Speaker: Dr. Yujie Hu
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of Florida
Thursday, April 20, 2023
3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8)
Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom
University of Florida
Abstract: Commuting, like other types of human travel, is complex in nature, such as trip-chaining behavior involving making stops of multiple purposes between two anchors. According to the 2001 National Household Travel Survey, about half of weekday U.S. workers made a stop during their commute. In excess commuting studies that examine a region’s overall commuting efficiency, commuting is, however, simplified as nonstop travel from homes to jobs. This research fills this gap by proposing a trip-chaining-based model to integrate trip-chaining behavior into excess commuting
Biography: Dr. Yujie Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Florida. He is also affiliated with the UF Informatics Institute and UF Transportation Institute. He directs the GeoNAVI (Geospatial Network Analysis and Visualization) lab group and conducts research on urban transportation, human mobility, and accessibility. He is a recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and Southeastern Geographer.
All are welcome to attend.
For more information, email Dr. Sadie Ryan at sjryan@ufl.edu