Publications


Proceedings and Conference Papers


Yang, J., Alisan, O., Vijayan, L., Huang, W., and Ozguven, E. E., "Critical Shelter Analysis in Northwest Florida Using Social Vulnerability and Accessibility Based on Uncertain Hurricane Tracks", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 103rd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2024.

Yang, J., Alisan, O., Ma, M., Vijayan, L., Huang, W., and Ozguven, E. E., "Spatial Accessibility of Hurricane Shelters: A Case Study of Hurricane Michael with Sea Level Rise Consideration"Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 103rd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2024.

Yang, J., Ozguven, E. E., "Spatial Accessibility to Shelters Report: A Case Study of Hurricane Irma"Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 103rd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2024.

Takyi, S., Antwi, R., Koloushani, M., and Ozguven, E. E., "A Spatial Analysis of Traffic, Speeding, and Proximity to Critical Facilities: A Case Study in the State of Florida",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 103rd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2024.

Antwi, R., Takyi, S., Ozguven, E. E., Volcy, K., Alam, S., Kim, K., Horner, M., and Mardis, M., "Satellite Imagery-based Hurricane Debris Assessment in Calhoun County, Florida", 
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 103rd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2024.

Antwi, R., Takyi, S., Karaer,  A., Ozguven, E. E., Moses, R., Dulebenets, M., and Sando, T., "GIS-based Automatic Crosswalk Change Detection Framework from Bi-temporal High Resolution Aerial Images",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 103rd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2024.

Antwi, R., Takyi, S., Karaer, A., Ozguven, E. E., Moses, R., Dulebenets, M., and Sando, T., "Detecting School Zones on Florida's Public Roadways Using Aerial Images and Artificial Intelligence",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2023.

Koloushani, M., Abazari, S., Khayamim, R., Vanli, O. A., Ozguven, E. E., Moses, R., Giroux, R., and Jacobs, B., "Developing Economic Loss-Based Thresholds for Improving Context-Specific Crash Prediction Models",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2023.

Alam, M. S., Kim, K., Horner, M., Alisan, O., Antwi, R., and Ozguven, E. E., "An Analysis of Post-Hurricane Flooding and Disrupted Accessibility to Critical Facilities during Hurricane Irma: Estimating the State-wide Impacts in Florida",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2023.

Yang, J., Vijayan, L., Alisan, O., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Huang, W., Ozguven, E. E., and Burns, S., "Planning for Special Needs Shelters: A Hurricane Track Uncertainty-Based Approach Integrating Coastal Inundation and Accessibility",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2023.

Singh, P., Elmi, Z., Khayamim, R., Pasha, J., Moses, R., Sobanjo, J., Ozguven, E. E., and Dulebenets, M., "Implementation of Safety Improvement Projects at Level Crossings via Multi-Objective Optimization",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2023.

Koloushani, M., Kaya, M., Karaer, A., and Ozguven, E. E., "Investigating the Probability of Potential Actions Performed by Drivers Experiencing Daytime Sun Glare-Induced Blindness",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2023.

Kyusik, K,. Horner, M., Alisan, O., Alam, M. S., Ozguven, E. E., and Ghorbanzadeh, M., "Understanding Changes in Spatial Accessibility to Restaurants during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Disentangling Closures, Inequity, and Mode Choices",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2023.

Koloushani, M., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Ozguven, E. E., and Ermagun, A., "A Conceptualization of the Spatial Relationship Associated with School-Related Crashes: A Case Study in Northwest Florida",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2023.

Koloushani, M., Karaer, A., Ozguven, E. E., Sando, T., Dulebenets, M., and Moses, R., "Assessing the Spatial Correlation between Land Use and Injury Severity of Pedestrian-involved Crashes that Do Not Occur at Intersections", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 101th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 9-13, 2022.

Alisan, O., Tuydes-Yaman, H., and Ozguven, E. E., "A Tabu-search-based Combinatorial Subset Selection Approach to Support Investigation of Built Environment and Traffic Safety Relationship",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 101th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 9-13, 2022.

Gazzea, M., Karaer, A., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Ozguven, E. E., and Arghandeh, R., "Satellite-based Hurricane Risk Assessment for Roadways via Vegetation 3D Modeling and Building Detection, Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 101th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 9-13, 2022.

