Dr. Emily Parkany

Villanova University
Civil and Environmental Engineering
119 White Hall ^{(Mailing Address)}
(610) 519-4957
(610) 519-6754 (fax)

Email: emily.parkany@villanova.edu
 

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Education     Experience  

Research Areas  

Papers     Courses and Syllabi    Vita         

                                          CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Travel Behavior
         Census and Survey Data Analysis
         Route Choice
         Commuting Behavior (route, time, mode)
 

Traffic/Intelligent Transportation Systems
         Fusion of Data from Multiple Sensors
         Sensor Technologies for Incident Detection and other Applications
        

 
  EDUCATION

  Ph.D. Transportation Science (a combination of Civil Engineering, Economics, and Urban Planning),
  University of California, Irvine  1999

  M.S. Civil Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 1996

  M.S.T. Master of Science of Transportation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993

  B.S. Civil Engineering, Columbia University, 1989

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  ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

  Sept. 2002-Present    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova University

  January 1999-August 2002  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
  University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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                                                               PAPERS
  Parkany, Emily.  "Seasonality of Transportation Data."  Presented at Eirass, Moving Activity Travel Approaches to Practice, Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 2004.

  Parkany, Emily, Phillip Viveiros, and Ryan Gallagher. "Are Attitudes Important in Travel Choices?" Presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in January 2004 and to be published in Transportation Research Record, 2004.  

  Al-Jammal, Rana and Emily Parkany, “The Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies: Framework and Quick Examples”  Transportation Research Record, A Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2003, pages 171-179.

  Xie, Chi, Jinyang, Lu, and Emily Parkany, “Work Travel Mode Choice Modeling using Data Mining: Decision Trees and Neural Networks” Transportation Research Record, A Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2003, pages 50-61.

  Parkany, Emily, “Can HOT Lanes Encourage Carpooling?  A Case Study of Carpooling Behavior on the 91 Express Lanes,”  Transportation Research Record 1682, 1999, pages 46-54.

  Boarnet, Marlon, Gene Kim, and Emily Parkany, “Measuring Traffic Congestion:  A New Index for an Old Problem, “ Transportation Research Record 1634, 1997, pages 93-99. 

  Parkany, Emily and David Bernstein, “Design of Incident Detection Algorithms Using Vehicle-to-Roadside Communication Sensors,”  Transportation Research Record No. 1494, 1995,pages 67-74.

  Xie, Chi and Emily Parkany.  "Use of Driver-Based Data for Incident Detection."  Presented at the 7th International AATT Conference, Boston, Aug. 5-7, 2002.

  Xie, Chi and Emily Parkany.  "Signalized Intersection Simulation in CORSIM and SIMTRAFFIC."  Submitted for presentation at the 81st Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January 13-17, 2002, Washington, D.C. and publication in the Transportation Research Record.

  Parkany, Emily and Yanli Zhao.  "Surveyed and Simulated Anticipated Behavior of Commuters During Bridge Reconstruction."  Paper Submitted for Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 2002.

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RECENT PRESENTATIONS

  Parkany, Emily and Kenneth G. Muske, "Arterial Traffic Prediction with a Finite Volume Model:  A Fluid Flow Approach to Traffic Flow"  
            presented at INFORMS (Institute of Operations Research and Management Science) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October 2003.

  Gallagher, Ryan and Emily Parkany, "Seasonality of Transportation Data" poster presentation for Villanova University CEE Day, April 2003.  

  Parkany, Emily, "Travel Time Estimation Using LPR and RTMS Sensors", University of Connecticut, Transportation Seminar, February, 2003.

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  COURSES

  FALL 2004
          - CEE 4224 - Trans Facilities Design - Syllabus
        - CEE 4701 - Economy and Risk - Syllabus
          - CEE 8202 - Transportation Plan & OP - Syllabus

  SPRING 2004
          - CEE 4606-004 - Civil Engineering Design Project II (Transportation Capstone Design) -  Syllabus
          - CEE 4225 - Advanced Transportation Engineering (Advanced Traffic) -  Syllabus

  FALL 2003
          - CEE 3704  Numerical and Stat Analysis  -  Syllabus
        - CEE 8201  Urban Transportation Engineering  -  Syllabus

  SPRING 2003
          - CEE 3224 - Transportation Design
           Interested in Transportation??  See what the Students of Transportation Design are up to.  
           See the creative designs of functional areas of driveways and the adjoining intersection for an anonymous shopping mall development.
                 Click here to see the final product of some students' designs →  A Shopping Mall Development             -                  - CEE 3924  Transportation Facilities Design Lab

  FALL 2002
          - CEE 321l  Transportation Engineering  -  Syllabus

 
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  Want to learn more about Transportation??  Click on the sites below
Transportation Websites

	Institute of Transportation Engineers
	American Pubic Transportation Association
	TRB
	Bureau of Transportation Statistics

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