Firouzeh Nourzad
Firouzeh Nourzad has over 25 years of experience in travel demand modeling and forecasting, project evaluation, and transit and roadway planning. She has conducted numerous studies for transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, and local governments. Her experience includes travel demand model development and application, transit planning projects, Alternative Analyses, Major Investment Studies, congestion management system analysis, travel survey analysis, and review of major MPOs transportation modeling practices. Prior to founding Urban Analytics, Inc. in 1991, Ms. Nourzad managed travel demand modeling and forecasting activities for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She has also taught graduate courses in travel demand modeling at the University of Texas at Arlington, and has experience with a number of travel demand application software platforms. Ms. Nourzad brings strong management and technical experience to a variety of travel demand modeling and forecasting projects, and transit and roadway planning studies.
Paul Waddell
As professor and chair of the department of city
and regional planning at the University of California-Berkeley, Dr. Paul
Waddell teaches and conducts research on metropolitan planning in relation to
housing, economic geography, transportation and the environment. He is widely
regarded in his field for leading the development of UrbanSim, a unique
open-source urban simulation software system for metropolitan planning. The
system has become the most widely used platform among metropolitan planning
organizations in the U.S., and is also being used for sustainability planning
in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The program helps users make informed decisions on
infrastructure and policy choices affecting transportation accessibility,
housing affordability and environmental impacts. Prior to joining UC Berkeley
in 2009, Waddell was a professor at the University of Washington’s Evans School
of Public Affairs, where he served since 1997. He has published more than 50
research articles in academic journals, and has been engaged in
research funded by the National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection
Agency, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, and Federal Highway Administration.
At UT Dallas, he earned his doctorate in political economy through the School
of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences.
Urban Analytics Partners
Liming Wang
Liming Wang, a post doctoral researcher at University of California- Berkeley, has a PhD from the University of Washington Interdisciplinary PhD program in Urban Design and Planning. He has developed key features of the UrbanSim model system, and participated actively in its application in numerous metropolitan areas. His expertise includes advanced econometrics of discrete choice modeling, model development, and software development in R and Python.
Alan BorningAlan Borning is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Adjunct Professor in the Information School, and co-Director of the Center for Urban Simulation and Policy Analysis. He has been closely involved with the development of UrbanSim for the past 8 years, particularly in the graphical interface, domain-specific programming language for model variables, and in software engineering issues. He has also done research in other areas of human-computer interaction, in object-oriented programming languages, and constraint-based languages and systems, and has published extensively in all of these areas. His PhD is in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Hana Sevcikova
Hana Sevcikova is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. She received a Masters in Computer Science and PhD in Statistics. She has been working on development of Opus and UrbanSim for the past five years. In particular, Hana is interested in development of new models and developing methods for assessing uncertainty in simulation results.
Eddie Janowicz has a B.A. in Economics from UC San Diego and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. Prior to joining Urban Analytics, he has worked in the areas of transportation modeling and local land-use planning, as well as interned with a public affairs firm and an environmental non-profit. His interests include urban modeling, econometrics, and climate change policy.
Contact Information
Urban Analytics, Inc. 201 Spear Street Suite 1100 San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: 415-465-3545 nourzad at uanalytics dot com (tel: 415-465-3545)
waddell at uanalytics dot com (tel: 510-926-5956)
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