Completed Ph.D. Degrees

• Lei Zhang (February 2006) University of Maryland
  • Dissertation:  Search, Information, Learning, and Knowledge in Travel Decision-Making: A Positive Approach for Travel Behavior and Demand Analysis
• Feng Xie (November 2008) – Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
  • Dissertation:  Network Growth and Ownership Organization
• Nebiyou Tilahun (February 2010) – University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Dissertation:  Matching Home and Work: Job Search, Contacts, and Travel
• Shanjiang Zhu (September 2010) – George Mason University
  • Dissertation:  The Roads Taken: Theory and Evidence on Route Choice in the wake of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge Collapse and Reconstruction
• Sean He (October 2010 (co-advisor, with Henry Liu)) – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Dissertation:  Modeling the Traffic Flow Evolution Process after a Network Disruption
• Pavithra Parthasarathi (May 2011) – Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization
  • Dissertation:  Network Structure and Travel
• Carlos Carrion (May 2013) – JD.com
  • Dissertation: Travel Time Perception Errors: Causes and Consequences
• Arthur Huang (December 2013) – University of Central Florida
  • Dissertation:  Accessibility and non-work destination choice: A microscopic analysis of GPS travel data
• Alireza Ermagun (September 2016) – Mississippi State University
  • Dissertation:  Network Econometrics and Traffic Flow Analysis
• Jessica Schoner (August 2017) – Toole Design Group
  • Dissertation: Mutually Reinforcing Relationships Between Bicycling Infrastructure and Demand
• Mengying Cui (May 2018) – Chang’An University
  • Dissertation: Full Cost Accessibility
• Chelsey Palmateer (August 2018) – Minnesota Department of Transportation
  • Dissertation: The Distribution of Access
• Hao Wu (September 2021) – UNSW
  • Dissertation: Theory of Ensemble Forecasting – with Applications in Transport Modeling

