Hossain Mohiuddin

Projects

• Iowa City Automated Vehicle Adaptation and Equity Plan: The project team assesses the trends in Iowa City’s mobility systems to identify the existing challenges, explore the impacts related to Automated Vehicles (AV), and use those findings to guide the City’s sustainable development. Based on literature review, data analysis, and public engagement in the form of interviews with key stakeholders and a public open house, this project recommends a series of policy interventions that leverage Iowa City’s key transportation assets in three main focus areas- shared mobility, Iowa City transit, and parking and land use. The project recommends redesign the future Iowa City Transit system as a trunk and feeder system that utilizes neighborhood door to door AV shuttles that feed dedicated trunk lines moving a high volume of passengers across the City. Also, it recommends implementation of an AV shuttle pilot in the downtown area to allow residents an opportunity to explore AV technology. 
   

• First and Last Mile Transit Plan Review:  A small but growing number of transit agencies in the U.S. have adopted first and last mile (FLM) plans with the goal of increasing ridership. As this is a relatively new practice by transit agencies, a review of these plans can inform other transit agencies and assist them in preparing their own. Four FLM plans were selected from diverse geographic contexts for review: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), Riverside (CA) Transit Agency (RTA), and Denver Regional Transit District (RTD), and City of Richmond, CA. Based on the literature, we developed a framework with an emphasis on transportation equity to examine these plans. We identified five common approaches to addressing the FLM issue: spatial gap analysis with a focus on socio-demographics and locational characteristics, incorporation of emerging mobility services, innovative funding approaches for plan implementation, equity and transportation remedies for marginalized communities, and development of pedestrian and bicycle infrastructures surrounding transit stations. The findings of this study were presented in the 100th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board and also published in a special issue of the Journal of Sustainability.