Contact Details

Mo Zhao, Ph.D., P.E.
Senior Research Scientist

Phone: (434) 293-1938
Email: Mo.Zhao@VDOT.Virginia.gov

Research:

Education:

Registrations:

Memberships:

Institute of Transportation Engineers
TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (AED50)

Awards:

Best Paper Award for the paper “Travel Time Reliability Prediction Using Random Forests”, (with Zhang, Appiah, and Fontaine), TRB Subcommittee onT ravel Time, Speed, and Reliability, 2023
Best Paper Award for the paper “Prediction of Travel Time Reliability on Interstates Using Linear Quantile Mixed Models”, (with Zhang, Appiah, and Fontaine), TRB Subcommittee on Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability, 2022
Jack H. Dillard Best Paper Award, "Improving the Identification and Characterization of Arterial Congestion Bottlenecks" with R. Venkatanarayana, VTRC, 2018
Horizon Award, VTRC, 2018
Thomas J. Seburn Award, Missouri Valley Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, 2013
1^st Place, Student Competition, ITS Heartland Annual Meeting, 2011

Team Memberships:

Projects:

123124 - Modeling Travel Time Reliability for Non-Interstate National Highway System Routes - Co-Principal Investigator

122669 - Free Flow Speed Estimation Methodology for Performance Measures - Co-Principal Investigator

120025 - Methods to Analyze and Predict Interstate Travel Time Reliability – Phase II - Principal Investigator

117962 - Cost of Congestion Due to Incidents on Freeways - Co-Principal Investigator

114314 - Development of a Methodology for Calibration and Validation of a Mesoscopic Traffic Simulation Model - Co-Principal Investigator

114313 - Investigation of the Factors that Affect Travel Time Reliability - Principal Investigator

114686 - Arterial Congestion Bottlenecks - Pilot Study - Principal Investigator

112006 - Examination of Features Correlated with Roadway Departure Crashes on Rural Roads - Co-Principal Investigator

111805 - Identification and Characterization of Traffic Bottlenecks - Principal Investigator

Publications:

23-R12 - Prediction of Interstate Travel Time Reliability: Phase II

22-R7 - Methodology for Calibration and Validation of Mesoscopic Traffic Simulation Models

22-R2 - Methods to Analyze and Predict Interstate Travel Time Reliability

22-R15 - Cost of Congestion Due to Incidents on Freeways

21-R9 - Implementation of Arterial Bottleneck Characterization Methods in Virginia

21-R2 - Examination of Features Correlated With Roadway Departure Crashes on Rural Roads

19-R20 - Improving the Identification and Characterization of Arterial Congestion Bottlenecks