Dr. Yu Zhang, PhD
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33620-5350
Phone: (813) 974-5846
Fax: (813) 974-2957
E-mail: yuzhang@usf.edu

 

Appointments
Transportation Research Board (TRB) Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay Committee 2011-2014 Transportation Research Board Aviation System Planning Committee 2010-2011 
Board Member of North American Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (NACOTA)

 

Education
Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Berkeley
M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Berkeley
B.S. College of Transportation, Southeast University

 

Areas of Interest: Air Traffic Management, Airport Management, Transportation System Analysis, Transportation Economics, Multimodal Transportation, and Transportation Sustainability 

 

Selected Publications

• Nagesh Nayak, Yu Zhang “Estimation and Comparison of the Impact of Single Airport Delay on the National Airspace System using Multivariate Simultaneous Models”, Transportation Research Record, accepted, 2011.
• Yu Zhang, Nagesh Nayak , “A Macroscopic Tool for Measuring Delay Performance in the National Airspace System”, Transportation Research Record, pending, 2010.
• Yu Zhang, Mark Hansen, “Real-time Inter-modal Substitution (RTIMS): A Strategy for Airline Schedule Perturbation Recovery and Airport Congestion Mitigation”, Transportation Research Record Vol. 2052, 2008, pp90-99.
• Mark Hansen, Yu Zhang “Operational Consequences of Alternative Airport Demand Management Policies: the Case of LaGuardia Airport”,Transportation Research Record 1915, 2005, pp95-104.
• Mark Hansen, Yu Zhang, “The Safety of Efficiency: the Link between Operational Performance and Operational Errors in the National Airspace System”, Transportation Research Record 1888, 2004, pp15-21.