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Kenichi Soga

University of California, Berkeley

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

12

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667

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Scholarly Papers (12)

Optimal Control Modeling for Switched Systems in Traffic Evacuation

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 Nov 2025
University of California, Berkeley, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of California, Berkeley
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Optimal Control, Switched Systems, Traffic Flow, Macroscopic Simulation, Numerical Methods

Optimal Control Modeling for Switched Systems in Traffic Evacuation

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 May 2026
University of California, Berkeley, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of California, Berkeley
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Optimal Control, Switched Systems, Traffic Flow, Macroscopic Simulation, Numerical Methods

Optimal Control Modeling for Switched Systems in Traffic Evacuation

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 May 2026
University of California, Berkeley, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of California, Berkeley
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Optimal control, Switched Systems, Traffic Flow, Macroscopic Simulation, Numerical Methods

Dynamic Passenger Crowding and Operations in Urban Rail Transit Systems: A Validated Framework of Data-Driven Agent-Based Simulation

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Dec 2024
Vienna University of Technology, University of Western Ontario, University of California, Berkeley, Arizona State University (ASU) - School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Civil Engineering
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integrated agent-based simulation, data-driven approach, passenger behaviors, urban rail transit, queuing and crowding

Dynamic Passenger Crowding and Operations in Urban Rail Transit Systems: A Validated Framework of Data-Driven Agent-Based Simulation

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Dec 2024
Vienna University of Technology, University of Western Ontario, University of California, Berkeley, Arizona State University (ASU) - School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Civil Engineering
Downloads 52 (1,060,784)
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integrated agent-based simulation, data-driven approach, passenger behaviors, urban rail transit, queuing and crowding

Finding Common Ground: A Comparative Study of City-Scale Shallow Geothermal Potential for Cambridge, UK, and Berkeley, USA

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Jul 2025
University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Cambridge and University of California, Berkeley
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Shallow geothermal energy, city-scale geothermal energy, geothermal potential quantification, district heating networks, sustainable heating and cooling, subsurface urban heat island

Finding Common Ground: A Comparative Study of City-Scale Shallow Geothermal Potential for Cambridge, UK, and Berkeley, USA

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jul 2025
University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Cambridge and University of California, Berkeley
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Shallow geothermal energy, city-scale geothermal energy, geothermal potential quantification, District heating networks, sustainable heating and cooling, subsurface urban heat island

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Ml-Derived Long-Term G-Functions for Bidirectional Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage System Operation

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Dec 2023
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, Berkeley, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 78 (816,709)

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ATES, Analytical solution, KNN, Finite element.

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Finding Common Ground: A Methodology for City-Scale Subsurface Thermal Modelling

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Jan 2023
University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge and University of California, Berkeley
Downloads 62 (942,565)

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Subsurface urban heat islands, Underground climate change, Large-scale numerical modelling, Heat Transfer

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Near Real-Time Heatmap Visualization of Traffic Events on Roadway Instrumented with Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Aug 2025
University of California, Berkeley, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, Berkeley, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of California, Berkeley
Downloads 53 (1,052,702)

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distributed acoustic sensing, traffic monitoring, near real-time heatmap visualization

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Inference of Pile Capacity from Distributed Strain Sensing via PDE-Constrained Optimization

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 12 Dec 2025
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Bath, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, Berkeley - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and University of California, Berkeley
Downloads 43 (1,196,171)

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Pile, Distributed Fiber-optic Sensing, Inversion, PDECO, FEM, Soil-Structure Interaction

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A Granular Framework for Modeling the Capacity Loss and Recovery of Regional Transportation Networks Under Seismic Hazards: A Case Study on the Port of Los Angeles

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Jun 2023
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Vienna University of Technology, University of California, Berkeley and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 32 (1,304,549)

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earthquake, recovery, economic, infrastructure, Resilience, Transportation

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Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting the Performance of Heat Pumps With Horizontal Ground Heat Exchangers

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 16 Sep 2024
Peking University HSBC Business School, The University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne - Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and University of Cambridge
Downloads 26 (1,372,601)

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artificial neural networks, ground-source heat pumps, horizontal ground heat exchangers, TRNSYS simulation, machine learning

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Achieving Pareto Optimum for Hybrid Geothermal-Solar (PV)-Gas Heating Systems: Minimising Lifecycle Cost and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Sep 2024
Yu Zhou, Guillermo Narsilio, Kenichi Soga and Lu Aye
Peking University HSBC Business School, University of Melbourne - Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and The University of Melbourne
Downloads 23 (1,411,822)
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building performance simulation, geothermal energy, multi-objective optimisation, poultry sheds, solar PV, lifecycle analysis, hybrid renewable energy systems

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Investigating Evacuation Strategies for Wildfire-Prone Communities Considering Social, Communicational and Traffic Network Interdependencies

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Jun 2026
University of California, Berkeley, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Vienna University of Technology and University of California, Berkeley
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Wildfire Evacuation, Phased Strategy, Simultaneous Evacuation, Simulation, Socio-technical systems

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Mechanical behaviour of a ground deformation-resistant segmented ductile iron pipeline under biaxial tension force

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Apr 2026
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, Berkeley, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University College Cork
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Segmented ductile iron water pipeline, Full-scale biaxial tension test, Distributed fiber optic sensing, finite element analysis, Bell-spigot joint, Earthquake-resistant pipeline