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Overview

Kara M. Kockelman is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Transportation and its related subfields.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Engineering
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, the notable subfields of study are:

  • Transportation
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Building and Construction
  • Control and Systems Engineering

Their research covers a range of topics that center on transportation systems and technological innovations. Key research topics include:

  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
  • Traffic Control and Management
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research

Kockelman has been published frequently in a variety of academic venues. The most common publication venues are:

  • Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Transportation Planning and Technology
  • Research in Transportation Economics
  • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • Findings

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Costs and Benefits of Electrifying and Automating Bus Transit Fleets" (2020), Sustainability
  • "Spatial variation in shared ride-hail trip demand and factors contributing to sharing: Lessons from Chicago" (2021), Journal of Transport Geography
  • "Impact of vehicle automation and electric propulsion on production costs for mobility services worldwide" (2020), Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • "Use of Shared Automated Vehicles for First-Mile Last-Mile Service: Micro-Simulation of Rail-Transit Connections in Austin, Texas" (2020), Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • "First-Mile-Last-Mile Collector-Distributor System using Shared Autonomous Mobility" (2020), Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Kara M. Kockelman has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Krishna Murthy Gurumurthy
  • Yantao Huang
  • Matthew D. Dean
  • Natalia Zuniga-Garcia
  • Jooyong Lee

Best Publications

  • TRAVEL DEMAND AND THE 3DS: DENSITY, DIVERSITY, AND DESIGN

    Robert Cervero;Kara M. Kockelman

  • Preparing a nation for autonomous vehicles: opportunities, barriers and policy recommendations

    Daniel J Fagnant;Kara M. Kockelman

  • The travel and environmental implications of shared autonomous vehicles, using agent-based model scenarios

    Daniel J. Fagnant;Kara M. Kockelman

  • Assessing public opinions of and interest in new vehicle technologies: An Austin perspective

    Prateek Bansal;Kara M. Kockelman;Amit Singh

  • Forecasting Americans’ long-term adoption of connected and autonomous vehicle technologies

    Prateek Bansal;Kara M. Kockelman

  • Travel Behavior as Function of Accessibility, Land Use Mixing, and Land Use Balance: Evidence from San Francisco Bay Area

    Kara Maria Kockelman

  • Driver injury severity: an application of ordered probit models.

    Kara Maria Kockelman;Young-Jun Kweon

  • Dynamic ride-sharing and fleet sizing for a system of shared autonomous vehicles in Austin, Texas

    Daniel J. Fagnant;Kara M. Kockelman

  • Operations of a shared, autonomous, electric vehicle fleet: Implications of vehicle & charging infrastructure decisions

    T. Donna Chen;Kara M. Kockelman;Josiah P. Hanna

  • A multivariate Poisson-lognormal regression model for prediction of crash counts by severity, using Bayesian methods

    Junlai Ma;Kara Maria Kockelman;Paul Damien

  • Operations of Shared Autonomous Vehicle Fleet for Austin, Texas, Market

    Daniel J. Fagnant;Kara M. Kockelman;Prateek Bansal

  • Carsharing’s life-cycle impacts on energy use and greenhouse gas emissions

    T. Donna Chen;Kara M. Kockelman

  • Are we ready to embrace connected and self-driving vehicles? A case study of Texans

    Prateek Bansal;Kara M. Kockelman

  • A general framework for modeling shared autonomous vehicles with dynamic network-loading and dynamic ride-sharing application

    Michael W. Levin;Kara M. Kockelman;Stephen D. Boyles;Tianxin Li

  • The propagation of uncertainty through travel demand models: An exploratory analysis

    Yong Zhao;Kara Maria Kockelman

  • Credit-based congestion pricing: a policy proposal and the public’s response ☆

    Kara M. Kockelman;Sukumar Kalmanje

  • Overall injury risk to different drivers: combining exposure, frequency, and severity models

    Young-Jun Kweon;Kara Maria Kockelman

  • Locating electric vehicle charging stations

    T. Chen;Kara Kockelman;Moby Khan

  • A Poisson-lognormal conditional-autoregressive model for multivariate spatial analysis of pedestrian crash counts across neighborhoods

    Yiyi Wang;Kara Maria Kockelman

  • Analysis of large truck crash severity using heteroskedastic ordered probit models

    Jason D. Lemp;Kara Maria Kockelman;Avinash Unnikrishnan

  • THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION LOCATION PROBLEM: A PARKING-BASED ASSIGNMENT METHOD FOR SEATTLE

    T. Donna Chen;Kara M. Kockelman;William J. Murray;Moby Khan

  • Economic Effects of Automated Vehicles

    Lewis M. Clements;Kara M. Kockelman

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Travis Waller
S. Travis Waller University of New South Wales
Susan L Handy
Susan L Handy University of California, Davis
Chandra R. Bhat
Chandra R. Bhat The University of Texas at Austin
Satish V. Ukkusuri
Satish V. Ukkusuri Purdue University West Lafayette
Carlos H. Caldas
Carlos H. Caldas The University of Texas at Austin
Robert Cervero
Robert Cervero University of California, Berkeley
Peter Stone
Peter Stone The University of Texas at Austin
Shlomo Bekhor
Shlomo Bekhor Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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