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SHENGYI GAO, Ph.D., Project Scientist
Urban Land Use and Transportation Center
University of California
Davis, CA 95616
Tel: (530) 752-6303
Email: sgao@ucdavis.edu
Website: http://pecas.ultrans.ucdavis.edu/people/sgao
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Transportation Technology and Policy,
--University of California, Davis, 2006
Master of Science in Ecology
--Yunnan University, P. R. China, 1988
Bachelor of Science in Biology
--Hubei University, P. R. China, 1985
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Karen Beardsley, James H. Thorne, Nathaniel E. Roth, Shengyi Gao, and Michael C.
McCoy. 2009. Assessing the influence of rapid urban growth and regional policies on
biological resources. Landscape and Urban Planning (in press).
Gao, Shengyi and Robert A. Johnston (forthcoming). Public vs. private mobility for low
income households: Transit improvements vs. increased car ownership in the Sacramento
Region. Transportation Research Record.
He, Mingwei, Min He and Shengyi Gao. 2009. Destination choice modeling for homebased non-commute trips: Some improvements in utility function and a case study in
China. Proceedings of the 88th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. January,
2009, Washington, D.C. (peer reviewed)
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Gao, Shengyi, Patricia L. Mokhtarian and Robert A. Johnston. 2009. Nonnormality of
data in transportation behavior studies. Transportation Research Record 2002:116-124.
Gao, Shengyi, Patricia L. Mokhtarian and Robert A. Johnston. 2007. Exploring the
causal connections among job accessibility, employment, income, and auto ownership
with structural equation modeling. The Annals of Regional Science 42: 341-356.
Walker, Thomas, Shengyi Gao and Robert A. Johnston. 2007. UPlan: Geographic
Information System as framework for integrated land use planning model. Transportation
Research Record 1994: 117-127.
Gao, Shengyi, Robert A. Johnston, and Michael C. McCoy. 2007. Neighborhood
economic and racial succession: Understanding this process of decline and its effects on
residential choice in land use models. Proceedings of 10th International Conference on
Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management. July, 2007, Brazil. (peer
reviewed)
Johnston, Robert A., Shengyi Gao, Michael C. McCoy, John Douglas Hunt and John
Abraham. 2007. Integrated urban model for California: Policy evaluation capabilities.
Proceedings of 11th World Conference on Transport Research, August, 2007, Berkeley,
USA. (peer reviewed)
Bai, Song, Debbie A. Niemeier, Susan L. Handy, Shengyi Gao, Michael J. Kleeman, Jay
R. Lund and Dana Coe Sullivan. Integrated Impacts of Regional Development, Land Use
Strategies and Transportation Planning on Future Air Pollution Emissions. Proceedings
of 2007 Transportation Land-use Planning & Air Quality Conference. July, 2007, Florida,
USA. (peer reviewed)
Thorne, James H., Shengyi Gao, Allan D. Hollander, Jeffery A. Kennedy, Michael
McCoy, Robert A. Johnston, and James F. Quinn. 2006. Modeling potential species
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richness and urban buildout to identify mitigation sites along a California highway.
Transportation Research Part D 11:277-291.
Johnston, Robert, Shengyi Gao, and Michael Clay. 2005. Modeling Long-Range
Transportation and Land Use Scenarios for the Sacramento Region, Using CitizenGenerated Policies. Transportation Research Record 1902:99-106.
Merenlender, Adina M., Colin Brooks, David Shabazian, Shengyi Gao, and Robert A.
Johnston. 2005. Forecasting exurban development to evaluate the influence of land-use
policies on wildland and farmland conservation. Journal of Conservation Planning 1:6468.
Johnston, Robert A., David Shabazian, and Shengyi Gao. 2003. UPlan: A versatile urban
growth model for transportation planning. Transportation Research Record 1831:202-209.