Completed M.S. Plan A Degrees – Civil Engineering

• Seshasai Kanchi (May 2001)
  • Thesis:  Time Use and Capacity Expansion
• Pavithra Kandadai Parthsarathi (October 2001)
  • Thesis:  Disaggregate Analysis of Induced Demand
• Atif Sheikh (March 2002)
  • Thesis:  Traffic Equilibration: Evidence from the Twin Cities Ramp Meter Shut Off
• Xi Zou (May 2002)
  • Thesis:  Simulation and Analysis of Mixed Adaptive Cruise Control/Manual Traffic
• Satya Muthuswamy (May 2002, Co-advised with Panos Michalopoulos)
  • Thesis:  Estimation of Origin Destination Matrices for Freeway Sections Using Detector Data
• Shantanu Das (June 2002)
  • Thesis:  A Queuing Analysis of Freeway Bottleneck Formation and Shockwave Propogation
• Ramachandra Karamalaputi (June 2002)
  • Thesis:  Predicting Network Growth
• Lei Zhang (September 2002)
  • Thesis:  Developing Efficient And Equitable Freeway Ramp Control Strategies
• Bhanu Yerra (Fall 2002)
  • Thesis:  The Emergence of Hierarchy in Transportation Networks
• Yao Wu (Spring 2003), (Co-advised with Gary Davis)
  • Thesis:  Estimation of Origin-Destination Matrices for Freeways
• Brian Smalkoski (Fall 2003)
  • Thesis:  Value of Time for Commercial Vehicle Operators in Minnesota
• Kathy Carlson (Spring 2004)
  • Thesis:  Waiting Tolerance: Ramp Delay vs. Freeway Congestion 
• Maryam Hashami (Spring 2004)
  • Thesis:  Operating Cost for Commercial Vehicle Operators in Minnesota
• Wei Chen (Spring 2004)
  • Thesis:  Highway Network Evolution Models
• Ewa Zofka (January 2005)
  • Thesis:  Temporal and Spatial Stability of Travel Behavior: Twin Cities and Seattle, 1990 to 2000
• Kasia Winiarczyk (Spring 2004) (Deceased)
  • Thesis:  Weighting Waiting: Evaluating the Perception of In-Vehicle Travel Time Under Moving and Stopped Conditions 
• Ning Li (April 2005)
  • Thesis:  A Freight Demand Model for Rural Minnesota
• Nebiyou Jonas Tilahun (August 2005)
  • Thesis:  Trails, Lane, or Traffic: Valuing Bicycle Facilities with an Adaptive Stated Preference Survey
• Feng Xie (August 2005)
  • Thesis:  The Evolution of Road Networks: A Simulation Study Based on Network Degeneration
• Norah Montes de Oca Robertson (July 2006)
  • Thesis:  Beyond Business as Usual: Ensuring the Network We Want is the Network We Get
• Michael Iacono (September 2006)
  • Thesis:  Modeling the Cost Structure of Public Transit Firms: The Scale Economies Question and Alternate Functional Forms
• Michael Corbett (September 2006)
  • Thesis:  Benefit Cost Analysis for Intersection Decision Support
• Vivek Deshpande (September 2006)
  • Thesis:  Peak Spreading or Peak Shifting
• Ryan Wilson (Spring 2008) (co-advised with Julian Marshall)
  • Thesis: Effect of Education Policy and Urban Form on Elementary-age School Travel 
• Jason Junge (July 2009)
  • Thesis: Land-based alternatives for transportation funding 
• Arthur Huang (January 2010 -Dual Degree, Planning)
  • Thesis: Why retailers cluster: An agent model of location choice on supply chains
• Carlos Carrion (May 2010)
  • Thesis: Value of Reliability: Actual Commute Experience Revealed Preference Approach
• Jessica Schoner (May 2013)
  • Thesis: Catalysts and Magnets: Built Environment Effects on Bicycle Commuting
• Andrew Owen (August 2013-Dual Degree, Planning)
  • Thesis: Modeling the Commute Mode Share of Transit Using Continuous Accessibility to Jobs
• Michael Janson (December 2013)
  • Thesis: HOT or Not: Driver Elasticity to Price and Alternative Pricing Strategies on the MnPASS HOT Lanes
• David Giacomin (August 2014)
  • Thesis: Accessibility and the choice of network investments in the London Underground
• Martin Brosnan (September 2014)
  • Thesis: Accessibility and the Allocation of Time: Changes in Travel Behavior 1990-2010
• Brendan Murphy (September 2015)
  • Thesis: Accessibility and Centrality Based Estimation of Pedestrian Activity and Safety in Urban Areas
• Toshihiro Yokoo (Spring 2016)
  • Thesis: The effect of road network structure on speeding using GPS data
• Kristin Carlson (August 2017)
  • Thesis: Accessibility Impacts of Bus Access to Managed Lanes
• Sabal Sharma (July 2020)
  • Thesis: Implication of travel cost on education and health outcomes in Nepal

Completed M.S. Plan A Degrees – Applied Economics

• Lei Zhang (February 2005)
  • Thesis:  A Simulator of Network Growth for Network Economics and Policy Analysis
• Shanjiang Zhu (March 2011)
  • Thesis:  An Economic Model for Vehicle Ownership Quota and Usage Restriction Policy Analysis
• Carlos Carrion (July 2012)
  • Thesis: Monte Carlo Simulation of Adaptive Stated Preference Survey with a case study: Effects of Aggregate Mode Shares on Individual Mode Choice 

