Congratulations to University of Florida students Zhibin Chen and Zhengtian Xu, UF Alumni Dr. Mahmood Zangui and UFTI faculty member Dr. Yafeng Yin for winning the Stella Dafermos Best Paper Award at the Transportation Research Board’s 95th Annual Meeting.
About the Award
The award is offered every year for the best paper submitted for presentation and publication to the Transportation Network Modeling Committee of the Transportation Research Board. It is named after Professor Stella Dafermos (1940-1990), one of the most influential pioneers in transportation network modeling. Her research included new mathematical methods of analyzing congested transportation networks and proposed innovative techniques to find solutions to complex network equilibrium problems.
About the Paper
Paper Title: Analysis of Advanced Management of Curbside Parking
This paper analyzes drivers’ search behavior for curbside parking on a one-way street and develops analytical models to compare the impacts of parking information and reservation services. An agent-based simulation experiment is conducted to verify the results drawn from the analytical models. Results show that the reservation service can improve the performance of the parking system, while providing information may not. The former is proved to be a better policy than the latter in the particular setting of parking competition and search behaviors considered in this paper.
About the Authors
Zhibin Chen is a third year Ph.D. student studying Civil Engineering at the University of Florida and focuses primarily in Transportation Network Modeling. Previously he attended Sun Yat-sen University in China and graduated with his Bachelors degree in 2012. His current research project is “Modeling and Analysis of Advanced Parking Management for Traffic Congestion Mitigation”.
Zhengtian Xu is a second year Ph.D. student studying Civil Engineering at the University of Florida. His research focuses include Transportation Network Modelling and Optimization, Congestion Pricing, and Transportation Economics. He previously attended Tsinghua University in China and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics. He is currently working on a National Science Foundation project titled “Vulnerability Assessment and Resilient Design of Interdependent Infrastructures”.
Mahmood Zangui, Ph.D: Dr. Zangui is a UF Alumni who graduated in 2014 with a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering and a Masters degree in Industrial Systems Engineering. Previously he attended Sharif University in Iran, and holds a Bachelors in Civil Engineering (2007) and a Masters in Transportation Engineering (2010). He currently works for a private company called Optym developing flight schedule simulators.
Yafeng Yin, Ph.D: Dr. Yin is a Professor at the UF Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment and Director of the Transportation Research Center at the UFTI. He works in the areas of analysis, modeling, design and optimization of transportation systems towards achieving sustainability and economic efficiency, and has published over 70 refereed papers in leading academic journals. Dr. Yin earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2002, his Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Engineering degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1996 and 1994 respectively.