Tawit Sangveraphunsiri

PhD (2021)
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jitney-lite: a low-cost strategy for informal flexible feeder service with minimal technology
Advisors: Professor Mike Cassidy and Professor Carlos Daganzo

Ph.D. Candidate
Research: strategies for informal, low-cost flexible feeder service

PhD Transportation Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2022

MS Transportation Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2018

BE Industrial Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, 2016

Urban Mobility Tech Co. Ltd. - Present

• Operations Strategist

I believe that everyone has a dream, which will lead himself or herself to fulfill his or her reality. I always think about how our society can have a better transportation system, both for freight and people. As grown up in an emerging economic country, Thailand, there are plenty of problems, for example, an urban transportation system that seriously lacks first- and last-mile service.

When this kind of problem comes up in my mind, I always try to figure out how the country encounters these vital troubles and assemble the appropriate methods by integrating my experiences from the many countries I have visited. In 2016, after graduation from the undergraduate school of Engineering in Thailand, I decided to apply for the graduate program in Transportation Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley to find the solutions. UC Berkeley has widened my perspectives out of only the technical side because of the prosperity of multidisciplinary studies. The sociological issues in each city tend to play a significant role in the results of the policy implementation, especially transportation issues.

Currently, I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Transportation Engineering (Civil and Environmental Engineering). Apart from transportation studies, I am also widening my expertise towards other subjects that are (i) Industrial Engineering and Operation Research, (ii) City and Regional Planning, and (iii) Global Metropolitan Studies. All of my experiences, including my internship in the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning in Thailand, sparked how I can come up with a low-cost first- and last-mile solution for my hometown. My research is about low-cost strategies for informal operators to provide flexible feeder service in suburban areas. I hope my work can be a little part to help solve transportation systems in emerging economic countries, especially in Thailand. All of these inspirations always encourage me to continue doing my work to fulfill my dream in the future.