Completed M.S. Plan B. Degrees – Civil Engineering

• Hong Huo (August 2002)
  • Paper:  Effectiveness Evaluation of Variable Message Signs Using Empirical Data
• Peter Rafferty (Fall 2002)
  • Paper:  Delayer Pays Principle: Examining Congestion Pricing with Compensation
• Wenling Chen (Spring 2004-Dual Degree, Planning)
  • Paper: Effectiveness of Learning Transportation Network Growth through the Use of Simulator
• Tyler Patterson (Fall 2007-Dual Degree, Planning)
  • Paper: Lexus Lanes or Corolla Lanes? Spatial Use and Equity Patterns on the I-394 MnPASS Lanes
• Reuben Collins (Fall 2007-Dual Degree, Planning)
  • Paper: Evaluation of a Roundabout at a Five-Way Intersection: An Alternatives Analysis Using Microsimulation

Completed M.S. Plan C. Degrees

• Shu Hong (May 2009)
• Mari Hunter (May 2009- Dual Degree)
• Chelsey Palmateer (Spring 2014)

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Students

(Dual Degree Advisor, Supervisor of Plan B or Professional Paper)

• Andrew Johnson (Fall 2002)
  • Paper:  Bus Transit and Land Use: Illuminating the Interaction
• Praveena Pidaparthi (Spring 2003)
  • Paper:  Do You Work From Home? Studying the Travel Behavior of Telecommuters
• David King (Spring 2003)
• Wenling Chen (Spring 2004-Dual Degree)
  • Paper:  Analysis of Rail Transit Project Selection Bias with an Incentive Approach (2007)
• Michael Iacono (Spring 2006-Dual Degree)
  • Paper: Dedicated Funding and Urban Transit Performance: Some Empirical Evidence
• Tyler Patterson (Fall 2007-Dual Degree)
  • Paper: Evaluation of High Occupancy Toll Lanes
• Reuben Collins (Fall 2007-Dual Degree)
  • Paper: Light Rail Transit Construction Impact Mitigation Strategies: Case Studies and Recommendations for the Central Corridor
• Ryan Wilson (Spring 2008-Dual Degree)
  • Paper: How Stable are Preferences for Neighborhood Types? Analyzing Residential Relocation Decisions
• Mari Hunter (May 2009- Dual Degree)
• Arthur Huang (Spring 2011-Dual Degree)
• Jessica Schoner (Spring 2013-Dual Degree)
• Andrew Owen (Spring 2013-Dual Degree)
• Alireza Ermagun (Spring 2016-MURP, PhD Civil Engineering)

SUCCESSFUL UNDERGRADUATE THESES (University of Sydney)

• 2018
  • Reynold Ongky – Historical and Prospective Adoption Rates of Transport Technologies
  • Blake Davis – Autonomous Vehicles as Probes
  • Bichen Liu – AVs as Probes to Analyze Traffic
  • Ty Stephens – Are Light Rail Infrastructure Projects More Expensive in Australia?
  • Nicholas Xylas – Are Metro Rail Projects More Expensive in Australia?
• 2019
  • Desmond Saosoo – Introducing Bus Stop Policy in Samoa
  • Guiping Jiao – Effects of Autonomous Vehicles in Heterogeneous Traffic on Pipeline and Four-Way Intersection Performance
  • Linxiao Zhou – The Effects of Vehicle Automation on Travel Demand
  • Betty Yang – The Interaction of AVs and Pedestrians: How to Make the Road Safer for Pedestrians?
  • Mengyuan Zhu – Effects of Autonomous Vehicles on Street Space Allocation
  • Junjie Shen – The Effect of On-street Parking versus Clearway on Travel Time
  • Brendan Hunter – Feasibility of providing an additional platform access point at stations with a single access point
• 2020
  • Yingshuo (William) Wang – Network Econometrics and the Evolution of Transport Systems
  • Weijia Shen – Accessibility and evolution of Sydney bus contract Region 13 from 1925 to 2019
  • Stephen Anderson – Evaluation of the current and historical accessibility of the Northern Sydney public transport network
  • Ailin Pan – Analysis of the historic change in accessibility by bus evolution in Sydney south-west region
  • Zihan Yan – The evolution of the southwest Sydney bus network over time
  • Jingshu Xu – Measuring the Accessibility by Bus in Greater Sydney
• 2021
  • Hamish Turner –
  • Maggie O’Toole –
  • Haoang Li –

