Rui MA, Ph.D.
Senior Planner
Merced County Association of Governments
369 W. 18th Street
Merced, CA 95340
(209) 723-3153 x127 (Office)
rui.ma@mcagov.org
Dr. Rui Ma has joined Merced County Association of Governments as a Senior Planner in October 2023.
Dr. Ma was an Assistant Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is also appointed as a Graduate Faculty Member in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering in the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Ma was a Lecturer and Postdoc Scholar in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Ma's research interests are Dynamic Traffic Network Modeling, Ridesharing, New Mobility, Network Resilience and Sustainability and Smart City.
He received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2013. His PhD advisor was Dr. Xuegang (Jeff) Ban. He received his Bachelor's degree in Automation with the focus on the Intelligent Transportation Systems at Tsinghua University in 2009.
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Rui Ma's research interests include:
Dynamic Transportation Network Modeling
Dynamic Ridesharing and New Mobility
Smart Cities
Traffic Operations and Control
Network Resilience and Sustainability
Emergency Evacuation Planning
News
October 2023
Dr. Ma has joined Merced County Association of Governments as a Senior Planner in October 2023.
November 2021
Dr. Ma receives funding support from the College of Engineering in UAH on 2021 Undergraduate Research Program (URP).
January 2020
Dr. Ma's research project "Leveraging Shared Rides to Relieve Commuting Traffic Congestion by Applying a Guidance Strategy to the Ridesharing Travelers" is awarded by UAH New Faculty Award (8 awarded of 19 proposals).
We are recruiting! Two positions for Ph.D. students. Full tuition and research assistantship are available!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tf5qNXWB6AKB9jg42Y4Lc7jIBNgUXMUumQ41cPZOTEU/edit?usp=sharing
August 2019
Dr. Rui Ma joins the faculty in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Alabama in Huntsville in August 2019.
November 2018
Dr. Ma presented 'Modeling Dynamic User Equilibrium Using Differential Complementarity Systems' and 'Ridesharing On a Many-to-one Network With Multiple Corridors and a Common Destination' at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2018, Phoenix, AZ.
September 2018
Dr. Ma is rewarded 'Outstanding reviewer' for Transportation Research Part B: Methodological.
August 2018
A video introducing our current work on "A Study of the Integrated Parking and Ridesharing Pricing", sponsored by CTECH. Video on vimeo
January 2018
Dr. Ma presented the paper "Time series relations between parking garage occupancy and traffic speed in macroscopic downtown areas – a data driven study" at Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
December 2017
The paper 'A Link-Based Differential Complementarity System Formulation for Continuous-Time Dynamic User Equilibria with Queue Spillbacks' at Transportation Science, is now available as an advance version online. Url:
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/trsc.2017.0752.
Alternative link of full text of the authors' manuscript is uploaded at
Full citation information: Rui Ma, Xuegang (Jeff) Ban, Jong-Shi Pang, A Link-Based Differential Complementarity System Formulation for Continuous-Time Dynamic User Equilibria with Queue Spillbacks, Transportation Science, Articles in Advance, pp. primary_article.
November 2017
The paper "The morning commute problem with ridesharing and dynamic parking charges." is published in Transportation Research Part B 106, 345-374. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191261516307202
October 2017
Dr. Ma made three presentations on dynamic ridesharing modeling and parking/traffic data-driven analysis at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2017, Houston, TX.
Equilibrium and ridesharing payment policies for heterogeneous dynamic ridesharing travelers in morning commute.
The morning commute problem with ridesharing and dynamic parking charges.
A data driven study on the relation between parking garage occupancy and traffic speeds in urban areas.
September 2017
The paper "Optimal traffic signal control under dynamic user equilibrium and link constraints in a general network" is tentatively accepted by Transportation Research Part B.
The paper "Relationships Between Parking Garage Occupancy and Traffic Speeds In Cities - Results From a Data-Driven Study" is published in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2643, 2017, pp. 74–83. https://doi.org/10.3141/2643-09.
August 2017
Rui and his family drove from Coast to Coast. Trajectory data from Google Maps.
April 2017
The paper "An optimization based highway network planning procedure with link growth probabilities" is published in Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 13:8, 708-726. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23249935.2017.1321697
March 2017
The paper "Emission modeling and pricing on single-destination dynamic traffic networks" is published in Transportation Research Part B 100, 255–283. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019126151730187X