Jane Lin, PhD

Areas of Research:

1. Lin, J., Chen, Q., Kawamura, K. (2016) Logistics Cost and Environmental Impact Analyses of Urban Delivery Consolidation Strategies, Networks and Spatial Economics, 16(1), 227-253.
2. Vallamsundar, S., Lin, J., Konduri, K., Zhou, X., Pendyala, R. (2016) A Comprehensive Modeling Framework for Transportation-induced Health Exposure Assessment, Transportation Research Part D: Transportation and the Environment, 46, 94-113.
3. Vallamsundar, S., Lin, J., Chang, Y.T. (2016) Estimating Externality of Population Health Exposure to Emissions From Transportation Sources, International Journal of Shipping and Transportation Logistics, 8, No.6, 632-652.
4. Lin, J., Zhou, W., Wolfson, O. (2016) Electric Vehicle Routing Problem. Transportation Research Procedia, Vol. 12, 508-521.
5. Lin, J., Sasidharan, S., Ma, S., Wolfson, O. (2016) A Model for Multimodal Ridesharing and Its Analysis, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, 164-173.
6. Kafle, N., Zou, B., Lin, J. (2017) Design and Modeling of Crowdsourcing Enabled Relay System for Urban Parcel Delivery, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 99, 62-82.
7. Wolfson, O., Lin, J. (2017) Fairness versus Optimality in Ridesharing, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, 118-123.
8. Foti, L., Wolfson, O., Lin, J., Rishe, N. (2017) The Nash Equilibrium Among Taxi Ridesharing Partners, Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 1-4.
9. Lin, J., Zhou, W., Du, L. (2018) Is On-demand Same Day Delivery Service Green? Transportation Research Part D: Transportation and the Environment, 61, 118-139.
10. Ayala, D., Wolfson, O., DasGupta, B., Lin, J., Xu, B. (2018) Spatio-temporal Matching for Urban Transportation Applications, ACM Transaction on Spatial Algorithms and Systems 3(4), 11-39.
11. Zhang, L., Hu, X., Qiu, R., Lin, J., Zhang, H., Chen, Q., Tan, H., Lin, D. (2018) Trend analysis and forecast of PM2.5 in Fuzhou, China using the ARIMA model, Ecological Indicators, 95, 702-710.
12. Ballare, S., Lin, J. (2018) Preliminary Investigation of a Crowdsourced Package Delivery System: A Case Study, Chapter 6 in City Logistics 3: Towards Sustainable and Livable Cities, ed. Taniguchi and Thompson: 109-128, ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
13. Zhang, L., Hu, X., Qiu, R., Lin, J. (2019) Comparison of Real-world Emissions of LDGVs of Different Vehicle Emission Standards on both Mountainous and Level Roads in China, Transportation Research Part D: Transportation and Environment, 69, 24-39.
14. Conlon J., Lin, J. (2019) Emission Impact of Autonomous Vehicle introduction in an urban network, Journal of Transportation Research Board, Vol. 2673(5), 142-153.
15. Zhou, W., Lin, J. (2019) An On-demand Same-Day Delivery Service Using Direct Peer-to-Peer Transshipment Strategies, Networks and Spatial Economics, 19 (2), 409–443.
16. Foti, L., Lin, J., Wolfson, O. (2019) The Virtues of Fair Ridesharing. GeoInformatica 2019: 1-29.
17. Lin, J., Wolfson, O. (2020) MY-AIR: A Personalized Air-pollution Information Service, Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Data Services (SMDS), 105-112
18. Ballare, S., Lin, J. (2020) Investigating the use of microhubs and crowdshipping for last mile delivery, Transportation Research Procedia 46, 277-284.
19. Shen, H., Zou, B., Lin, J., Liu, P. (2020) Modeling Travel Mode Choice of Young People with Differentiated E-Hailing Ride Service in Nanjing China, Transport Research Part D: Transportation and Environment, Vol.78, online first.
20. Lin, J., Zhou, W. (2020) Important Factors for Daily Routing Cost of Battery Electric Delivery Trucks. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 15:7, 541-558
21. Shen, H., Lin, J. (2020) Comprehensive Investigation of Crowdshipping Delivery Production with Real-world Data, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, online first.
22. Zhang, L., Lin, J., Qiu, R. (2021) Use of Portable Emissions Measurement System (PEMS) to Investigate the CO and NOx from gasoline and diesel vehicles in the mountainous city of China, Journal of Cleaner Production 286, 124957.
23. Patankar, N., Lin, J., and Patankar, T. (2021) Mileage efficiency of cars. Journal of Cleaner Engineering and Technology, Volume 4, 100240.
24. Lin, J., Nie, Y., Kawamura, K. (2022) An Autonomous Modular Mobility Paradigm – Vision Paper. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine. 
25. Shen, H., Namdarpour, F., and Lin, J. (2022) Preliminary Investigation of Online Grocery Shopping and Delivery Preference Before, During, and After COVID-19, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Vol.14, 100580.
26. Cheng, X. and Lin, J. (2024) Is Electric Truck a Viable Alternative to Diesel Truck in Long-haul Operation? Transportation Research Part D: Transportation and the Environment, Vol.129, April 2024, 104119.
27. Cheng, X., Nie, Y. and Lin, J. (2024) An Autonomous Modular Public Transit Service, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging technologies, Special issue on ISTTT25, 104746.
28. Shen, H. and Lin, J. (2024) Equitable and stable matching for a two-sided crowdshipping market, Transportation Research Procedia, Vol.79, 234-241.
29. Shen, H. and Lin, J. (2024) A Courier’s Choice for Delivery Gigs in a Two-sided Crowd- shipping System with observed sender-courier preference discrepancy, Transportation, published online August 17, 2024.

