SMART’s Distinguished speakers

SMART Presentation Summary

Background: This is a project led by the Center for Environment at Harvard University.

Objective: To build a methodological framework to evaluate relationships among land use, demand for mobility, and associated air pollution in rapidly developing Asian cities like Indian and Chinese cities

Research design: The research includes a national level comparison between Chinese and Indian cities and two case studies: Chengdu, China, and Hyderabad, India.

For each case study, the research methodology consists of two steps:

• 1st step - quantitative case studies of urban land use and transportation tradeoffs , grounded in field data and local realities.
• 2nd step - investigation of urban planning, environmental institutions, and regulatory approaches at and across national, regional, and local levels.

On-going tasks:

• Completed the household travel and land use surveys in spring 2006
• Data cleaning and coding are also completed.
• On-going household travel analysis.

• View her PowerPoint presentation (pdf)

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Biography

Dr. Jie (Jane) Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Materials Engineering, and a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Lin earned her B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1996 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and completed a M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 2002. She joined UIC after conducting a Post-doctoral position at the Center for the Environment Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 2003.

Dr. Lin is a current member of the Transportation and Air Quality Committee (ADC20) of the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board (TRB). Her research interests include stochastic and mathematical modeling of transportation problems; transportation energy and air quality analysis; public transit planning with emphasis on ITS, performance measures, and data mining, and international study of urban transportation and air quality with emphasis on developing countries. Her recent research projects include:

1. Traffic queuing and air quality modeling at toll plazas, funded by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, Dec 2004-Dec 2006
2. Transferability of Household Travel Survey Data in Calibrating and Validating Travel Forecasting Models, funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Nov 2004-Aug 2007
3. Assessing Effectiveness of Alternative Fuel Vehicle Fleet Replacement in Local Government: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of DuPage County Forest Preserve's Mandate, funded by the Institute of Environmental Science and Policy, UIC, June, 2004-June, 2005
4. Issues with mobile source air toxics: a Midwest peer exchange, funded by the Illinois Center for Transportation, Illinois Department of Transportation, July 2006 – February 2007
5. Project level PM2.5 and PM10 hotspot analysis: a Midwest peer exchange, funded by the Illinois Center for Transportation, Illinois Department of Transportation, July 2007 – February 2008

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