Projects
- Susie Pike and Kari Edison Watkins -- Designing Microtransit Services to Complement Public Transit:
Investigating the personna of individuals that use microtransit as well as look into different models that impact various outcomes such as passenger service quality, service equity, and overall costs.
https://www.ucits.org/research-project/2024-13-4r/
This project builds off of this completed project: Is Microtransit a Scalable Complement to Traditional Public Transit? Best Practices for Network Design, Operations, and Partnership
- Yan Xing and Susie Pike (PI) -- Exploring Microtransit Adoption and Impacts on Transportation Access of Underserved Populations:
Exploring the barriers to and facilitators of adoption of microtransit for underserved people in the Sacramento Area of California and how to gain access to these services.
https://www.ucits.org/research-project/2019-08/
This project builds off of this completed project: Exploring the Consumer Market and Environmental Impacts of Microtransit Services in Sacramento and Citrus Heights, California
- Susie Pike (PI) -- Ride-hail and Transit Partnerships:
Exploring the factors that lead to formation of partnerships between ride-hail services and transit agencies; and the barriers that prevent these partnerships and programs from launching.
https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/exploring-microtransit-adoption-and-impacts-transportation-access-underserved-populations
- Susie Pike (PI) -- Davis Amtrak Station Shared Use Mobility Pilot:
Inform the implementation of, and evaluate the use of the Davis Amtrak shared use mobility programs. In partnership with Lyft and Carzac, these programs will allow passengers an alternative to driving, and amidst parking shortages, enable more use of the Capitol Corridor. This study evaluates what will make this program most successful.
https://www.metrans.org/research/davis-amtrak-station-pilot-project-evaluation-informing-long-term-solutions-to-the-davis-amtrak-station-access-barriers
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Angela Sanguinetti (PI) -- Designing Vehicles for Pooled and Shared Travel in the Wake of the Pandemic:
This research developed a COVID-19 Risk-mitigating Vehicle Design (RVD) typology to summarize and analyze the wide variety of emerging vehicle design strategies to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission among workers and passengers in shared and pooled vehicles. Public transit and shared mobility service operators can use the RVD typology as a reference and guide to aid decision-making. The typology also serves as a launching point for further innovation and research to evaluate the relative effectiveness of RVD strategies and their relationship to user acceptance. This research is vital to informing service operators’ investments in RVD strategies, and ultimately to support a return to safe, equitable, and sustainable shared and pooled travel in the wake of the pandemic.
https://www.ucits.org/research-project/2020-06/
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Hossain Mohiuddin -- Iowa City Automated Vehicle Adaptation and Equity Plan:
Assessing trends in Iowa City’s mobility systems to identify the existing challenges, explore the impacts related to Automated Vehicles (AV), and inform 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 redesign of 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. It also recommends implementation of an AV shuttle pilot in the downtown area to allow residents an opportunity to explore AV technology.
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Elham Pourrahmani -- A Framework for Evaluating the First Mile Transit Access Program
Developing a novel simulation and optimization framework to investigate the potential of the first-mile transit access program using shared mobility services for a case study in the San Francisco Bay Area. Preliminary results show significant mileage and cost reductions. However, increases in travel delay by almost all the trips seem to be a serious operational issue for encouraging demand to this mode. We explore various solutions to this problem.