I am very glad that Wenhua has been confirmed PhD. Her research topic is “Short-term passenger demand prediction and crowd management for special events” supervised by Dr. Nan Zheng, Dr. Paul Reichl, and me. The chair (Prof. Hai Vu) and the pannels (Dr. Kun An and Dr. Ha Bui) were served for this event. Congratulation Wenhua and keep it up!!

A big congrats for Xinyuan on passing the final review. Prof. Graham Currie as a chair, Dr. Nan Zheng and Dr. Qianbing Zhang as panel members are served for this milestone. Good luck for your PhD thesis and job hunting!!

Well done TUPA on TRB 2019. 5 papers accepted this round. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 98th Annual Meeting will be held January 13–17, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C. The information-packed program is expected to attract more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world.

• Chunliang Wu, Exploring the relationship between built environment and public sharing bike flow in Suzhou, China using geographically weighted regression model
• Wenhua Jiang, Imputation of missing transfer passenger flow with self-measuring multi-task gaussian process
• Meina Zheng, An analysis of short-term available parking space forecasting method based on LSTM neural network
• Duy Nguyen-Phuoc, Turn signal use among car drivers and motorcyclists at intersections: a case study of Danang, Vietnam
• Khaled Sabban, Inhi Kim, User Satisfaction of the Road Network: A Structural Equation Model