Fatemeh Ranaiefar
344 Monterey Rd., CA 91030
Cell: 949-355-1895 E-mail:
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Education
2009- 2013 PhD. in Transportation Science, University of California, Irvine.
2005- 2007 M.S.c. (Eng.) in Industrial Engineering, Socioeconomic
System Eng., Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
2000- 2004 B.Sc. (Eng.) in Industrial Engineering, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
Area of Expertise
Transportation demand modeling, multimodal freight transportation and modeling, transportation economics, Transportation data/ Big Data analysis, optimization and mathematical programming
Recent Work Experience
Oct. 2013-Present Transportation planner, Fehr and Peers Transportation Consulting
Objective: Develop passenger and freight transportation demand models for various clients and perform transportation impact studies for future projects.
Spring 2016- Part time Faculty at University of Southern California- Viterbi School of Engineering offering Graduate level course: “Modeling Transportation Network Supply and Demand”
i. Previous Work Experience:
2009 – 2013 Research Assistant, University of California, Irvine
Objective: developing California statewide freight model for Caltrans to forecast future heavy traffic on the California multi modal transportation network and provide a reliable tool to assess different policies.
My tasks:
a) Leading the effort to design and validate the demand model so that it can be used to provide reliable tools for regional and statewide freight movement analysis to develop new legislation, strategies, or plans relating to freight transportation.
b) Collect and prepare required data from more than fifty different online data sources and contacting MPOs, Ports and other agencies to collect data, their modeling results, future forecasts, and surveys.
c) Extensive data analysis with SPSS/ArcGIS/Excel to understand, explain, measure and visualize differences and relationships between industries and their commodity flow and their spatial characteristics.
d) Prepare combined zonal attributes table for base year and future scenarios using SQL queries and database tools to standardize and join several data sources.
e) Estimate the state of the art model with Matlab/AMOS-SPSS incorporating Structural Equation modeling and spatial econometric models in demand modeling.
f) Implement the model in CUBE using CUBE scripts where technically possible to do the operations and where not possible calling Python scripts.
g) Provide several presentations for MPOs, districts, ARB, Caltrans and training workshops and document for Caltrans. The training workshops are recorded and will be part of online educational freight planning package.
h) Provide guidelines for model maintenance and update.
i) Help Caltrans team to develop future scenarios.
j) Help PI to prepare quarterly project progress report using Microsoft Project.
2011 (Winter and Spring Quarter) Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine
Modeling, economics and management for civil engineers (Lab: using Excel for data analysis, regression, linear optimization models, Microsoft Project)
Traffic operations and control (Lab: Synchro)
2013 (Spring Quarter) Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine
Organized bi-weekly students seminars
2005 – 2008 Tarh-e-Now Andishan Consultant Co. (TNA).
· Iranian Commercial Ports Master plan studies
Objective: Revise/update the 12-Iranian commercial ports 20-year master plans for Ports and Shipping Organization of Iran. (joint project with Hamburg Port Consultant Company (HPC)).
My tasks:
a) Lead the study in 5 of the ports; analyze the ports from different aspects in order to propose software and hardware improvement plans.
b) Visit the ports and interview the ports’ staff, terminal operators, shipping lines, gate controls, regional authorities to investigate current situation of the port.
c) Study past 8 year data base of all the port activities and prepare statistical analysis of previous trends of activities including type of commodities imported or exported, vessels DWT destitution, general cargo and container terminal performances, passenger and cargo vessels arrival distributions, dwelling time/stevedoring distribution.
c) Document observations about each ports systems and marine transportation.
d) Prepare future requirements for each port based on the regional future development plans and official forecasts for economic growth
d) Work and coordinate closely with HPC team.
· Kish Commercial Port Master plan study
Objective: Revise/update ports master plan and requirements for three 5-year planning phases based on future demand forecasts for each phase. (Project PI was Pars Geometry consultant)
My tasks:
a) Visit the ports and interview the ports’ staff, terminal operators, regional authorities to investigate current situation of the port.
b) Estimate passenger and freight demand with temporal distribution for each planning phase based on different scenarios for regional expected economic growth.
· Management Consultant (MC) for Iranian Ports tariff structure review studies
Objective: Revise/update the tariff structure of Iranian ports based on financial considerations of each port and state of the art port pricing techniques.
My tasks:
a) Project assistant manager
b) Review all Iranian ports charges and dues and tariff system of important neighboring ports for last 20 years.
c) Evaluate the effect of previous tariff policies.
d) Propose guidelines for new tariff system in Iranian commercial ports that is competitive with major ports in other neighboring countries while considering the influence and importance of small ports on regional economy.
e) Investigate the performance of the entire system after execution of new tariff regime.
· Management and planning of Khuzestan Steel Company (KSC) transportation.
Objective: Study the requirements of material handling and internal transportation system for capacity increase plans in KSC, the second largest Iranian steel firm.
My tasks:
a) Lead a team to build a comprehensive simulation model of material flow in the firm to simulate and forecast the future performance of the company under different scenarios.
b) Estimate the requirements to fulfill KSC development plan for each scenario.
c) Propose the best location and optimum capacity of resting area for truck drivers to avoid waiting lines for loading/unloading in different plants and control traffic inside the firm.
d) Estimate the optimum share of the rail, road and conveyer system for transporting different materials considering the time and other technical limitations under each scenario.
