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Andisheh Ranjbari

Tracy Early Career Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Larson Transportation Institute

276 ECoRE Building

ranjbari@psu.edu

814-863-4291

Research Website

Research Areas:

Transportation Engineering

Interest Areas:

Public Transportation; Shared Mobility; Urban Freight; Curbside Management; Travel Behavior Analysis; Transportation Network Modeling

 
 

 

Education

  • B.Sc., Civil Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, 2008
  • M.Sc., Transportation Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2011
  • Ph.D., Transportation Engineering, University of Arizona, 2018

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Andisheh Ranjbari and Jorge M. Diaz-Gutierrez, 2026, "Elucidating the Impacts of Zero-Fare Policy on Security Incident Frequency in Transit Systems", Transport Policy, 185, (104145)
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Yujun Liu, Syed Baqir Ul Husnain, Logan Deeter, Hisham Jashami, David Hurwitz, Anne Goodchild and Edward McCormack, 2026, "Assessing Urban Curbside Parking for Commercial Vehicles: Simulation and Policy Insights", Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 37, (101955)
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Jorge M. Diaz-Gutierrez, Tom Maxner, Nawaf Nazir and Nicola Longo, 2025, "Evaluating the Impacts of Variable Message Signs on Airport Curbside Performance Using Microsimulation", Transportation Research Record
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Jorge M. Diaz-Gutierrez, Nawaf Nazir and Nicola Longo, 2025, "Mitigating Airport Congestion through Variable Message Signs and Model Predictive Control Algorithms", Transportmetrica A: Transport Science
  • Andisheh Ranjbari and Helia Mohammadi-Mavi, 2025, "Leveraging Machine Learning to Predict Rural-Urban Carpooling Decisions Given Monetary Incentives", Case Studies on Transport Policy, 20, pp. 101442
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Helia Mohammadi-Mavi and Mustafa Fardin, 2025, "Should We Blame COVID-19 for the Decline in Transit Ridership, or Was It Merely a Stimulant?", Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  • Andisheh Ranjbari and Jorge M. Diaz-Gutierrez, 2024, "How Effective Are Fixed-Effects Models in Fixing the Transit Supply-Demand Bidirectional Interaction?", Transportation Letters, 17, (7), pp. 1199–1212
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Helia Mohammadi-Mavi, S. Ilgin Guler and Vikash V. Gayah, 2024, "What Does It Take for Rural-Urban Commuters to Switch from Driving to Carpooling?", Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 107, pp. 803-819
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Parastoo Jabbari, Paul Leiby and Don MacKenzie, 2024, "Value of Travel Time is Lower When Being Driven than when Driving Oneself", Transport Findings
  • Andisheh Ranjbari and Jorge M. Diaz-Gutierrez, 2024, "Fare Sensitivity at Point Zero: How Fare-Free Transit Riders React to Fare Reinstatement and Service Change", Transportation
  • Andisheh Ranjbari and Jorge M. Diaz-Gutierrez, 2024, "Assessing Ridership Impacts of Fare-Free Transit Policies through Agency- and Neighborhood-Level Models", Journal of Public Transportation
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Tom Maxner, Seyma Gunes and Chase P. Dowling, 2023, "Simulation-based Analysis of Different Curb Space Type Allocations on Curb Performance", Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, 11, (1), pp. 1384-1405
  • Jorge M. Diaz-Gutierrez, Helia Mohammadi-Mavi and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2023, "COVID-19 Impacts on Online and In-store Shopping Behaviors: Why They Happened and Whether They Will Last Post Pandemic", Transportation Research Record
  • Giacomo Dalla Chiara, Caleb Diehl, Anne Goodchild and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2023, "Do Parcel Lockers Reduce Delivery Times? Evidence from the Field", Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation, 172
  • Giacomo Dalla Chiara, Klaas Fiete Krutein, Anne Goodchild and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2022, "Providing Curb Availability Information to Delivery Drivers Reduces Cruising for Parking", Scientific Reports (by Nature), 12, (1), pp. 1-11
