Department of Civil Engineering in Northwestern University. Funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation.  Co-Principal Investigator.  Grant Term: 1998-1999. 

·        Metropolitan Initiative/Case Studies. Funded by Center for Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Brookings Institute. Researcher.  Grant Term: 1998-1999.

·         Highways and Urban Decentralization. Funded by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. Co Principal Investigator.  Grant Term: 1997-1998.

·        Urban Decentralization. Funded by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. Co Principal Investigator.  Grant Term: 1998-2000.

·        Measurement, Modeling and Prediction for Infrastructural Systems. NSF-DMS Grant No: 9313013. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow from 1994-1996. Grant Term: 1993-1999.  

·        Fellows for Cross-Disciplinary Research in Statistics.NSF-DMS Grant No: 9208758. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow from 1994-1996. Grant Term: 1993-1999.  

·        Advanced Driver and Vehicle Advisory Navigation Concept. Development and Field Test of a Dynamic In-Vehicle Navigation System. Funded by the Federal Highway Administration, Illinois Department of Transportation, Motorola, Inc, Illinois University Transportation Research Consortium. Graduate Research Assistant. 

 

Unpublished Technical Research Reports and Working Papers

Employment Transportation, Socially and Economically Marginalized Communities and Individuals

·        Thakuriah, P., P.S. Sriraj, S. Soot and J. Persky (2008). Economic Benefits of Employment Transportation. Summary of Final Report to Federal Transit Administration, U.S. DOT and Community Transportation Association of America, June for Grant No's DOT IL-37-X007-00 4 and DOT IL-37-5002-00. [Report to the U.S. Department of Transportation that has been summarized in DOT's report to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Government Accountability Office and U.S. Department of Labor. The analysis in the report has led to the introduction of a U.S. Senate Bill S. 3466 on September 10, 2008 by Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI)]( Click here for the full report.)

·        Thakuriah, P., P.S. Sriraj, S. Soot and J. Persky (2008). Economic Benefits of Employment Transportation. Full of Final Report to Federal Transit Administration, U.S. DOT and Community Transportation Association of America, June for Grant No's DOT IL-37-X007-00 4 and DOT IL-37-5002-00. ( Click here for the full report.)

·        Thakuriah, P., S. Soot and P.S. Sriraj (2008). Partnerships for the Job Access and Reverse Commute Program: A Multi-Site Study of the Institutional and Coordination Processes behind Employment Transportation for Low-Income Workers. Final Report to Federal Transit Administration, U.S. DOT and Community Transportation Association of America, June for Grant No DOT IL-37-X007-00 4 and CTAA 918.

·        Rashidi, T., A. Mohammadian and P. Thakuriah (2007). Effectiveness of Transit Strategies Targeting Elderly People. Final Report submitted to the Illinois Center for Transportation.

·        Thakuriah, P., Sriraj, P.S. and K. Hoschouer (2006). An Equity Assessment of the Job Access and Reverse Commute Program. With support from Federal Transit Administration, US Department of Transportation, JobLinks Program, and the US Department of Labor. Urban Transportation Center, UIC, March 2006.

·        Thakuriah, P., Sriraj, P. S. J. Persky and R. Baiman (2006) An Economic Analysis of the Targeted Transportation Services for Low-Income Workers. Interim Report to the Federal Transit Administration, US Department of Transportation and the Community Transportation of America, Washington, D.C.

·        Thakuriah, P., Sriraj, P.S., Y. Liao, K. Hoschouer (2005). Role of Planning Partnerships in Transportation Coordination. With Support from: Federal Transit Administration, US Department of Transportation, JobLinks Program, and the US Department of Labor. Urban Transportation Center, UIC, March 2005.

·        Sriraj, P.S., M. Minor and P. Thakuriah (2005). Housing Relocation Assistant: A Housing Relocation Tool for the Chicagoland Area. UIC-FTA Working Series.

·        Thakuriah, P. (2005). Variations in Outcomes of Targeted Transportation Services. UIC-FTA Working Series. UIC-FTA Working Series.

·        Sriraj, P.S., M. Minor and P. Thakuriah (2005).  A Spatial Decision Support System for Transit and Housing Markets using the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Interactive GIS. UIC-FTA Working Series.

·        Thakuriah, P. and Y. Liao (2005).  A Longitudinal Analysis of Effects of Adequate Transportation Access in Young Adulthood. UIC-FTA Working Series.

·        Liao, Y. and P. Thakuriah (2005). Multilevel Linear Modeling of Household Vehicle Usage. UIC-FTA Working Series.

·        Thakuriah, P., Sööt, S., Sriraj, P.S., Dickson, C. (2004) Partnerships for Low-Income Employment Transportation. With Support from: Federal Transit Administration, US Department of Transportation, JobLinks Program, and the US Department of Labor. Urban Transportation Center, UIC.

·        Thakuriah, P., Ortega, J. F. Sriraj, P. S. (2003). Spatial Data Integration for Low-Income Worker Accessibility Assessment: A Case Study of the Chicago Metropolitan Area. UIC-UTC Working Paper.

·        Sinha, A.K., Thakuriah, P. (2003)  Job Start Times and Occupational Characteristics. UIC-FTA Working Paper WP-3A-04.

·        Thakuriah, P., Liao, Y. (2003) Dynamics of Subsidies and Vehicle Ownership Decisions of Low-Income Families, UIC-FTA Working Paper WP-3B-04.

·        Thakuriah, P., Ortega, J. F. Sriraj, P. S. (2003) Spatial Data Integration Using a Cross-Sectoral Approach. UIC-FTA Working Paper WP-3C-04.

·        Ortega, J. F., Thakuriah, P. (2003) Cross-Sectoral Conceptualization Of Job Accessibility Projects: A Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Support System Application, UIC-FTA Working Paper WP-3D-04.

·        Soot, S., P.S. Sriraj and P. Thakuriah (2002). A Survey of Users of Job Access Reverse Commute Funded Transportation Services. Report to the Federal Transit Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.

·        Thakuriah, P. (2001). An Assessment of Variability in Low-Income Employee Profiles. UTC-UIC Working Paper.

·        Thakuriah, P., S. Soot, and P. Metaxatos.  (1999) Destination Accessibility Measures for a Low-Income Group.  Technical Synopsis Part B of report titled Implications of the Welfare Reform Bill on Suburban Chicago Transit Demand: Some Strategies for Pace.

·        Thakuriah, P., S. Soot, P. Metaxatos, and others (1998). Implications of the Welfare Reform Bill on Suburban Chicago Transit Demand: Some Strategies for Pace. Final report to Pace.  This report was a basis for a U.S.  Department of Labor grant to the six-county northeastern Illinois area for transportation purposes and was further used as a basis for the Chicago Area Transportation Study's Job Access and Reverse Commute application to the Federal Transit Administration for FY 1998.

·        Thakuriah, P., S. Soot, A. Sen, P. Metaxatos, and others (1998).  Transportation and Welfare Reform. Final report to the Illinois Department of Human Services.

Urban Growth Dynamics and Interactions

·        Soot, S., P. Thakuriah and P. Metaxatos. (2000). Factors Contributing to Growth in VMT. UTC-UIC Working Paper.

·        Thakuriah, P., D. Virmani and S. Yun. (1999). Framework for Intercity Travel Demand Modeling in the United States. UTC-UIC Working Paper.

·        Zhang, T., M. Jaffe and P. Thakuriah. (2001). Strategic Study for the Combined Development of Chongming, Changxing and Hengsha Insland in Shanghai. Final report to the Chinese Municipal Government.

·        Thakuriah, P., P. Metaxatos and D. Yang (1999).  Propensity for Long-Distance Travel in the United States. Final report to the Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative.

·        Thakuriah, P. (1999).  Commercial Motor Carrier Operations in the Northeast Illinois Region: Impacts on Land Use:  Trends Since 1970.  In Metropolitan Case Study for Chicago.  Brookings Institute.

·        Soot, S., A. Sen, P. Thakuriah and others (1998). Highways and Urban Decentralization. Final report to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.

·        Thakuriah, P. and P. Metaxatos. (1999). An Assessment of Needs for Access to Jobs. UTC-UIC Working Paper.

·        Boyce, D., A. Sen, S. Soot and P. Thakuriah.  (1991).  TAMS' Study on the Third Airport:  A Review of the Enplanement Forecasts. Report to the Bi-State Commission on Site Selection of a Third Airport, Chicago.

Technologies in Transportation, ITS, Safety and Operations

·        Thakuriah, P. and S. Niumpradit (2003). The Analysis of the Impact of Intelligent Transportation Systems to the Economy: The Case of Electronic Toll Collection systems. Report III to the Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative (METSI), August.

·        Thakuriah, P., J. Lee and S. Niumpradit. (2003). Development, Testing and Evaluation of Intelligent Databases for Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety. U.S Department of Transportation, BTS, Grant Number DTTS-00-B003-IL Final Report.

·        Niumpradit, S. and P. Thakuriah (2002). The Economic and Aggregate Productivity Benefits of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Report to the Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative, University of Illinois at Chicago and Illinois Department of Transportation.

·        Thakuriah, P. J. Lee and others. (2002). Evaluation of Alternative Signal Control Strategies in the City of Chicago Final report to the Chicago Department of Transportation.

·        Thakuriah, P. (2002). Data Quality Criteria for Evaluating Commercial Motor Carrier and Vehicle Databases. UIC-UTC Working Paper.

·        Thakuriah, P., G. Yanos, D. Virmani, A. Sreenivasan and V. Rivas (2000).  Comparison of Interstate and Intrastate Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety.  Final Report No. VB-H1-98 to the Illinois Transportation Research Center.

·        Thakuriah, P. (2001). Intelligent Transportation Systems for Economies in Transition.  UTC-UIC Working Paper.

·        Thakuriah, P. and J. Lee (2001). Data Needs for Evaluation of Adaptive Signal Control Systems. UTC-UIC Working Paper.

·        Thakuriah, P. and J. Lee (2001). Detection of High-Risk Trucks. Data Linkage and Inference. UTC-UIC Working Paper.

·        Thakuriah, P.(2000). Preliminary Technology Guidelines for an Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Deployment in Malaysia: Implications for a Revenue Model. Final Report to Oyster Solutions, New Delhi, India and Sinar Dian Technologies SDN BHD, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

·        Graves, T. L., A. F. Karr, N. M. Rouphail and P. Thakuriah (1998). Real-time Prediction of Incipient Congestion on Freeways from Detector Data.  Technical Report #79, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Research Triangle Park.

