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Unveiling the Linkage between Climate Change and Miami-Area Condominium Collapse

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By Yanghe Liu. Featured Image adapted from NY Post. On Thursday, June 24th, 2021, the Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed suddenly roughly an hour after midnight. This catastrophic falling of the 40-year-old residential building in the Miami suburb has destroyed at least half of the 136 units, causing […]

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Poor and Black neighborhoods express different attitudes towards the hurricane

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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

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

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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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