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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Dr K. Zhang
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Kenan Zhang\n16:15 – 17:15 – Dr K. Zhang\nPhD candidate
  at Northwestern University\, USA\n\nShared & on-demand mobility services:
  from matching to management\n\nThe past decade has witnessed an unprecede
 nted growth of shared and on-demand mobility services. The rise of transpo
 rtation network companies (TNCs)\, such as Uber and Lyft\, has profoundly 
 reshaped the personal mobility industry.  However\, our knowledge of the 
 physical and economic principles that govern these emerging mobility servi
 ces remains limited.  This limitation undercuts our ability to design\, o
 perate\, and manage these services to meet the conflicting interests of va
 rious stakeholders. In this talk\, I will introduce my research on the sha
 red & on-demand mobility services with a special focus on the ride-hail se
 rvice market. I will present a novel physical model for the general matchi
 ng process in ride-hail and incorporate it into analytical models describi
 ng market equilibrium and operations management. In particular\, I will sh
 ow how the matching model implies a loss of economies of scale and how thi
 s theoretical result is validated with real data. Then\, I will present th
 e equilibrium analysis of ride-hail market with pooling\, where important 
 issues like pricing\, competition and regulations are explored.\n\n\nShort
  bio:\nKenan Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Envir
 onmental Engineering at Northwestern University.  She is also expected to
  receive her M.S. degree in Statistics from the university. Her research i
 nterests range from shared and on-demand mobility services\, traffic manag
 ement inspired by connected autonomous vehicles\, to machine learning in t
 ransportation. She is the recipient of McCormick School of Engineering Ter
 minal Year Fellowship\, Northwestern Transportation Center Dissertation Ye
 ar Fellowship\, WTS President’s Scholarship in Greater Chicago\, and the
  Cabell Fellowship. She was also selected as one of the 2020 CEE Rising St
 ars by Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining Northwestern\, Kenan o
 btained her M.S. degree in Architecture-Engineering-Construction Managemen
 t from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015 and her B.S. degree (with honor)
  in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014.\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/87805770174
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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