Maha Ahmad

Maha has a background in Economics and is interested in designing sustainable transportation systems to improve lifestyles in cities. Her research interests include public transportation, micromobility and travel behavior. Her dissertation focuses on the demand for regional rail service and the willingness to pay for improvements in various service offerings such as cost, travel time, frequency, schedule and reliability. Her research also focuses on subsidized station access modes for regional rail in Northern California, and how various market segments value service offerings of the rail service. Taking Capitol Corridor as a case study, she is conducting a survey-based study to investigate how to boost post-pandemic ridership. She has also worked previously on the substitution versus complementarity between e-scooters and public transit.  

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I6vy6dIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 

Publications at ITS: https://itspubs.ucdavis.edu/author_detail.php?id=3448 

Dissertation project funded by NCST: https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/changing-markets-commuter-and-suburban-rail