Karaer, A., Chen, M., Gazzea, M., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Abichou, T., Arghandeh, R., and Ozguven, E. E., "Remote Sensing based Comparative Damage Assessment of Historical Storms in Northwestern Florida", Presented
at the Transportation Research Board's 101th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 9-13, 2022.

Ghorbanzadeh, M., Vijayan, L., Yang, J., Ozguven, E. E., Huang, W., and Ma, M., "Integrating Evacuation and Storm Surge Modeling Considering Potential Hurricane Tracks: The Case of Hurricane Irma in Southeast Florida",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 101th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 9-13, 2022.

Sobanjo, J., Ozguven, E. E., and Ghorbanzadeh, M., "Resilience of Major Florida Roadways to Hurricanes based on Traffic Incident Data",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 101th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 9-13, 2022.

Dulebenets, M., Pasha, J., Singh, P., Moses, R., Sobanjo, J., and Ozguven, E. E., "Estimation of Traffic Delays due to Application of Countermeasures at Level Crossings: A Case Study for the State of Florida",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 101th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 9-13, 2022.

Tenney, C., Leonarczyk, Z., Ghorbanzadeh, M. Jones, F., Mardis, M., Ozguven, E. E., and Alsalmi, H., "A GIS-based Analysis for Transportation Accessibility, Disaster Preparedness, and Rural Libraries' Roles in Community Resilience", Presented at the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) 2021 Conference, Virtual Event, September 20-24, 2021.

Kyusik, K., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Horner, M., and Ozguven, E. E., "Assessment of Disparities in Spatial Accessibility to Vaccination Sites in Florida"
, Presented at the WSTLUR Symposium on Transport and Land use Research, Virtual Event, August 9-11, 2021.

Gazzea, M., Aalhus, S., Kristensen, L., Ozguven, E. E., and Arghandeh, R., "Automated 3D Vegetation Detection along Power Lines Using Monocular Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning", Proceeding of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Virtual Event, pp. 3721-3724,  July 12-16, 2021.

Gazzea, M., Karaer, A., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Balafkan, N., Ozguven, E. E., and Arghandeh, R., "Post-Hurricanes Tree Debris Detection Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning",
Presented at the ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development, Virtual Event, June 8-10, 2021.

Karaer, A., Balafkan, N., Gazzea, M., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Arghandeh, R., and Ozguven, E. E., "Evaluating the Relationship between Vehicle Travels and Carbon Monoxide (CO) Concentrations among Florida Counties under the Impact of COVID-19 Precautions",
Presented at the ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development, Virtual Event, June 8-10, 2021.

Balafkan, N., Karaer, A., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Gazzea, M., Ozguven, E. E., and Arghandeh, R., "Traffic Estimation Using Sentinel-5P and Historical Weather Data: A Remote Sensing Approach", Presented at the ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development, Virtual Event, June 8-10, 2021.

Ghorbanzadeh, M.,
Burns, S., Rugminiamma, L. V. N., Ozguven, E. E., and Huang, W., "Spatiotemporal Analysis of Highway Traffic Patterns in Hurricane Evacuation: A Case Study of Hurricane Irma in Florida", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 100th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 25-29, 2021.

Karaer, A., Ulak, M. B., Abichou, T., Arghandeh, R., and Ozguven, E. E., "Leveraging Remote Sensing Indices for Hurricane-induced Vegetative Debris Assessment: A GIS-based Case Study for Hurricane Michael", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 100th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 25-29, 2021.

Ghorbanzadeh, M., Kyusik, K., Ozguven, E. E., and Horner, M., "Spatial Accessibility Assessment of COVID-19 Patients to Healthcare Facilities: A Case Study in Florida", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 100th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 25-29, 2021.

Koloushani, M., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Ozguven, E. E., Ermagun, A., and Ulak, M. B., "How Did COVID-19 AffecCrash Patterns in Florida? A GIS-based Spatiotemporal Investigation in Four Counties", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 100th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 25-29, 2021.

