Yi-Chang Chiu
Assistant Professor

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Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
The University of Arizona

 DynusT Lab 

Education:

• Ph.D., Transportation Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
  
• M.S., Transportation Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University
  
• B.S., Civil Engineering, National Taiwan Univeristy
  

Certification:

Professional Interests:

•Urban System and Transportation System Dynamics.
•Hybrid and Multi-Resolution Simulation Assignment Modeling Approaches.
•Large-scale regional evacuation modeling and decision support system design.
•Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): real-time vehicle guidance, autonomous, decentralized, hybrid vehicle routing, advanced traveler information system, design and evaluation of ITS deployment, dynamic traffic assignment, and traffic estimation and prediction using advanced sensing technologies.
•Transportation system operations and controls: corridor management, real-time system operation and design, operations and performance of Dynamic Message Signs.
•Urban transportation planning: network equilibrium, dynamic traffic assignment combined with activity-based analysis, congestion pricing, network reliability.
•Telecommunication technologies in ITS applications: decision support systems for technology deployment.
•Large-scale intermodal freight transportation systems modeling – intermodal facility locations, operations and traffic management.

Courses:

• CE 460/560: Special Topics in Transport Engineering
• CE 463/563: Traffic Flow + Capacity Analysis

Research Areas:

- Dynamic Traffic Assignment
- Multi-Resolution Traffic Assignment Simulation Modeling
- Critical infrastructure management and response
- Mass evacuation network modeling
- Mesoscopic traffic flow theory
- Urban system (land use, transportation, policy) dynamics modeling
- Border security modeling
- Telecommunication technologies in ITS applications
- Intermodal transportation modeling

More information about Dr. Chiu can be found in his Curriculum Vitae.