Lewis J. Lehe
Primary Research Area
- Transportation Engineering
Research Areas
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Biography
Lewis Lehe received his B.Phil. in Mathematics-Economics from University of Pittsburgh, an M.A. in Transport Economics from University of Leeds (in the UK), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Berkeley. He is now Assistant Professor in the Transportation Systems group of the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at UIUC.
Education
- University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2016
- University of California, Berkeley, M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2013
- University of Leeds, M.A. Transport Economics, 2012
- University of Pittsburgh, B.Phil. Mathematics-Economics, 2010
Academic Positions
- Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018-present
Other Professional Employment
- Web Developer, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 2017-2018
Research Interests
- transportation pricing
- urban traffic
- traffic theory
- transportation economics
Primary Research Area
- Transportation Engineering
Research Areas
Selected Articles in Journals
- Lehe, LJ. (2020) "Winners and losers from road pricing with heterogeneous travelers and a mixed-traffic bus alternative." Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 139, 432-446.
- Lehe, L.J and Pandey, A. (2020) "Hyperdemand: a static traffic model with backward-bending demand curves." Economics of Transportation 24.
- Lehe, L. (2019). "Downtown congestion pricing in practice." Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 100, 200-223.
- Lehe, L. (2018) "How minimum parking requirements make housing more expensive." Journal of Transport and Land Use 11 (1), 1309-1321.
- Daganzo, C.F., Lehe, L.J., and Argote-Cabanero, J. (2018) "Adaptive offsets for signalized streets." Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 117, 926-934.
- Lehe, L.J. (2017) "Downtown tolls and the distribution of trip lengths." Economics of Transportation 11, 23-32.
- Lehe, L. (2017) "Feedback and the use of land for parking." Journal of Transport and Land Use 10 (1), 463-476.
- Daganzo, C.F. and Lehe, L.J. (2016) "Traffic flow on signalized streets." Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 90, 56-69.
- Daganzo, C.F. and Lehe, L.J. (2015) "Distance-dependent congestion pricing for downtown zones." Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 75, 89-99.
Teaching Honors
- Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students: CEE 310 Transportation Engineering (Fall 2021)
- Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students: CEE 498TE Transportation Economics (Spring 2020)
Research Honors
- Ove Arup Transport Studies Prize for Best Transport Dissertation, University of Leeds (2012)
- Gordon F. Newell Award for Excellence in Transportation Science, UC Berkeley (2016)