BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sonny Astani Department Seminar DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruda Zhang, PhD Student, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Talk Title: Demand and Supply Distribution of Street Hailing Taxi Service Abstract: Before the rise of taxi hailing via mobile devices, passengers and taxi drivers have no information about each others' locations. For traditional street hailing taxi services, where are the potential passengers? Where are the free taxis? Does free taxi supply match passenger demand? Using New York City taxi trip records during 2009-2013, we built and tested models to answer these questions. Host: Roger Ghanem DTSTART:20170217T150000 LOCATION:SLH 102 URL;VALUE=URI: DTEND:20170217T153000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR