Saeid Saidi, University of Calgary

Research

Big Data Control and Management Decision Support Tool Empirical Analysis Macroscopic Modeling Network Modeling Public Transport Transit Operations

Latest papers

Impact of mobility on COVID-19 spread - A time series analysis.
Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives · 2022 · senior author
Integrating COVID-19 health risks into crowding costs for transit schedule planning.
Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives · 2022

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Urban Transit System Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Management Using Mobility Sensing Data
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$130,000
Urban Transit System Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Management Using Mobility Sensing Data
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$12,500
Transit service Improvements to cope with COVID-19_x000d_ _x000d_ _x000d_
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$50,000

All 3 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Impact of mobility on COVID-19 spread - A time series analysis.

Zargari F, Aminpour N, Ahmadian MA, Samimi A, Saidi S

Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2022.100567 PMID: 35187468

02

Integrating COVID-19 health risks into crowding costs for transit schedule planning.

Devasurendra KW, Saidi S, Wirasinghe SC, Kattan L

Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2021.100522 PMID: 34957387

Urban Transit System Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Management Using Mobility Sensing Data

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Saidi, Saeid

Keywords: public transport; urban rail transit; transit operations; transit planning; big data; control and management; network modeling; empirical analysis; macroscopic modeling; decision support tool

$130,000

Urban Transit System Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Management Using Mobility Sensing Data

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Saidi, Saeid

$12,500

Transit service Improvements to cope with COVID-19_x000d_ _x000d_ _x000d_

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Kattan, Lina

$50,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Lina Kattan

Civil Engineering

1 shared papers, latest 2022

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Big Data Dear Professor Saidi, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Impact of mobility on COVID-19 spread - A time series analysis." (2022), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Urban Transit System Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Management Using Mobility Sensing Data" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]