Transportation

Professor Jason Cao co-edited a new book, Urban Transport and Land Use Planning: A Synthesis of Global Knowledge, recently published by Elsevier Academic Press.

PhD candidate Tao Tao, Professor Greg Lindsey, Professor Jason Cao, and recent alum Dr. Jueyu Wang recently published the paper, “The Effects of Pedestrian and Bicycle Exposure on Crash Risk in Minneapolis,” in the Journal of Transport and Land Use.

Jason Cao and Tao Tao published a paper about mobility challenges faced by low-income people during the pandemic.

Dr. Xinyi Wu, Professor Jason Cao, and Frank Douma published the paper, “The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on Transport-Disadvantaged People,” in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

PhD candidate Tao Tao, Professor Jason Cao, and Dr. Xinyi Wu published the paper, “The road less traveled: Does rail transit matter?”, in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, a flagship journal of urban and regional planning in North America.

A team including Professor Jason Cao received the 2021 Best Paper Award from a standing committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). The paper examined the relationships between land use and transit ridership in Shenzhen, China.

The funding will support research in a number of areas, including transportation equity and assessing the effects of highway improvements on adjacent businesses.

The committee heard expertise from Frank Douma on automated vehicles; Adeel Lari on telecommuting; and Lee Munnich on transportation finance.

Professor Greg Lindsey was honored for his paper on the development of a trail-crossing crash model, one of the first currently available.