UCLA at TRB 2025
The 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) will be held from Jan. 5–9, 2025 in Washington, D.C. TRB’s Annual Meeting attracts thousands of transportation professionals from around the world. The program covers all transportation modes, with sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to policymakers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions.
As in previous years, UCLA will have a significant presence at the event with more than three dozen presentations and posters from faculty, affiliated researchers, and students.
Please see below for a full list and schedule of UCLA ITS-affiliated presentations.
UCLA Sessions
Evaluation of a Large Scale Universal Basic Mobility Wallet in South Los Angeles
In Workshop 1002: Mixed Methods in Bicycle and Active Transport Equity and Safety Research
Presenter: tamika butler
Sunday, January 5th 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET | Convention Center, Salon A
Integrating Highly Automated Vehicles into Traffic in Cities and on Highways: A Safety-Centric Conversation
Workshop 1004
Organizer: Jiaqi Ma
Sunday, January 5th 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET | Convention Center, Salon C
An Introduction to Equity in Big Transportation Data
In Workshop 1038: Transportation Big Data Sources and Equity
Presenter: Tierra Bills
Sunday, January 5th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET | Convention Center, 150A
Prospects and Challenges of Using Location Based Services Data in Travel Behavior Analysis
In Workshop 1038: Transportation Big Data Sources and Equity
Presenter: Fariba Siddiq
Sunday, January 5th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET | Convention Center, 150A
Panel Discussion
In Workshop 1057: Optimizing the Selection of Traffic-Related Air Pollution Mitigation Strategies from the Lens of Environmental Justice and the Built Environment
Presenter: Regan Patterson
Sunday, January 5th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET | Convention Center, 146A
Should Environmentalists Support the Gasoline Tax?
In Poster Session 2047: Current Issues in Transportation Energy
Presenter: Adam Millard-Ball and Erick Guerra (University of Pennsylvania)
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A123
A Two-sided Model for EV Market Dynamics and Policy Implications
In Poster Session 2047: Current Issues in Transportation Energy
Presenter: Haoxuan Ma, Brian Y He, Tomas Kaljevic, Jiaqi Ma
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A117
Integrated operation strategy of electric micro-mobility vehicle battery-swapping system based on multi-agent hierarchical reinforcement learning
In Poster Session 2048: Current Issues in Alternative Fuels and Technologies
Presenter: Fan Zhang (Southeast University), Huitao Lv (Southeast University), Chenchen Kuai
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A186
Dynamic Battery-Swapping Recommendations for Electric Micro-Mobility Vehicles: Leveraging Deep Reinforcement Learning
In Poster Session 2048: Current Issues in Alternative Fuels and Technologies
Presenter: Huitao Lv (Southeast University), Fan Zhang (Southeast University), Chenchen Kuai
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A187
The Linkages between High-Speed Rail Network Structure and Inter-City Human Mobility Patterns
In Poster Session 2056: Current Trends in Passenger Rail Transportation Research
Presenter: Junmei Chang, Zhenhua Chen (Ohio State University)
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | B567
Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program Research Showcase
Lectern Session
Fellows: Mahtab Ahmed, tamika butler, Casey Chung, Ronald Giang, Yu Hong Hwang, Milena Johnson, Gema Martinez Castillo, Rebecca Saavedra Swint, Samuel Speroni, Madeline Wander, Micah Wilcox
Monday, January 6, 2025 – 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM ET | Convention Center, 145A
Gender, Travel, and Activity Space
In Lectern Session 2081: Uncovering Gender Differences in Travel Behavior and Activity Participation
Presenter: Fariba Siddiq, Zhiyuan Yao, Evelyn Blumenberg
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM ET | Convention Center, 146B
Optimizing Battery-Swapping Station for Electric Micro-Mobility Vehicles: A Three-Stage Approach Considering User Preferences and Demand Uncertainty
In Poster Session 2106: Innovative Transportation Planning Modeling and Analysis Methods and Tools
Presenter: Chenchen Kuai, Fan Zhang (Southeast University)
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A118