Burns, S., Rugminiamma, L. V. N., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Ozguven, E. E., and Huang, W., "Assessing the Vulnerability of Florida Panhandle Communities Impacted by Hurricane Michael: A Geographical Information Systems-based Analysis", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 100th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 25-29, 2021.

Gazzea, M., Karaer, A., Balafkan, N., Ozguven, E. E., and Arghandeh, R., "Post-hurricanes Roadway Closure Detection using Satellite Imagery and Semi-supervised Ensemble Learning", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 100th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 25-29, 2021.

Kidando, E., Kitali, A., Kutela, B., Karaer, A., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Koloushani, M., Moses, R., Ozguven, E. E., and Sando, T., "Use of Real-time Traffic and Signal Timing Data in Modeling Occupant Injury Severity at Signalized Intersections", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 100th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 25-29, 2021.

Koloushani, M., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Ulak, M. B., Ozguven, E. E., and Horner, M., "Examining Spatial Patterns of Youth-involved 
Crashes around University Campuses in Florida", Presented at the Bridging Transportation Researchers (BTR) Online Conference, August 11-122020.

Ghorbanzadeh, M., Ozguven, E. E., Tenney, C., Leonarczyk, Z., Jones, F. R., and Mardis, M. A., "Transportation Accessibility Assessment of Critical Facilities: A GIS-based Case Study in Northwest Florida Focusing on Libraries and Hospitals", Presented
at the Transportation Research Board's 99th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 12-16, 2020.

Chen, M., Karaer, A., Ozguven, E. E., Abichou, T., Arghandeh, R., and Nienhius, J., "Developing City-wide Hurricane Risk Maps using Real-life Data on Infrastructure, Vegetation and Weather: A GIS-based Case Study in Norhwest Florida", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 99th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 12-16, 2020.

Karabag, H. H., Ulak, M. B., Mjogolo, F., Kidando, E., Ozguven, E. E., Sando, T., and Moses, R., "Estimating the Impact of Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory (GLOSA) on Exhaust Emissions through the Integration of VISSIM and MOVES", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 99th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 12-16, 2020.

Alisan, O., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Ulak, M. B., Kocatepe, A., Ozguven, E. E., Horner, M., and Huang, W., "Identifying Critical Hurricane Shelters and Alternatives in Case of Interdiction: A Case Study in Southeast Florida", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 99th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 12-16, 2020.

Burns, S., Ghorbanzadeh, M., and Ozguven, E. E., "Geographical Information Systems-based Evacuation Analysis of Vulnerable Communities in the Florida Panhandle: A Case Study of Hurricane Michael", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 99th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 12-16, 2020.

Kidando, E., Karaer, A., Kutela, B., Kitali, A., Moses, R., Ozguven, E. E., and Sando, T., "A Novel Approach for Calibrating Freeway Highway Multi-regimes Fundamental Diagram", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 99th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 12-16, 2020.

Chitiyala, S., Sobanjo, J., Ozguven, E. E., Sando, T., and Twumasi-Boakye, R., "Driver Behavior at a Freeway Merge in Mixed Traffic of Conventional and Connected-Autonomous Vehicles", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 99th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 12-16, 2020.

Pasha, J., Dulebenets, M., Abioye, O., Kavoosi, M., Moses, R., Sobanjo, J., and Ozguven, E. E., "Evaluation of the Accident and Hazard Prediction Models for Prioritization of the Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety Projects in Florida", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 99th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 12-16, 2020.

Kavoosi, M., Dulebenets, M., Pasha, J., Abioye, O.,  Moses, R., Sobanjo, J., and Ozguven, E. E., "An Optimization Approach for Selection of Countermeasures to Improve Safety at the Highway-Rail Grade Crossings in Florida", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 99th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 12-16, 2020.

Ulak, M. B., Yazici, A., Ozguven, E. E., Vanli, A., and Arghandeh, R., "Power Resilience Assessment from Physical and Socio-Demographic Perspectives", 
Presented at the 4th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, Rome, Italy, November 20-22, 2019.

Huang, W., Ozguven, E. E., Teng, F., Ginis, I., and Ullman, D., "Rainfall Runoff and Flood Simulations for Hurricane Impacts on Woonasquatucket River, USA", Presented at the 2019 8th International Conference on Civil Engineering (ICCEN 2019), Paris, France, November 19-21, 2019.

