Natalia Barbour - Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida
My research interests include travel behavior related to shared and new mobility adoption and usage patterns, safety, nexus between health and transportation, and cycling.
Dr. Natalia Barbour is an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida where she studies transportation safety and travel behavior. Prior to joining UCF, she was an assistant professor of transport and energy at Delft University of Technology. She taught courses on transportation systems and climate change mitigation and authored a book chapter on transport and its environmental impacts (chapter 10 available here). Together with other TU Delft scientists, Dr. Barbour recorded an online educational program on edX Climate-Neutral World: Theory, Applications and Taking Action, where she taught two weeks on cities, transport, and climate mitigation. Prior to joining TU Delft she was a Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she led the development of New Mobility course for MIT edX platform and collaborated with experts from around the world on how to leverage mobility disruptions to create better cities.
She graduated with her doctorate from the University of South Florida where she used statistical and econometric models to study the adoption and usage patterns of new transportation systems such as bike-sharing, ride-sourcing, and shared automated vehicles.
She is serving on the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports and is a guest editor of the special Collection: Sustainable Transportation and Mobility Solutions.
research interests
My research interests recognize the multidisciplinary nature of transportation. I incorporate non-standard variables together with socio-demographic and travel behavior factors to develop advanced econometric models that allow to gain insights into how different users make decisions relating to their mobility.
I explore a variety of topics in transportation safety, technology adoption, and non-motorized transportation modes.
I also aim to study transportation systems and mobility through the lens of social justice and equity.
recent publications
Barbour, N., Abdel-Aty, M., Yang, S., Mannering, F., 2024 Pedestrian injury severities resulting from vehicle/pedestrian intersection crashes: An assessment of COVID-contributing temporal shifts. Analytic Methods in Accident Research 43, 100334.
Barbour, N., Abdel-Aty, M., Mannering, F., 2024. Retaining the transportation benefits of COVID-19 induced work from home: Understanding the role of worker productivity. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. (link)
Bakhuis, J., Kamp, L., Barbour, N., Chappin, E., 2024. Frameworks for multi-system innovation analysis from a sociotechnical perspective: A systematic literature review. Technological Forecasting & Social Change 201, 123266. (link)
Barbour, N., Abdel-Aty, M., Sevim, A., 2024. Intended work from home frequency after the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of socio-demographic, psychological, disability, and work-related factors. Transportation Research Part A 179, 103923. (link)
education
B.S., Physics (2008)
Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland)
M.S.C.E., Transportation Eng. (2014)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ph.D., Transportation Eng. (2019)
University of South Florida
Postdoctoral Associate (2019-2020)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology