Tongbin Teresa Qu, PH.D., P.E.

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1 Tongbin Teresa Qu, PH.D., P.E. Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Texas A&M University Langford Architecture Center College Station, TX Office phone: (979) EDUCATION Ph.D., Urban and Regional Science, Texas A&M University, 2010 M.S., Transportation Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996 B.S., Civil Engineering, TongJi University, Shanghai, China, 1990 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Present Lecturer Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University Associate Research Engineer Texas A&M Transportation Institute Assistant Research Engineer Texas A&M Transportation Institute Engineering Assistant IV Traffic Operations Division, Texas Department of Transportation Engineering Assistant III Traffic Operations Division, Texas Department of Transportation Graduate Research Assistant The University of Texas at Austin Summer Intern The World Bank, Washington D.C Engineer Assistant Louis Berger International, Inc., Washington D.C Project Management Specialist The Ministry of Transport of China, Beijing, China Engineer CHELBI Engineering Consultants, Inc., Beijing, China MEMBERSHIPS American Planning Association (APA) Associate member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Associate member, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Friend, TRB Committee on Developing Countries Friend, TRB Committee on Pedestrians Friend, TRB Committee on Performance Measurements Fellow, International Road Federation (IRF) Tongbin Qu 1 Updated July, 2016

2 PROFESSIONAL LICENSE Professional Engineer (PE) No , State of Texas HONORS AND AWARDS 2014 Best Student Project Award For instrucing the class project from the National American Planning Association 2013 Dr. Kent Butler Student Paper Award For instructing class project: Feasibility of Bike Share on Texas A&M University Campus from the Central Texas Chapter of American Planning Association 2009 Best Team Project Award For the Texas Mobility Project from Texas A&M Transportation Institute 2007 Innovative Project Award For the work in the Texas Congestion Index project from Texas Department of Transportation SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE Dr. Qu has over 20 years of professional experience and has performed research, consulting and engineering services in both the United States and China. Dr. Qu has conducted a wide variety of transportation research and projects covering the areas of bicycle and pedestrian planning and modeling, travel demand modeling, mobile source emission modeling, urban traffic congestion monitoring and evaluation, Big Data analysis, as well as traffic operations management. More recently, Dr. Qu has focused on non-motorized transportation demand analysis and has been working closely with Chinese government agencies on the issues of urban congestion monitoring and mitigation. Consulting Experience Present For Beijing Autopia Network Technology on Travel time estimation and forecasting in cell phone travel APP For the China Academy of Transportation Science (CATS) on Establishment of Congestion Index in China For the City of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province on Non-motorized Transportation Planning for Tourism in Yangzhou Research Experience Traffic Data Analysis for the US National Park Service Developing Twin Cities Arterial Mobility Performance Measures Using GPS Speed Data Tongbin Qu 2 Updated July, 2016

3 Estimating and Forecasting Bicycle and Pedestrian Usage for Houston-Galveston Area Council (HGAC) of Texas Development of procedures to process and analyze toll data for performance evaluation of JingShen Expressway for the Ministry of Transport of China Established procedures to process ITS data for performance evaluation and reporting for Beijing Transportation Research Center Strategic Highway Research Project (SHRP) 2 L05: Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into the Transportation Planning and Programming Processes for Federal Highway Administration, Forecasting Bicycle and Pedestrian Usage for Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO) of Texas Strategic Highway Research Project (SHRP) 2 L03: Analytic Procedures for Determining the Impacts of Reliability Mitigation Strategies Investigate the Use of Private Sector Traffic Data on Freeways and Arterial Streets in the Maricopa Association of Government (MAG) Region of Arizona FHWA s Mobility Monitoring Program, a national traffic congestion and reliability monitoring program that uses archived traffic operations data; Archived traffic data management and analysis for monitoring congestion in Dallas, Texas; developing congestion report for decision maker Texas Congestion Index (TCI) project which uses outputs from travel demand model to forecast congestion in the future years for all urban areas in Texas; Mobile source emissions modeling and estimation for all nonattainment areas in Texas. Tongbin Qu 3 Updated July, 2016

