Master, Jinhua as supervisor or co-supervisor – MIT JTL-Transit Lab

*Please see the full list of the students at https://mobility.mit.edu/people/ and full list of theses by JTL-Transit Lab at https://www.transitlab.mit.edu/theses. Below are the theses that Prof. Zhao has (co-)supervised.

Master, Jinhua as supervisor or co-supervisor

Tiffany Lim

(
2025
).

Predicting Ridership and Travel Time Impacts of Bus Service Changes Using Sketch Planning Methods

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

MST
Michael Leong

(
2025
).

Quantifying the Post-Pandemic Urban Activity & Mobility Regime: Implications for Adaptation and Future Planning of Cities and Public Transit Systems

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

MST
Seamus Joyce-Johnson

(
2025
).

Enabling Car-Free Living: Shared Micromobility and Public Transit Interactions in Chicago

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

MCP/MST
Riccardo Fiorista

(
2025
).

Sensing and Predicting Urban Rail Platform Crowding Using Emerging Data Sources

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

MST
Xiaotong Guo

(
2023
).

Enhancing the Shared Mobility Market: Dissolving Market Segmentation and Understanding Market Friction

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

MST
Ehab Ebeid

(
2022
).

The Invisible Hand or the Handgun: Ride Hailing, Violence, and Political Settlements in the South African Urban Mobility Market

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

MCP/MST
Jacqueline Lee

(
2022
).

Examining the Post-Pandemic Role of Shared Micromobility: A Study of Travel Behavior, Policy, and Equity in Motion

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

TPP
Patrick S. Meredith-Karam

(
2021
).

Exogenous drivers of public transit and ride-hailing ridership: a study of policy intervention, COVID-19, and the relationship between ride-hailing and public transit in Chicago

Department of Urban Studies and Planning and The Institute For Data, Systems, and Society

Master of Science in Transportation and Master of Science in Technology and Policy
Yunhan Zheng

(
2021
).

Equality of opportunity in travel behavior prediction with deep neural networks and discrete choice models

Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master in City Planning and Master of Science in Transportation
Liza Farr

(
2021
).

Parking policy as a mechanism to reduce car ownership and use

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

MCP
Rachel Li-Jiang Luo

(
2021
).

Data-driven customer segmentation: Assessing disparities in COVID impact on public transit user groups and recovery

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master in City Planning, Master of Science in Transportation
Zade Koch

(
2021
).

Nationwide Pedestrian Safety Analysis Using Crash and Survey Data

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

MCP
Anne Hudson

(
2020
).

Where to Next? Analyzing Livability and Accessibility in the Later Stages of Life

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

MCP/MST
Tianyu Su

(
2020
).

Identifying Commuting Behavior Segments for TDM Program Design: University Case Study

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

MCP
Baichuan Mo

(
2020
).

Network Performance Model for Urban Rail Systems

Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MST/EECS
Mary Rose Fissinger

(
2020
).

Behavioral Dynamics of Public Transit Ridership in Chicago and Impacts of COVID-19

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

MST
Xuenan Ni

(
2019
).

Factors Affecting Public Support of Transportation Policies: Using an International Survey and Hybrid Discrete Choice Modeling

Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master in City Planning and Master of Science in Transportation
Karthikeyan Raman

(
2019
).

Travel Based Multitasking on the Mumbai Local and Metro: Measurement, Classification and Variation

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master in City Planning
Apaar Bansal

(
2019
).

Bundled Mobility Passes: A Framework for Partnership Between Public Transit and New Mobility Services

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master in City Planning and Master of Science in Transportation
Jintai Li

(
2019
).

Future Transit Service for A Broader User Base: Demand Analysis of Hypothetical Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Services Using a Stated Preference Approach

the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master in City Planning and Master of Science in Transportation
Maxwell Arnell

(
2019
).

Shared Electric Scooters and Transportation Equity: A Multivariate Spatial Regression Analysis of Environmental Factors on Revealed Travel Behavior and Mode Shift Potential

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master in City Planning
Leo Chen

(
2018
).

Simulation-Based Design of Integrated Public Transit and Shared Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Jian Wen

(
2018
).

Value of Information in Dispatching Shared Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems: a Simulation Framework

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Yi Liu

(
2018
).

Micro Active Network After Massive Urban Expansion

Department of Architecture

Master of Science in Architecture Studies
Adam Rosenfield

(
2018
).

Driving Change: How Workplace Benefits Can Nudge Solo Car Commuters Toward Sustainable Modes

Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master in City Planning and Master of Science in Transportation
Scott Middleton

(
2018
).

Discrimination, Regulation, and Design in Ridehailing

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master in City Planning and Master of Science in Transportation
Daya Zhang

(
2018
).

Rethinking Streets: Urban Life with Autonomous Vehicles

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of Science in Architecture Studies
Abhishek Basu

(
2018
).

