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1 Ph.D. Candidate 1832 Ellison Hall, Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA Phone: ; EDUCATION University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Ph.D., Geography - Major in Transportation Modeling and Simulation, Expected July 2013 Advisor: Dr. Konstadinos G. Goulias Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering - Major in Transportation Systems Engineering, January 2008 Advisor: Dr. Simon Washington Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India B.Tech., Civil and Environmental Engineering, June 2005 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Graduate Student Researcher, September till date Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara Transportation Planner, January June 2009 HDR Engineering Inc., Phoenix, AZ, USA Graduate Research Assistant, January January 2008 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA RESEARCH INTERESTS Transportation Planning: Activity-based approaches to travel demand modeling, travel behavior, time use analysis, microsimulation frameworks, travel demand forecasting and policy analysis Integrated Urban Models: Land-use and transportation, demographic methods and microsimulation, real estate markets, mobility of residential and business establishments Urban and Spatial Economics: Firm location theory, firm demography, agglomeration and cluster formations, central places and market areas and theory of retail location processes Traffic Safety: Traffic crash analysis, forecasting safety into long range transportation planning and study of countermeasure investments Spatial Modeling and Analysis: Spatial statistics and GIS applications to urban systems engineering and planning Statistics and Econometrics: Discrete choice theory and modeling, latent variable models, panel data analysis, spatial econometrics and Bayesian statistics TEACHING INTERESTS Undergraduate-level Courses: Introduction to Transportation Engineering and Planning, Probability and Statistics, GIS Science and Operations Research Graduate-level Courses: Transportation Modeling and Simulation, Statistics and Econometric Applications to Transportation, Spatial Modeling and Urban Economics 1 P a g e

2 PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings 1. Ravulaparthy, S., Goulias, K.G., Sweeney, S. and Kyriakidis, P.C. (2012). Exploring the spatial and temporal patterns of business concentration and dispersion: A case-study analysis for County of Santa Barbara. Paper to be presented at 52 nd Annual Meeting of Western Regional Science Association, Santa Barbara, CA. 2. Ravulaparthy, S., Yoon, S.Y. and Goulias, K.G. (2012). Linking Elderly Transport Mobility and Subjective Well-Being: A Multivariate Latent Modeling Approach. Paper to be presented at 92 nd Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C. 3. Goulias, K.G., Ravulaparthy, S., Polydoropoulou, A. and Yoon, S.Y. (2012). An Exploratory Analysis of on the Time-of-Day Dynamics of Episodic Hedonic Value of Activities and Travel. Paper to be presented at 92 nd Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C. 4. Tang, D., Ravulaparthy, S. and Goulias, K.G. (2012). Geolocating Activities to Business Establishment Locations Using Time-Dependent Activity Assignment for Travel Demand Modeling. Paper to be presented at 92 nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC. 5. Yoon, S.Y., Ravulaparthy, S. and Goulias, K.G. (2012). Dynamic diurnal social taxonomy of urban environments. 13 th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research, Toronto, July 15-20, Ravulaparthy, S., Dalal, P., Chen, Y. and Goulias, K.G. (2012). An Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Clustering Using Opportunity-Based Accessibility and Land Values and its Relationship with Residents Characteristics in Los Angeles County. Transportation Research Record, Journal of Transportation Research Board (forthcoming). 7. Washington, S., Ravulaparthy, S., Rose, J.M., Hensher, D. and Pendyala, R.M. (2012). Bayesian Imputation of non-chosen attribute values in revealed preference surveys. Journal of Advanced Transportation. 8. Chen, Y., Ravulaparthy, S., Deutsch, K., Dalal, P., Yoon, S.Y., Lei, T., Goulias, K.G., Pendyala, R.M., Bhat, C.R. and Hu, H-H. (2011). Development of Indicators of Opportunity-Based Accessibility. Transportation Research Record, Journal of Transportation Research Board, , Washington, S., Ravulaparthy S., Rose, J.M., Hensher, D., Pendyala, R.M. (2009). Feasibility of Bayesian Imputation of Non-Chosen Attribute Values in Revealed Preference Surveys. Proceedings of the 88 th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board Washington DC. Technical Reports 1. Goulias, K.G., Bhat, C.R., Pendyala, R.M., Chen, Y., Lei, T., Ravulaparthy, S., Deutsch, K., Dalal, P. and Yoon, S.Y. (2012). Opportunity-Based Dynamic Accessibility Indicators in SimAGENT. Phase-2 Final Report submitted to SCAG, Santa Barbara, CA. 2. Ravulaparthy, S. and Goulias, K.G. (2011). Forecasting with Dynamic Microsimulation: Design, Implementation, and Demonstration. Report submitted to University of California Transportation Center. UCTC-FR Dalal, P., Chen, Y., Ravulaparthy, S. and Goulias, K.G. (2011). Dynamic Opportunity-based Multipurpose Accessibility Indicators in California. University of California Transportation Center. UCTC-FR Papers Under Review/Working Papers 1. Ravulaparthy, S., Isbell, N., Chen, Y. and Goulias, K.G. (2011). Hedonic Price Model: Neighborhood Spatio-Temporal effects on home prices. Working paper, University of California, Santa Barbara. 2. Ravulaparthy, S., Washington, S., Konduri, K.C., Pendyala, R.M. and Goulias, K.G. (2010). Handling Attribute Values of Non-Chosen Alternatives in Revealed Preference Surveys: A Comparison with Bayesian Imputation Methodology. Working paper, University of California, Santa Barbara. 2 P a g e