• Editor, Transport Policy, January 2018 – present.
• Associate Editor, Transportation Research Part D: Transportation and Environment, January 2017 – present.
• Editorial board member, Future Transportation, March 2023 - present.
• Editorial advisory board member, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, February 2008 – present.
• Editorial advisory board member, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, August 2011 - present.

BS Civil Engineering (minor dgr: Comp. Sci), 1996
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

MS & PhD Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2000 & 2002 (minor dgr: Statistics)
University of California, Davis

Post-doc fellow, 2/2002-8/2003
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

(I) Invited academic colloquia:

1. Understanding Transportation, Land Use, and Air Quality”, Department of Statistics and Center for Integrating Statistics and Environmental Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 13,
2. “Transferability of travel data across geographic areas by neighborhood type”, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 4, 2006.
3. “Integrating Land-use, Urban Transport, and Air Quality: A Comparative Study of China and India”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, November 17, 2006.
4. “Mobile Source Emissions and Climate Change”, University of Illinois Chicago, Graduate College summer seminar series on interdisciplinary perspective on global environmental changes, May 19,
5. “Understanding Issues and Challenges in Freight Transportation and Emission Modeling”, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 16, 2009.
6. “Modeling Air Quality Impact of Transportation”, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 28, 2011.
7. “Bus as probe for urban travel time prediction”, Presented at the Peer Exchange Meeting with Researchers at University of Versailles, University of Valenciennes, and Engineering School of Telecommunication in Paris, France, July 19, 2011.
8. “Economic and Environmental Analyses of Urban Delivery Consolidation Strategies”, Presented at the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies jointly organized with Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, October 20,
9. “Integrated Framework for Fine-Grained Transportation and Air Quality Analyses”, Dalian University of Science and Technology, Dalian, China, November 19, 2012.
10. “Modeling Land Use, Bus Ridership and Air Quality: A Case Study of Chicago Bus Service”, Dalian University of Science and Technology, Dalian, China, November 21, 2012.
11. “Economic and Environmental Analyses of Urban Delivery Consolidation Strategies”, Dalian University of Science and Technology, Dalian, China, November 22, 2012.
12. “Integrated Framework for Environmentally Sustainable Transportation Policy Analyses”, China Research Academy of Environmental Science (CRAES), Beijing, China, December 5, 2012.
13. “Sensitivity Tests of MOVES and AERMOD models for 5 Hotspot Analysis”, China Research Academy of Environmental Science (CRAES), Beijing, China, December 12, 2012.
14. “Integrated Framework for Environmentally Sustainable Transportation Policy Analyses”, Department of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, December 6,
15. “Bus Probe Based Urban Travel Time Prediction”, Department of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, December 7, 2012.
16. “Modeling Land Use, Bus Ridership and Air Quality: A Case Study of Chicago Bus Service”, Department of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, December 8,
17. “Economic and Environmental Analyses of Urban Delivery Consolidation Strategies”, Department of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, December 9, 2012.
18. “Mobile Source Emissions and Climate Change”, Department of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, December 10, 2012.
19. “Integrated Framework for Fine-Grained Transportation and Air Quality Analyses”, Presented at the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, December 3^rd, 2012.
20. “Integrated Framework for Fine-Grained Transportation and Air Quality Analyses”, Presented at the Transport Planning and Research Institute, Ministry of Transport, Beijing, China, December 14,
21. “Sensitivity Tests of MOVES and AERMOD models for PM2.5 Hotspot Analysis”, Joint research meeting by US Environmental Protection Agency, Cornell University, University of Illinois Chicago, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, December 16, 2012.
22. "Estimating Near-Road Pollution and Health Exposure", Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, April 2, 2014.
23. "Green Urban Freight Consolidation Strategies", Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 14, 2015.
24. “Integrated Transportation, Air Quality and Exposure Analysis Framework”, Division of Transportation Studies, College of Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, June 7,
25. “Emerging Trends in Last-mile Logistics: How green are they?” Institute for Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, CA, October 25, 2019.
26. “Emerging Trends in Last-mile Logistics: How green are they? The US Experience”, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, December 16, 2019.
27. “Emerging Trends in Last-mile Logistics: How green are they? The US Experience”, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China, December 20, 2019.
28. “Long-haul Electric Truck Routing with Coordinated Driver Schedule and Charging Activities: When and Where to Charge”, Northwestern University, May 11, 2023.
29. “An equitable and stable two-sided matching problem for a crowd-shipping market”, TU Deft, June 2, 2023.
30. “Long-haul Electric Truck Routing with Coordinated Driver Schedule and Charging Activities: When and Where to Charge”, University of Illinois Kent Seminar Series, September 21, 2023.
31. “An Autonomous Modular Public Transit Service”, Purdue University, Institute for Control, Optimization, and Network (ICON), October 6, 2023.

