Xinyu (Jason) Cao

About Xinyu (Jason) Cao

Dr. Cao specializes in land use and transportation interactions and satisfaction research. He is internationally well known for his work on the residential self-selection issue in land use & travel behavior research. Recently, he has initiated and nurtured machine learning applications in addressing nonlinear relationships between variables.

Selected Publications

• Cao, Jason, and Tao Tao. 2023. Using machine-learning models to understand nonlinear relationships between land use and travel. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 123:103930
• Fan, Lingyun, Jason Cao, Miaomiao Hu, and Chun Yin. 2022. Exploring the importance of neighborhood characteristics to and their nonlinear effects on life satisfaction of displaced senior farmers. Cities 124:103605.
• Ding, Chuan, Xinyu Cao, and Petter Næss. 2018. Applying gradient boosting decision trees to examine non-linear effects of the built environment on driving distance in Oslo. Transportation Research Part A 110:107-117.
• Cao, Xinyu, Patricia L. Mokhtarian, and Susan L. Handy. 2009. Examining the Impacts of Residential Self-Selection on Travel Behaviour: A Focus on Empirical Findings. Transport Reviews 29 (3):359-395.

Recent Courses Taught

• Urban Transportation Planning and Policy
• Transit Planning and Management
• Sustainable Transportation
• Statistics for Planning