3 PRESENTATIONS Conferences 1. Goulias, K.G., Bhat, C.R., Pendyala, R.M., Chen, Y., Paleti, R., Konduri, K.C., Yoon, S.Y., Ravulaparthy, S., Deutsch, K., Dalal, P., Lei, T., Isbell, N., Huang, G. and Hu.H. (2011). Geography Aspects of a Simulator of Activities, Greenhouse gas Emissions, Networks, and Travel (SimAGENT) in Southern California. Presented at 2011 Annual Meeting of European Association of Geographers, June 2-5, 2011, Athens, Greece. 2. Ravulaparthy, S., Isbell, N., Chen, Y. and Goulias, K.G. (2011). Hedonic Price Model: Neighborhood Spatio-Temporal effects on home prices. Presented at 2011 Annual Meeting of European Association of Geographers, June 2-5, 2011, Athens, Greece. 3. Ravulaparthy, S. and Kalicharan, R.K. (2003). Design of a New Optical Survey Instrument. Shaastra, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, October 2003, Chennai, India. Invited Talks 1. Ravulaparthy, S. (2011). Integrated Land Use and Travel Demand Forecasting Models. Workshop on Geographic Information Science and Transportation Modeling and Simulation, University of the Aegean, June 2011, Chios, Greece. 2. Goulias, K.G. and Ravulaparthy, S. (2011). Simulator of Activities, Greenhouse Emission, Networks, and Travel (SimAGENT) in Southern California: Design, Implementation, Preliminary Findings and Integration Plans. Visitor Seminar Series, Indian Institute of Science, August 2, 2011, Bangalore, India. 3. Ravulaparthy, S. (2010). Urban Simulation: A Case Study of UrbanSim Application to County of Santa Barbara. Land Use Model Selection Subcommittee Meeting, Santa Barbara Association of Governments, December 2010, Santa Barbara, CA. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Projects Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Mobility of Retail and Service Business Establishments The project is aimed at developing methodologies, spatial and temporal measures, computational and analytical models in understanding the three key dimensions of behavior of retail and service business establishments in space and time agglomeration economies and clusters, central places and market areas and business location and relocation choice. The case study is the County of Santa Barbara. [October till date] Lead student researcher in proposing the design framework in integrating the three key dimensions of behavioral dynamics of retail and service businesses Development of spatial and temporal measures of agglomeration using advanced spatial statistical methods Development of mobility models of retail and service business establishments within a dynamic discrete choice framework Estimation and validation of the spatial and temporal distribution of businesses Behavioral Integration of Activity, Location and Travel Behavior The project is aimed at filling the critical gap in behavioral relationships among land use, transportation and the environment. The project integrates data structures on location choices, life style stages, activity participation and travel behavior. Incorporating the concepts of time geography and Geo-statistics the project enhances the simulation tools needed for travel demand modeling and forecasting. [November August 2012] Part of the team that designed the behavioral framework for integrating land use, transportation and environment to enhance current state of the art simulation model systems 3 P a g e

