The splashes made by THINK lab members, here and there
National Center for Understanding Future Travel Behavior and Demand (TBD)
THINK lab joins an elite group of travel behavior researchers (under the leadership of Dr. Chandra Bhat of UT Austin) to win the National Center for Understanding Future Travel Behavior and Demand (TBD) center funded by USDOT as part of the Bipartisan infrastructure bill from the Congress.
Congratulations to Dr. Guan to start a new journey!
Dr. Xiangyang Guan will join WSP in Atlanta in November 2022. Congratulations on starting a new chapter in life! We all love Dr. Guan, who will remain as an honorary member of the THINK LAB.
Congratulations to Joanne Lin!
Congratulations to Joanne Lin who joined PSRC (Puget Sound Regional Council) as an assistant data programmer in October 2022!
Adaptable cities project just started with an exciting team! Find out more about what we do here: a UW news story, a ASU news story, and our project website.
THINK lab post-doctoral fellow Dr. Guan has just published a new article on Transportation Research Part E that will move ahead the prediction window of evacuation demand by at least TWO DAYS! The work will also be presented at the ISTTT24 conference in July 2022 in Beijing.
Dr. Katherine Idziorek will join University of North Carolina Charlotte as a tenure-track assistant professor in August 2021!
Healthy planet, healthy people: how do we recover from COVID19? Dr. Cynthia Chen weighs in as one of the five leading voices at UW on climate change and decarbonization. In a short story entitled “Pushing our cities to be smarter, healthier, and more efficient for all“, she laid out 3 steps for our economy recovery path while keeping transportation emissions down.
Katie Idziorek, AICP, recently completed a 10-week fellowship with the Eno Center for Transportation in which she worked with Eno’s policy analysis team to contribute to transportation-related research and reporting. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fellowship was conducted fully online. Katherine will also participate in Eno’s 2020 Leadership Development Conference, which has been postponed to 2021. Read Katherine’s Eno Transportation Weekly op-ed on multi-hazard approaches to transportation planning here.
Katie Idziorek, AICP, has been selected by the Eno Center for Transportation for the Summer 2020 Thomas J. O’Bryant Transportation Policy and Finance Fellowship. The O’Bryant Fellowship is designed to bridge research and policy while providing a professional development opportunity for aspiring transportation specialists. As an Eno Fellow, Katherine will engage with the transportation policymaking community while assisting in the development of Eno transportation research documents and policy recommendations. Katherine has also been selected to participate in Eno’s Future Leaders Development Conference, which will next take place in June of 2021.
A new TMIP report is just released by the THINK lab and our collaborators (Dr. Jeff Ban and his students) analyzing the various characteristics of emerging big data for deriving travel patterns.
Congratulations to Katie Idziorek for passing her dissertation proposal defense on Feb 28, 2020! Her work in community resilience examines how to leverage social ties to facilitate response effort. Her work demonstrates a perfect combination of both scientific contribution in multiple disciplines (social networks, resilience, urban planning and engineering) and significant societal impacts!
A new paper proposing personalized incentives for promoting sustainable travel behaviors led by Xi Zhu, was published on Transportation Research Part C.
Our new step towards understanding transportation big data: read our recent work on extracting trips from multi-sourced data for mobility pattern analysis: an app-based data example.
Katie Idziorek has been selected as a 2019 Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellow, a national fellowship open to undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students engaged in transportation-related research. The Eisenhower fellowship supported Katherine’s attendance at the TRB 2019 Annual Meeting in D.C., where she presented her current research project, “The contribution of social networks and resource sharing to community adaptive capacity.”
On No 15, 2018, Cynthia Chen, Xiangyang Guan and Katie Idziorek, along with collaborator Dan Abramson from UW Urban Design & Planning attended a meeting of the King County Community Outreach Workgroup, which included emergency managers, public health officials and public service coordinators from multiple counties in the greater Seattle region.
News at College of Engineering: UW CEE faculty Jeff Ban and Cynthia Chen hosted a panel discussion for better understanding and leveraging the strengths of emerging big data for a more efficient, equitable and proactive transportation planning process.
PNAS publication: A new paper on General methodology for inferring failure-spreading dynamics in networks, authored by Xiangyang Guan and Cynthia Chen, was published on PNAS. Click to read.
Katie Idziorek was recognized as the 2017 Outstanding Student of the Year by the University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program. She was also awarded the Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship from Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) for the year 2018.