Travel Behavior & System Modeling Lab

The Travel Behavior and System Modeling Lab studies human and freight mobility in cities and urban environment, with a focus on the fundamental mechanism of interactions between people, economic activities and the physical and social forms of urban systems. Cities provide places for people to live, work, social and interact with the urban environment, while transportation infrastructure connects these places and serves as the bloodlines to support the economic, social, cultural and other functions of cities. We design our roads and cities, in turn they define how we live and travel. Encompasses areas in behavioral econometrics, transport psychology, large scale computational models, data analytics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and statistics and survey methods, our research advances the understanding of mobility needs and user behavior and their interactions with urban systems, and contributes to advanced modeling framework for multi-modal system analysis in light of smart transportation technologies and emerging mobility options to promote healthy, sustainable and smart communities.