Diwanji, V., Arpan, L., Ulak, M. B., Hou, J., and Ozguven, E. E., "Revisiting Communication during Disasters: A Synchronicity-based Mixed Methods Exploration using Survey and Geospatial Analysis", 
Presented at the 105th NCA Annual Convention, National Communication Association, Baltimore, MD, USA, November 14-17, 2019.

Feiock, R., Ozguven, E. E., Tang, T., and Xu, C., "Organizational Integration, Citizen Communication and Equity in Service Restoration after Catastrophic Storms", Presented at the 1st International Conference on Smart Tourism, Smart Cities and Enabling Technology, Orlando, FL, USA, May 1-4, 2019.

Ulak, M., Kocatepe, A., Ozguven, E. E., Kumar, A.,
"Are There More Pedestrian-involved Crashes around Bus Stops?: The Development of a Safety Index", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13-19, 2019.

Ulak, M., Ozguven, E. E., Horner, M., Weaver, L., Puente, J. Crute, J., Smith, D., Duncan, M., and Whitton, E., "Demographic and Socioeconomic Analysis of Potential Sunrail Transit System Riders in Orlando",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13-19, 2019.

Sriram, L. K. S., Ulak, M., Ozguven, E. E., and Arghandeh, R.,
"Casuality-based Combined Power and Transportation Resilience (Co-Resilience) durng Huricanes", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13-19, 2019.

Kidando, E., Moses, R., Sando, T., and Ozguven, E. E., "Disparity Effects Associated with Lateral Lane Locations and Days of the Week Influence on the Dynamic Transition of Traffic Conditions", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13-19, 2019.

Sanusi, F., Sobanjo, J., Ozguven, E. E., Sando, T., and Abdelrazig, Y.,, "Measuring Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles on Freeway Work Zones", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13-19, 2019.

Kadeha, C., Moses, R., Ruhazwe, E., and Ozguven, E. E., "Influence of Exiting Vehicles on Roundabouts Gap Acceptance Parameters and Capacity: Method Comparison", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13-19, 2019.

Ruhazwe, E., Moses, R., Kadeha, C., and Ozguven, E. E., "Field Determination of Gap Acceptance Parameters for Florida Roundabouts", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13-19, 2019.

Dulebenets, M., Abioye, O., Pasha, J., Kavoosi, M., Ozguven, E. E., Moses, R., Boot, W., and Sando, T., "Development of Solution Algorithms for Efficient Emergency Evacuation Planning",
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13-19, 2019.

Yazici, M., Almotahari, A., Fressynet, L., Leclercq, L., Kocatepe, A., and Ozguven, E. E., "Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Congestion at Proposed Congestion Pricing Zone in New York City", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13-19, 2019.

Yildirim, M, and Ozguven, E. E., "Towards Smarter Transportation in Developing Countries: Assessment of the Successful Smart City Models based on the Utilization of Big Transportation Data", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13-19, 2019.

Asara-Akuffo, F., Mikaelian, L., Kim, K., Horner, M., Ozguven, E. E., Ulak, M., "Differential Accessibility to Primary Care Physicians: Analyzing the Spatial Structure of Health Opportunities", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 98th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13-19, 2019.

Sriram, L. M. K., Gilanifar, M., Zhou, Y., Ozguven, E. E., and Arghandeh, R., "Multivariate Deep Casual Network for Time Series Forecasting in Interdependent Networks", Proceedings of the 2018 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Miami Beach, FL, USA, December 17-19, 2018.


Hou, J., Tang, T., Catherine, A., Wu, Y., Arghandeh, R., and Ozguven, E. E., "The Road toward Smart Cities: A Focus Group Study on Citizens' Perceptions and Use of Mobile Application for City Management", Presented at the 104th NCA Annual Convention, National Communication Association, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, November 8-11, 2018.

Kidando, E., Ghorbanzadeh, M., Moses, R., and
Ozguven, E. E., "Traffic Operation and Safety Analysis on an Arterial Highway: Implications for Connected Vehicle Applications", Proceedings of the 2018 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Hawaii, USA, November 4-7, 2018.

