Dan McCabe, Ph.D. Transportation, Energy, Operations Research

Dan McCabe

dmccabe@uw.edu

www.linkedin.com/in/danielpmccabe

Education

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2024

Visiting Ph.D. Student, Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (March-September 2023)

M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2021

B.S., Engineering, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, 2017

Honors

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2019-2024

Valle Scholarship & Scandinavian Exchange, 2023

C2SMART Center Student of the Year, 2020

Harvey Mudd College Lewis Fellowship in Engineering Professional Practice, 2015

Experience

Research Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2019-2024)

Post-Bachelor’s Research Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland & Seattle, WA (2017-2019)

Technical Intern, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA (2016)

Teaching

CET 513: Transportation Networks & Optimization, University of Washington, Autumn 2022 (sole instructor)

Publications

McCabe, D. Computational Tools for Battery-Electric Bus Systems: From Infrastructure Planning to Daily Operations. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 2024. Available here via Proquest.

McCabe, D., X.J. Ban., and B. Kulcsár. Recharging Scheduling for Electric Buses with Exact Delay Propagation. Under revision for Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. arXiv preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17527.

McCabe, D. and X.J. Ban. Optimal Locations and Sizes of Layover Charging Stations for Electric Buses. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 152 (2023): 104157.

McCabe, D. Selecting Layover Charging Locations for Battery-Electric Buses: Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Models. Master’s thesis, University of Washington, 2021. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/47413

Presentations & Posters

McCabe, D. and X.J. Ban. Zero-Emission Bus Range & Recharging Assessment (ZEBRA). Poster presentation at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2024.

McCabe, D. and X.J. Ban. ZEBRA: A Public Screening Tool for Electrifying Transit Fleets. Poster presentation at PacTrans Region 10 Transportation Conference, Seattle, WA, 2023.

McCabe, D. and X.J. Ban. Optimal Location and Sizing of Layover Charging Stations for Electric Buses. Presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2022. \newline

McCabe, D. and X.J. Ban. Optimization Model for Battery-Electric Bus Charging Infrastructure Location. Presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (virtual), 2021.

Fan, R., McCabe, D., and X.J. Ban. A General Equilibrium Model for Integrated CAV Ridesourcing and Transit Services for the Morning Commute. Presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (virtual), 2021.

Academic Service

Reviewer for:

  • Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
  • Transportation Research Part D: Transport & Environment
  • Transportation Research Board Annual Meeeting (2021-2024)
  • 8th International Symposium on Dynamic Traffic Assignment (2021)