The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) announced in January 2021 the project proposals selected for funding. Qing Shen, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning is among those selected for project funding. Shen is working alongside Co-Principal Investigator Catherine (Casey) Gifford–Innovative Mobility Senior Planner–on the applied research project titled “Supplementing fixed-route transit with dynamic shared mobility services: a marginal cost comparison approach”. The project goal is to address a…
Department: Urban Design and Planning
Inaugural CBE Inspire Fund awardees announced
This winter quarter the College of Built Environments launched its new CBE Inspire Fund. Designed to support CBE research activities for which a relatively small amount of support can be transformative, in mid-February the college awarded the first 6 grants. Projects supported by the CBE Inspire Fund hail from 4 departments within the college and tackling topics such as food systems, mapping cultural spaces, and energy justice. The CBE Inspire Fund is the first research funding opportunity offered by the…
Tianqi Zou
Sustainable transportation, travel behavior, GIS, geospatial big data
J.D. Tovey
Energy systems, culture, bioresource-based energy for sustainable societies
Michael Tobey
Urban systems, system complexity, big data, artificial intelligence, smart cities, communities, and coupled human-built-environmental systems
Pranjali Rai
Integration of climate change adaptation in hazard mitigation, planning process, disaster risk reduction, community resilience, and risk assessment and communication
Dian Prasetyawati
Understanding how communities plan and adopt green solutions including technologies that are sustainable and fit in the framework of green neighborhood development
Siman Ning
Climate change, smart cities, urban economics and the interaction between human behavior and built environment
Yuqi Li
Urban ecology, simulation modeling, scenario planning, enhancing ecosystem functions in coupled human-natural systems
Julie Howe
Housing models and their impact on mental health