dr. Tanhua Jin

Visiting Fellow, School of Business and Economics, Spatial Economics

Personal information

Tanhua Jin is a full-time postdoc researcher at the Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is funded by an EU project (ENHANCE) supervised by Eric Koomen and Erik Verhoef. Her work relates to understanding the barriers to the application of 15-minute city principles in urban outskirts and providing evidence to improve local planning and decision-making.

Tanhua received her PhD degree in Geography from Ghent University, Belgium. Tanhua is also a candidate of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Urban Mobility Doctoral Training Network (DTN), as well as an academic guest at ETH Zurich from Feb to July, 2023. Her research interests focus on travel behavior modeling with the application of big data and Machine Learning.

Research

Tanhua's research interests focus on accessibility, transportation equity, and integration between travel behavior and the built environment.

During her PhD, she analyzed the nonlinear built environment effects on the utilization of shared mobility using real-world trip record data, regarding different scenarios, such as shared mobility acting as feeder modes to connect metro systems, older adults' usage, and the pandemic effect.

Tanhua has developed the ability to model travel behavior using Machine Learning methods, as well as advanced statistical methods using GIS, Python and R. She is especially good at collecting, processing, visualizing and analyzing big spatiotemporal data.

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