Presentations – T-SCORE

This page is dedicated to showcasing T-SCORE conference presentations, lectures, and research findings that are published in other formats aside from white papers or journal publications.

2023 TRB Innovations in Travel Analysis and Planning Conference

Greg Erhardt, Greg Macfarlane, Hongzhao Guan, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Lessons from the Design of On-Demand Multi-Modal Transit Systems in Two Cities. More here.

Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2023 Annual Meeting

Chris Cherry, Katie Harmon, Kevin Fang, Lucas Harms, Michel Behr. Safety- Best and Worst Practices. Session: Micromobility, Bicycles, and the Future of Cities. More here.

Kari Watkins, Stephen Boyles, Tabitha Combs, Anurag Pande, Luis Obispo. Innovations in Transportation Education. Panel: Early Academic Successful Careers: Resources and Advice. More here.

Richard Mucci, Greg Erhardt. Ride-Hailing Sharing and Matching in Chicago: Travel Time, Cost, and Choice Models. Poster Session. More here.

Abubaker Ziedan, Ashley Hightower, Candace Brakewood, Luiz Lima. The Impacts of Fare Capping on Bus Ridership. Poster Session. More here.

Jawad Hoque, Greg Erhardt. Ian Zhang, David Schmitt. Are Public Transit Investments Based on Accurate Forecasts? An Analysis of the Improving Trend of Transit Ridership Forecasts in the United States. Poster Session. More here.

Sameer Aryal, Chris Cherry, Emma Sexton. An Evaluation Approach for Road Diet Projects: A Case Study in Knoxville, Tennessee. Session: Advancing Equity by Improving Walking and Biking Networks. More here.

Abubakr Ziedan, Candace Brakewood, Kari Watkins. Transit Ridership during COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis of Nationwide Trends. Poster Session. More here.

Sarah Nastasi, Candace Brakewood, Michael Hunter, Kari Watkins. Transit Agency Assessment of their Capability to Adopt New Mobility Strategies. Session: Best of Transit Management and Performance Papers. More here.

Vedant Goyal, Greg Erhardt, Nikiforos Stamatiadis, Christopher Bollinger. Do Transportation Network Companies Increase or Decrease Road Crashes? Evidence from San Francisco. Poster Session. More here.

Greg Macfarlane. Travel Data Users Forum: Innovative Usage of GPS Trajectory Data: Present and Future. Panel. More here.

Nitesh Shah, Chris Cherry, Suarav Parajuli. Ride-hailing Users are Likely Early Adopters of Shared Micromobility in Mid-sized Cities of Developing Countries: A Case Study of Kathmandu, Nepal. Session: Using Technology to Improve Transport Sustainability and Performance in Developing Countries. More here.

Ashley Hightower, Jing Guo, Candace Brakewood, Chris Cherry. A Method for Analyzing Transit Accessibility of Affordable Housing Units. Session: Equitable Access and Travel Costs. More here.

Bianca Mers, Michael Hunter, Kari Watkins. Demographic Breakdown of Transit Rider Satisfaction. Session: Transit Customer Satisfaction and Reliability. More here.

APTATech 2022

Ashley Hightower, Abubakr Ziedan, Cassidy Crossland and Candace Brakewood. Fare Capping Policies in the United States: Current Practices and Potential Rider Benefits. View the event program here.

CASPT 2022

Einat Tenenboim, Yufei Xu, Greg Erhardt and Srinivas Peeta. A Generative Model of Ride-Hail Driver Shifts: Time, Duration, and Location. View the event program here.

Greg Erhardt, Kari Watkins, and Simon Berrebi. Is Bus Ridership Peaking? An Analysis of Pre-COVID Ridership and Service Frequency Trends by Time-Period. View the event program here.

2022 Tennessee American Planning Association and Tennessee Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (TAPA/TSITE)

Abubakr Ziedan, Nitesh Shah, Candace Brakewood, and Chris Cherry. A Method for Placing Shared E-Scooters Corrals Near Transit Stops. View the event program here.

2022 University of Washington PhD Symposium

Kari Watkins. Transit Ridership in Our Mobility Tech Future. More here.

mobil.TUM 2022 – 12th International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport

Greg Macfarlane & Nate Lant. How far are we from Transportation Equity? Measuring the Effect of Wheelchair use on Daily Activity Patterns.

