Pandemic in the Metropolis Transportation Impacts and Recovery

“The book will be valuable to graduate students and academics in urban studies, transportation planning, and civil engineering (with a focus on transportation). The introduction and conclusion would be appropriate to be assigned to undergraduate students in those fields to provide insights into the early days of the pandemic.” (Eric Petersen, Journal of Urban Affairs, July 7, 2023)

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris  is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Associate Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She holds degrees in architecture and urban planning and has published extensively on issues relating to mobility and safety, women’s travel, transit-oriented development, high-speed rail development, inner-city revitalization, gentrification, and displacement. She has served as a consultant to several organizations including the Transportation Research Board, Southern California Association of Governments, and Project for Public Spaces, on issues of transportation and urban design. Her research has been supported by the US and California Departments of Transportation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the AARP, among others. She is the author or editor of 10 books and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters.

Alexandre Bayen  is Liao-Cho Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley. He is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies. He is also Faculty Scientist in Mechanical Engineering, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was Visiting Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center from 2000 to 2003, and has also worked as Research Director of the Autonomous Navigation Laboratory at the Laboratoire de Recherches Balistiques et Aerodynamiques. Bayen has authored two books and over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has received several awards and prizes, including the Ballhaus Award from Stanford University, the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, and he is a NASA Top 10 Innovators on Water Sustainability.

Giovanni Circella  is Honda Distinguished Scholar for New Mobility Studies and Director of the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program at the University of California, Davis, and Senior Research Engineer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr Circella’s interests include travel behavior, emerging mobility services, travel demand modeling, and travel survey methods. He is currently leading a large study on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on transportation in 17 regions of the USA and Canada. Dr Circella is the chair of the TRB Committee on ICT and Transportation (AEP35) and a member of the Travel Behavior and Values (AEP30) committee. He is a member of the Executive Board of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research (IATBR). He serves on several NCHRP/TCRP panels on the impacts of emerging transportation technologies and cooperates with several planning agencies and non-profit organizations.

R. Jayakrishnan  is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and affiliated to the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Irvine,since 1991. He received a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. He has served as the director of the Radio-Optics and Telecommunications Laboratory of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology at UCI. His research interests are in traffic flow theory and simulation, transportation systems analysis, network modeling, public transit, and shared mobility systems. He developed Dynasmart, one of the earliest modeling frameworks of Intelligent Transportation Systems from the early 1990s, and for popularizing the use of Gradient Projection algorithms for network assignment in transportation planning. He has served in the editorial committees of ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Transportation Research Part-C, and other journals, and has served in several professional committees and academic panels of the Federal Highway Administration, National Science Foundation, and the Transportation Research Board (TRB). He has over 125 refereed publications to his credit.