Oliver Gao: From Transportation Systems to Air Pollution and Public Health

An invited talk at Humphrey School UMN, 2016

In this talk, Oliver Gao takes a phased approach looking into the depth and their inter-relationships of the following topics that span across transportation, air quality, and energy systems: cleanup of the transportation system—mathematical modeling in search for cost-effective environment abatement strategies; equity and environmental justice in green transportation programs; transportation emission and the ozone weekend effects emphasizing the nonlinear atmospheric system and the need to integrate transportation and air quality modeling; and the latest advancement in the measurement and modeling of ultrafine particle emissions from alternative transportation fuels/technologies. In addition, he also talked about the group’s work to establish New York City as a testbed for transportation-AQ assessment and for mathematical systems modeling of public-private partnerships (PPPs).