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Jie (Jane) Lin, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy
Associate Professor, Civil and Materials Engineering
University of Illinois at Chicago
842 West Taylor Street
2089 ERF, MC 246
Phone: 312-996-3068
Email: janelin@uic.edu
PhD, University of California, Davis, 1997-2002
MS, University of California, Davis, 1997-2000
BS, Tsinghua University, Beijing China, 1991-1996
Dr. Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering and a Research Associate Professor in the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy. She is also an affiliated faculty with the Urban Transport Center (UTC) at UIC. Dr. Lin is a current member of the Transportation and Air Quality Committee (ADC20) of the Transportation Research Board, National Academies. Starting April 15, 2011, Dr. Lin will become the chair of the ADC20 for a three year term.
Dr. Lin's research interests are in the areas of intelligent transportation systems, sustainable transportation systems, public transit planning and operations, and goods movement analysis. Examples of Dr. Lin's most recent work include effort in designing functional interfaces between MOVES2010, travel activity models, and dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) models, which will allow both air quality modelers and transportation planners to better assess GHG and air quality implications of transportation policies and alternatives (funded by Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies). Another research project investigates the business cost and environmental impacts of a promising truck demand management strategy that has been used in European and Asian countries, delivery consolidation. Dr. Lin’s team will simulate freight delivery activities in an urban area based on the truck route network of Chicago. Simulation will be conducted for up to eight scenarios consisting of various combinations of: the size of delivery vehicles, penetration of biodiesel fuel, fleet turnover rate, fuel price and other government policies. This research will provide valuable insights toward the development of a comprehensive strategy for sustainable goods movement in urban areas by filling some of the critical knowledge gaps (funded by National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE) through US DOT).