4 Contributed to the development of the model system that enables to predict activity participation, activity type along with destination choice by taking time-space constraints into account along with development of space-time interpolation methodology Forecasting with Dynamic Microsimulation: Design, Implementation and Demonstration The main goal of the project is to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a new travel demand forecasting system that integrates demographic microsimulation with urban simulation and travel demand model systems. The model system is unique as it combines within a day and across year human behavior dynamics by pushing the frontiers of simulation systems. The case study was applied to County of Santa Barbra. [August May 2011] Lead student researcher in the design and development of the new travel demand forecasting system which integrates DEMOS (demographic microsimulator) and UrbanSim (land-use model system) Estimated models within the integrated framework like, labor participation, vehicle ownership, residential location choice, real estate pricing and many more Developed interfaces that enable communication across the integrated model systems Development of Next Generation Agent Based Simulation This project is aimed at significantly enhancing the current state of the art model development process in the fields of travel behavior, activity-based analysis, social networks, and complex interactions of people s with built environment. This project encompasses development of advanced modeling techniques that are tested, evaluated and implemented to demonstrate the feasibility of these applications in practice for policy analysis. [September June 2012] Designed an econometric approach to estimate and analyze the complex relationships between quality of life, time- use and activity participation as related to subjective well-being of the elderly travel behavior Involved in the design and pilot testing of Revealed Preference survey of college students at University of California, Santa Barbara in studying their activity travel patterns, travel behavior and place based attitudes Designed an approach to estimate and analyze the residential location choice preferences of households and their life cycles by employing advanced methods in econometrics and spatial statistics Activity-based Travel Demand Model Development for the Southern California Association of Governments The project is aimed at implementing a state-of-art activity-based travel demand model system for Southern California Association of Governments. This project addresses the needs of the regional transportation modeling guidelines. [September till date] Contributed to the design and development of a new method for measuring accessibility indicators that are space and time sensitive. These indicators are used in regional planning and modeling efforts to integrate land-use and travel demand Estimated advanced models for socio-economic microsimulator like labor participation, residential and workplace location choice and housing tenure. The models were being tested as part of the activity-based travel demand model framework for Phase-I of the project National Cooperative Highway Research Program : Incorporating Safety into Long Range Transportation Planning The main objective of the project is to develop a set of analytical tools and algorithms to forecast the safety impacts of engineering and behavioral countermeasure investments at the planning level. This project advocates proactive safety planning programs and policies. [August January 2008] 4 P a g e

5 Contributed to the development of planning level safety prediction models as part of the PLANSAFE software tool Involved in design and development of custom applications within PLANSAFE software using advanced GIS techniques Conducted research and meta-analysis of current analytical methods for forecasting safety countermeasure investments with changes in socioeconomic and demographics as related to long range transportation planning TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses CON 310: Testing Materials for Construction (Spring 2006) Served as a teaching assistant and was involved in teaching laboratory sessions of the course. The laboratory sessions involved in understanding and testing the structural and behavioral characteristics, engineering properties, measurements and application of construction materials. CEE 481: Engineering Project Management (Fall 2006) Served as a reader and was involved in guiding students with assignments and term projects. The course involved in understanding the civil engineering project management, planning and scheduling, cost estimating, quality control and safety and computer applications. GEOG 111A/211A: Transportation Planning and Modeling (Winter 2011) Served as a teaching assistant and was involved in teaching laboratory sessions of the course. The laboratory part involved training students in regional transportation planning process, policy analysis, systems simulation using activity-based approaches and four-step travel modeling techniques. The laboratory sessions also involved in using various statistical and econometric tools using SPSS and LIMDEP. Involved in design, testing and administrating an on-campus travel survey in studying travel behavior of college students. AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS Recipient of the 2012 University of California Transportation Center Dissertation Award Recipient of the 2012 Jack and Laura Dangermond Travel Scholarship awarded by Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara. Recipient of the 2012 Doctoral Student Travel Grant awarded by Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara. Recipient of the 2003 Best Paper award, Shaastra 2003, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in the field of design and surveying along with co-author Mr. Ramakrishna Kalicharan. SKILLS Programming Languages: Visual Basic, C/C++, Python Modeling and Data Analysis: R, MATLAB, SPSS, LIMDEP, STATA, BUGS and working knowledge of SAS Spatial Tools: ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoDa and PostGIS Transportation Planning Packages: TransCAD and GISDK Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL Other Software: HTML, Dreamweaver 5 P a g e

6 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE Affiliations Affiliate, Transportation Research Board Member, Institute of Transportation Engineers Member, American Society of Civil Engineers Member, International Association of Travel Behavior Research Member, Association of American Transportation Professional of Indian Origin Referee Served as a peer review member for Land-Use and Travel Demand Model Development for Santa Barbara County Association of Governments Journals Transportation Research Record, Journal of Transportation Research Board Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research Conferences Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board 13 th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research, Toronto, Canada, July 15-20, P a g e