Academic and Research Faculty

Daniel Sperling, Ph.D.

• Founding Director, ITS-Davis
• Distinguished Blue Planet Prize Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy

• Transportation, energy, and climate policy
• "3 Revolutions" of automated, shared, and electric vehicles

• dsperling@ucdavis.edu
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Ralph C. Aldredge III, Ph.D.

• Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Analytical, computational and experimental studies of turbulent flame propagation and combustion instabilities
• Development of computational models and algorithms for simulation of reactive-flow dynamics
• Biological-fluid dynamics

• rcaldredge@ucdavis.edu
• http://mae.ucdavis.edu/aldredge/
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Gwen Arnold, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Policy

• Energy policy and planning
• Use and interpretation of scientific knowledge/information in environmental policy decisions and processes

• gbarnold@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.gwenarnold.com
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Francis F. Assadian, Ph.D.

• Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Mathematical modeling and simulation of dynamic systems-bond graph approach
• Vehicle dynamics
• Global chassis control systems
• Alternative powertrain
• Energy optimization
• Automatic and robust control

• fassadian@ucdavis.edu
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Jesus Barajas, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy

• Transportation Equity
• Why and how people travel
• Planning and policy based on differences in travel behavior and safety

• jmbarajas@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.jmbarajas.com/
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David S. Bunch, Ph.D.

• Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Management

• Consumer choice behavior
• Choice modeling
• New product development and introduction
• Travel behavior, vehicle choice and alternative fuel vehicles

• dsbunch@ucdavis.edu
• https://gsm.ucdavis.edu/faculty/david-s-bunch
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Andrew F. Burke, Ph.D.

• Research Engineer, ITS-Davis

• Electric and hybrid vehicle design, analysis, and testing
• Applications of batteries and ultracapacitors for electric vehicles

• afburke@ucdavis.edu
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James Bushnell, Ph.D.

• Professor, Economics

• Industrial organization and regulation
• Energy economics and policy
• Environmental economics
• Game theoretic optimization models

• jbbushnell@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/bushnell.html
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Lijuan (Dawn) Cheng, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Innovative Infrastructures and Rehabilitation using Advanced Composite Materials
• Large-scale Testing and Numerical Simulations
• Design, Analysis and Durability of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites
• Design and Analysis of Bridges
• Engineered Materials using Recycle Tires

• dawcheng@ucdavis.edu
• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/chengld/
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Chen-Nee Chuah, Ph.D.

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Networked Systems
• Smart Connected Vehicles & Infrastructure
• Applied Machine Learning

• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/chuah/
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Giovanni Circella, Ph.D.

• Director, 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program

• Travel Behavior
• Personal Attitudes and Lifestyles
• Travel Demand Forecast
• Discrete Choice Modeling
• Emerging Trends in Transportation and Shared Mobility Services
• Mobility of Young Adults (Millennials)
• Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
• Impact of Information Communication Technology (ICT) on Transportation
• Land Use Modeling
• Smart Growth and Sustainable Transportation
• Land Use and Transportation Interaction
• Energy Consumption from Transportation and Land Use

• gcircella@ucdavis.edu
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Paul Anders Erickson, Ph.D.

• Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Electric and Hybrid Drive Vehicles
• Fuel Cell Vehicles and Power Systems
• Hydrogen Production and Utilization
• Internal Combustion Engines
• Solar Energy Utilization

• paerickson@ucdavis.edu
• http://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/erickson/
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Yueyue Fan, Ph.D.

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Transportation and renewable energy infrastructure system modeling and optimization
• Critical transportation and energy system protection
• Adaptive network routing and research allocation processes
• Stochastic and dynamic system modeling and computational methods

• yyfan@ucdavis.edu
• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/fan/
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Beth Ferguson

• Assistant Professor, Design

• Bike share
• Solar charging for electric vehicles
• Public transportation
• Autonomous electric vehicle share systems
• Sustainable urban design
• Ecological materials
• Social entrepreneurship

• bferguson@ucdavis.edu
• https://bethferguson.faculty.ucdavis.edu
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Dillon Fitch-Polse, Ph.D.

• Co-Director, BicyclingPlus

• dtfitch@ucdavis.edu
• https://bicyclingplus.ucdavis.edu/
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Lewis M. Fulton, Ph.D.

