Position Title
Project Manager / Associate Project Scientist
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- UC Pavement Research Center
Dr. Kim earned his Ph.D. in Transportation in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis in 2008. He is a project manager at the University of California Pavement Research Center at Berkeley and Davis. Dr. Kim led research projects on life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) for 15 years in California. He developed the California-customized LCCA software, RealCost CA versions, and coauthored Caltrans LCCA procedure manual. He trained LCCA implementation and provided LCCA supports to the Caltrans transportation engineers. He is interested in transportation operation, infrastructure maintenance, alternative fuel vehicles (ZEV, EV, AV, and HFCV), intelligent transportation systems, and work zone traffic. He published over 30 papers and reviewed many papers in peer-reviewed international journals including Transportation Research Record and ASCE Journal of Transportation, Infrastructure, and Construction Management. Dr. Kim taught ECI161: Transportation System Operation in 2019.
- Ph.D.
- ECI 161
- Life-cycle environmental and cost implications of longer-life road infrastructure designs: A case study of California
Journal Article | Mateos, A., Butt, A., Kim, C., Nassiri, S., Harvey, J. Journal of Cleaner Production, 572, 148925. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2026.148925 - Impact of Debris Removal Post-Wildfires on Pavement Fatigue and Rutting Lives: Case Studies of California’s Camp and Carr Fires
Journal Article | Zarei, A., Kim, C., Butt, A., Wu, R., Lea, J., Erdahl, J., Nassiri, S. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2679, 810-826. 10.1177/03611981241283458 - Decision Tree Analysis for Developing Weigh-in-Motion Spectra in the Californian Pavement Management System (PaveM)
Journal Article | Kim, C., Lea, J., Harvey, J., Kannekanti, V. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2678, 546-559. 10.1177/03611981231182395 - Environmental impacts from traffic on highway construction work zones: Framework and simulations
Journal Article | Kim, C., Butt, A., Harvey, J., Ostovar, M. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 18, 680-694. 10.1080/15568318.2024.2392624 - Evaluating Road Resilience to Wildfires: Case Studies of Camp and Carr Fires
Journal Article | Nassiri, S., Butt, A., Zarei, A., Kim, C., Wu, R., Lea, J., Erdahl, J. 10.7922/G2DJ5D0D - See publications and more on Aggie Experts: https://experts.ucdavis.edu/expert/aysbtW1C