  • Giacomo Dalla Chiara, Caleb Diehl, Anne Goodchild and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2022, "What is the Right Parcel Locker Size for a Residential Building?", Transportation Research Record, 2677, (3)
  • Zack Aemmer, Don MacKenzie and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2022, "Measurement and Classification of Transit Delays Using GTFS-RT Data", Public Transport, 14, (2), pp. 263-285
  • Chase P. Dowling, Tom Maxner and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2022, "An Empirical Taxonomy of Common Curb Zoning Configurations in Seattle", Transport Findings, pp. 263-285
  • Giacomo Dalla Chiara, Klaas Fiete Krutein, Anne Goodchild and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2021, "Understanding Urban Commercial Vehicle Driver Behaviors and Decision Making", Transportation Research Record, 2675, (9), pp. 608-619
  • Caleb Diehl, Anne Goodchild and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2021, "Curbside Management Challenges and Opportunities from Public and Private Sector Perspectives", Transportation Research Record, 2675, (11), pp. 1413-1427
  • Moein Khaloei, Don MacKenzie, Ken Laberteaux and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2021, "Analyzing the Effect of Autonomous Ridehailing on Transit Ridership: Competitor or Desirable First/Last Mile Connection?", Transportation Research Record, 2675, (11), pp. 1154-1167
  • Xiao Wen, Don MacKenzie, Regina Clewlow, Fan Qi and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2021, "Challenges in Credibly Estimating the Travel Demand Effects of Mobility Services", Transport Policy, 103, pp. 224-235
  • Giacomo Dalla Chiara, Jose Luis Machado-Leon, Anne Goodchild, Don MacKenzie and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2021, "Testing Curbside Management Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Ridesourcing Services on Traffic", Transportation Research Record, 2675, (2), pp. 219-232
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Mark Hickman and Yi-Chang Chiu, 2020, "A Network Design Problem Formulation and Solution Procedure for Intercity Transit Services", Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 16, (3), pp. 1156-1175
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Mark Hickman and Yi-Chang Chiu, 2020, "Network Design with Elastic Demand and Dynamic Passenger Assignment to Assess the Performance of Transit Services", Journal of Advanced Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 146, (5), pp. 04020030
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Yanbo Ge, Elyse Lewis, Eric Barber and Don MacKenzie, 2019, "Defining Psychometric Variables Related to the Use of Autonomous Vehicles", Transportation Research Record, 2673, (12), pp. 655-669
  • Jingya Gao, Don MacKenzie and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2019, "Would Being Driven by Others Affect the Value of Travel Time? Ridehailing as an Analogy for Automated Vehicles", Transportation, 6, (6), pp. 2103-2116
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Mark Hickman and Yi-Chang Chiu, 2017, "Exploring Factors Affecting Demand for Possible Future Intercity Transit Options", Public Transport, 9, (1), pp. 463-481
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Ali Tavakoli Kashani and Afshin Shariat-Mohaymany, 2012, "Analysis of Factors Associated with Traffic Injury Severity on Rural Roads in Iran", Journal of Injury and Violence Research, 4, (1), pp. 36-41
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Ali Tavakoli-Kashani, Afshin Shariat-Mohaymany and Hadi Nosrati, 2011, "Identifying Significant Predictors of Head-on Conflicts on Two-lane Rural Roads Using Inductive Loop Detectors Data", Traffic Injury Prevention, 12, (6), pp. 636-641
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, S. M. Mahdi Amiripour and Afshin Shariat-Mohaymany, 2011, "Transit Network Design: The Necessity of Elastic Demand Consideration", Advanced Transportation, 97-98, pp. 1117-1122
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Ali Tavakoli Kashani and Afshin Shariat-Mohaymany, 2011, "A Data Mining Approach to Identify Key Factors of Traffic Injury Severity", PROMET–Traffic & Transportation, 23, (1), pp. 11-17
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Ali Tavakoli Kashani and Afshin Shariat Mohaymany, 2010, "Identifying Driver Characteristics Influencing Overtaking Crashes", Traffic Injury Prevention, 11, (4), pp. 411-416

