Biography
Xia Jin is a professor and the graduate program director with the Civil & Environmental Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). Jin has around 20 years of professional and academic experience in transportation planning. She is the director of the Travel Behavior and System Modeling lab at the FIU.
Her research areas include human and freight mobility behavior analysis, travel demand forecasting, emerging mobility options and vehicle technologies, stated preference surveys, the impacts of e-commerce and telecommuting on travel demand, and freight mobility and safety analysis. Jin has served as the principal investigator for various transportation planning projects sponsored by the Florida Department of Transportation (DOT), the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), and the United States DOT, with a total of $4 million in research funding.
She has more than 70 journal publications and 100 conference proceedings. Jin has served on various committees for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies and various panels for the NCHRP. Jin holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and a Master of Urban Planning and Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is also a professionally certified planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).
Awards & Honors
- Educator of the Year, Women’s Transportation Semina (WTS) South Florida Chapter, 2024
- Faculty Award for Excellence in Research & Creative Activities, Florida International University, 2020
- Faculty Mentorship Award, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, 2019/2020
- Best Paper Award from the Freight Planning and Logistics Committee: Value of Reliability for Road Freight Transportation: Evidence from a Stated Preference Survey in Florida, 2017
- Best Paper at the 16th Transportation Planning Applications Conference: Incorporating User Heterogeneity in Value of Time (VOT) and Value of Reliability (VOR) for Manage Lanes, 2017
Education
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2007
- MUP, Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004
- MS, Civil Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004
- BS, Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China, 2000