Kocatepe, A., Ulak, M. B., Sriram, L. M. K., Pinzan, D., Ozguven, E. E., and Arghandeh, R., "Co-resilience Assessment of Hurricane-induced Power Grid and Roadway Network Disruptions: A Case Study in Florida with a Focus on Critical Facilities", Proceedings of the 2018 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Hawaii, USA, November 4-7, 2018.

Kocatepe, A., Ulak,
M., Kakareko, G., Pinzan, D., Cordova, J., Ozguven, E. E., and Arghandeh, R., "Assessment of Emergency Facility Accessibility in the Presence of Hurricane-related Roadway Closures and Prediction of Future Roadway Disruptions", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Ulak, M., Ozguven, E. E., Vanli, O,., Dulebenets, M., and Spainhour, L., "Multimodal Investigation of Crashes Involving Aging Drivers, Passengers, Bicyclists and Pedestrians", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Pinzan, D., Kocatepe, A., Gilanifar, M., Ulak, M., Ozguven, E. E., and Arghandeh, R., "Data-driven and Hurricane-focused Metrics for Combined Transportation and Power Networks Resilience", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Alisan, O., Tuydes-Yaman, H., Kocatepe, A., and Ozguven, E. E., "Performance and Cost of Cross-county Collaboration in Special Needs Shelter (SpNS) Planning", 
Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Njobelo, G. L., Sando, T., Sajjadi, S., Mtoi, E. T., Sobanjo, J., and Ozguven, E. E., "Safety Evaluation of the Advanced Stop Assist System in Connected Vehicle Environment", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Haule, H., Sando, T., Kitali, A., Angel, M., and Ozguven, E. E., "Influence of Intersection Characteristics on Elderly Drivers Crash Involvement", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Kidando, E., Moses, R., Sando, T., and Ozguven, E. E., "Evaluating Recurring Traffic Congestion Using Change Point Regression and Random Variation Markov Structured Model", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Kitali, A., Kidando, E., Sando, T., Moses, R., and Ozguven, E. E., "Predicting the Likelihood of Aging Pedestrian Severe Crashes Using Dirichlet Random-Effect Bayesian Logistic Regression Model", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Lwambagaza, L., Sando, T.,  and Ozguven, E. E., "Older Drivers' Behavior at On-Ramp Merging Areas", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Twumasi-Boakye, R., Sobanjo, J., Inkoom, S., and Ozguven, E. E., "Senior Community Resilience with a Focus on Critical Transportation Infrastructures: An Accessibility-based Approach to Healthcare", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Kidando, E., Moses, R., Sando, T., and Ozguven, E. E., "Probabilistic Inference and Prediction of Travel Time Reliability: Empirical Analysis of Associated Factors", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Deng, O., Mullings, A., Kovankaya, Y., Byrd, M., Ulak, M., Kocatepe, A., and Ozguven, E. E., "Geographic Information System-based Impact Analysis of Hurricane Hermine: Case Study in Tallahassee, Florida", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 97th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 7-11, 2018.

Sriram, L. M. K., Cordova, J., Ulak, M. B., Ohlsen, M., Ozguven, E. E., Arghandeh, R., and Kocatepe, A., "Advanced Electricity Load Forecasting Combining Electricity and Transportation Network", Proceedings of the 49th North American Power Symposium, September 17-19, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA, 2017.

Omidvar, A., Ozguven, E. E., Vanli, A., and Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, R., "A Two-Phase Safe Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problem: Formulations and Solution Algorithms", Presented at the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Conference,
Chicago, IL, USA, July 26-29, 2017.

Kocatepe, A., Ulak, M. B., Lores, J., Ozguven, E. E., and Yazici, M. A., "Assessing the Factors that Affect the Public Engagement with Department of Transportation Twitter Accounts", Presented at the International Symposium on Location-based Social Media Data and Tracking Data, ICA Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling & ICA Commission on Location-based Services,
Washington DC, USA, July 1-2, 2017.

Kakareko, G., Jung, S., Ozguven, E. E., and Weresa, S., "A New Approach for Road Closure Probability Estimation Caused by Hurricane Winds", Presented at the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, June 4-7, 2017.

