Master, Jinhua as supervisor or co-supervisor – MIT Urban Mobility 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
Riccardo Fiorista

(
2025
).
Predicting Ridership and Travel Time Impacts of Bus Service Changes Using Sketch Planning Methods

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

MST
Michael Leong
Riccardo Fiorista

(
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
Riccardo Fiorista

(
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