Hackney, Jeremy Keith, Dr.

Dr. Jeremy Keith Hackney

Main focus

• Integration of social networks and travel decisions: multi agent-based dynamics
• Spatial analysis: statistical modelling
• Discrete choice modelling: Mode and destination choice for long-distance journeys
• GPS speed measurements

Teaching

• SS 2004-2006: Transport Planning 1 Statistics
• 2004, 2006 Advising of two Bachelor's Thesis Projects

Projects

2008-

Travel impacts of social networks and social networking tools (VW Endowment)

2006-2008

Travel behavior in a dynamic spatial and social context (Swiss National Fund)

2004-2006

Optimizing the Use of Partial Information in Urban and Regional Systems (OPUS) (European Union)

2004-2005

Traffic Monitoring in Kanton Zürich: measurement and extrapolation of public and private vehicle speeds

2003-2005

European Dataset for Long-Distance Travel (ETIS BASE)

Dissertation Title

Modelling the interdependence of social networks and activity spaces

Work

since 5/2003

Research Assistant, IVT ETH Zürich

2000-2003

Associate Scientist, NCAR, Boulder Colorado USA Climate Modeling and Societal Impacts the National Center for Atmospheric Research

1998

Associate Scientist, NCAR, Boulder Colorado USA Upper Atmosphere Modeling the National Center for Atmospheric Research

1996

Summer Intern, Planning and Engineering, Regional Transportation District in Denver, Colorado, USA

Education and Activities during Studies

1999

Paul Seydel Fulbright Fellow, Interdisciplinary Center for General Ecology, University of Berne. Project: The Use of Lightweight Electric Vehicles in Traffic (LEM Forschungs- und Förderprogramm), Switzerland

1995-1997

M.Sc. Civil Engineering (Technology Policy) an der Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Thesis: Alternative Fuel Vehicle Policy: A Lifecycle Analysis Tool for Emissions, Cost, and Energy Efficiency.

1997

Research and Teaching Assistant, MIT, Alternative Fuel Vehicle Technology and Policy

1996

Research Assistant, MIT, Color Vision Traffic Sensor

1994

Non-degree language studies at the Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy

1989-1993

B.Sc. Engineering Physics and Magna Cum Laude Physics, University of Colorado, Thesis: Snow Crystal Fabrics in Ski Tracks

1991-1994

Student Assistant, Doppler Weather Radar Imaging, National Center for Atmospheric Research

1988-1989

Rotary Scholar, Innsbruck, Austria

Peer Review Publications

• Hackney, J.K. and F. Marchal (2008) A Model for Coupling Multi-Agent Social Interactions and Traffic Simulation, accepted for poster at the 88th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2009.
• Hackney, J. and F. Marchal (2007) Model for Coupling Multi-Agent Social Interactions and Traffic Simulation, Conference paper Frontiers of Transportation 2007, Zürich, September 2007.
• Hackney, J.K., M. Bernard, S. Bindra and K.W. Axhausen (2007) Predicting road system speeds using spatial structure variables and network characteristics, Journal of Geographical Systems, 9 (4) 397-417.
• Hackney, J.K., M. Bernard and K.W. Axhausen (2007) Prediction of road speeds with regional structure variables and network information, paper presented at the 11th World Conference of Transport Research, Berkeley, June 2007.
• Szimba, E., K.W. Axhausen, J.K. Hackney and M. Kraft (2007) Passenger rail tariffs in Europe: An approach for modeling direct user costs under consideration of market segment and country-specific peculiarities, paper presented at the 11th World Conference of Transport Research, Berkeley, June 2007.
• Hackney, J.K., M. Bernard and K.W. Axhausen (2006) Explaining road speeds with spatial lag and spatial error regression models, paper presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 2007.
• Hackney, J. K. and Kay W. Axhausen (2006) An agent model of social network and travel behavior interdependence, paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Kyoto, August 2006.
• Marchal,F., J.K. Hackney, and K.W. Axhausen (2006) Efficient map-matching of large GPS data sets - Tests on a speed monitoring experiment in Zurich, Transportation Research Record, 1935, 93-100.
• Hackney, J.K., (2003): Report of the Workshop on Increasing the Value of Weather Information in the Operation of the Electric Power System. Boulder, CO: Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Download
• Collins, W.D., J.K. Hackney, and D.P. Edwards, (2002) An updated parameterization for infrared emission and absorption by water vapor in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Atmosphere Model. J. Geophys. Res., 107(D22), 4664-4684.
• Hackney, J.K. and R. de Neufville (2001) Lifecycle model of alternative fuel vehicles: Emissions, energy, and cost tradeoffs, Transportation Research Part A, 35(3),243-266.
• Hagan, M. E., M. D. Burrage, J. M. Forbes, J.K. Hackney, W. J. Randel, and X. Zhang (1999), QBO Effects on the diurnal tide in the upper atmosphere, J. Earth Planets Space, 51(7), 571-578.
• Hagan, M. E., M. D. Burrage, J. M. Forbes, J.K. Hackney, W. J. Randel, and X. Zhang (1998), GSWM-98: Results for migrating solar tides, J. Geophys. Res.,104(A4), 6813-6828.
• Chachich, A. A. Pau, A. Barber, K. Kennedy, E. Oleiniczak, J.Hackney, Q. Sun, E. Mireles (1997), Traffic sensor using a color vision method, Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, 2902, 156-164.

