Publications
For an up-to-date list of publications, please see Dr. Carrel’s Google Scholar profile.
Selected research projects
Effect of transportation user experiences on future travel behavior: Quantifying feedback loops between transportation supply and demand by analyzing how travelers adapt their choices as a function of day-to-day travel experiences.
Autonomous vehicle adoption: Exploring factors that affect interest in purchasing a vehicle with automation features or autonomous driving capabilities or using a transportation service based on autonomous vehicles.
Prospective car buyers’ interest in electric vehicles: Determining possible drivers of electric vehicle adoption from economic and psychological perspectives.
Deferred maintenance and transit demand: Quantifying the effect of deferred maintenance and deteriorating infrastructure on transit service quality and, by extension, on demand for transit services.
Impacts of teleworking and online shopping on travel behavior: Understanding the profound impacts of growth in online activities, including remote working and online shopping, on mobility patterns.
Commuter mode choices in the presence of demand-responsive microtransit: Investigating under what circumstances shared, on-demand microtransit can reduce single-occupancy car commuting, especially in auto-dominated Midwestern cities.
Integrated logistics and passenger transportation systems: 
Designing a new, integrated system where freight and passenger vehicles operate on shared, high-capacity infrastructure with stochastic travel demand.
Innovative traveler data collection methods: Develop methodologies to combine different types of survey data and automatically collected data to develop novel insights. [Relevant Publication: Carrel et al. (2015)]