(II) Invited keynote and panel presentations:

1. “Incorporating Geographic/Spatial Sustainable Measurements in Transportation Planning and Operations”, Panelist for “NSF Sciences Behind Sustainability Quantification for Building & Infrastructure Design, Engineering and Construction Workshop” (S2QBIDEC), Fort Worth, Texas, Nov 7-9, 2012.
2. Panel on Alternative Fuels Development as a Green Product Trend in USA, at the Global Commercial Vehicle and Off-highway Vehicle Summit 2017, Chicago, IL, December 6^th, 2017.
3. “Emerging Trends in Last-mile logistics: Where Do We Go from Here?”, Keynote speech at the Global Commercial Vehicle and Off-Highway Vehicle Summit 2017, Chicago, IL, December 6-8,
4. Panel on Trends for New Energy Commercial Vehicles and How It Impacts the Future of Efficiency and Emissions, at the Global Commercial Vehicle and Off-highway Vehicle Summit 2017, Chicago, IL, December 7^th, 2017.
5. 2018 Ethanol Summit of the Asia-Pacific, Panel on the Environmental Benefits of Blending Ethanol into Gasoline – Impacts on Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Five Major World Capitals, Minneapolis, MN, May 22, 2018.
6. Virtual Panel on Infrastructure, at the 25^th Belle & Joseph H. Braun Memorial Symposium – Cutting through Academic Silos within the University of Illinois System to Achieve Sustainability, October 30, 2020.
7. Panel on The Future of Transportation in Chicago, at the Chicago Council of Science and Technology (C2ST), , Chicago, IL, May 3, 2021.
8. The Hill, Virtual panel on The Road to Zero Emission Trucks: Fleets and Shippers, September 15,
9. Virtual panel on Work-life Balance, at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Special Emphasis Program, March 15, 2022.
10. The Climate Change Challenge (CCC) International Transportation Webinar 2022, co-sponsored by China Highway & Transportation Society (CHTS), Transportation Research Board (TRB), International Road Federation (IRF), European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI), and Chinse Overseas Transportation Association (COTA), September 27/29, 2022.
11. The Transportation Research Board annual meeting workshop on “Moving Together: Promises and Challenges in Co-Modal Passenger-Freight Transport”, Washington D.C., January 8, 2023.
12. Panel on Emerging Trends in e-Commerce and How They May Impact Your Community, at the 2023 APA-IL State Conference, Naperville, IL, September 11, 2023.
13. Workshop on the State of Science for Particulate Matter Health Effects, hosted by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), Arlington, VA, December 5-6, 2023.
14. The 2024 IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), Panel host on shared mobility, Riverside, CA, February 26-28, 2024.
15. “Equitable and Sustainable Electrification of Freight Transportation”, Panel on Equity Bottlenecks in Sustainable Transportation Systems, at the Workshop on Envisioning Equitable Transitions to Sustainable Transportation Systems, A UIUC-UIC Collaborative Workshop Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Chicago, IL, May 16-17, 2024.
16. “Equitable and Sustainable Electrification of Freight Transportation: Challenges and Opportunities”, Panel on Transportation Infrastructure and Climate Change, at the 2024 Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) Global Symposium on Mobility Innovations, Ann Arbor, MI, May 21-22, 2024.
17. “Decarbonizing transportation systems: Challenges and Innovations”, Keynote speech at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Association of Chinese American Scientists and Engineers, Arlington Heights, IL, October 26, 2024.
18. Panel on Resilient and Sustainable Highway Infrastructure, at the Workshop on Data that Extends the Life-Cycle of Highway Infrastructure Assets, the 104^th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 5-9, 2025.