Data-Driven Customer Segmentation and Personalized Information Provision in Public Transit

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Benjamin Gillies

(
2018
).

Don’t Get Taken for a Ride! Designing and Implementing Effective Autonomous Vehicle Regulation in Toronto, Ontario

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of City Planning
Menghan Li

(
2017
).

Measuring Travel Equity and Representativeness: Opportunities and Challenges of Using Smartphone- based Travel Survey in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of City Planning, Master of Science in Transportation
Shenhao Wang

(
2017
).

Automobile Regulations in China Examined from a Behavioral Perspective

Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master in City Planning, Master of Science in Transportation
Han Qiu

(
2017
).

Dynamic Pricing in Shared Mobility on Demand Service and its Social Impacts Master of Science in Transportation

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Yan Leng

(
2016
).

Urban computing using call detail records : mobility pattern mining, next-location prediction and location recommendation

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Jingkang Gao

(
2016
).

Why the Chinese obey the law : case studies from transportation

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Philip Kreycik

(
2016
).

Factors affecting the gas price elasticity of travel demand : implications for transportation emissions policy

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of City Planning
Javier Morales-Sarriera

(
2016
).

Productivity and costs in the transit sector : the impact of Baumol’s cost disease

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Saul Wilson

(
2016
).

Exploring Urban Activity Patterns Using Electric Smart Meter Data

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of Science in Transportation
Corinna Li

(
2016
).

Better, Quicker, Together: Enabling Public Transport Service Quality Co-monitoring Through a Smartphone-Based Platform

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of City Planning, Master of Science in Transportation
Zelin Li

(
2016
).

Smartphone-based Mobility Mapping and Perceived Air Quality Evaluation in Beijing

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of City Planning, Master of Science in Transportation
Margo Dawes

(
2016
).

Perspectives on the Ridesourcing Revolution : surveying individual attitudes toward Uber and Lyft to inform urban transportation policymaking

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of City Planning
Andrew Lai

(
2015
).

Community Involvement in Commuter Rail Improvements: The Case of the Fairmount Line in Boston

Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning

Master in City Planning
Anne Halvorsen

(
2015
).

Improving Transit Demand Management with Smart Card Data: General Framework and Applications

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Gabriel Goulet Langlois

(
2015
).

Exploring Regularity and Structure in Travel Behavior Using Smart Card Data

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Ruishan Zheng

(
2015
).

Establishing Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) on the ground : case-based analysis of implementing TOD in China

Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of Science in Transportation
Rong Chen

(
2014
).

Chinese Gated Community: Degree of Openness and the Social Impacts

Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of City Planning
Liu Liu

(
2014
).

C-IMAGE: City Cognitive Mapping through Geo-tagged Photos

Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of City Planning
Qianqian Zhang

(
2014
).

Crowdsourcing In Community Participatory Planning in China: Case Studies in Four Communities in Shenzhen

Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of City Planning
Liqun Chen

(
2014
).

Redefining the Typology of Land Use in the Age of Big Data

Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of City Planning
Xiaojie Chen

(
2013
).

Regulating Car Ownership Growth in Chinese Mega Cities

Dept. of Civil Engineering

Master of Applied Science
Rupert Cambell

(
2013
).

Prestige on Wheels: A Qualitative Study of Middle Class Life Aspirations and their Implications for Transportation Planning in Beijing

School of Community and Regional Planning

Master of Arts
Tim Baird

(
2013
).

Towards Nudging Active Travel: Behavioral Interventions Using Mobile Technology

School of Community and Regional Planning

Master of Science
Zhan Zhao
Jie Yin

(
2013
).
Understanding Car Pride

Dept. of Civil Engineering

Master of Applied Science
Maria Curro

(
2012
).

Seniors’ Perceptions Around Driving Cessation: A Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Cultural Perspective

School of Community and Regional Planning

Master of Arts
Cindy Tse

(
2012
).

Environmental Attitudes and Travel Behavior of Youth

Dept. of Civil Engineering

Master of Applied Science
Qiuning Wang

(
2012
).

A Shrinking Path for Bicycles: A Historical Review of Bicycle Use in Beijing

School of Community and Regional Planning

Master of Arts
Nihit Jain

(
2011
).

Assessing the Impact of Recent Fare Policy Changes on Public Transport Demand in London

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Michael Frumin

(
2010
).

Automatic Data for Applied Railway Management: Passenger Demand, Service Quality Measurement, and Tactical Planning on the London Overground Network

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Valerie Webb

(
2010
).

Customer Loyalty in the Public Transportation Context

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Master of Science in Transportation
Yang Jiang

(
2010
).

Does Energy Follow Urban Form? An Examination of Neighborhoods and Transport Energy Use in Jinan, China

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning

Master of City Planning, Master of Science in Transportation