Dr. Lu Gao, Associate Professor of Construction Management, Director of Transportation Infrastructure Management System Lab

Department of Construction Management, College of Technology

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• Areas of expertise

  • Civil infrastructure management
  • Transportation system analysis
  • Pavement maintenance and rehabilitation
  • Construction safety

• Awards

  • Baker Hughes/Fluor Faculty Research Excellence Award (2014), University of Houston

  • Graduate School Fellowship, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin

  • Road Scholar Fellowship, 2011, International Road Federation (IRF)

  • Best Paper Award, 2010, 6th Annual Inter-University Symposium on Infrastructure Management (AISIM6)

  • Robert Herman Endowed Scholarship, 2009, The University of Texas at Austin

  • Tan Qin Tuan Scholarship, 2004, Singapore Government

• Publications

  • Dhatrak, O. and Gao, L. Modeling Economy of Scale in Maintenance Planning of Civil Infrastructure Networks, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, under review.
  • Saldarriaga, D., You, B., Gao, L., Qiao, F., and Li, Q. Evaluation of Transportation and Economic Impact of Short Line Railroads in Texas, Journal of Transportation Research Record, under review.
  • Gao, L. and Hong, F. Impacts of Seasonal and Annual Weather Variations on Network-Level Pavement Performance, Journal of International Pavement Engineering, under review.
  • Gao, L., Yao, Y., and Liang, W. (2016). Public Transit Customer Satisfaction Dimensions Discovery from Online Reviews, Urban Rail Transit, doi:10.1007/s40864-016-0042-0.
  • Zhang, Z. and Gao, L. (2016). A Nested Modeling Approach to Infrastructure Performance Characterization, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 1-7. doi:10.1080/10298436.2016.1172712 2 6. Gao, L. and Webb, C. (2016). Schedule Compression Impact on Construction Project Safety, Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2(4), 344-350. doi:10.15302/J-FEM-2015059
  • Gao, L., Smit, A., Prozzi, J., Buddhavarapu, P., Murhpy, M. and Song, L. (2015). Milled Pavement Texturing to Optimize Skid Improvements, Construction and Building Materials, 101(1), 602-610. doi:10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.10.077
  • Wu, H., Gao, L. and Zhang, Z. (2014). Analysis of Crash Data Using Quantile Regression for Counts, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, 140(4). doi:10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000650
  • Gao, L., and Eldin, N. (2014). Employers’ Expectations: A Probabilistic Text Mining Model. Procedia Engineering, 85, 175-182. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2014.10.542
  • Gao, L., and Zhang, Z. (2013). Management of pavement maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction through network partition. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, (2366), 59-63. doi:10.3141/2366-07.

  For more publications, see CV below.

• Patents

  • Not available.

• Grants and Funded Research

  • Principal Investigator, ”Synthesis of Service Life Prediction for Bridges in Texas”, Texas Department of Transportation, TxDOT 17-146, $59,705. 9/2016 to 8/2017.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, ”Investigating the Security of TxDOT’s Traffic Signal Systems”, Texas Department of Transportation, TxDOT 17-117, $173,800. 9/2016 to 8/2018.
  • Principal Investigator, ”Transportation and Economic Impact of Texas Shortline Railroads”, Texas Department of Transportation, TxDOT 0-6887, $297,252. 9/2015 to 9/2016.
  • Principal Investigator, ”Study of Short Term Skid Improvements by Light Texturing with a Milling Machine”, Texas Department of Transportation, TxDOT 0-6752, $297,468. 9/2012 - 9/2014. • Principal Investigator, ”Manage the Transportation System”, Texas Department of Transportation, TxDOT 6-0701, 2012, $75,000. 1/2012 to 8/2012.

• Curriculum Vitae

  • Dr. Lu Gao CV

• Contact information