·        Graves, T. L., A. F. Karr and P. Thakuriah (1998). Variability of Travel Times on Arterial Links: Effects of Signals and Volume.  Technical Report #86, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Research Triangle Park.

·        Thakuriah, P. and  A. Sen (1996).  Quality of Information Given by Advanced Traveler Information Systems.  Working Paper # 51, National Institute of Statistical Sciences.

·        Thakuriah, P. (1996).  Travel Time Estimation with Imputed Signal Control Information.  Working Paper # 52, National Institute of Statistical Sciences.

·        Sen, A., P. Thakuriah, X. Zhu and A. F. Karr. Frequency of Probe Vehicle Reports and Variance of Arterial Link Travel Time Estimates. NISS Working Paper Series #54.

·        Thakuriah, P. and A. Karr. (1996). Analysis of Probe-Based Information on Signalized Arterials. NISS Working Paper Series #48

·        Thakuriah, P. and A. Karr. (1996). Characterization of Imperfection in Information given by Advanced Traveler Information Systems. NISS Working Paper Series.

·        Sen, A., S. Soot, Thakuriah, P. and A. Karr. (1996). Estimation of Static Travel Times in a Dynamic Route Guidance System – II. NISS Working Paper Series #49.

·        Thakuriah, P. and A. Sen (1994). Evaluation of Route Quality in an Advanced Traveler Information System.

·        Thakuriah, P. and A. Sen (1994).  Static Estimates of Travel Times in ADVANCE:  Release 1.5 Algorithm Report and Detail Design Document (#8600).  ADVANCE Working Paper Series #39.

·        Thakuriah, P. (1994).  Static Estimates of Travel Time for ADVANCE.  Release 1.0 SPU Algorithm.  ADVANCE Working Paper Series, Task TRF-TT-31, June.

·        Thakuriah, P. and A. Sen.  (1993) Data Fusion for Travel Time Prediction.  ADVANCE Working Paper Series, Task TRF-TT-07, June.

·        Sen, A., P. Thakuriah and N. Liu  (1993).  Travel Time Prediction: Report for Phase I of the ADVANCE Project.  ADVANCE Working Paper Series, Task TRF-TT-11, September.

·        Sen, A., P. Thakuriah and N. Liu (1993).  Design of the ADVANCE Travel Time Forecasting Procedure.  ADVANCE Working Paper # 31.

·        Sun, L. and P. Thakuriah.  (1993).  Solutions to Selected Exercises in Regression Analysis:  Theory, Methods and Applications. Published by Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.

Significant Colloquium, Testimonies and Panel Leadership

·        ITS World Congress Special Session, New York, NY. Industry-University R&D Collaboration on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Panel leader of faculty and researchers from USA, Australia and Europe. November 18, 2008.

·        Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, Chicago, IL. Economic Benefit Estimation of Employment Transportation Services. November 14, 2008.

·        North American Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference, 2008, Washington, D.C. Private Sector Data Sharing Agreements. Panel Leader, August 8, 2008.

·        University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Department of Civil Engineering and Center for Transportation Research. Interdisciplinary Transportation Research - Challenges and Opportunities in Use-Inspired Research, Education and Services. July 14, 2008.

·        Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (Congressmen James Oberstar and Daniel Lipinski.) (With Joe DiJohn). Freight Congestion in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. June 17, 2008.

·        National Resource Center for Human Service Transportation Coordination Research. Human Service Transportation Plans: State of the Practice. Invited seminar held in the U.S. Department of Transportation Conference Center, Jan. 17, 2008.

·        Mobility and Accessibility for the Urban Poor: Policies, Analysis and Implementation Strategies. Presentation in College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. October 8, 2007.

·           LEHD: Potential for Transportation Planning and Programming. Invited presentation, Joint Census Bureau and Brookings Institute Workshop on Local Employment Dynamics. In Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C. Feb. 1, 2007.

·           National Longitudinal Travel Data. Invited presentation in Federal Transit Administration, U.S. DOT, Washington, D.C. Feb. 1, 2007.

·        Modeling Accessibility and Equity: The Indian Context. Invited presentation in the Center for Complex Systems, University of Michigan, November 17, 2006.

·        Design of a Prototype Travel Time Information System for Dynamic Content Dissemination and Management. Invited presentation in NAVTEQ, Chicago, October 25, 2006.

·        Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Planning, Urban Transportation Systems: Land-Use, Economic Development and Sustainability Interactions. Invited colloquium, May 27, 2006.

·        Government of Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Urban Transportation Systems: Issues and Analysis. Invited colloquium, May 26, 2006.

·        Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Illinois Welfare Policy Symposium. Transportation for Low-Income Employment and Discretionary Trips. Review of Recent Trends. Panelist in Illinois Welfare Policy Symposium. May 24, 2006.

·        School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India. Elements of the U.S. Regional Transportation Planning Process: Overview of the Chicago Area Transportation Plan. Invited colloquium, December 6, 2004.

·        Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. Model-Based Estimates of Transportation Safety Data Quality.  Invited presentation in the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies 2004 Conference organized by Hong Kong Technical University and University of Hong King, December 2004.