Ulak, M. B., Ozguven, E. E., Moses, R., Sando, T., Boot, W., Abdelrazig, Y., and Sobanjo, J., "Aging Driver-focused Assessment of Traffic Performance Measures and Safety with a Micro-simulation Based Analysis in Florida", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 96th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2017.

Kocatepe, A., Ulak, M. B., Ozguven, E. E., Horner, M., and Spainhour, L., "Socioeconomic Characteristics and Crash Proneness: A Case Study in Florida using Two-step Floating Catchment Area Method", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 96th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2017.

Ulak, M. B., Kocatepe, A., Ozguven, E. E., Horner, M., and Spainhour, L., "GIS-based Spatial and Statistical Analysis of Severe Crash Hotspot Accessibility to Hospitals", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 96th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2017.

Douglas, R., Kocatepe, A., Barrett, A., Ozguven, E. E., and Gumber, C., "Pet Evacuation Preparedness: An Examination of Older Adults' Needs for and Proximity to Pet-friendly Shelters in Florida", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 96th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2017.

Alisan, O., Kocatepe, A., Tuydes-Yaman, H., Ozguven, E. E., and Ozel, H., "Benefits of Managing Special Needs Shelters (SPNS) Capacities with Utilizing Cross-county Collaboration: A Case Study Application in Florida", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 96th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2017.

Yazici, M. A., Kocatepe, A., and Ozguven, E. E., "Urban Travel TIme Variability in New York City: A Spatio-temporal Analysis within Congestion Pricing Context", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 96th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2017.

Kitali, A., Kidando, E., Sando, T., Moses, R., and Ozguven, E. E., "Evaluating Pedestrian Crash Severity using Bayesian Complementary log-log Model for Improved Prediction Accuracy", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 96th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2017.

Lwambagaza, L., Sando, T., Mtoi, E., Ozguven, E. E., and Sobanjo, J., "Age-based Simulation of Driver Merging Behavior at Freeway Merging Ramps", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 96th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2017.

Kidando, E., Moses, R., Ozguven, E. E., and Sando, T., "Truncated Bayesian Non-parametric Modeling of Multistate Travel Time Distribution", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 96th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2017.

Bommineni, V., Zhou, V., Ponnaluri, S., Brown, N., Ulak, M. B., Kocatepe, A., and Ozguven, E. E., "A GIS-based Comparative Livability Analysis between Florida Counties with a Focus on 65+ Cohort", Presented at the Transportation Research Board's 96th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 8-12, 2017.

Moses, R., Kidando, E., Abdelrazig, Y., and Ozguven, E. E., "Travel Time Reliability on Elderly Drivers Crash Severity", Presented at the 18th International Conference on Civil, Construction and Safety Engineering, Singapore, SG, November 21-22, 2016.

Kocatepe, A., Ozguven, E. E., Ozel, H., Horner, M., and Moses, R., "Transportation Accessibility Assessment of Critical Emergency Facilities: Aging Population-focused Case Studies in Florida", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Human Aspects of the IT for the Aged Population, Healthy and Active Aging, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 17-22, 2016.


Kocatepe, A., Ozguven, E. E., Ozel, H., and Horner, M., "Aging-focused Transportation Accessibility Assessment of Emergency Shelters: A DTA-based Application in Florida", Presented at the 2016 National Evacuation Conference, The University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA, March 1-3, 2016.

Ozel, H., Ozguven, E. E.,  Kocatepe, A., and Horner, M., “An Aging Population-focused Accessibility Assessment of Multi-modal Facilities in Florida”, Presented at the Transportation Research Board’s 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 10-14, 2016.

Kocatepe, A., Lores, J., Ozguven, E. E., and Yazici, M. A., "Measuring the Reach and Influence of DOT Twitter Accounts: A Case Study for Florida and New York", Presented at the Transportation Research Board’s 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 10-14, 2016.

Omidvar, A., Vanli, A., Ozguven, E. E., Moses, R., Barrett, A., Kocatepe, A., Ozel, H., Gumber, C., and Sando, T., “Effects of Traffic Patterns on the Frequency of Aging Driver-involved Highway Crashes: A Case Study on the Interstate-95 in Florida”, Presented at the Transportation Research Board’s 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 10-14, 2016.