Assessing Transportation Barriers to Maternal Care for Black Birthing People in Los Angeles County
In Poster Session 2109: Navigating the Intersection of Health, Equity, and Mobility
Presenter: Rebecca Usigbe, Zanobia Ibrahim-Watkins (unaffiliated), Astrid Williams
Sylvie Wilson (unaffiliated), Zoe Cunliffe (unaffiliated), Gabrielle Brown (unaffiliated), Tianna Wakeman (unaffiliated), Regan Patterson
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A172
Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program
Posters, Part 1
Fellows: Mahtab Ahmed, tamika butler, Casey Chung, Ronald Giang, Yu Hong Hwang, Milena Johnson, Gema Martinez Castillo, Rebecca Saavedra Swint, Samuel Speroni, Madeline Wander, Micah Wilcox
Monday, January 6, 2024 – 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A
CooperFuse: A Real-Time Cooperative Perception Fusion Framework
In Poster Session 2153: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Research in Transportation
Presenter: Zhaoliang Zheng, Xin Xia, Letian Gao, Hao Xiang, Jiaqi Ma
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | B400
V2XPnP: A Real-World Sequential Dataset and Fusion Pipeline for Perception and Prediction with Vehicle-to-Everything Communication
In Poster Session 2153: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Research in Transportation
Presenter: Zewei Zhou, Hao Xiang, Seth Zhao, xin xia, Jiaqi Ma
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | B401
Reconstructing Human Mobility Pattern: A Semi-Supervised Approach for Cross-Dataset Transfer Learning
In Poster Session 2153: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Research in Transportation
Presenter: Xishun Liao, Yifan Liu, Chenchen Kuai, Yueshuai He (University of Louisville), Shangqing Cao (University of California, Berkeley), Chris Stanford (unaffiliated), Jiaqi Ma
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | B404
Semantic Trajectory Data Mining with LLM-Informed POI Classification
In Poster Session 2153: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Research in Transportation
Presenter: Yifan Liu, Chenchen Kuai, Haoxuan Ma, Xishun Liao, Yueshuai He (University of Louisville), Jiaqi Ma
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | B402
Human Mobility Modeling with Limited Information via Large Language Models
In Poster Session 2153: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Research in Transportation
Presenter: Yifan Liu, Xishun Liao, Haoxuan Ma, Yueshuai He (University of Louisville), Chris Stanford (unaffiliated), Jiaqi Ma
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | B403
Trans on Transit: A Mixed-Methods Study of Transgender and Nonbinary Experiences of US Public Transit Spaces
In Poster Session 2164: Mainstreaming Gendered Travel in a Non-Automobile World and Paving the Way Toward Inclusive Policies
Presenter: Tam Guy
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A207
Measuring Accessibility at the Local Level: Comparing the LOS, VMT, and Accessibility metrics in Evaluating Transportation Impacts of Land Use Projects
In Poster Session 2194: Research on Economic Development and Land Use, Part 2 (Part 1, Session 2084)
Presenter: Hao Ding
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM ET | Convention Center, 140
Headed Out Less: Analyzing Teen and Young Adult Travel Trends in the 21st Century
In Poster Session 2213: Demographics, Life Stages, and Travel Behavior: Attitudes and Insights
Presenter: Andy Fung, Fariba Siddiq, Yu Hong Hwang, Brian Taylor
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A161
Human-Autonomy Teams in Automated Driving System Operations: The Case of Drivers and Remote Operators
In Poster Session 2232: Human Factors of Vehicles: Connected and Automated Vehicles and Intelligent Systems
Presenter: Camila Correa-Jullian, Marilia Ramos, Ali Mosleh, Jiaqi Ma
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | B563
Mobility AI Agents and Networks
In Poster Session 2239: Traffic Simulation
Presenter: Haoxuan Ma, Yifan Liu, Qinhua Jiang, Yueshuai He (University of Louisville), Xishun Liao, Jiaqi Ma
Monday, January 6th 2025 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A293
Recent Experiments in Fare-Free Transit in the U.S.
In Lectern Session 3029: Fare-Free Public Transit: Experiments, Evaluations, and Equity Considerations
Presenter: Hannah King
Tuesday, January 7th 2025 | 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM ET | Convention Center, 147A
Reliable Accessibility for Constrained Transit Riders: An Examination of Benefits of an Integrated Accessibility-Reliability Measure.