·        Community Transportation Association of America. Partnerships for Low-Income Worker Transportation. Invited presentation in the 2004 CTAA Expo, July 2004.

·        Northwestern University, Transportation Center. Accessibility for Low-Income Workers. Needs Assessment, Trends and Evaluation. Invited speaker, Dec. 4, 2003.

·        Community Transportation Association of America. Low-Income Worker Accessibility: Survey of JARC-Funded Transit in 23 Sites. Invited presentation in Philadelphia, June, 2003.

·        Testimony to U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Illinois Transportation: The Crossroads of Our Nation. April 7, 2003.

·        Interpreting Neighborhood Change, Voorhees Center. Spatial Accessibility to Economic Opportunities: Concepts, Measurement and Implications for Low-income Populations. Invited presentation in Chicago, April 4, 2003.

·        United States Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Data Linkage Issues: Some Considerations and Applications. Invited colloquium in the Statistics Seminar Series, June 11, 2002.

·        ITS America, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank. ITS and Planning in Emerging Markets. Invited speaker in the International Symposium on Intelligent Transportation Systems in Emerging Nations hosted by ITS America, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank. May 2, 2002.

·        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. Access to Economic Opportunities. Policy and Methodological Issues. Invited colloquium in the GIS Colloquium Series hosted by the Departments of Planning and Geography. February, 2000.

·        University of Wisconsin. Transportation Systems. Planning to Make It Take Us Where We Want To Go. Invited colloquium made to the University of Wisconsin Spring College Program. April, 2000.

·        Northwestern University/University of Chicago. Joint Center for Poverty Research. Invited presentation as member of a panel on Transportation and Welfare Reform. December 15, 1998.

·        University of Illinois at Chicago. Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Estimation of Travel Times on Arterial Street Networks. Invited colloquium. April 4, 1998.

·        Transportation Research Board. Washington D.C. Welfare Reform and Women’s Travel Needs. Invited presentation in TRB’s panel on Transportation and Welfare Reform. January, 1998.

·        Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Quality of Route Guidance in Probe-based Advanced Traveler Information Systems. Invited colloquium in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. May 1995.

·        University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Transportation Planning and Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems. Invited colloquium in the School of Planning and Architecture. April 1994.

·        Indian Institute of Technology.  New Delhi, India. Implementation of a Dynamic Route Guidance System: Issues and Considerations. Invited colloquium. December 1992.

Conference Presentations

(Starred items indicate preparation of a paper)

·        *A Networked Approach to Planning for Deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Presented in ITS World Congress 2008, November 18, New York, NY (Co-authors: C. Cottrill and T. Gustafson).

·        *GPS Use by Households: Early Indicators of Privacy Preferences regarding Vehicle Infrastructure Integration and Ubiquitous Mobility Information Access. Presented in ITS World Congress 2008, November 18, New York, NY. (Lead author: C. Cottrill).

·        *Including Weather Effects in Real-Time Traffic Information Environment - Exploratory Analysis and Alternative Models. Presented in ITS World Congress 2008, November 18, New York, NY (Co-author: G. Yanos, J. Lin, P. Metaxatos, R. Sulo, W. Pu and L. Mbekeani).

·        *Outcome-Based Evaluation of Employment Transportation Services. Net User, Non-User and Societal Benefits. Paper presented in the American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)-Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Annual Conference, Chicago, June 11, 2008. (Co-authors: P.S. Sriraj, J. Persky and L. Tang).

·        *A Spatial Decision Support System for Transportation Planning using Urban Indicators for the Chicago Area. Paper presented in the ACSP-AESOP Annual Conference, Chicago, June 10, 2008. (Lead author: P.S. Sriraj; Other co-authors: P. Metaxatos, T. Swarup, L. Dirks, I. Minocha)

·        *GPS Adoption by Households: Evidence from a Household Travel Survey. Presented in First International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science IWCTS 08, July 21, 2008, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Held in conjunction with: The Fifth International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008). (Lead author: C. Cottrill).

·        Economic and Social Urban Indicators: A Spatial Decision Support System for Chicago Area Transportation Planning. Presentation in the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, April 16, 2008.

·        *Longitudinal Analysis of Effect of Transportation Difficulties on Earnings Among Young Adults from Disadvantaged Families. Paper presented in January, 2008 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. (Co-author: L. Tang)

·        *Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Job Access and Reverse Commute Program. Paper presented in January, 2008 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. (Co-authors: P.S. Sriraj and T. Schmidt)

·        *Evaluating Pedestrian Risk in Environmental Justice Areas. Paper presented in January, 2008 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. Paper presented in January, 2008 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. (Lead author: C. Cottrill)

·        *Analysis of Transit Quality of Service and Employment Accessibility for the Greater Chicago Region. Paper presented in January, 2008 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. (Lead author:. I. Minocha, Co-authors: P.S. Sriraj and P. Metaxatos).

·        *Transportation And Employment Accessibility In A Changing Context Of Metropolitan Decentralization: Case of New Delhi, India. Presentation in Pre-Organized Session: Urban Work/Labor: The Politics and Ethics of the Changing Development Debate in the Annual Meetings of American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), Milwaukee, Oct 18, 2007.