· Iran National Steel Group (INSG) transportation Plan
Objective: Identify the requirements of internal material handling system for new development plan for INSG, the largest Iranian steel casting factory.
My tasks:
a) Lead a team to study and document all the material movements and products handling in the INSG. b) Lead a team of 45 people to survey all gates and internal movements for 3 days.
c) Build a simulation model to study the current system
d) Propose solutions to resolve bottlenecks and improve the system to facilitate the development plan.
Skills / Competencies
· Communication: skilled in communicating with people of all educational backgrounds and able to listen effectively without prejudice; has confident approach both face-to-face and over the telephone
· Teamwork: experienced in working closely with groups in order to support colleagues and provide a more efficient service to the team in general and the employer in particular
· Computer Skills :
o Experienced at: Python, MATLAB, CUBE, Synchro, SQL database, SPSS, Arc GIS, QGIS, Navicat, Excel analysis tools, Power point, Microsoft Project
o Familiar with: TransCad, AutoCAD, R programming, AMPL optimization, Primavera,
· Languages: Persian, German
Professional memberships and other activities
· A member of Women Transportation Seminar (WTS)
· A member of TRB Freight transportation planning/ research initiative sub-committee
Awards
· ENO Leadership Conference fellowship, June 2013
· Best paper award from freight planning and logistics committee, TRB 2013
· Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) Orange County graduate student award, 2012
· Railway Association of Southern California (RASC) scholarship award, 2012
· 4th TRANSLOG Canada best student paper award, 2012
· WTS Transportation Academy certificate of accomplishment, 2012
· Graduate Research Scholarship, University of California, Irvine, 2009-2013
Publications
· Ranaiefar F., J.Y. Chow, D. Rodriguez, P. Camargo, S.G. Ritchie (2013) “Geographic scalability and supply chain elasticity of a structural commodity generation model using public data” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, in press.
· Chow J.Y., A.C. Regan, F. Ranaiefar, D. Arkhipov (2011) “A network option portfolio management framework for adaptive transportation planning” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Vol. 45, Issue 8, pp 765-778.
· Ranaiefar F., A.C. Regan (2011) “Freight Transportation Externalities” in
“Logistics Operations and Management: Concepts and Models”, Editor: Reza Zanjirani Farahani, Shabnam Rezapour, Laleh Kardar, Elsevier, ch. 16. pp 333-358.
· Monfared M.A.S., F. Ranaiefar (2007) "Further Analysis and Developments of the Eshragh-Modares (E-M) Algorithm on statistical Estimation", Journal of Sharif University of Technology: Scientia Iranica, Vol. 14, No. 5 PP 425-234.
Dissertation
· Ranaiefar F. (2013) “Interregional Commodity Flow Model Using Structural Equation Modelling: Application to California State wide Freight Forecasting Model” PhD. Dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2013.
· Ranaiefar F. (2008) "Investigating time series data of intercity road's traffic flow network based on complex network methodology and data mining approaches", M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Conference Proceedings
· Ranaiefar F., Rixy A. (2015) Bike Sharing Ridership Forecast using Structural Equation Modeling, ” Proceedings of the 93rd TRB meeting, Washington D.C.
· Ranaiefar F., J.Y. Chow, M.G., McNally, S.G. Ritchie (2014) “Structural Direct Demand Model for Interregional Commodity Flow Forecasting” Proceedings of the 93rd TRB meeting, Washington D.C.
· Masoud N., F. Ranaiefar, M.G. McNally, D. Rodriguez-Roman, S.G. Ritchie (2014) “Alternative Method to Estimate Balancing Factors for Disaggregation of Origin-Destination Matrices” Proceedings of the 93rd TRB meeting, Washington D.C.
· Ranaiefar F., J.Y. Chow, S.G. Ritchie (2012) “A Structural Direct Demand Model for inter urban Commodity Distribution”, 4th TRANSLOG conference, Burlington, Canada.
· Chow J.Y., S.G. Ritchie, M. Zhao, F. Ranaiefar, S. You, A. Tok, M.G. McNally (2011) “A Conceptual Statewide Freight Forecasting Framework for California”, 4th METRANS national urban freight conference, Long Beach, California.
· Ranaiefar F., M. Chitsaz, R. Mohagheghzadeh, M.F. Ardakani (2009) “Material Flow Planning in Cellular Manufacturing Systems by Computer Simulation” Third UKSim European symposium on computer modelling and simulation, pp. 430-434.
· Ardakani M.F., F. Ranaiefar, R. Mohaghegh-zadeh (2008) "Material Flow Planning in Multimodal Manufacturing Systems by Computer Simulation". Second Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation, pp. 728-733
· Ranaiefar F., R. Mohagheghzadeh, A. Mamduhi (2006) “Validation and calibration methodology for the computer simulation model of transportation system in Khuzestan steel company” Second National Logistics Conference, Tehran, Iran. (Persian).
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