In Poster Session 3046: Current Research in Transportation Equity
Presenter: Oluwanifemi Adegbulugbe (HNTB), Tierra Bills
Tuesday, January 7th 2025 | 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | B592
Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship ProgramÂ
Posters, Part 2
Fellows: Mahtab Ahmed, tamika butler, Casey Chung, Ronald Giang, Yu Hong Hwang, Milena Johnson, Gema Martinez Castillo, Rebecca Saavedra Swint, Samuel Speroni, Madeline Wander, Micah Wilcox
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 – 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A
Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program
Posters, Part 3
Fellows: Mahtab Ahmed, tamika butler, Casey Chung, Ronald Giang, Yu Hong Hwang, Milena Johnson, Gema Martinez Castillo, Rebecca Saavedra Swint, Samuel Speroni, Madeline Wander, Micah Wilcox
Tuesday, January 7, 2024 – 1:30 – 3:15 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A
Drive With Regulation: ADS Traffic Regulation Leveraging the Vision-Language Model
In Lectern Session 3111: Moving Automated Vehicle Research into Practice
Presenter: Xu Han, Zhiwen Wu, Xin Xia, Jiaqi Ma
Tuesday, January 7th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET | Convention Center, Salon C
An Attention-Based Multi-Context Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Neural Network for Work Zone Traffic Impact Prediction
In Poster Session 3145: Technologies, Strategies, and Tools to Improve Work Zone Safety
Presenter: Qinhua Jiang, Xishun Liao, Yaofa Gong, Jiaqi Ma
Tuesday, January 7th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | B521
Pathways to Equity in Travel Demand Modeling: An Evaluation of Auto ownership Outcomes Using Choice Set Modeling
In Poster Session 3149: Travel Forecasting Methods and Theory
Presenter: Tat Srisan, Tierra Bills
Tuesday, January 7th 2025 | 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A190
Analyzing the Evolving Behavior of Older U.S. Travelers in the 21st Century
In Poster Session 3206: Research and Innovation in Accessible Transportation and Mobility
Presenter: Yu Hong Hwang, Fariba Siddiq, Brian Taylor
Tuesday, January 7th 2025 | 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A260
Global Health and Climate Benefits from Walking and Cycling Infrastructure
In Poster Session 3207: Pathways to Climate Resilience: New Tools, Models, and Approaches for Transportation Systems Analysis
Presenter: Adam Millard-Ball, Monisha Reginald, Yasmina Yusuf, Christopher Bian (Google LLC)
Tuesday, January 7th 2025 | 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A212
V2X-Real: a Large-scale Dataset for V2X Cooperative Perception
In Poster Session 3211: Intelligent Transportation Systems in the Era of Connected Vehicles and Vehicle to Everything Communication
Presenter: Hao Xiang, Zhaoliang Zheng, Xin Xia, Runsheng Xu, Letian Gao, Zewei Zhou, Xu Han, Xinkai Ji (Southeast University), Mingxi Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Zonglin Meng, Li Jin, Mingyue Lei (Tongji University), Haoxuan Ma, Yunshuang Yuan (unaffiliated), Yingqian Zhao, Jiaqi Ma
Tuesday, January 7th 2025 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A103
Multi-Sensor Fusion for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Localization with Object Detection and Point Cloud Matching
In Poster Session 3212: Vehicle-Highway Automation
Presenter: Letian Gao, Hao Xiang, Xin Xia, Jiaqi Ma
Tuesday, January 7th 2025 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A147
Strategic Lane Changes for Automated Buses: A Clustering Approach to Approaching Vehicles
In Poster Session 3212: Vehicle-Highway Automation
Presenter: Donghyun Lim (Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology), Hyungjoo Kim (Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology), Eugene Lee (Ajou University), Jiaqi Ma, Jaehyun So (Ajou University)
Tuesday, January 7th 2025 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A227
Understanding and Remedying Slow Climate and Equity Progress under California Regional Planning Policy
In Poster Session 4075: Emerging Practices for Transportation Planning Models and Processes
Presenter: Gian-Claudia Sciara (University of Texas, Austin), tamika butler, Phoebe Chiu
Wednesday, January 8th 2025 | 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | A178
The Impacts of Sidewalk Autonomous Delivery Robots on Vehicle Travel and Emissions
In Poster Session 4094: Current Issues in Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Presenter: Yu-chen Chu, Brian Taylor
Wednesday, January 8th 2025 | 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM ET | Convention Center, Hall A | B508
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