·        *Decision Problems In Intelligent Transportation Systems Project Selection, Prioritization And Sequencing. Presentation in the ACSP Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Oct 20, 2007.

·        *Ridership Effects of Real-time Transit Traveler Information Systems. Presentation in the ACSP Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Oct 21, 2007.

·        *Relationship of Attitudes towards Road and Transit Capital Investments and Propensity to Ride Transit Given Traveler Information. Paper presented in January, 2007 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.

·        *An Analysis of Behavioral Responses to Real-Time Transit Information. Paper presented in the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, November, 2006.

·        *An Examination of the Simultaneous Relationship between Transportation Expenditures and Household Incomes. Presentation made in the 11^th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Kyoto, August 2006.

·        *Transportation Expenditures and Ability to Pay:  Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey.  Paper presented in January, 2006 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.

·        *Determinants of Perceived Importance of Targeted Transportation Services for Low-Income Riders. Paper presented in January, 2006 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.

·        * Housing Relocation Assistant: A Housing Relocation Tool for the Chicagoland Area. Paper presented in January, 2006 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.

·        *Variations in Outcomes of Targeted Transportation Services. Paper presented in Oct. 2005 American Collegiate Schools of Planning conference, Kansas City, MO.

·        *A Spatial Decision Support System for Transit and Housing Markets using the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Interactive GIS. Paper presented in Oct. 2005 American Collegiate Schools of Planning conference, Kansas City, MO.

·        *A Longitudinal Analysis of Effects of Adequate Transportation Access in Young Adulthood. Paper presented in Nov. 2005 North American Regional Science Council, Las Vegas, NV.

·        *Multilevel Linear Modeling of Household Vehicle Usage. Paper presented in Nov. 2005 North American Regional Science Council, Las Vegas, NV.

·        *Housing Relocation Assistant: A Housing Relocation Tool for the Chicagoland Area. Paper presented in January, 2006 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.

·        *Transportation Expenditures and Ability to Pay:  Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey.  Paper presented in January, 2006 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.

·        *Determinants of Perceived Importance of Targeted Transportation Services for Low-Income Riders. Paper presented in January, 2006 annual meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.

·        *An Analysis of Variations in Vehicle-Ownership Expenditures. Presented in Transportation Research Board Annual Conference, January 2005.

·         *Activity and Travel Changes of Job Access Transportation Service Users: Analysis of a User Survey. Presented in Transportation Research Board Annual Conference, January 2005.

·        *Model-Based Estimates of Transportation Safety Data Quality. Presented in Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies 2004 Conference, December 2004, Hong Kong.

·        *Relationship of Occupational, Industry and Socioeconomic Characteristics and Job Start Times: Evidence from Current Population Survey Presented in Transportation Research Board Annual Conference, January 2004.

·        Partnerships for Low-Income Worker Transportation. Presentation in 2004 Community Transportation Association of American (CTAA) Expo, July 2004, Seattle.

·        *Transportation Expenditures and Ability to Pay: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. Presentation in the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC), Philadelphia, Nov. 2003.

·        *Federal-Level Congestion-Related Legislation in the United States and Implications for China. Presentation in the 3^rd International Conference of Young Chinese Transportation Professionals, Beijing, China, Dec., 2003. Paper in Conference Proceedings.

·        *Highway Expenditure and Economic Performance: Exploratory Analysis in a Multi-Year Cross-country Setting. Presentation in the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC), Philadelphia, Nov. 2003.

·        *Cross-Sectoral Conceptualization of Job Accessibility Projects: A Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Support System Application. Presentation in the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC), Philadelphia, Nov. 2003.

·        *Spatial Data Integration for Low-Income Worker Accessibility Assessment: A Case Study of the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Paper presentation at the Mid-Continent Transportation Symposium, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, August 2003. Paper in Conference Proceedings.

·        *Relationship of Occupational, Industry and Socioeconomic Characteristics and Job Start Times: Evidence from Current Population Survey. Presentation in the Transportation Research Board Annual Conference, January 2004

·        Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Application for Imputation of Transportation Databases. Presentation made in the Transportation Research Board Annual Conference, January 14, 2003.

·        *Application of Probabilistic Linkage to Commercial Motor Vehicle and Carrier Data. Presentation made in the Transportation Research Board Annual Conference, January 13, 2003.

·        *An Evaluation of Alternative Signal Control Strategies. Presentation made in the 9^th World Congress on ITS, Chicago, IL, October 16, 2002.

·        *Cross Country Adoption of Intelligent Transportation Systems: The Case of Electronic Toll Collection Systems. Presentation made in the American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 23, 2002.

·        Data Linkage Issues: Some Considerations and Applications. Invited colloquium in the Statistics Seminar Series of the U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 11, 2002.

·        ITS and Planning in Emerging Markets. Invited speaker in the International Symposium on Intelligent Transportation Systems in Emerging Nations hosted by ITS America, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank. May 2, 2002.

·        * Data Quality Criteria for Evaluating Commercial Motor Carrier and Vehicle Databases. Presentation made in the Transportation Research Board Annual Conference, Washington, DC, January 22, 2002.

·        Intelligent Transportation Systems for Economies in Transition. Presentation made in the ITS America Annual Meetings, Miami Beach, June 4, 2001.

