Sustainable Transportation Research Group
(SusTrans Lab)
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
Upcoming Events:
Yousefibasser, M., Askari, S., Lin, J. (2024) Exploring determinants of mode choice for medical trips in urban areas: evidence from the 2017 U.S. National Household Travel Survey, submitted to the Minority Health Conference, School of Public Health, UIC, Chicago, IL, April 4, 2024.
Dr. Lin will speak on the Panel on Equity Bottlenecks in Sustainable Transportation Systems at the Workshop on Envisioning Equitable Transitions to Sustainable Transportation Systems, A UIUC-UIC Collaborative Workshop Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Chicago, IL, May 16-17, 2024.
Dr. Lin will speak on the Panel on Transportation Infrastructure and Climate Change at the 2024 Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) Global Symposium on Mobility Innovations,, Ann Arbo, MI, May 21-22, 2024 .
Shafiee, A., Asgharpour, S., Askari, S., A. Mohammadian, and Lin, J. (2024) Understanding Characteristics of Crowdshipping Trip Production: Evidence from Atlanta, to be presented at the ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development, Atlanta, GA, June 15-18, 2024.
Shafiee, A., Asgharpour, S., Askari, S., A. Mohammadian, and Lin, J. (2024) Understanding Characteristics of Crowdshipping Trip Production: Evidence from Atlanta, ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development, Atlanta, GA, June 15-18, 2024.
Cheng, Y. and Lin, J. (2024) On-road heavy-duty truck emissions in Illinois before and after COVID-19 in 2019 and 2021, 117th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Air & Waste Management Association, Calgary, Canada, June 24- 27, 2024.
Dr. Lin is invited to present at EURO 2024: “A fixed-route autonomous modular public transit service”, EURO 2024, Special Session on Advancing Mobility Towards Sustainable Solutions, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30–July 3, 2024.
Cheng, X., Nie, Y., and Lin, J. (2024) An Autonomous Modular Public Transit Service, to be presented at ISTTT25, Ann Arbor, MI, July 15–17, 2024.
Dr. Lin is invited to present at IEEE ITSC 2024: “Optimal Matching Based Double Auction in a Two-sided Crowdshipping Market”, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), session on Large-scale Smart Mobility, Edmonton, Canada, September 24th - 27th, 2024.
Highlights:
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 presented “Driving our future: the impact of electric vehicles”, UIC Alumni Exchange, March 9, 2022.
Dr. Lin shared her experience on the virtual panel on Work-life Balance by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Special Emphasis Program, March 15, 2022.
News
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 receives 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 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).