Working papers and presentations (downloadable from IVT)

• Hackney, J.K. (2008), Validation results from a multi-agent simulation of coupled travel and social behavior, Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences, Zurich, August 2008, presentations of the Transportation Planning and Systems Group, 225, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J. and F. Marchal (2008) A Model for Coupling Multi-Agent Social Interactions and Traffic Simulation, Working papers of the Transportation Planning and -Systems Group, 516, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Kowald,M., J.K. Hackney and A. Frei (2008) Mögliche Vorgehensweisen zur Erhebung sozialer Netzwerkdaten durch die iterative Kombination ego-zentrierter Netzwerke, Working papers of the Transportation Planning and -Systems Group, 506, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney,J.K and F. Marchal (2007) Model for Coupling Multi-Agent Social Interactions and Traffic Simulation, Working papers of the Transportation Planning and -Systems Group, 461, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Szimba, E., K.W. Axhausen, J.K. Hackney and M. Kraft (2007) Passenger rail tariffs in Europe: An approach for modeling direct user costs under consideration of market segment and country-specific peculiarities, Working papers of the Transportation Planning and -Systems Group, 418, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Bernard, M., J.K. Hackney and K.W. Axhausen (2006) Correlation of link travel speeds, Working papers of the Transportation Planning and -Systems Group, 399, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J.K., M. Bernard and K.W. Axhausen (2006) Predicting link speeds with floating car data, presentation at the Urban Data Committee, Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January 2006 , presentations of the Transportation Planning and Systems Group, 163, IVT.
• Hackney, J.K. (2006) Results of discrete choice models for long-distance travel based on the DATELINE survey, Working papers of the Transportation Planning and -Systems Group, 396, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J. K. and K. W. Axhausen (2006) An agent model of social network and travel behavior interdependence, Working papers of the Transportation Planning and -Systems Group, 380, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich
• Hackney, J.K., M. Bernard, S. Bindra and K.W. Axhausen (2006) Explaining road speeds with spatial lag and spatial error regression models, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 379, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J.K. und M. Bernard (2005) Vorhersage der mittleren Geschwindigkeiten mit Planungsdaten: Neue Nutzungen von FCD-Daten, IVT-Seminar, ETHZ, Zürich, Dezember 2005, presentations of the Transportation Planning and Systems Group, 158, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J.K. and K.W. Axhausen (2005) Public transport speeds in the Kanton Zürich, 5th STRC, Ascona, March 2005, presentations of the Transportation Planning and Systems Group, 124, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J.K., M.Bernard, S. Bindra and Axhausen K.W. (2006) Prediction of road speed with regional structure variables, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 351, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J.K. (2005) Coevolving Social and Transportation Networks , Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 335, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J.K. (2005) Coevolving Social and Transportation Networks , Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 335, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
  Hackney, J.K. (2005) Results of Discrete Choice Models for Long-Distance Travel based on the DATELINE Survey, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 334, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J.K. (2004) Measures of rail impedance in the improved IVT European rail model , Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 262, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J.K. und K.W. Axhausen (2004) Qualität des Verkehrsangebots: ÖV, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 257, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J.K., F. Marchal and K.W. Axhausen (2004) Monitoring a road system’s level of service: The Canton Zurich floating car study 2003, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 246, (IVT), ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Hackney, J.K., Z. Oblozinska und K.W. Axhausen (2004) Qualität des Verkehrsangebots: mIV Endbericht, Bericht an das Amt für Verkehr des Kantons Zürich, Arbeitsbericht Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 213, (IVT), ETH Zürich, Zürich.