Conference Proceedings

  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Helia Mohammadi-Mavi and Jorge Diaz-Gutierrez, 2025, "Clustering Transit Agencies by Network and Operational Data to Improve Ridership ML-based Models", 104th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
  • Andisheh Ranjbari and Helia Mohammadi-Mavi, 2025, "Will Monetary Incentives Encourage Carpooling for Rural-Urban Commutes? Insights from a Machine Learning Study", 104th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
  • Andisheh Ranjbari and Jorge M. Diaz-Gutierrez, 2025, "Assessing Ridership Impacts of Fare-Free Transit Policies through Agency- and Route-level Models", Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT)
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Jorge M. Diaz-Gutierrez and Helia Mohammadi-Mavi, 2025, "Enhancing Transit Ridership Prediction With A Publicly Accessible Machine Learning Tool", Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT)
  • Andisheh Ranjbari and Jorge M. Diaz-Gutierrez, 2024, "How Effective Are Fixed-Effects Models in Fixing the Transit Supply-Demand Bidirectional Interaction?", 103rd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Jorge M. Diaz-Gutierrez, Tom Maxner and Nawaf Nazir, 2024, "Evaluating the Impacts of Variable Message Signs on Airport Curbside Performance Using Microsimulation", 103rd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Helia Mohammadi-Mavi, S. Ilgin Guler and Vikash V. Gayah, 2024, "What Does It Take for Rural-Urban Commuters to Switch from Driving to Carpooling?", 103rd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Lissa Melis and Vikash V. Gayah, 2024, "Delivering Efficiency: Joint Optimization of Parcel Locker Location and Configuration Considering Vehicle Routing and Flexible Delivery Alternatives", 103rd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Lissa Melis and Vikash V. Gayah, 2023, "Joint Parcel Locker Location and Configuration Problem Considering Vehicle Routing and Alternative Delivery Mechanisms", ORBEL 37 (37th annual conference of the Belgian Operational Research Society), 10, (1), pp. 43
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, James Koch, Chase P. Dowling, Tom Maxner and Vinay Amatya, 2023, "Physics-informed Machine Learning of Parameterized Fundamental Diagrams", 102nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Don MacKenzie and Zack Aemmer, 2023, "Synthetic Controls Evaluation of Transit Performance at Camera Enforced Intersections", 102nd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Panagiota Goulianou, Anne Goochild and Tom Maxner, 2022, "Urban Delivery Companies’ Needs and Preferences for Green Loading Zones Implementation: A Case Study of NYC", ASCE International Conference on Transportation and Development, ASCE, pp. 323-334
  • Alejandro Henao, Chase P. Dowling, Josh Sperling, Chris Hoehne, T Coleman, Scott Le Vine, Katie Wolf and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2022, "Turning Curb Data into Curb Policy Via a Bid-Rent Framework", 101st Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
  • Moein Khaloei, Don MacKenzie and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2020, "Analyzing the Shift in Travel Modes’ Market Shares with the Deployment of Autonomous Vehicle Technology", 99th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board
  • Parastoo Jabbari, Don MacKenzie and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2020, "How will Automated Vehicles Change Your Travel Patterns? Analyzing Mode Choices in a Home-to-Home Tour-based Model", 99th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board
  • Xiao Wen, Don MacKenzie, Yanbo Ge, Michiko Namazu and Andisheh Ranjbari, 2019, "A Randomized Encouragement Experiment to Measure the Causal Effects of Shared Mobility Services on Travel Behavior and Car Ownership", 98th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Mark Hickman and Yi-Chang Chiu, 2018, "A Mathematical Optimization Model for Solving the Intercity Transit Network Design Problem", International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transportation (CASPT)
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Mark Hickman and Yi-Chang Chiu, 2016, "Flexpress: A Flexible and Express Intercity Transit Service", ASCE International Conference on Transportation and Development, ASCE, pp. 513-524
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Yi-Chang Chiu and Mark Hickman, 2016, "Labels or Actual Alternatives’ Attribute Values? A Study of Choice Decisions in a Stated Preference Experiment", 95th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, Mark Hickman and Yi-Chang Chiu, 2015, "An interactive Preference Analysis Method for Evaluating Possible Intercity Transit Options", International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transportation (CASPT)
  • Andisheh Ranjbari, S. M. Mahdi Amiripour and Afshin Shariat-Mohaymany, 2012, "Bus Network Design Considering Elastic Demand: Case Study of Kashan", International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transportation (CASPT)

Research Projects

  • April 2024 - January 2025, "PennDOT Act 130 Reporting: Evaluating the Impact of Connected and Automated Vehicles to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," (Sponsor: COP: Department of Transportation).
  • February 2022 - September 2023, "A Data-driven Simulation Tool for Dynamic Curb Planning and Management," (Sponsor: Battelle - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory).
  • October 2022 - March 2023, "SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Novel shared transportation services to improve rural-urban commutes," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

Honors and Awards

  • Most Highly Downloaded Recent Publication, Transportation Research Record (TRR) Journal, December 2023
  • Best Practical Implications Paper, Transportation Research Board, Standing Committee on Urban Freight Transportation, 2021
  • Top 20 future leaders in transportation, Eno Center for Transportation (Washington, DC), 2016

Service

Service to Penn State:

  • Contributions to Programs to Enhance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Liaison, Accessibility Champion, August 2025 - December 2025
  • Committee Work, Committee Member, Outreach & Inclusion Committee, January 2025 - August 2026
  • Assistance to Student Organizations, Co-Advisor, Faculty Co-Advisor, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter, August 2023
  • Committee Work, Committee Member, Graduate Committee, August 2022 - August 2024
  • Assessment Activities, Judge, Fox Graduate School, March 2025

Service to External Organizations:

  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Committee Member, Member, Transportation Research Board, Standing Committee on Transit User Experience (AP016), June 2025 - April 2028
  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Other, Committee Member & Deputy Committee Research Coordinator, Transportation Research Board, Standing Committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting (AEP50), April 2024 - May 2025
  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Committee Member, Transportation Research Board, Standing Committee on Public Transportation Marketing and Fare Policy (AP030), April 2024 - May 2025
  • Voluntary Consultation and/or Advising, Advisor, Advisory Board, University Planned District Transportation Study (the 10-year update), November 2022 - December 2024
 


 

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