Greg Macfarlane, Hayden Atchley, Christopher Day, Greg Erhardt, Zach Needell. Simulating and Prioritizing Service Areas for Regionally Exclusive Microtransit Operations.

Hongzhao Guan & Pascal Van Hentenryck. Extending Transit to Local Regions: An Integration of Citywide Transit Systems and ODMTS.

2022 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Conference on Sustainability and Emerging Transportation Technology (SETT)

Greg Erhardt. Do transportation network companies increase or decrease transit ridership? Empirical evidence from San Francisco. View the program here.

Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2022 Annual Meeting

Greg Erhardt, Alex Mucci, Cooper, Sana, Chen, Joe Castiglione, Do Transportation Network Companies Increase or Decrease Transit Ridership? Empirical Evidence from San Francisco. Poster Session. More here.

Jawad Hoque. Causes of Transit Ridership Decline in the USA from 2012 to 2018. Session: Three Minute Thesis Competition.

Abubakr Zeidan, Ashley Hightower, Cassidy Crossland, and Candace Brakewood. Fare Capping Policies in the United States: Current Practices and Potential Applications. Session: Evaluating Innovative Public Transportation Fare Policies: Fare Capping, Transfer Policies, and Integration with Mobility on Demand. More here.

Abubaker Ziedan, Nitesh Shah, Candace Brakewood, and Chris Cherry. A Method for Placing Shared E-Scooters Corrals Near Transit Stops. Session: Sharing is Caring: Recent Research on Bike Share, E-scooters, and Micromobility Poster Session. More here.

Candace Brakewood, Greg Erhardt, Kari Watkins, Simon Berrebi and Eric Lind. Investigating the Ridership Impact of New LRT and Arterial BRT Lines in the Twin Cities. Session: Managing Your Transit Network. More here.

Vedant Goyal, Greg Erhardt, Candace Brakewood, Kari Watkins, Josephine Kressner and Simon Berrebi. Simulating the Effect of Strategies to Increase Transit Ridership by Reallocating Bus Service. Session: Managing Your Transit Network. More here.

Greg Erhardt, Jawad Mahmud Hoque, Vedant Goyal, Candace Brakewood, Kari Watkins, and Simon Berrebi. Why Has Public Transit Ridership Declined in the United States? Session: Ridership Trends Impacting Public Transportation Planning and Development. More here.

Abubakr Ziedan, Candace Brakewood, Greg Erhardt, Kari Watkins, Wesley Darling, and Simon Berrebi. The Impact of Fare Free Promotions on Bus Ridership in Topeka, Kansas. Session: Public Transportation Fare Policy and Marketing: Research, Results and Implications for Practice. More here.

Abubakr Ziedan, Candace Brakewood, Greg Erhardt, Kari Watkins, and Wesley Darling. Shared E-Scooters Impacts on Bus Ridership in Louisville. Session: Ridership Trends Impacting Public Transportation Planning and Development. More here.

Greg Macfarlane. Using Big Data to Evaluate Equitable Access to Community Resources. Session: Equity Considerations with Big Data in Urban and Regional Transportation Planning Context. More here.

Greg Erhardt, Kay Axhausen, Simona Babiceanu, Genevieve Giuliano. Panel: Equity Considerations with Big Data in an Urban and Regional Transportation Planning Context. More here.

Greg Erhardt, Kari Watkins, and Simon Berrebi. Is Bus Ridership Peaking? An Analysis of Pre-COVID Ridership and Service Frequency Trends by Time-Period. Session: Leading Research on the Future of Bus Transit Systems. More here.

Nitesh Shah, Abubakar Zeidan, Candace Brakewood, and Chris Cherry. Shared e-scooter service providers with large fleet size have a competitive advantage: Findings from e-scooter demand and supply analysis of Nashville, Tennessee. Session: Emerging Research on Shared Micromobility. More here.

2021 Student Poster Presentations at the University of Tennessee EUReCA Undergraduate Research Symposium

Abubakr Zeidan, Ashley Hightower, Cassidy Crossland, and Candace Brakewood. Fare Capping Policies in the United States: Current Practices and Potential Rider Benefits. View the event program here.

