Oliver Gao: Urban Infrastructure, Transportation, Environment and Community Health

An invited talk at NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Oliver Gao’s research and teaching focus on the nexus of transportation, environment, and health systems. The overarching goal of his research predicates on a multi-disciplinary system-driven approach to novel basic research, applied research, and policy discoveries that will advance the understanding of the transportation-air quality-public health nexuses, where the lack of science and knowledge is the biggest barrier to sustainable mobility, air quality and health. In this talk, Oliver takes a phased approach looking into the depth and their inter-relationships of the following topics that span across transportation, air quality, and public health: mathematical modeling in search for cost-effective environment abatement strategies in green fleet management; transportation emission and the ozone weekend effects emphasizing the nonlinear atmospheric system and the need to integrate transportation and air quality modeling; systems modeling tools for impact assessment of future mobility innovations on PM2.5 pollution and health costs in NYC; and mechanism design for public-private partnership for future city infrastructure and intelligence.