Michael Zhang - UC Institute of Transportation Studies

Michael Zhang

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis

Areas of Expertise

Infrastructure Delivery, Operations, & Resilience Intelligent Transportation Systems, Emerging Technologies, & Big Data Safety, Public Health, & Mobility Justice Transportation Economics, Funding, & Finance

Contact

Email:

hmzhang@ucdavis.edu

UC Campus Profile

Google Scholar Profile

Recent Projects

Pricing Mechanisms to Achieve California’s Climate Goals

Research Team:

Michael Zhang (lead), Egon Terplan, Qiao Yu, Jiaqi Ma, Mollie Cohen D'Agostino, David Brownstone, Craig Rindt, Brain He, Yifang Zhu, Junmei Chang, Michael Hyland, Rezwana Rafiq, Emma Huang, Erin Barry, Joshua Schank, Michael Manville, Jean-Daniel Saphores, Taylor DeRouen, Xianyue Peng, Jooneui Hong

UC Campus(es):

UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA

Exploring Techniques for Synthetic Mobility Data Generation to Protect Privacy

Research Team:

Chen-Nee Chuah (lead), Samson Cheung, Michael Zhang, Ammar Haydari, Dongjie Chen

UC Campus(es):

UC Davis

A Data-Driven Approach to Managing High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes in California

Research Team:

Michael Zhang (lead)

UC Campus(es):

UC Davis

Recent Publications

Concept model of intelligent transport

published journal article

MobilityGPT: Enhanced Human Mobility Modeling with a GPT model

Crossing guard protecting children crossing the street while a bus waits

policy brief

Machine Learning Can Reveal Effectiveness of Traffic Safety Countermeasures

Man sitting at a desk with multiple control monitors

policy brief

High-Occupancy Toll Lanes Can Improve Driving for Everyone if Dynamically Priced