Gunwoo Lee

gunwool (at) uci.edu

 Education

University of California, Irvine (Sept 2006 ~ Current), Ph.D. Candidate

          Institute of Transportation Studies; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

          Advisor: Dr. Stephen G. Ritchie

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA (Sept 2004 ~ June 2006), M.S.

          MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

          Advisor: Dr. Moshe E. Ben-Akiva

Hanyang University, South Korea (Mar 1996~ Feb 2004), B.S.

          Department of Transportation Engineering

 

Experience

Institute of Transportation Studies, Irvine, CA

        Research Assistant, Sept 2006~Current

        Ports project (Phase I, II, and III)

             - Proposed integrated framework of environmental impact in microscopic level:

                          traffic simulation, emission estimation, dispersion analysis, and health impact

            - Evaluated an urban fright freeway associated with Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles

            - Completed urban freight freeway corridors

            - Working on arterial parts near the SPBP complex

 

MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems Program, Cambridge, MA

        Research Assistant, Sept 2004~June 2006

        Next Generation Simulation (NGSIM) project

            - Developed gap acceptance model under traffic congestion from estimation to validation

            - Worked on smoothing vehicle trajectory data using local regression model

            - Validation and identification of target lane changing model

 

MIT Professional Institute, Cambridge, MA

        Teaching Assistant, Summer 2005

        Course Title: "Individual Choice Behavior: Theory and Application of Discrete Choice Analysis"

 

Publication

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

2. Gunwoo Lee, Soyoung You, Stephen G. Ritchie, Jean-Daniel Saphores, Mana Sangkapichai, and R. Jayakrishnan (2009) "Environmental Impacts of a Major Freight Corridor: A Study of the I-710 in California", (In press) Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board. (Pyke Johnson Award: Winner of best paper in planning and environment, TRB)

1. Charisma Choudhury, Moshe E. Ben-Akiva, Tomer Toledo, Anita Rao, and Gunwoo Lee (2007) "State Dependence in Lane Changing Models", Transportation and Traffic Theory, ed. Allsop R., Bell M. and Heydecker B., Elsevier, pp. 711-733.

 

Refereed Conference Proceedings

8. Gunwoo Lee, Soyoung You, Mana Sangkapichai, Stephen Ritchie, Jean-Daniel Saphores, Oladele Ogunseitan, Roberto Ayala, R. Jayakrishnan, and Rodolfo Torres (2010) "Assessing the Environmental and Health Impacts of Freight Movement in a Major Urban Transportation Corridor ", 89th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

 

7. Soyoung You, Gunwoo Lee, Mana Sangkapichai, Stephen Ritchie, Jean-Daniel Saphores, and Roberto Ayala (2010) "Environmental Impacts of a Modal Shift: A Study of the Freight Corridor Linked to San Pedro Ports in Southern California", 89th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

 

6. Joseph Y.J. Chow, Gunwoo Lee, and Inchul Yang (2010) "Estimating Cumulative Prospect Theory Parameters for HOV Lane Selection using Genetic Algorithm", 89th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

 

5. Charisma F. Choudhury, Moshe E. Ben-Akiva, Sujith Rapolu, and Gunwoo Lee (2010) "Empirical Studies on Transferability of Driving Behavior Models", 89th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

 

4. Roberto Ayala, Soyoung You, Jean-Daniel Saphores, Stephen Ritchie, Gunwoo Lee, and Mana Sangkapichai (2010) "A Preliminary Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of the Clean Truck Program in the Alameda Corridor, CA", 89th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

 

3. Mana Sangkapichai, Jean-Daniel Saphores, Oladele Ogunseitan, Stephen Ritchie, Soyoung You, and Gunwoo Lee (2010) "An Analysis of the Health Impacts from PM and NOX Emissions Resulting from Train Operations in the Alameda Corridor, CA", 89th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

 

2. Mana Sangkapichai, Jean-Daniel Saphores, Stephen Ritchie,  Soyoung You, and Gunwoo Lee (2009) "Analysis of PM and NOx Train Emissions in the Alameda Corridor, California", 88th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

 

1. Choudhury, Charisma , Moshe Ben-Akiva, Tomer Toledo, Gunwoo Lee,  and Anita Rao (2007) "Modeling Cooperative Lane-changing and Forced Merging Behavior", 86th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board(TRB).

 

Reports

3. Gunwoo Lee, Soyoung You, Stephen G. Ritchie, Jean-Daniel Saphores, Mana Sangkapichai, and R. Jayakrishnan (2008) "Environmental Impacts of a Major Freight Corridor: A Study of the I-710 in California", UCI ITS Working paper, UCI-ITS-WP-08-03.

 

2. Mana Sangkapichai, Jean-Daniel Saphores, Stephen Ritchie,  Soyoung You, and Gunwoo Lee (2008) "Analysis of PM and NOx Train Emissions in the Alameda Corridor, California", UCI ITS Working paper, UCI-ITS-WP-08-04.

 

1. Charisma Choudhury, Moshe Ben-Akiva, Tomer Toledo, Anita Rao and Gunwoo Lee (2006) "Cooperative Lane-changing and Forced Merging Model", Federal Highway Administration, Technical Report, No. FHWA-HOP-06-012.

 

Theses

1. Gunwoo Lee (2006) "Modeling Gap Acceptance at Freeway Merges", Master's Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

Awards

¡¤ Pyke Johnson AwardTransportation Research Board (TRB) (2009)

¡¤ Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) Fellowship—USD 60,000 (2004)

¡¤ Graduated with honor from Hanyang University - Magna Cum Laude (2004)