Gumber, C., Barrett, A., Ozguven, E. E., Moses, R., Vanli, A., Kocatepe, A., Ozel, H., Omidvar, A., and Sando, T., “Explaining Gender Differences in Self-regulated Driving: What Roles Do Health Limitations and Transportation Alternatives Play?”, Presented at the Transportation Research Board’s 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 10-14, 2016.

Dyer, B., Callegari, N., Ulak, M. B., Ozel, H., and Ozguven, E. E., “Evaluating Transportation Accessibility to Healthcare among Cancer Populations in Florida”, Presented at the Transportation Research Board’s 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 10-14, 2016.

Marcelin, J. M., Horner, M., Ozguven, E. E., and Kocatepe, A., "How Do Disaster Relief Needs Compare between Aging and the General Population? A Spatial Network Optimization Analysis of Hurricane Relief Facility Locations"Presented at the Transportation Research Board’s 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 10-14, 2016.

Abdelrazig, Y., Doczy, R., Boot, W., Ozguven, E. E., and Moses, R., “Spatial Context Roadway Safety Analysis for the Aging Population: A Hybrid 3-Dimensional Visualization and Human Factors Simulation Approach”, Presented at the Transportation Research Board’s 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 10-14, 2016.

Giroux, R., Vanli, A., and Ozguven, E. E., “Spatiotemporal Crash Rate Monitoring for Improving Highway Safety”, Presented at the Transportation Research Board’s 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 10-14, 2016.

Ozguven, E. E., Vanli, A., Barrett, A., Moses, R., Gumber, C., Kocatepe, A., Ozel, H., Omidvar, A., and Sando, T., “Travel Time and Roadway Capacity Reliability for an Aging Population: The Development of a Model Integrating Roadway Traffic with Aging Adults' Driving Behavior”, Presented at the Gerontological Society of America's 68th Annual Scientific Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, November, 18-22, 2015.

Horner, M., Ozguven, E. E., Marcelin, J. M., Kocatepe, A., “A Spatial Optimization Modeling Approach for Special Needs Shelter Placement Serving the Aging Population: A Florida Case Study”, Presented at the 62nd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Portland, OR, USA, November 11-14, 2015.

Ulak, M. B., Ozguven, E. E., and Kocatepe, A. "GIS-based Identification and Evaluation of Significant Factors for Aging-involved Crashes", Proceedings of the 2015 Road Safety and Simulation International Conference, Southeastern Transportation Center, Orlando, FL, October 6-8, 2015.

Omidvar, A., Ozguven, E. E., Vanli, A., and Moses, R., "Understanding the Factors Affecting Frequency and Severity of Aging-involved Accidents in Florida", Proceedings of the 2015 Road Safety and Simulation International Conference, Southeastern Transportation Center, Orlando, FL, October 6-8, 2015.

Kocatepe, A., Lores, J., Ozguven, E. E., and Yazici, A. "The Reach and Influence of DOT Twitter Accounts: A Case Study in Florida", Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Canary Islands, Spain, September 15-18, 2015.

Ozguven, E. E., Horner, M., Kocatepe, A., Marcelin, J. M., Abdelrazig, Y., Sando, T., and Moses, R., “Metadata-based Needs Assessment for Emergency Transportation Operations with a Focus on an Aging Population: A Case Study in Florida”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 94th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15, 2015.

Ozguven, E. E., Ozbay, K., Iyer, S., Whytlaw, R., and Carnegie, J., “Multimodal Logical Architecture for Emergency Transportation Toward Better Decision Making in Humanitarian Logistics”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 94th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15, 2015.

Horner, M., Ozguven, E. E., Marcelin, J. M., Kocatepe, A., “Spatial Network Optimization Modeling for Special Needs Hurricane Shelter Placement Serving the Aging Population”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 94th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15, 2015.

Kocatepe, A., Ozguven, E. E., and Moses, R., “Evaluation of Multi-Modal Evacuation Operations in the Aftermath of a Disaster”, Presented at the 11th International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, October 21-25, 2014.

