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XUEHAO CHU, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate

 

Areas of Expertise

Transportation Economics

Urban & Regional Economics

Discrete Choice Analysis

Mathematical & Quantitative Methods

 

Representative Experience

·         Modeled trip scheduling behavior

·         Conducted highway corridor simulation

·         Investigated congestion pricing policies

·         Investigated attrition and attrition bias in transportation panel studies

·         Conducted transit system performance using Data Envelopment Analysis

·         Studied cost functions of bus systems

·         Forecasted short-term employment for Orange County, CA

·         Helped initiate a PATH project on reliability of corridor service

·         Helped forecast California long-term transportation energy demand

·         Helped study polycentric pattern of employment in the Los Angeles area

·         Helped investigate cost-effectiveness of alternative fuels for buses

 

Previous Positions

Graduate Researcher/Teaching Assistant, University of California at Irvine

Faculty, Hangzhou University, The People's Republic of China

 

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of California at Irvine

M.A., Economics, University of California at Irvine

B.S., Mathematics, Hangzhou University, The People's Republic of China