Urban & Transportation Researcher
Urban Planning · Transportation · Spatial Analytics
I study how transportation systems and urban policies shape travel behavior, accessibility, and urban outcomes through causal inference, spatial analysis, and computational methods.
MCP + MUSA · Weitzman School of Design · University of Pennsylvania
Questions I Study
My research examines the interactions among transportation systems, public policy, individual behavior, and urban space.
How changes such as telework and transit service affect the travel decisions people make each day.
01 · Transportation Policy & Behavior Travel Behavior · Telework · Transit · Travel Demand
How perceptions, mental maps, and lived experience shape route choice, and why access can feel different from what a network model suggests.
02 · Perception & Accessibility Route Choice · Urban Perception · Mental Maps · Accessibility
How transit service, infrastructure, and major investments affect congestion, economic activity, land use, and development.
03 · Transportation & Urban Outcomes Infrastructure · Congestion · Economic Activity · Urban Development
Research Framework
I think of transportation as more than a technical system. It connects policy, people, and places across the city. Those connections guide my research.
Follow the connections
Policy changes.
People respond.
Cities evolve.
One research framework, from the conditions of travel to the life of the city.
The conditions of urban life
Public policy, transit service, and infrastructure investments.
How people respond
Travel decisions, mental maps, and lived experience.
The connections people can make
Route choice and the gap between measured and experienced access.
What those choices mean for cities
Congestion, economic activity, land use, and development.
Methods across the framework
Selected Research
Each project examines a different link in the chain from policy and infrastructure to behavior, accessibility, and urban outcomes.
Manuscript
How does the intensity of telework reshape daily trip-making?
The data show an inverted-U relationship between telework intensity and daily trips. Working from home does not simply remove travel from the day.
Working Paper in Progress
What happens to urban road traffic when transit service is abruptly reduced?
A quasi-experimental analysis of transit service cuts and road congestion, centered on Philadelphia's transit network.
Emerging Agenda
How do perceptions of neighborhoods and urban space alter route choice and experienced accessibility?
An emerging research direction on perception-based routing, mental maps, and the gap between perceived and objective accessibility.
Ongoing Research
When do transportation investments generate sustained and spatially embedded urban activity?
I examine how investments such as EV charging stations and major event venues affect commercial activity and local economies.
Where This Research Is Going
I study transportation as both a mobility system and a link between public policy, individual behavior, and urban economic outcomes. I am especially interested in how people respond when transportation systems or urban environments change, how their perceptions shape those responses, and what those choices mean for cities.
Quantifying how policies, technology, and environments influence travel decisions.
Integrating perceived and objective data to better measure accessibility and experience.
Linking mobility and infrastructure to economic activity, land use, and urban development.
Understanding how people move.
And what that means for cities.
