SusTrans Lab is a research group directed by Dr. Jane Lin at the University of Illinois Chicago. The group's research interests are, all with a strong focus of sustainability, in particular environmental sustainability:
Transportation systems analysis with focus on energy and emissions/air quality modeling
City logistics and freight transportation
Emerging mobility service enabled by information technology
Data analytics and optimization, advanced statistical and mathematical modeling
Dr. Lin is invited to Panel on Resilient and Sustainable Highway Infrastructure, at the Workshop on Data that Extends the Life-Cycle of Highway Infrastructure Assets, the 104th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5-9, 2025.
Rastegar, H., Shafiee, A., Cheng, X. and Lin, J. (2024) A Two-Stage Stochastic Model for Mixed-Fleet Pickup and Delivery Routing Problem with Temperature Considerations, INFORMS Annual Meeting, sponsored by the TSL: Freight cluster, Seattle, WA, October 20-23, 2024.
Shafiee, A., Cheng, X., Rastegar, H., and Lin, J. (2024) Using Autonomous and Modular Vehicle Technology for Integrated Passenger and Freight Transportation, INFORMS Annual Meeting, session on Integrating Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Transportation, sponsored by the Decision Analysis Society Cluster, Seattle, WA, October 20-23, 2024.
Cheng, X., Shafiee, A., Rastegar, H. and Lin, J. (2024) Optimizing Two-Echelon Autonomous Modular Vehicle Ridesharing and Consolidation Using Reinforcement Learning, INFORMS Annual Meeting, session on Integrating Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Transportation, sponsored by the Decision Analysis Society Cluster, Seattle, WA, October 20-23, 2024.
Shafiee, A. , Rastegar Moghaddam, H. , Cheng, X. , and Lin, J. (2025) An Autonomous Modular Vehicle Technology (AMVT) based Emergency and On-demand Mobile Charging Service, to be presented at the 104th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5-9, 2025.
Cheng, X., Zeng, X., Shafiee, A., Rastegar Moghaddam, H. , Xie, C., and Lin, J. (2025) Combined Large-Scale Charging Station Location and Long-Haul Electric Truck Routing Problem Incorporating the Effects of Temperature Variation, to be presented at the 104th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5-9, 2025.
Yousefibasser, M., Cheng, Y-L and Lin, J. (2025) Investigation of Transportation Barriers to Healthcare Services in Rural Illinois, to be presented at the 104th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5-9, 2025.
Rastegar Moghaddam, H. , Shafiee, A. , Cheng, X. , and Lin, J. (2025) Mixed Fleet Of Diesel And Electric Trucks In A Mixed Pickup And Delivery Problem With Temperature Effect On Electricity Consumption And Charging, to be presented at the 104th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5-9, 2025.
“Decarbonizing transportation systems: Challenges and Innovations”, Keynote speech by Dr. Lin at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Association of Chinese American Scientists and Engineers, Arlington Heights, IL, October 26, 2024.
Dr. Lin is co-chair of the 2024 TRB Transportation Symposium on Environment, Energy, and Livable Economies, Denver, CO, August 25-28, 2024.
Dr. Lin is an associate editor of the Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), Riverside, CA, February 26-28, 2024.
Dr. Lin joins the Board of the Scientific Counselors as a member of the Climate Change subcommittee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (March 2022 - March 2025).
Dr. Lin was invited to the workshop on the State of Science for Particulate Matter Health Effects, hosted by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), Arlington, VA, December 5-6, 2023.
Dr. Lin was a panelist on Emerging Trends in e-Commerce and How They May Impact Your Community at the 2023 APA-IL State Conference, Naperville, IL, September 11, 2023.
Dr. Lin is PI on a new Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT) grant entitled "“Development of a Project-Scale Air Quality Screening Tool”, August 2024 - February 2027.
Congratulations to Xi Cheng on his paper being accepted for presentation at the 25th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT), Ann Arbor, MI, July 15-17, 2024.
Congratulations to Xi Cheng, Hui Shen and Yi-Ling Cheng on receiving the Best Paper Award for their paper entitled "Mitigating Battery Disruption of Electric Vehicles on Highways" at the 2024 IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), Riverside, CA, February 25-28, 2024.
Congratulations to Xi Cheng on his recent publication: Is Electric Truck a Viable Alternative to Diesel Truck in Long-haul Operation? Transportation Research Part D: Transportation and the Environment, Vol.129, April 2024, 104119.
Dr. Lin is co-PI on an NSF grant entitled “Collaborative Research: NNA Research: Infrastructure Interdependencies in the Arctic: Reframing the Urban-Rural Interface” (PI: L. Spearing), September 2023 – August 2026.
Dr. Lin is PI on a new grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation on “Improving Transportation Services for Medical Patients and Veterans”, August 2023 – August 2025.
Dr. Lin is co-PI on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant entitled “Electrification, Emissions, Exposure and Equity: Community-Driven Scenarios for Freight Vehicle Electrification”, PI: J. Cidell (UIUC), July 2023 – June 2026.
Dr. Lin is co-PI on a U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Center Consortium entitled “Tier 1 UTC: Center for Freight Transportation for Efficient and Resilient Supply Chain (FERSC)”, PI: B. Zou, June 2023 – June 2028.
Dr. Lin is co-I on a US Department Of Commerce (National Institute of Standards and Technology) grant entitled “Community-Driven Air Quality and Environmental Justice Assessment”, PI: S. Erdal, October 2023 – September 2025.
Dr. Lin joins the Board of the Scientific Counselors as a member of the Climate Change subcommittee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (March 2022 - February 2026).