Publications

X Author: Zachary Needell

2024

Jin, Ling, Xiaodan Xu, Yuhan Wang, Alina Lazar, Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi, C Anna Spurlock, Zachary Needell, Duleep Rathgamage Don, Mahyar Amirgholy, and Mona Asudegi."Macroscopic Traffic Modeling Using Probe Vehicle Data: A Machine Learning Approach."Data Science for Transportation 6.3 (2024). DOI(link is external)
Browne, Axel, David Butts, Edgar Jaramillo-Rodriguez, Nidhi Parikh, Geoffrey Fairchild, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Thomas P Wenzel, Timothy C Germann, and Sara Del Valle."Evaluating disease surveillance strategies for early outbreak detection in contact networks with varying community structure."Social Networks 79 (2024) 122 - 132. DOI(link is external)
Needell, Zachary, Paul Waddell, Juan Caicedo, Haitam Laarabi, Yuhan Wang, Cristian Poliziani, Jessica Lazarus, Dmitrii Openkov, Max Gardner, Nazanin Rezaei, Josh Auld, and Randy Weimer."Platform for Integrated Land use And Transportation Experiments and Simulation (PILATES) v1.0." (2024).
Xu, Xiaodan, Hung-Chia Yang, Kyungsoo Jeong, William Bui, Srinath Ravulaparthy, Haitam Laarabi, Zachary Needell, and C Anna Spurlock."Teaching freight mode choice models new tricks using interpretable machine learning methods."Frontiers in Future Transportation 5 (2024). DOI(link is external)
Laarabi, Haitam, Zachary Needell, Rashid Waraich, Cristian Poliziani, and Thomas P Wenzel."A Modeling Framework for Behavior, Energy, Autonomy and Mobility (BEAM)." (2024).
Rezaei, Nazanin, Annika Todd-Blick, K Sydny Fujita, Natalie Popovich, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Juan Caicedo, Carlos Guirado, and C Anna Spurlock."At the nexus of equity and transportation modeling: Assessing accessibility through the Individual Experienced Utility-Based Synthesis (INEXUS) metric."Journal of Transport Geography 115 (2024) 103824. DOI(link is external)
Spurlock, C Anna, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Aaron Brooker, Juan Caicedo, Jeff Gonder, Jake Holden, Kyungsoo Jeong, Ling Jin, Haitam Laarabi, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Shivam Sharda, Bingrong Sun, Paul Waddell, Yuhan Wang, Rashid Waraich, Thomas P Wenzel, and Xiaodan Xu."Behavior, Energy, Autonomy & Mobility Comprehensive Regional Evaluator: Overview, calibration and validation summary of an agent-based integrated regional transportation modeling workflow." (2024).
Poliziani, Cristian, A Zachary Needell, Haitam Laarabi, Rashid Waraich, Annika Todd-Blick, K Sydny Fujita, Nazanin Rezaei, D Juan Caicedo, Carlos Guirado, C Anna Spurlock, and Tom Wenzel."Simulating Impacts from Transit Service Enhancements in the San Francisco Bay Area."Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2024). DOI(link is external)

2023

Jin, Ling, Xiaodan Xu, Yuhan Wang, Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi, Alina Lazar, Duleep Rathgamage Don, Zachary Needell, C Anna Spurlock, Mahyar Amirgholy, and Mona Asudegi."Leveraging Probe Data and Machine Learning to Derive and Interpret Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams Across U.S. Cities."2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (2023). DOI(link is external)
Laarabi, Haitam, Zachary Needell, Rashid Waraich, Cristian Poliziani, and Thomas P Wenzel."BEAM: The Modeling Framework for Behavior, Energy, Autonomy & Mobility - The Open-Source Agent-Based Regional Transportation Model Unpacked: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Inner Dynamics." (2023).
Poliziani, Cristian, Gary Hsueh, David Czerwinski, Thomas P Wenzel, Zachary Needell, Haitam Laarabi, Joerg Schweizer, and Federico Rupi."Micro Transit Simulation of On-Demand Shuttles Based on Transit Data for First- and Last-Mile Connection."ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 12.4 (2023) 177. DOI(link is external)

2021

Popovich, Natalie, C Anna Spurlock, Zachary Needell, Ling Jin, Thomas P Wenzel, Colin Sheppard, and Mona Asudegi."A methodology to develop a geospatial transportation typology."Journal of Transport Geography 93 (2021) 103061. DOI(link is external)