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Jane Lin, PhD

Professor

Civil Engineering (Sustainable Transportation Systems)

Contact

Building & Room:

2089 ERF

Address:

842 West Taylor Street, MC 246, Chicago, IL 60607

Office Phone:

312.996.3068

Fax:

312-996-2426

Email:

janelin@uic.edu

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About

Areas of Research:

  • Sustainable transportation systems modeling and design with a focus on
    • new mobility service enabled by emerging technology
    • green freight transportation and urban logistics design and strategies
    • public transport service
    • mitigation of mobile source emissions, air pollution, and greenhouse gases,
    • health exposure analysis to mobile source pollutants
  • Applications of data analytics and systems analysis methods in transportation

Courses taught:

  • CME 302 Introduction to Transportation Engineering (U)
  • CME 396 Capstone Design I (U)
  • CME 441 City Logistics (U/G)
  • CME 494 Public Transit Operations and Technology (U/G)
  • ENGR 494 Autonomous Vehicles (G, team taught)
  • CME 507 Sustainable Urban Transportation Systems (G)
  • CME 555 Transportation Systems Analysis (G)

Selected Publications

[Selected publication since 2020]

  1. Shen, H., Zou, B., Lin, J.+, and 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, 102216.
  2. Ballare, S. and Lin, J.+ (2020) Investigating the use of microhubs and crowdshipping for last mile delivery, Transportation Research Procedia Vol. 46, 277-284.
  3. Shen, H. and Lin, J.+ (2020) Comprehensive Investigation of Crowdshipping Delivery Production with Real-world Data, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 143, 102106.
  4. Lin, J.+ and 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.
  5. Lin, J.+ and Zhou, W. (2021) Important Factors for Daily Routing Cost of Battery Electric Delivery Trucks. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 15:7, 541-558.
  6. Zhang, L., Lin, J.+ and Qiu, R. (2021) Characterizing the toxic gaseous emissions of gasoline and diesel vehicles based on a real-world on-road investigation, Journal of Cleaner Production Volume 286, 124957.
  7. Foti, L., Lin, J. and Wolfson, O.+ (2021) Optimum versus Nash-equilibrium in taxi ridesharing. GeoInformatica 25: 423-451.
  8. Patankar, N+, Lin, J.+, and Patankar, T. (2021) Mileage efficiency of cars. Journal of Cleaner Engineering and Technology, Volume 4, 100240.
  9. Lin, J.+, Nie, Y., Kawamura, K. (2022) An Autonomous Modular Mobility Paradigm – Vision Paper. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, doi: 10.1109/MITS.2022.3159484.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Shen, H. and Lin, J.+ (2024) Equitable and stable matching for a two-sided crowdshipping market, Transportation Research Procedia, 79, 234-241.
  13. 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.
  14. Shen, H. and Lin, J.+ (2024) A Courier’s Choice for Delivery Gigs in a Two-sided Crowdshipping System with observed sender-courier preference discrepancy, Transportation, pp. 1-42, August 2024.
  15. Zheng, H., Li, J., Lin, J. and Nie, Y.+ (2025) Exploiting modularity for co-modal passenger-freight transportation, Transportation Research Part B: methodologies, 196, 103217.
  16. Cheng, X. , Shafiee, A., Rastegar, H. and Lin, J.+ (2025) An On-Demand Autonomous Modular Ridesharing Service, International Journal of Transportation and Logistics Research, Vol. 1(1): 2.
  17. Rastegar Moghaddam, H. *, Shafiee, A. *, and Lin, J.+ (2025) Toward Resilient Logistics Electrification: Assessing Diesel-to-Electric Fleet Transition and System Vulnerability Under Variable Temperatures, Transportation Research Part D: Transportation and the Environment, Vol. 148, 104971.
  18. Yousefibasser, M.*, Cheng, Y-L* and  Lin, J.+ (2025) Investigation of Transportation Barriers to Healthcare Services in Rural Illinois, Journal of Transportation Research Board: Transportation Research Records, OnlineFirst, October 9, 2025.
  19. Shafiee, A., Rastegar Moghaddam, H. and Lin, J.+ (accepted) Urban Parcel Delivery with Mobile Automated Parcel Stations: A Hybrid Clustering, Optimization, and Simulation Approach, Transportation Research Procedia.
  20. Cheng, X., Shen, H., Huang, Y., Cheng, Y., and Lin, J.+ (2024) Mitigating Battery Disruption of Electric Vehicles on Highways, Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1109/FISTS60717.2024.10485588.
  21. Cheng, X. and Lin, J.+ (2024) Network Equilibrium Modeling for Long-Haul Electric Trucks, Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), https://doi.org/10.1109/FISTS60717.2024.10485605.
  22. Shafiee, A., Rastegar Moghaddam, H. and Lin, J.+ (2024) Using Autonomous Modular Vehicle Technology as an Alternative for Last-Mile Delivery, Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), https://doi.org/10.1109/FISTS60717.2024.10485532.
  23. Shafiee, A., Rastegar Moghadam, H., Merikhipour, M., Lin, J.+ (2024) Analyzing Post-Pandemic Remote Work Accessibility through Machine Learning Analysis, Proceedings of the ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development 2024, pp.453-462.
  24. Shafiee, A., Asgharpour, S., Askari, S., A. Mohammadian, and Lin, J.+ (2024) Understanding Characteristics of Crowdshipping Trip Production: Evidence from Atlanta, Proceedings of the ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development 2024, pp.62-71.
  25. Shen, H. and Lin, J.+ (2025) Optimal Matching Based Double Auction in a Two-sided Crowdshipping Market, Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 3040-3045.

Service to Community

Professional Leadership

Member (March 2022 - February 2026), Board of the Scientific Counselors, Climate Change subcommittee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Chair (April 2020 – April 2024), Sustainability and Resilience Group (AM000), Transportation Research Board (TRB), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Technical Activity Council Member (April 2020 - April 2024), Transportation Research Board (TRB), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Vice Chair (October 2017 - April 2020), Section on Transportation Environment and Energy (ADC00), Transportation Research Board (TRB), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Chair (April 2011- April 2017), Committee on Transportation and Air Quality (formerly ADC20 now AMS10), Transportation Research Board (TRB), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Notable Honors

2001, doctoral dissertation award, University of California Transportation Center (UCTC)

2006, 2009, Faculty Research Award, UIC College of Engineering

2006, the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Parker Award for Best Paper, Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC)

2019, Outstanding Paper Award for Best Presentation, 11th International Conference on City Logistics, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 12-14, 2019

2021, Advising Award, UIC College of Engineering

2022, Best Paper Award, Committee on Freight Transportation Planning & Logistics, Transportation Research Board, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

2024, Best Paper Award, 2024 IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS)

Education

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

Research Currently in Progress

  1. PI (UIC subaward), “DOT SBIR: FleetLynq: AI-driven Decision Support Solution for Transit Fleet”, lead PI: S. Mishra (Flexlinqs.com), U.S. Department of Transportation, September 2025 – February 2026.
  2. PI, “Development of a Project-Scale Air Quality Screening Tool”, funded by the Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT), August 16, 2024 – February 15, 2027.
  3. Co-I, “Community-Driven Air Quality and Environmental Justice Assessment”, funded by the US Department Of Commerce (National Institute of Standards and Technology), October 2023 – September 2024.
  4. PI (UIC subaward), “Collaborative Research: NNA Research: Infrastructure Interdependencies in the Arctic: Reframing the Urban-Rural Interface”, funded by the National Science Foundation, September 2023 – August 2026.
  5. PI, “Improving Transportation Services for Medical Patients and Veterans”, funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation, August 2023 – August 2025.
  6. Co-PI, “Tier 1 UTC: Center for Freight Transportation for Efficient and Resilient Supply Chain (FERSC)”, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Center Consortium, June 2023 – June 2028.