Moses, R., Mtoi, T. E., and Ozguven, E. E., “Evaluation of the 2010 Highway Capacity Manual Free Flow Speed Prediction Model”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 93rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 12-16, 2014.

Ozguven, E. E., Ozbay, K., and Iyer, S., “A Simplified Emissions Estimation Methodology Based on MOVES to Estimate Vehicle Emissions from Transportation Assignment and Simulation Models”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 13-17, 2013.

Ozguven, E. E., and Ozbay, K., “An RFID-Based Inventory Management Framework for Efficient Emergency Relief Operations”, Proceedings of the 2012 15th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, pp. 1274-1279, September 16-19, 2012.

Ozguven, E. E., and Ozbay, K., “An Integrated Inventory Management Framework for Emergency Operations”, Presented at the Second International Conference on Evacuation Modeling and Management, Chicago, IL, USA, August 13-15, 2012.

Ozbay, K., Li, J., Yazici, M. A., Iyer, S., Ozguven, E. E., Carnegie, J., and Bartin, B., “Pseudo-dynamic Assignment for Evacuation Modeling Procedure”, Presented at the Second International Conference on Evacuation Modeling and Management, Chicago, IL, USA, August 13-15, 2012.

Ozbay, K., Ozguven, E. E., and Demiroluk, S., “An Efficient Maintenance and Spare Parts Inventory Management Software for ITS Equipment”, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES’12), pp. 334-339, July 24-27, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

Ozbay, K., Yazici, M. A., Iyer, S., Li, J, Ozguven, E. E., and Carnegie, J., “Use of a Regional Transportation Planning Tool for Modeling of Emergency Evacuation: A Case Study of Northern New Jersey”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 91th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 23-27, 2012.

Ozguven, E. E., and Ozbay, K., “Case Study Based Evaluation of a Stochastic Multi-Commodity Emergency Inventory Management Model”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 91th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 23-27, 2012.

Ozbay, K., Ozguven, E. E., and Demiroluk, S., “A Spare Part Inventory Management Model for Better Maintenance of Intelligent Transportation Systems”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 91th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 23-27, 2012.

Ozguven, E. E., and Ozbay, K., “Hierarchical Capacity Analysis of Freeways via Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation with Censored Data”, Presented at the Transportation Research Board’s 90th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 23-27, 2011.

Ozguven, E. E., Altinel, İ. K., Güllü, R., and Otay, E., “Quay Length Optimization Using a Stochastic Knapsack Model”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 89th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 10-14, 2010.

Ozguven, E. E., and Ozbay K., “Capacity Reliability Analysis for Transportation Networks via a Novel Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation based Stochastic Traffic Assignment Algorithm (SBSTA)”, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Evacuation Modeling and Management, Delft, The Netherlands, 11 pp., September 23-25, 2009.

Ozguven, E. E., and Ozbay K., “A Secure and Efficient Emergency Management System for Disasters”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Rome, Italy, pp. 298-305, June 22-23, 2009.

Ozbay, K., Ozguven, E. E., Sertel, T., Aboobaker, N., Littleton, B., and Caglar, K., “Manual of Guidelines for Inspection and Maintenance of Intelligent Transportation Systems”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 88th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 11-15, 2009.

Ozbay, K., Ozguven, E. E., and Sertel, T., “Manual of Guidelines for Inspection and Maintenance of Intelligent Transportation Systems”, Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America's 2008 Annual Meeting, New York, USA, November 16-20, 2008.

Ozguven, E. E., and Ozbay K., “Performance Evaluation of Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (SPSA) Algorithm for Solving Stochastic Transportation Network Analysis Problems”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 87th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 13-17, 2008.

Ozguven, E. E., and Ozbay K., “Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of Freeway Capacity Distribution from Censored Observations”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 87th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 13-17, 2008.

Ozbay, K., and Ozguven, E. E., “A Comparative Methodology for Estimating the Capacity of a Freeway Section”, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA, pp. 1034-1039, September 30 – October 3, 2007.

Ozbay, K., and Ozguven, E. E., “Stochastic Humanitarian Inventory Control Model for Disaster Planning”, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board’s 86th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, January 21-25, 2007.