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Yu (Marco) Nie is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University. His research primarily focuses on understanding and predicting behavior in transportation networks while formulating new design and control strategies to enhance mobility, reliability, and sustainability within these systems. Unlike networks such as communication or social networks, the behavior in transportation networks is driven by human activities such as travel choices and driving behavior, as well as the physical characteristics of the infrastructure and the network topology. To this end, he adopts an interdisciplinary approach utilizing tools from optimization, network science, traffic flow theory, economics, and statistics. His work encompasses many aspects of transportation system analysis, including the development of specialized routing algorithms and the design of Pareto-improving congestion pricing schemes. The diversity of issues he addresses in his research illustrates not only theoretical interests but also implications that are relevant to real-world challenges.
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