Covid-19 Impact on Bicycle Usage

In this episode, we speak with Abdullah Kurkcu, a Lead Traffic Modeler. Abdullah joins us to discuss his recent study on the effect of COVID-19 on bicycle usage in the US. He walks us through the data gathering process, data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model building. Abdullah also disclosed his results and key takeaways from the study. Listen to find out more.

Guest

Abdullah Kurkcu: "Abdullah is a Transportation Planning and Engineering expert and he has 8+ years of experience in modeling transportation systems, leading transportation research projects, and developing web-based data management solutions. He completed his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering at NYU and previously received his master's degree in Transportation Engineering from Florida State University. Abdullah’s experience is in traffic modeling and calibration, developing alternative traffic data collection systems, big data and analytics, GPS-based transportation data analysis, incident and emergency management, wireless sensor networks, social media analytics, and transportation geography. Abdullah has worked on several transportation design projects including New York City Connected Vehicle Pilot Project, Mobile Accessible Pedestrian Signal System, and Regional Traffic Impact Study of Newark Bay-Hudson County Extension (NBHCE) Bridge Deck Reconstruction in Jersey City, NJ. "