4 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS Qu, T., and T. Lomax. The Use of Speed Limit as Congestion Threshold for Performance Measures. Compendium of Papers, 1st International Road Federation Asia Regional Congress, Bali, Indonesia. November, Qu, T., and M. Martin. Demand analysis for a Bike Share System on the Texas A&M University Campus. Compendium of Papers, 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, National Academies, Washington, D.C. January Qu, T., D. Li, and J.P. Wikander. Mobility Performance Evaluation Using Toll Data for the Jingshen Expressway in China. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No.2451, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. 2014, pp Qu, T., D. Li, and J.P. Wikander. QUALITY CONTROL OF TOLL DATA FOR MOBILITY PERFORMANCE MEASURES ON THE JINGSHEN EXPRESSWAY IN CHINA. Compendium of Papers, 92nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, National Academies, Washington, D.C. January Turner, S.M. and T. Qu. Developing Twin Cities Arterial Mobility Performance Measures Using GPS Speed Data. May Qu, T. and T. Lomax. Traffic Congestion: Definition, Threshold, Performance Measurement and Investment Decisions. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG Heinrich- Böcking-Str , Saarbrücken, Germany. ISBN: Measurement/dp/ /ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid= &sr=8-1 Qu, T. and T. Lomax. The Worst Are Always the Worst: Why Congestion Threshold Speeds Don t Matter as a Decision-making Input. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No.2242, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. 2011, pp Qu, T. Investigating the Effect of Freeway Congestion Thresholds on Decision-making Inputs, University Transportation Center for Mobility, Texas Transportation Institute, Report UTCM , May Hudson, J., T. Qu, and S. Turner. Forecasting Bicycle and Pedestrian Usage and Research Data Collection Equipment. Report TTI P , Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, December 2010, Qu, T, D.G., Perkinson M. Boardman, and L.D. White and 2020 On-Road Episode Specific Emissions Inventories For All 254 Counties in Texas, Texas Transportation Institute Research Report, February Tongbin Qu 4 Updated July, 2016

5 Perkinson, D.G., T. Qu, M. Boardman, and L.D. White. Austin EAC Region On-Road Mobile Source Emissions Inventories: 2007, 2015, and Texas Transportation Institute Research Report, February Lomax, T.J., T. Qu, K.M. Hall, D. Ellis, D.G. Perkinson, J.D. Benson, L.D. White, B.S. Bochner. Development of a Texas Congestion Index S. Texas Transportation Institute, October Perkinson, D.G., M. Boardman, T. Qu, and L.D. White On-Road Mobile Source Air Toxics Emissions Inventories For All Texas Counties in Texas, Texas Transportation Institute Research Report, August D.G. Perkinson, T. Qu, L.D. White, M.E. Boardman. IAC-A: Beaumont-Port Arthur 8-hour Ozone Nonattainment County Emissions Estimates for Conformity Analysis of the Jefferson, Orange, and Hardin Regional Transportation Study Area Metropolitan Transportation Plan. Texas Department of Transportation, TX. November Qu, T., L. Rilett and J. Zietsman. Estimating the Impact of Freeway Speed Limits on Automobile Emissions. Compendium of Papers CD-ROM, 82nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, National Academies, Washington, D.C. January Spiegelman C., T. Qu, K. Zimmerman and M. Fontaine. Discussion of article Assessing the Impact of Speed-Limit Increases on Fatal Interstate Crashes by Sandy Balkin and J. Keith Ord., Journal of Transportation and Statistics, Volume 4 Number 1, April G. Dresser, T. Qu, and C. Bell, Gridded Mobile Source Emissions Estimates for the Houston- Galveston Nonattainment Counties to Support the Attainment Demonstration SIP, Texas Transportation Institute Research Report, December T. Qu, J. Borowiec and C. Bell, 1996, 1999, and 2007 Airport Emission Inventory, Texas Transportation Institute Technical Note, March Conference Podium/Poster Presentations EFFECTIVENESS ON STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING. Council of Landscape Architecture Conference, Utah, March 2016 The Use of Speed Limit as Congestion Threshold for Performance Measures. 1st International Road Federation Asia Regional Congress. Bali, Indonesia. November, 2014 Demand analysis for a Bike Share System on the Texas A&M University Campus. 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. January 2014 QUALITY CONTROL OF TOLL DATA FOR MOBILITY PERFORMANCE MEASURES ON THE JINGSHEN EXPRESSWAY IN CHINA. 92nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. January 2013 Tongbin Qu 5 Updated July, 2016

6 Investigating the Effect of Freeway Congestion Thresholds on Decision-making Inputs. 90th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. January 2011 TEACHING EXPERIENCE University Courses URPN310 Urban Analytical Methods, 2016 Present PLAN674 Transportation System Analysis, 2012 Present CVEN676 Urban Transportation Planning Lab, 2003 Invited Guest Lectures STAT684 in the Fall of 2011 and the Spring of 2012 URPN460 Germany Sustainable Community, May 2015 Invited Lectures in Chinese Universities and Research Institute China Academy of Transportation Science (CATS), March 2014, Intelligent Transportation System Center of China Research Institute of Highway, December2013, The World Bank Beijing Office, June 2013, TTI Mobility Work in China Beijing University of Technology, June 2013, Urban Mobility Analysis TongJi University, June 2010, Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning in the US ZheJiang University, June 2011, Introduction of Freeway Performance Measures Southeast University, November 2011, Investigating Freeway Congestion Thresholds Hehai University, November 2011, Investigating Freeway Congestion Thresholds Professional Training Workshops/Short Courses Beijing University, June 2014, Demand Analysis of non-motorized Transportation Tongbin Qu 6 Updated July, 2016

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