·        * An Assessment of Variability in Low-Income Employee Profiles. Presentation made in the North American Annual Regional Science Conference, Chicago, November 11, 2000.

·        Data Needs for Evaluation of Adaptive Signal Control Systems. Presentation made in the Mid-Year Joint Transportation Research Board and NATMEC Conference, Madison, WI. August 29, 2000.

·        *Detection of High-Risk Trucks. Data Linkage and Inference. Paper presented in the Joint Research Conference of the American Statistical Association (ASA) Quality and Productivity Section, Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Seattle, WA. June 2000.

·        Transportation Systems. Planning to Make It Take Us Where We Want To Go. Invited colloquium made to the University of Wisconsin Spring College Program. April, 2000.

·        Equitable Access to Transportation: Methodological and Policy Issues. Presentation made in the GIS Colloquium Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 2000.

·        *Effect of Residential Location and Transportation on Employment Opportunities. Paper presented in the Seventy-ninth Annual Meetings of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington, DC, January 2000.

·        *Factors Contributing to Growth in VMT. Paper presented in the Seventy-ninth Annual Meetings of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington, DC, January 2000.

·        *Framework for Intercity Travel Demand Modeling in the United States. Paper presented in the Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Montreal, Canada, November 1999.

·        *An Assessment of Needs for Access to Jobs. Paper presented in the Annual Meetings of the American Collegiate Schools of Planning, Chicago, November 1999.

·        Comparison of Interstate and Illinois Intrastate Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety. Presented in the Illinois Transportation Engineers Annual Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 1999.

·        *Application of ITS to Improve Traveler Information and Ground Access in Major Airports. Paper presented in the Annual Conference of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), Las Vegas, Nevada, August 1999.

·        *Estimation of the Demand for Inter-city Travel: Issues with Using the American Travel Survey. Paper presented in the Transportation Research Board Mid-Summer Conference, Personal Travel: The Long and Short of It, Washington, D.C., July 1999.

·        Estimation of Transportation Service Needed for Welfare to Work. Presentation made in the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics (NAWRS) Annual Conference, Chicago. August, 1998.

·        *Impact of Land Use and Transportation on Company Location Preference. Presentation in the Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Santa Fe, New Mexico. November, 1998.

·        Transportation and Welfare Reform. Presentation made as panel member in Joint Center for Poverty Research, University of Chicago and Northwestern University, December 15, 1998.

·        Transportation Planning and the Welform Reform Process. Presentation in Transportation Research Board Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C. January 1998.

·        Welfare Reform and Women’s Travel Needs. Invited presentation in TRB’s panel on Transportation and Welfare Reform. January, 1998.

·        *Estimation of Demand due to Welfare Reform. Paper presented in the Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Buffalo, New York, November 1997.

·        *Link Travel Time Estimation with Imputed Signal Control. Presentation made in Transportation Research Board Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C. 1998.

·        Estimation of Travel Times on Signalized Arterial. Presentation made in Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Conference, Richmond, Virginia, March, 1996.

·        *Nonresponse and Urban Travel Models. Paper presented in Transportation Research Board Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C. 1996.

·        *Traveler Learning and Route Choice. In Regional Science Association International [RSAI] Annual Conference, Cincinnati, 1995.

·        *A Model for Evaluating Decisions for Advanced Traveler Information Systems. Presentation in INFORMS, a meeting of the Operations Research Society of America/The Institute of Management Sciences [ORSA/TIMS], New Orleans, November 1995.

·        *Variances of Link Travel Times: Implications for Optimal Routes. Paper presented in Annual Conference of International Federation of Operations Research Societies [IFORS], St. Louis, Missouri, October 1995.

·        A Simulation-Based Model of Advanced Traveler Information Systems. Presented in Transportation Workshop, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Research Triangle Park, October 1995.

·        *Non-response Bias and Trip Generation Models. Paper presented in Transportation Research Board Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C. 1994.

·        Quality of Route Guidance in Probe-based Advanced Traveler Information Systems. Invited colloquium in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  May 1995.

·        *Characterization of Imperfection in Information given by Advanced Traveler Information Systems. Paper presented in the Regional Science Association International [RSAI] Annual Conference, Niagara Falls, Canada, November, 1994.

·        Transportation Planning and Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems. Invited colloquium in University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, School of Planning and Architecture. April 1994

·        *Evaluation of Route Quality in an Advanced Traveler Information System. Paper presented in the Regional Science Association International [RSAI] Annual Conference, Houston, November 1993.

·        Implementation of a Dynamic Route Guidance System: Issues and Considerations. Invited colloquium. Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, December 1992.

·        *Development of a Short-Term Travel Time Prediction System for a Dynamic Route Guidance System. Paper presented in the Regional Science Association International [RSAI] Annual Conference, Chicago, November 1992. 

·        *Entropy Maximization and Spatial Interaction Models. Paper presented in the Regional Science Association International [RSAI] Annual Conference, Chicago, November 1992. 

Selected External Professional Service

·        Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA).

·        Member, USAID and Higher Education for Development Review Panel. November 2008.

·        American Collegiate School of Planning (ACSP) Midwest Representative to Faculty Women Interest Group (from July, 2008).

·        Member, Program Committee, First International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science IWCTS 08, July 21, 2008, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. To be held in conjunction with: The Fifth International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008)

·        Member, Committee on Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 2007-Current.

·        Member, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) World Congress Americas Program Committee, 2005-Current.

·        Co-Chair, Program Committee, Institute of Transportation Engineers 2008 Midwest Annual Conference.

·        Member, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) Transportation Committee, 2006-Current.

·        Member, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) World Congress Americas Program Committee, 2005-Current.

·        Member, Federal Transit Administration and U.S. Department of Labor Joblinks Job Access and Reverse Commute Advisory Committee, 2006-Current.

·        Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Transportation and Statistics, 2003-2006.

·        Member, Committee on Statistical Methodology and Statistical Computer Software, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 2004-2008.

·        Member, Intelligent Transportation Systems Deployment Committee, Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee (GCM) Priority Intelligent Transportation Systems Corridor. Members of this committee are responsible for setting strategic policies for increased deployment of ITS in the three states of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. 1998-2006.

·        Member, Advanced Technology Task Force, Chicago Area Transportation Study (CATS). As a member of this Task Force, I supervised the development of the Strategic Early Deployment Plan for Intelligent Transportation Systems in Northeastern Illinois a sub-part of which was ultimately included in the region’s 20-year plan titled Destination 2020. 1998-2006.

·        Member, Committee on National Transportation Data Needs and Requirements, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 1999-2002.

·        Member, Freeway and Multi-lane Highway Subcommittee of the Highway Capacity Committee of the Transportation Research Board. 1995-1998.

·        Member, Panel on Weaving Area Capacity and Level of Service on Freeways, Arterials, and Collector-Distributor Roads, National Cooperative Highway Research Panel, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 1995-1999.

·        Coordinator, Transportation Planning sessions of the INFORMS [organized by the Operations Research Society of America/Institute of Management Sciences (ORSA/TIMS)] bi-annual and later, annual, meetings. 1994-1997.

·        Organizer of sessions on Evaluation of Intelligent-Vehicle Highway Systems in the North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Houston, TX. 1992.

·        Reviewer of U.S. Bureau of Census design of the Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey questionnaire of the Economic Census. 2000-Current.

·        Assistance to U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, in the development of methodology for performance measurement of the transportation system. Summer 2000.

·        Multiple years of technical assistance to local MPO’s and transit agencies in work related to access to jobs for low-skilled workers,  in the area of environmental justice and data analysis.

Primary Advisor Role in Doctoral Dissertation and Master’s Thesis/Project

·        Vaughn, Stephen (Candidate for Doctoral Degree). Advanced Technologies for Non-Motorized Transportation Safety and Traveler Information. NSF-IGERT Doctoral Fellow (2008-2010). (Chair, Doctoral Dissertation).

·        Menchu, Shashi (Candidate for Doctoral Degree). Longitudinal Data Structures and Social Microsimulation: Mobility, Spatial Changes and Societal Impacts. Distinguished Graduate Scholar, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (2008-2010). (Chair, Doctoral Dissertation).

·        Cottrill, Caitlin (Candidate for Doctoral Degree). Privacy Issues in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Location-Based Services. NSF-IGERT Doctoral Fellow (2006-2008); Eisenhower Graduate Fellow 2008-2010. (Chair, Doctoral Dissertation)

·        Tang, Lei (Candidate for Doctoral Degree). Behavioral Responses to Real-time Transit Information Systems. Winner, ITE-Midwest Best Student Award, 2008. (Chair, Doctoral Dissertation)

·        Ortega, J. F. (Summer, 2004).  Spatial Multimedia Methodology for the Selection of Low-Income and Labor Market Accessibility Projects Eno Foundation Fellowship 2002; American Public Transportation Foundation Hall of Fame Scholarship Award 2002 and 2001; George Krambles Transportation Fund Scholarship 2001.(Chair, Doctoral Dissertation)

·        Niumpradit , S. (Summer, 2004). Modeling Relationships Between Highway Expenditure and Economic Performance: An International Analysis (Chair, Doctoral Dissertation) 

·        Stratton, M. (Fall, 2008). A Comparison of Walking Reported by the Chicago MPO's Household Travel Surveys from 1990 and 2007. (Chair, Master's Project)  

·        LaPorte, Angela (Summer 2008). Merging Natural Hazard and Transportation Planning: The Role of Natural Hazard Risk Assessment in Transportation. (Chair, Master's Thesis).  

·        Hunt, Stephan (Summer 2008). Developing Market Analysis Tools for Volunteer Driver Programs. (Chair, Master's Thesis).  

·        Minocha, Inshu (Summer, 2007). An Analysis of Chicago Area Transit Quality and Level of Employment Accessibility. (Chair, Master’s Thesis).

·        Interrante, Erica (Spring, 2007). Implementation of the Coordinated Human Service Transportation Plan (HSTP): A New Approach to Public Transportation Planning for Downstate Illinois. (Chair, Master’s Project).

·        Kowal, Christopher (Summer, 2006). Measuring Urban Green. (Chair, Master’s Project).

·        Hochsheur, Kristen. (Spring 2006). The Spatial Mismatch between Entry-Level Jobs and Low-Income Residents in Select US Cities. (Chair, Master’s Thesis).

·        Minor, Mark (Spring, 2006). Baseball and Transit: An Exploratory Analysis. (Chair, Master’s Thesis).

