Sophie Pavia is a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University, and works as a research assistant at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems. She completed her undergraduate studies in computer science at Florida State University in April 2022.

Sophie Pavia Publications

1. S. Pavia, J. C. M. Mori, A. Sharma, P. Pugliese, A. Dubey, S. Samaranayake, and A. Mukhopadhyay, Designing Equitable Transit Networks. arXiv, 2022.
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   @misc{sophiefairtransit2022arxiv,
     doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2212.12007},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12007},
     author = {Pavia, Sophie and Mori, J. Carlos Martinez and Sharma, Aryaman and Pugliese, Philip and Dubey, Abhishek and Samaranayake, Samitha and Mukhopadhyay, Ayan},
     keywords = {Computers and Society (cs.CY), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
     title = {Designing Equitable Transit Networks},
     publisher = {arXiv},
     year = {2022},
     preprint = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12007},
     copyright = {arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license}
   }
   

   Public transit is an essential infrastructure enabling access to employment, healthcare, education, and recreational facilities. While accessibility to transit is important in general, some sections of the population depend critically on transit. However, existing public transit is often not designed equitably, and often, equity is only considered as an additional objective post hoc, which hampers systemic changes. We present a formulation for transit network design that considers different notions of equity and welfare explicitly. We study the interaction between network design and various concepts of equity and present trade-offs and results based on real-world data from a large metropolitan area in the United States of America.