Hyeon-Shic Shin is Project Manager and Research Scientist at the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management. He is also a Research Associate of the Minneta Transportation Institute of San Jose University. He is a transportation planner, with a Master's in Urban Planning from the University of Akron, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include pedestrian safety study, environmental justice, geographic information system application to transportation, and freight data and demand management.
Currently, he is Principal Investigator of several studies, including Pedestrian Safety and Potential High-Risk Groups in Large Central Cities: Issues, Tools, and Policy, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA); Pedestrian Fatality and Severe Injury Crashes in New York City, sponsored by the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), and Defining the Shared Goals of the NYMTC Principals and Related Future Trends, sponsored by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC), and . In addition, he is involved in a NYMTC-sponsored study, Feasibility of Freight Villages in the NYMTC Regions, Integrative Freight Demand Management in the New York City Metropolitan Area that is sponsored by Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), and Best Practices for Context Sensitive Solutions in Urban Areas sponsored by the Minneta Transportation Institute.
Before joining the Rudin Center in May 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Connecticut Transportation Institute (CTI) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the University of Connecticut (2005-2007). He conducted studies on the optimal Freight Analysis Zone (FAZ) design using Geographic Information System (GIS); the development of a GIS-based user interface for a roadway accident model; a spatial and temporal transferability study of household travel survey data; and an online household travel survey for the Connecticut Department of Transportation.
During his Ph.D. course work, he was involved in a variety of projects as a research assistant for the Urban Transportation Center (UTC) at the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, the University of Illinois at Chicago (2000-2005). He conducted research on the development of a disaggregated Truck Trip Generation (TTG) Model of retail industry; truck size and weight study for the Illinois Department of Transportation; knowledge discovery in civil infrastructure database; and a public private partnership case study.
He was a co-instructor of an introductory course on Urban Transportation at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also taught Decision Analysis in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut.
