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A man in a blue shirt and cap looks at his phone while standing outside a building, surrounded by fallen branches and debris after a storm.

Poor and Black neighborhoods express different attitudes towards the hurricane

Doctoral candidate Wei Zhai and Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng examined the association between neighborhood equity and disaster situational awareness with a case study of Hurricane Florence. Disaster situational awareness means knowing what is happening during a disaster event. Zhai, W., Peng, Z. R., & Yuan, F. (2020). Examine the effects of neighborhood equity on disaster situational […]

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Taxis navigating around Manhattan, New York City. Photo by Ferdinand Stöhr on Unsplash

Measuring Citywide Transportation Efficiency

Doctoral students Wei Zhai and Xueyin Bai, and Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng, developed a bottom-up approach to measuring transportation network efficiency with a case study of New York City taxis. October 31, 2019 Zhai, Wei, Xueyin Bai, Zhong-Ren Peng, Chaolin Gu, “A bottom-up transportation network efficiency measuring approach: A case study of taxi efficiency in New York

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Two people with umbrellas cross an empty, wet street on a cloudy day, with bare trees lining the road and the U.S. Capitol building visible in the background.

The Change of Mobility in Poor and Wealthy Counties in the United States Amid Covid-19 Outbreak

Doctoral candidate Wei Zhai, visiting scholar Mengyang Liu and Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng visualized how foot traffic has increased or declined across the United States amid Covid-19 Outbreak. June 6, 2020 Zhai, W., Liu, M., & Peng, Z. R. (2020). Social distancing and inequality in the United States amid COVID-19 outbreak. Environment and Planning A: Economy and

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