SUCCESSFUL MPE THESES (University of Sydney)

• 2018
  • Liwei Wei – Measuring the Delay Caused by Lane Changes
  • Wangcong Zhao – The influence of metro lines on commercial-residential housing prices in Guangzhou
• 2019
  • Xiyue Wang – Transit Network Circuity in Sydney
• 2020
  • Haonan Fan – An R5 based Methodology to Measure the Historical Accessibility of Bus Transit Network in Greater Sydne
•  2021
  • Ailin Pan –

Undergraduate Student Supervision (University of Minnesota)

• 2003
  • See-Chew Soon – CE Web Page Redesign
  • Doug Nagel – Spring Load Restrictions
  • Carl Peterson – Spring Load Restrictions
  • Cameron Smith  – Network Growth
  • Sang Nguyen  – Network Growth
  • Marbella Duran – Network Growth (Puerto Rico exchange student)
  • Brendan Nee – Spring Load Restrictions
• 2004
  • Fun-Kit Lim  – Traffic Effects of the Bus Strike, Value of Information for Motorists, Beyond Business as Usual
  • Scott Peterson – Spring Load Restrictions
  • Jeffrey Kurth  – UROP – Deploying a Hydrogen Infrastructure
  • Ingrid Nordby – Value of Information for Motorists
• 2008
  • Anthony Jakubiak – Post-Construction Evaluation of Forecast Accuracy
  • Michael Collins – Economic Impact of Upgrading Roads
• 2011
  • Anne Haws – BRIDGE: Behavioral Response to the I-35W Disruption: Gauging Equilibration
  • Andrea Hammann – BRIDGE: Behavioral Response to the I-35W Disruption: Gauging Equilibration
  • Paul Anderson – Using Twin Cities Destinations and their Accessibility as a Multimodal Planning Tool.
• 2012
  • Luke James  – Access Across America
  • David Giacomin  – Access Across America
  • Ann Wallenmeyer  – Access to Destinations
  • Chris Iverson – NiceStations: Optimally Locating NiceRide Minnesota Bike Share Stations., MnPass Modeling and Pricing Algorithm
• 2013
  • Erik Lundborg  – Historic Transit Schedules
• 2014
  • Morgan Kuehn  – Accessibility Observatory
  • Margot Kadziolka  – Accessibility Observatory
• 2015
  • Yunis Adam  – Accessibility Observatory
  • Eric Hauser  – Accessibility Observatory
  • Kristin Carlson  – Accessibility Observatory
  • Adam LaCroix  – Accessibility Observatory

Undergraduate Student Supervision (University of SYDNEY), Including Summer Research Projects

• 2018
  • Janice Feng – How should autonomous vehicle act in lane changing scenarios to optimise society’s travel time:  A game theoretic approach
  • Tim Xian – Broadway and City Road Intersection
• 2019
  • Linji Chen – Identification of Braess’s Paradox in Sydney’s Highway Network

Post-Doctoral Researchers

• Ahmed El-Geneidy (2005 – 2007) – McGill University
• Mengying Cui (2018-2020 – Chang’An University

Research Fellows

• Michael Iacono (2006-2015)
• Rania Wasfi (2005-2007)
• Bernadette Marion (2008 – 2009)
• Andrew Owen (2013 – 2016)
• Brendan Murphy (2015 – 2016)

Visiting Researchers

• 2003
  • Vicente Inglada
• 2009
  • Erik Jenelius
• 2013
  • Wenyun Tang
• 2014
  • Jie Huang
  • Kai Wang
• 2015
  • Haibing Jiang
• 2018
  • Andrew Chui
  • Capucine Heymes
• 2019
  • Manman Li
  • Xia Zhao
• 2020
  • Yuya Masaki
  • Louise Aoustin
  • Jing Chen