Ramin Shabanpour

Transportation analyst! Active transportation advocate. Addicted to cycling 🚴

[Ramin Shabanpour @Ram_Shabanpour]

@ria_kontou @NSF Congratulations Ria!

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

This is @GM's new Hummer EV.

The car is terrible for both road safety and the environment. The Biden administration needs to regulate it, not praise it.

A 🧵 explaining why

[Ramin Shabanpour @Ram_Shabanpour]

@DrTCombs I plan to teach a sustainable transportation course next Fall. Appreciate it if you can keep me in the loop as well...

[Ramin Shabanpour @Ram_Shabanpour]

@pb4222 Congratulations my friend 👏👏

[Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian @K_Mohammadian]

Pandemic- and post-pandemic-era commuting behavior is the subject of a Wall Street Journal article that also has several quotes from me. Read it here: https://t.co/hY2IlMzXvF… #UIC #CivilEngineering #COVID19

[University of Illinois Chicago @thisisUIC]

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has appointed Abolfazl “Kouros” Mohammadian, head of the civil, materials, and environmental engineering department, to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning board. https://t.co/021MCy8iUF

[Ali Shamshiripour @AShamshiripour]

Interested in reading about #multitasking #habits of #Chicago #Trasnit users?

Check out our new article with Prof. @K_Mohammadian highlighting implications for fostering #sustainability in the era of #Autonomous cars.

50-day free dl link https://t.co/WCvyQTvVZO
@Transport_ELS

[Elsevier Transport @Transport_ELS]

How is COVID-19 reshaping activity-travel behavior? Evidence from a comprehensive survey in Chicago https://t.co/KrZiHpQLlC

[Ali Shamshiripour @AShamshiripour]

How has #COVID19 impacted #travel #behavior and tele-activities (#shopping & #WorkFromHome)?

Check out our new article published under supervision of Prof. @K_Mohammadian. @bfloodUIC @thisisUIC @Transport_ELS. Link: https://t.co/M444lYaO6A

[Ramin Shabanpour @Ram_Shabanpour]

@DrTaraGoddard @splashmaps Have a speedy recovery💪💪

[Ramin Shabanpour @Ram_Shabanpour]

@natalia_barbour @tudelft @MITdusp Great news! Congratulations Natalia.

[Ramin Shabanpour @Ram_Shabanpour]

How do people evacuate during #no_notice #disasters? Check out our new article with @nimgol & @K_Mohammadian, published in #TR_C @Transport_ELS, in which we investigated evacuees' tour formation behavior. Thanks to @argonne for sponsoring this project. https://t.co/Q6IwIaKNCU

[Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9]

Double Pink Rainbow and Lightning Strikes at 821pm in Chicago on Friday. #weather #news #storm #ilwx #chicago #lightning

[Ramin Shabanpour @Ram_Shabanpour]

Our latest paper on characterizing the impact of #autonomous #mobility on traffic flow! @argonne's #Polaris framework is used to simulate the CAV scenario and three #MachineLearning models are applied to characterize the change in average daily #Traffic.
https://t.co/1CuGeZw55f

[Ramin Shabanpour @Ram_Shabanpour]

A comprehensive report on our #COVID19 study findings:

[WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw]

Will COVID-19 have a lasting impact on daily routines? A new study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests it could.

https://t.co/s2TVXVROnT

[Giovanni Circella @CircellaG]

Our research team at UC Davis is conducting a longitudinal study to understand how the #COVID19 pandemic has been changing #lifestyles, #work, #eshopping behaviors and #travel choices. Take the survey at the link:

https://t.co/8wt11LJkfP

or

https://t.co/3NXOrelB42

#mobility

[Ramin Shabanpour @Ram_Shabanpour]

Our research on #travel #behavior shifts in the era of #COVID19 featured in @CARandDRIVER

[Car and Driver @CARandDRIVER]

Post-pandemic, you're more likely to take more road trips: https://t.co/k5tD8TazZ6

[Ramin Shabanpour @Ram_Shabanpour]

@natalia_barbour The national survey is yet to be finalized. Will update you when its done.
BTW we just implemented a small scale (~1K) and more or less similar survey in Chicago. Here is the link to it: https://t.co/pq8TdI4jmb

[Ramin Shabanpour @Ram_Shabanpour]

We found that for those who have recently experienced #teleworking for the first time, distractions and lack of comfortable #workspace at home are the biggest challenges. Stay-at-home order introduced us some new criteria to consider when planning to choose our next home! #COVID

[Brian Flood @bmf_comms]

Via @politico: Teleworking “carries much more potential than we thought before,” according to @UICEngineering researchers leading a multi-phase study on pre-&post- #COVID19 life in America https://t.co/syvzz0NV2B #UIC