• Director, Energy Futures Program

• International transport and energy policy
• Transportation technology potential, costs and benefits
• Global energy transition modeling

• lmfulton@ucdavis.edu
• https://stepsplus.ucdavis.edu
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Susan L. Handy, Ph.D.

• Director, National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Co-Director, BicyclingPlus Research Collaborative
• Associate Director for Education, ITS-Davis
• Chair, TTP Graduate Group
• Professor, Environmental Science and Policy

• Relationships between transportation and land use
• The impact of land use on travel behavior
• Factors influencing bicycling as a mode of travel
• Strategies for reducing automobile dependence

• slhandy@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/
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Scott Hardman, Ph.D.

• Associate Research Faculty & Assistant Director, Electric Vehicle Research Center

• Consumer Responses to Alternative Fuel Vehicles
• Travel Behavior
• Policy Analysis
• Global Alternative Fuel Vehicle Markets

• shardman@ucdavis.edu
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Andrew B. Hargadon, Ph.D.

• Professor of Technology Management
• Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, Graduate School of Management
• Director, Energy Efficiency Center

• The effective management of innovation and entrepreneurship
• Development and commercialization of sustainable technologies

• abhargadon@ucdavis.edu
• http://andrewhargadon.com/
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John Harvey, Ph.D.

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Principal Investigator, UC Pavement Research Center

• Pavement engineering, including materials, construction, design, management, life cycle cost and environmental life cycle assessment

• jtharvey@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.ucprc.ucdavis.edu
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Miguel Jaller, Ph.D.

• Co-director, Sustainable Freight Research Program
• Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Industrial and transportation engineering
• Sustainable transportation systems
• Humanitarian logistics
• Supply chain management
• Operations research

• mjaller@ucdavis.edu
• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/jaller/
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Bryan Jenkins, Ph.D.

• Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biology and Agricultural Engineering

• Energy systems in agriculture
• Biomass fuel production, thermal conversion, and environmental impacts
• Combustion and gasification of biomass fuels
• Properties of fuels
• System models

• bmjenkins@ucdavis.edu
• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/jenkins/
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Alan Jenn, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor

• Alternative fuel vehicle adoption
• Transitions to sustainable energy systems
• Quantitative policy analysis
• Big data statistical analysis

• ajenn@ucdavis.edu
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Alissa Kendall, Ph.D.

• Associate Director, ITS-Davis
• Ray B. Krone Endowed Professor of Environmental Engineering

• Life cycle modeling applied to transportation systems
• Energy systems
• Construction materials, and buildings, with the goal of developing sustainable systems

• amkendall@ucdavis.edu
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Michael Kleeman, Ph.D.

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Study of urban and regional air quality problems
• Composition of atmospheric particles and gas-to-particle conversion processes

• mjkleeman@ucdavis.edu
• http://cee.engr.ucdavis.edu/faculty/kleeman/
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Kurt Kornbluth, Ph.D.

• Assistant Adjunct Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• Renewable energy technologies

• kkorn@ucdavis.edu
• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/kornbluth/biography/
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Ken Kurani, Ph.D.

• Associate Researcher, ITS-Davis

• Household response to alternative fuel and electric-drive vehicles
• Energy, climate, and environment in household travel choices
• Behavioral theory in transportation and energy

• knkurani@ucdavis.edu
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Yongsung Lee, Ph.D.

• Co-Director, 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program
• STEPS+ Affiliate

• Travel Behavior
• Information Communication Technology
• Shared Mobility
• Autonomous Vehicle
• Telework

• yshlee@ucdavis.edu
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Jia Li, Ph.D.

• Assistant Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Mixed autonomy transportation systems
• Game theory modeling of traffic flow
• Data science in built environment
• Machine learning applications in safety

• cejli@ucdavis.edu
• https://cejli.github.io/
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Xinfan Lin, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Battery system (modeling, diagnostic, and control), Electric vehicle, Automotive system, Vehicle to grid

• lxflin@ucdavis.edu
• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/linx/
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Frank Loge, Ph.D.

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Director, Center for Water-Energy Efficiency

• Water and waste
• Water treatment
• Water reuse
• Small and decentralized waste treatment

• fjloge@ucdavis.edu
• http://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/loge/
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Mark Lubell, Ph.D.

• Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy

• Human behavior
• Role of governance institutions in solving collective action problems and facilitating cooperation

• mnlubell@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/lubell/
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Alan Meier, Ph.D.

• Faculty Researcher and Associate Director, Energy Efficiency Center
• Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Adjunct Professor, UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy

• How people and equipment use energy; opportunities to reduce energy consumption

• akmeier@ucdavis.edu
• https://energy.ucdavis.edu/meier-alan/
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Sabbie Miller, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Life cycle assessment
• Alternative materials development
• Sustainability and structural design

• sabmil@ucdavis.edu
• https://sabbiemiller.faculty.ucdavis.edu/
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Marshall Miller, Ph.D.

• Co-director, Sustainable Freight Research Program
• Senior Development Engineer

• Reducing greenhouse gases in the transportation sector using new fuels and vehicle technologies
• Modeling the transportation sector (especially trucking) to understand the effect of integrating new technologies into the various truck fleets
• Laboratory testing of batteries and ultracapacitors

• mmiller@ucdavis.edu
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Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Ph.D.

• Professor Emerita, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Impact of telecommunications technology on travel behavior
• Land use and transportation interactions
• Attitudes toward travel
• Congestion-response behavior
• Travel time budgets
• Transportation/air quality impacts of transportation demand management measures

• patmokh@gatech.edu
• http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/research/telecommunications-and-travel-research
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Erich Muehlegger, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor, Economics

• Industrial organization
• Public finance
• Economic regulation
• Environmental policy

• emuehlegger@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.erichmuehlegger.com/
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Somayeh Nassiri, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Pavement design
• Materials
• Repair
• Rehabilitation
• Management

• nassiri@ucdavis.edu
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Joan Ogden, Ph.D.

• Professor Emerita, Environmental Science and Policy

• Technical and economic assessment of new energy technologies
• Modeling hydrogen infrastructure development

• jmogden@ucdavis.edu
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Ahmet Palazoglu, Ph.D.

• Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

• Modeling
• Control and analysis of complex systems

• anpalazoglu@ucdavis.edu
• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/palazoglu/
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Jae Wan Park, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Director, UC Davis Green Transportation Laboratory
• Director Kor-US Transportation Study Program, ITS-Davis
• Director UC Davis Formula Hybrid racing team

• Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells: a. Flow field design, test and modeling to improve performance and stability. b. PEM fuel cell cold start and water management
• Lithium ion battery: a. Test and modeling to investigate temperature effect and thermal management. b. Demonstration of smart electrical energy storage (EES) system using second life EV batteries
• HEV power train design and simulation

• jwpark@ucdavis.edu
• http://mae.ucdavis.edu/jwpark/DavisSite/pages/index.html
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Susie Pike Cayar, Ph.D.

• Director, Transit Research Center

• Travel Behavior
• Transportation Planning and Policy
• Sustainable Transportation
• Public Transit

• scpike@ucdavis.edu
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David Rapson, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor, Economics

• Industrial Organization

• dsrapson@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/dsrapson/
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Bahram Ravani, Ph.D.

• Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Computational kinematics and dynamics
• Bio-dynamics of impact trauma
• Computational geometry in design and manufacturing

• bravani@ucdavis.edu
• http://ahmct.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=1152
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Caroline Rodier, Ph.D.

• Chair, U.S. Transportation Research Board Committee on Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies

• Integrative modeling
• Transportation and land use planning
• Environmental policy analysis

• cjrodier@ucdavis.edu
• http://ultrans.its.ucdavis.edu/people/crodier
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Angela Sanguinetti, Ph.D.

• Research Environmental Psychologist

• Built environment impacts on behavior and well-being
• Consumer adoption of resource-efficient technologies and behaviors
• Eco-feedback

• asanguinetti@ucdavis.edu
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angela_Sanguinetti2
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Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, Ph.D.

• Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Director, Scaled Model Aerospace and Research Laboratory (SMARTLAB)
• Co-Director, Transportation Noise Control Center (TNCC)

• Aerospace and Mechanical Systems/Vehicles Structural Dynamics
• Acoustics and Aeroeasticity
• Vibroacoustics

• nsarigulklijn@ucdavis.edu
• http://mae.ucdavis.edu/faculty/sarigul/sarigul.html
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Tyler Scott, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Policy

• Regulation and policymaking
• Utility and infrastructure governance
• Food-energy-water nexus
• Collaborative governance

• tascott@ucdavis.edu
• https://desp.ucdavis.edu/people/tyler-scott
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James Sharpnack, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor, Statistics

• statistical machine learning
• graph signal processing
• anomaly detection

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Fraser Shilling, Ph.D.

• Academic Coordinator

• Transportation ecology, the interactions of transportation systems with ecosystems and human communities
• Indicators of ecosystem performance, and policy issues associated with water pollution
• Impact of sea level rise on integrated planning of shoreline ecosystems and transportation

• fmshilling@ucdavis.edu
• https://roadecology.ucdavis.edu/people/fraser-shilling
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Iman Soltani, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Autonomous Driving
• Manufacturing Automation
• Preventive maintenance and industrial diagnosis
• Precision instrumentation

• isoltani@ucdavis.edu
• https://soltanilab.sf.ucdavis.edu/
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Gil Tal, Ph.D.

• Director, STEPS+
• Director, EV Research Center
• Professor, Environmental Science and Policy

• Travel behavior, alternative fuel vehicles, travel demand modeling, transportation planning, environmental policy
• Non-motorized transportation
• Creation and use of data in transportation planning process

• gtal@ucdavis.edu
• http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gil-tal/5/943/428
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Jamey Volker, Ph.D.

• Professional Researcher
• NCST Affiliate

• Environmental Impact Analysis
• Transportation Impact Analysis
• Travel Behavior
• Induced Travel
• Parking
• Accessory Dwelling Units
• Residential Location Choice
• Land Use Regulation
• Environmental Law

• jvolker@ucdavis.edu
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Yunshi Wang, Ph.D.

• Director, China Center for Energy and Transportation

• yunwang@ucdavis.edu
• https://itspubs.ucdavis.edu/index.php/about/single/?person=Wang-Yunshi&type=staff-member
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Kari Edison Watkins, Ph.D.

• Co-Director, Transit Research Center
• Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering

• transit planning and operations
• real-time traveler information
• perceived and actual safety of cyclists and pedestrians
• design of multimodal streets
• natural experiments and innovative survey methods
• emerging travel behavior data sources

• kewatkins@ucdavis.edu
• https://cee.engineering.ucdavis.edu/people/kari-watkins
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Anthony S. Wexler, Ph.D.

• Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Land, Air, and Water Resources
• Director, Crocker Nuclear Laboratory

• Air pollution
• Biomedical engineering

• aswexler@ucdavis.edu
• http://mae.ucdavis.edu/wexler/
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Stephen Wheeler, Ph.D.

• Professor, Landscape Architecture Program, Department of Environmental Design

• Climate change planning for mitigation and adaptation
• Evolution of built landscapes in metropolitan regions
• Theory and practice of sustainable development

• smwheeler@ucdavis.edu
• https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/stephen-wheeler
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Julie Witcover, Ph.D.

• Assistant Project Scientist
• STEPS+ Researcher

• Indirect land use effect of biofuels policy

• jwitcover@ucdavis.edu
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Christopher Yang, Ph.D.

• Research Scientist, ITS-Davis

• Infrastructure analysis of hydrogen and electricity for vehicle fuels
• Role of transportation alternative fuels and advanced vehicles in reducing energy system greenhouse gas emissions
• Energy system modeling for policy analysis

• ccyang@ucdavis.edu
• https://steps.ucdavis.edu/christopher-yang/
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Junshan (Joshua) Zhang, Ph.D.

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Edge intelligence
• Reinforcement learning and imitation learning for vehicle automation
• 5G and beyond for V2V and V2X based connected vehicles

• jazh@ucdavis.edu
• https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/jzhang/
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H. Michael Zhang, Ph.D.

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Transportation systems operations
• Traffic flow theory
• Traffic control
• Dynamic traffic assignment
• Intelligent transportation systems

• hmzhang@ucdavis.edu
• https://cee.engr.ucdavis.edu/directory/michael-zhang
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