(III) Invited conference presentations: 

1. “China Transportation System And Proposed Transportation Studies For Reducing Urban Congestion and Mobile Emissions”, 4th U.S.-China Workshop on Reconciling Economy, Energy, and Environment, Beijing, China, September 12-14, 2002.
2. “Transferability study of NHTS 2001”, Federal Highway Administration NHTS Peer Exchange Workshop, Washington D.C., September 22nd, 2005.
3. “National County-level Commodity Flow Data Generation and Analysis”, 2010 Mississippi Valley Freight Coalition Conference and Annual Meeting, Commodity Profile workshop session, Cleveland, OH, April 27, 2010.
4. “Modeling Commercial Vehicle Daily Tour Chaining”, the TRB-SHRP2 Freight Modeling and Data Symposium, Washington D.C., September 14-15, 2010.
5. “Using MOVES in Particulate Matter Hot-spot Analysis”, MOVES Model User Group for Project Sponsors Web Conference, sponsored by FHWA, May 26th, 2011.
6. “An Investigation in the Feasibility of Urban Cooperative Delivery Strategies”, 2011 INFORMS Midwestern Conference, "Analytics for Competitive Advantage", the Transportation Cluster, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, August 1-2, 2011.
7. “Investigation in Transportation Conformity Particulate Matter Hot-spot Air Quality Modeling -Illinois Highway and Arterial Case Studies”, Workshop on Project Level Applications of EPA's Quantitative PM Hot-spot Guidance, the 2014 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 12-16, 2014.
8. “Electric Vehicle Routing Problem”, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2015, session on City Logistics and Sustainable Urban Freight Systems, Philadelphia, PA, November 1-4, 2015.
9. “Green Same Day Delivery with Real-time Demand”, 28th European Conference on Operational Research, session on Green Vehicle Routing, Poznan, Poland, July 3-6, 2016.
10. “Green Same Day Delivery with Real-time Demand”, 2016 INFORMS, session on Modeling and Analysis of Innovative Mobility Services II, Nashville, TN, November 13-16, 2016.
11. “Peer-to-Peer Transshipment in On-demand Same Day Delivery”, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2017, session on Same Day Delivery, Huston, TX, October 22-25, 2017.
12. “Preliminary Investigation of A Last Mile Delivery Paradigm With Microhubs Coupled With Crowdshipping”, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2017, session on Recent Innovations in Last-Mile Urban Deliveries, Huston, TX, October 22-25, 2017.
13. “Fair versus Optimum On-demand Ride-sharing Plan”, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2017, session on Modeling and Analysis of Emerging Mobility Services I, Huston, TX, October 22-25, 2017.
14. “A Last Mile Delivery Paradigm Using Microhubs with Crowdshipping”, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2018, session on Innovations in Last-Mile Urban Package Delivery, Phoenix, AZ, November 4-7,
15. “An equitable and stable two-sided matching problem: an application to a two-sided crowd-shipping market”, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2022, TSL, Indianapolis, IN, October 16-19, 2022.
16. “Autonomous Modular Vehicle Technology Based Public Transit Paradigm: A Preliminary Investigation”, the 102^nd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, workshop on “Moving Together: Promises and Challenges in Co-Modal Passenger-Freight Transport”, Washington D.C., January 8, 2023.
17. “On-demand ridesharing with autonomous modular vehicles”, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023, TSL Urban Transportation Cluster, Phoenix, AZ, October 15-18, 2023.
18. “A fixed-route autonomous modular public transit service”, EURO 2024, Special Session on Advancing Mobility Towards Sustainable Solutions, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30–July 3, 2024.
19. “Optimal Matching Based Double Auction in a Two-sided Crowdshipping Market”, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), session on Large-scale Smart Mobility, Edmonton, Canada, September 24th - 27th, 2024.