Publications

2026

Poliziani, Cristian, Ling Jin, Xiaodan Xu, Yuhan Wang, Haitam Laarabi, James Butler, Carlos Guirado, Nazanin Rezaei, Zachary Needell, Tom Wenzel, and C․Anna Spurlock."Traffic, air quality, and health impacts resulting from transport interventions using a regional-scale agent-based transportation system model."Sustainable Cities and Society 141 (2026) 107263. DOI

2025

Rezaei, Nazanin, Juan Caicedo, Thomas P Wenzel, Annika Todd-Blick, K Sydny Fujita, Cristian Poliziani, Zachary Needell, Carlos Guirado, and C Anna Spurlock."Zooming in on virtual commutes: Telecommuting impacts on mobility and sustainability."Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 143 (2025) 104731. DOI

Xu, Xiaodan, Hung-Chia Yang, Haitam Laarabi, Cristian Poliziani, Alicia Birky, Kyungsoo Jeong, Hongyu Lu, Randall Guensler, and C Anna Spurlock."Improving commercial truck fleet composition in emission modeling using 2021 US VIUS data."International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (2025) 1-19. DOI

Fujita, K Sydny, Cristian Poliziani, Tom Wenzel, A Zachary Needell, Haitam Laarabi, Rashid Waraich, Annika Todd-Blick, Nazanin Rezaei, D Juan Caicedo, Carlos Guirado, and C Anna Spurlock."Simulating Impacts from Transit Service Enhancements: Case Study in the San Francisco Bay Area, Transportation Research Record."Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2679.4 (2025).

2024

Browne, Axel, David Butts, Edgar Jaramillo-Rodriguez, Nidhi Parikh, Geoffrey Fairchild, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Thomas P Wenzel, Timothy C Germann, and Sara Del Valle."Evaluating disease surveillance strategies for early outbreak detection in contact networks with varying community structure."Social Networks 79 (2024) 122 - 132. DOI

Needell, Zachary, Paul Waddell, Juan Caicedo, Haitam Laarabi, Yuhan Wang, Cristian Poliziani, Jessica Lazarus, Dmitrii Openkov, Max Gardner, Nazanin Rezaei, Josh Auld, and Randy Weimer."Platform for Integrated Land use And Transportation Experiments and Simulation (PILATES) v1.0." (2024).

Laarabi, Haitam, Zachary Needell, Rashid Waraich, Cristian Poliziani, and Thomas P Wenzel."A Modeling Framework for Behavior, Energy, Autonomy and Mobility (BEAM)." (2024).

Rezaei, Nazanin, Annika Todd-Blick, K Sydny Fujita, Natalie Popovich, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Juan Caicedo, Carlos Guirado, and C Anna Spurlock."At the nexus of equity and transportation modeling: Assessing accessibility through the Individual Experienced Utility-Based Synthesis (INEXUS) metric."Journal of Transport Geography 115 (2024) 103824. DOI

Spurlock, C Anna, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Aaron Brooker, Juan Caicedo, Jeff Gonder, Jake Holden, Kyungsoo Jeong, Ling Jin, Haitam Laarabi, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Shivam Sharda, Bingrong Sun, Paul Waddell, Yuhan Wang, Rashid Waraich, Thomas P Wenzel, and Xiaodan Xu."Behavior, Energy, Autonomy & Mobility Comprehensive Regional Evaluator: Overview, calibration and validation summary of an agent-based integrated regional transportation modeling workflow." (2024).

Poliziani, Cristian, A Zachary Needell, Haitam Laarabi, Rashid Waraich, Annika Todd-Blick, K Sydny Fujita, Nazanin Rezaei, D Juan Caicedo, Carlos Guirado, C Anna Spurlock, and Tom Wenzel."Simulating Impacts from Transit Service Enhancements in the San Francisco Bay Area."Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2024). DOI

2023

Laarabi, Haitam, Zachary Needell, Rashid Waraich, Cristian Poliziani, and Thomas P Wenzel."BEAM: The Modeling Framework for Behavior, Energy, Autonomy & Mobility - The Open-Source Agent-Based Regional Transportation Model Unpacked: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Inner Dynamics." (2023).

Poliziani, Cristian, Gary Hsueh, David Czerwinski, Thomas P Wenzel, Zachary Needell, Haitam Laarabi, Joerg Schweizer, and Federico Rupi."Micro Transit Simulation of On-Demand Shuttles Based on Transit Data for First- and Last-Mile Connection."ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 12.4 (2023) 177. DOI