T. Donna Chen

About

T. Donna Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia, having joined the faculty in August 2015. Her research focuses on sustainable transportation systems, including modeling the impacts of new vehicle technologies on traveler behavior and the environment, travel demand modeling, transportation economics, and crash safety. She is involved in various professional organizations such as the Transportation Research Board, the American Society of Civil Engineers Transportation & Development Institute, the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and Women’s Transportation Seminar. Dr. Chen holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, earned in 2015, along with a Master’s degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University. Her work emphasizes the importance of access to reliable transportation as a key determinant of quality of life. She has contributed to research on electric vehicle adoption, shared autonomous vehicle operations, and crash safety, and teaches courses in transportation infrastructure design and transportation economics and finance.

Research topics

• Engineering
• Economics
• Environmental science
• Demographic economics
• Business
• Microeconomics
• Statistics
• Geography
• Meteorology
• Transport engineering

Selected publications

• Are Individuals’ stated preferences for electric vehicles (EVs) consistent with real-world EV ownership patterns?

  Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment · 2021 · 118 citations

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• Estimating impacts of recurring flooding on roadway networks: a Norfolk, Virginia case study

  Natural Hazards · 2021 · 54 citations

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• Psycho-physiological measures on a bicycle simulator in immersive virtual environments: how protected/curbside bike lanes may improve perceived safety

  Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour · 2022-12-15 · 42 citations

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• Dynamic Modeling of Inland Flooding and Storm Surge on Coastal Cities under Climate Change Scenarios: Transportation Infrastructure Impacts in Norfolk, Virginia USA as a Case Study

  Geosciences · 2022-05-25 · 32 citations

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  Low-lying coastal cities across the world are vulnerable to the combined impact of rainfall and storm tide. However, existing approaches lack the ability to model the combined effect of these flood mechanisms, especially under climate change and sea level rise (SLR). Thus, to increase flood resilience of coastal cities, modeling techniques to improve the understanding and prediction of the combined effect of these flood hazards are critical. To address this need, this study presents a modeling s…

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• Willingness-to-relocate: Examining preferences for parking relocation of privately-owned automated vehicles

  Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment · 2022-05-26 · 19 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Jonathan L. Goodall

  25 shared

• Erin Robartes

  Virginia Transportation Research Council

  23 shared

• Xiang Guo

  University of Virginia

  21 shared

• Arsalan Heydarian

  Engineering Systems (United States)

  20 shared

• Faria Tuz Zahura

  Government of the United States of America

  16 shared

• Wenjian Jia

  Chang'an University

  14 shared

• Austin Angulo

  University at Buffalo, State University of New York

  14 shared

• Yawen Shen

  University of Virginia

  13 shared

Labs

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Awards & honors

• American Society of Civil Engineers Excellence in Civil Engi…
• National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow 2013-2015
• Federal Highway Administration Eisenhower Transportation Fel…

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