Chao Huang

About Chao Huang

Licensed professional engineer (Civil Engineering - Transportation Planning- P.E. in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Washington- Standing Committee on Transportation Economics (ABE20), Transportation Research Board, National Academics of Sciences (April 2014 to April 2021)- Standing Committee on Freight Transportation Economics and Regulation (AT010), Transportation Research Board, National Academics of Sciences (from April 2018)Chao has over 12+ years of experience in the field of travel demand modeling, transportation engineering and highway planning. He has extensive research experiences in public-private-partnership (P3) with a focus on traffic forecasting of toll road and managed lane in the United States. He possesses hands-on experiences in conducting cost/benefit analysis and risk analysis for highway projects in both the United States and Canada. Chao received his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering and Economics from Texas A&M University, and he has multiple publications with a focus on transport policy, travel behavior and demand modelling in peer-reviewed journals. Chao has strong expertise in Transportation Master Plan, functional planning study, and Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA) for both rural and urban mobility and nexus with urban development. His planning skills include travel demand modelling and he is an expert in discrete choice modeling (Logit), stated preference survey design, and traffic and revenue (T&R) forecasting for managed lanes. He possesses hands-on skills of large traffic data analysis, econometric forecasting and statistical analysis. He had been involved in multiple research projects with a focus on travelers’ behavior in using managed lanes for Texas Transportation Institute (TTI). Chao is proficient in data analysis and his software and statistical skills include CUBE, EMME, Visum, TransCAD, Synchro, Excel VBA, NLOGIT, SAS, SPSS, R, and Eviews.

Experience

1. Senior Transportation Planner Engineer

   Jacobs

   Aug 2023 — Present · Austin, TX, US

Education

• Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (XAUAT)

  Bachelor's degree, Materials Engineering

  1994 — 1998

• University of Hawaii at Manoa

  Master of Science (M.S.), Transportation Engineering

  2006 — 2009

• University of Calgary

  Economics

  2003 — 2004

• Texas A&M University

  Ph.D., Transportation Engineering & Economics

  2009 — 2013

• Radboud University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Business Administration (Financial Management)

  2004 — 2006

Skills

• Limdep
• Excel Vba
• Experimental Design
• Macro
• Statistics
• Civil Engineering
• Survey Research
• Benefit/Cost Analysis
• Time Series Analysis
• Forecasting
• Analysis
• Sas/Sql
• Data Analysis
• R
• Matlab
• Transportation Engineering
• Nlogit
• Project Planning
• Microsoft Excel
• Choice Modeling
• Stata
• Arcgis
• Limesurvey
• Spss
• Vba
• Sas Programming
• Microsoft Word