·        Gustafson, Timothy. (Spring, 2006). Project Evaluation Criteria for Intelligent Transportation Systems for Emergency Management. (Chair, Master’s Thesis).

·        Guerriero, Henry. (Summer 2005). Bicycle Access to Transit in Chicago; 2000 Census Journey-to-Work ad Intercept Survey Data. (Advisor, Master’s Project).

·        Ammons, William. (Summer 2005). Specifications for Real-time Travel Information Using AVL Data in the Chicagoland Area. (Advisor, Master’s Project).

·        Zhu, Haidong (Summer, 2003).  Factors Affecting Travel Time Changes between 1990 and 2000: A Study of Metropolitan Chicago (Chair, Master’s Thesis) 

·        Liao, Y.  (Spring, 2003). Patterns of Household Transportation Expenditures: The Effects of Income and Housing Subsidies (Chair, Master’s Thesis)      

·        Sen, S. (Spring, 2003).  Public Transportation Information Systems: Application of Soft Systems Methodology to to Labor Market and Transportation Problems (Chair, Master’s Thesis).

·        Sinha, A..  (Spring, 2003) Modeling the effect of Occupation, Industry and Spatial Characteristics on Job Start Times (Chair, Master’s Thesis)   

·        Saulath, S. (Fall, 2001). Electronic Database for Human Services Transportation Projects.  (Advisor, Master’s Project)

·        Conlon,  M. T. (Summer,  2001). Accessibility of Child Care for Low-Income Job Seekers in the Chicagoland Region .  (Advisor, Master’s Project)

·        Gao, F. (Summer, 2001). Development and Testing of an Intelligent Transportation System for the University of Illinois at Chicago's Intercampus Shuttle Buses. (Advisor, Master’s Project)

·        Cerchia, G.  (Spring, 2000). O'Hare International Airport: An Analysis of the Existing Access Roadway. (Advisor, Master’s Project)     

·        Rivas, V. R. (Spring, 2000). Capital Improvements Programs of Large Commercial Airports in the United States: The Impact of Passenger Facility Charges. (Advisor, Master’s Project)

·        Virmani, D.  (Spring, 2000).  Mode Use in Long Distance Travel: An Analysis Using Classification and Regression Trees.  (Advisor, Master’s Project)         

·        Chang, L.  (Summer, 1999). Design Document of A Graphic User Interface for TRANS - A Traffic Simulation Software. (Advisor, Master’s Project).

·        Lang, J. (Summer, 1999). Numerical Experimentation to Assess Reliability of Traffic Simulation Model for Signal Control Systems in the Chicago Area. Advisor, (Master’s Project).

·        Short Jr., T. R.  (Spring, 1999). An Application of Traffic Simulation Software for Modern Day Traffic Concerns, in a Historical and Environmental Sensitive Area. (Advisor, Master’s Project).

Courses Taught (recently offered)

·        UPP 589. Data Analysis and Management II. Specific topics covered will include (i) linear and nonlinear regression  (ii) qualitative and limited dependent variable models [models for binary, multinomial, ordinal and count data]  (iii) categorical data analysis (iv) spatial analysis [including exploratory spatial techniques, spatial clustering, spatial autoregression and lag models] and (v) data quality assessment and methods to address non-response bias. Students are taught SAS, LIMDEP and STATA. [Offered once each year].

·        UPP 561. Transportation Policy Analysis. Major policies concerning the transportation-related aspects of the environment, energy, land-use, economic development, community mobility/accessibility, freight transportation, advanced transportation systems, transportation safety and social justice. Basic concepts in transportation policy formulation, cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness and ROI methods, Multicriteria-Decision Making Methods, Spatial Decision Support Systems, soft systems and group decision-making techniques for transportation. [Offered each year].

·        UPP 584. Methods of Public Policy Analysis. Survey course on methods for formulating and evaluating public policies in transportation, economic development, environment, housing and community development. Experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental research designs. Survey methods and sampling designs. Stated preference, contingent valuation and choice experiments. Qualitative methods, cost and benefit assessment and group-decision making techniques. [Taught till 2004]

·        UPP 562: Transportation Planning Methods. Transportation Lab class focusing on fundamentals of regional travel demand modeling (aggregate and disaggregate models) and interactions with the environment, fundamentals of traffic and capacity analysis and computer software such as CORSIM, TransCad, EMME/2 and Mobile 6. [Taught each year till 2001].

·        UPP 565: Advanced Methods of Transportation Planning and Spatial Analysis. Performance measures, models with transportation examples for cross-sectional, time series, spatial and panel data. Discrete choice models, duration and hazard models and their applications in transportation. Urban modeling including spatial interaction models, traffic assignment, land-use and transportation modeling. [Offered every two years as Ph.D. seminar]

·        CS 594, Principles of Computational Transportation Science (to be co-taught with a faculty member from the Department of Computer Science). Required course in UIC’s NSF IGERT program on Computational Transportation Science. Fundamentals of Intelligent Transportation Systems, models of travel behavior choice, congestion pricing, spatial interaction modeling and dynamic O-D flow estimation, introduction to dynamic traffic assignment and traffic pattern forecasting. [To be offered in Spring 2007 as Ph.D. seminar].