2021 Bike Walk Summit

Abubakr Ziedan presented Preliminary results from the analysis of locations for new scooter corrals that can complement transit service.

2021 Research to Practice Transit Symposium

Abubakr Ziedan and Candace Brakewood presented Transit Ridership in the Era of COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis of Nationwide Trends. View the event program here.

2021 Georgia Smart Communities Challenge

Kari Watkins & Michael Hunter with collaborators Kristen Wescott (Traffic/Transportation Manager, City of Sandy Springs, GA) and Natalie Smusz-Mengelkoch (Senior ITS Engineer, Kimley-Horn), Streamlining Suburban Transit in Sandy Springs. More here.

2021 Partnership for Inclusive Innovation Webinar

2021 Georgia/Tennessee American Planning Association (APA) Conference

Bianca Mers presented her preliminary findings on Demographic Breakdown of Transit Rider Satisfaction at the student session of the 2021 GPA/TAPA Conference. More here.

2021 UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium

Kari Watkins participated as a panelist in the Transit Before and During COVID-19 session. More here.

2021 TRB Planning Applications Conference

Jawad Hoque presented A Retrospective Approach to Quantifying Uncertainty in Traffic Forecast in the Modeling Uncertainty lectern session. More here.

2021 Community Testbed to Support Micromobility Research

Nitesh Shah, Jing Gwo, Lee Han, and Chris Cherry gave a presentation titled Why do people take e-scooter trips? Big Data and Unsupervised Machine Learning insights on temporal and spatial usage patterns. More here.

Series of Talks on Optimization

Van Hentenryck provided seminars titled, End-to-End Learning and Optimization for Engineering Applications at the University of Florida, Arizona State University, and UC Berkeley. Watch the seminars here.

2021 Third Annual National Mobility Summit of US DOT University Transportation Centers

Candace Brakewood debuted the then newly established, T-SCORE University Transportation Center. View the event program here.

Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2021 Annual Meeting

Abubakr Ziedan, Nitesh Shah, Yi Wen, Candace Brakewood, Justin Cole, and Chris Cherry. Quantifying the Impact of New Mobility on Transit Ridership. Poster Session.

Abubakr Ziedan, Cassidy Crossland, Candace Brakewood, Harrison Ooi, and Philip Pugliese. Residents’ Attitudes Toward a Bus Network Redesign in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Poster Session. More here.

Greg Erhardt. Problem Definition. Session: Do Revealed Preferences Tell us Much about our Travel Needs? More here.

Xu Zhang, Joe Castiglione, Mei Chen, and Greg Erhardt. Using Big Data and Interactive Maps for Long-term and COVID-era Congestion Monitoring in San Francisco. Poster Session. More here.

Kari Watkins. Planning for Transit in a Post-Pandemic Future. Lectern Session. More here.

Greg Erhardt, Richard Mucci, Joe Castiglione, Sneha Roy, Drew Cooper, Bhargava Sana, and Mei Chen. Why is Traffic Congestion Getting Worse? A Quantified Decomposition of Contributors to the Growing Congestion in San Francisco. Poster Session. More here.

2020 Interstate Transit Research Symposium

Kari Watkins. Mobility and Modality. View the event program here.

2020 Georgia Transit Association Annual Conference

Kari Watkins. The New T-SCORE University Transportation Center. View the event program here.

MAXimum Impact Webinar Series

Kari Watkins. Predicting the Unpredictable: What Might Mass Transit After COVID-19 Look Like. View the webinar here.

TRANScend: Critical Conversations for the Year Ahead

Kari Watkins. What Megatrend Should we be Paying Most Attention to Right Now? View the event program here.

49th Annual ORSSA Conference

Pascal Van Hentenryck. Future Mobility Systems. View the event program here.

2020 Modelling World Conference

Greg Erhardt. Prospective and retrospective views of uncertainty in transport forecasting. View the conference program here.

6th Annual TransitData 2020 International Symposium

Kari Watkins. Using Transit Data for Deep Dives into Understanding Transit Ridership Trends. View the event here.