
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GvdJ5eEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
My research interests include urban transportation, the interaction between cities and new technologies (such as shared bike and scooters), and how infrastructure for biking, walking, and transit are distributed across space. I pursue these topics through a range of methods, including the use of GIS, satellite imagery, and on-the-ground observations.
Intro to Urban Data Analytics (Lead Instructor)
Intro to Transportation Planning (Lead Instructor)
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
Teaching Effectiveness Award
Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study
Berkeley-Austria Research Fellowship
BEAR GradS Fellowship
Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program
Fernström Fellowship
Berkeley - Uppsala University Research Fellowship
Moran, M.E. 2022. “Treating COVID with Bike Lanes: Design, Spatial, and Network Analysis of ‘Pop-Up’ Bike Lanes in Paris.” Transport Findings, April. https://doi.org/10.32866/001c.33765
Moran, M.E. 2022. “Where the Crosswalk Ends: Mapping Crosswalk Coverage via Satellite Imagery in San Francisco.” Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221081530
Moran, M.E. 2021. “Are Shelters in Place? Mapping the Distribution of Transit Amenities via a Bus-Stop Census of San Francisco.” Journal of Public Transportation, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2022.100023
Moran, M.E. 2021. “Drawing the Map: The Creation and Regulation of Geographic Constraints on Shared Bikes and e-Scooters in San Francisco, CA” Journal of Transport and Land Use, 14(1), 197-218. https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2021.1816
Moran, M.E. 2020. “What’s Your Angle? Analyzing Angled Parking using Satellite Imagery to Aid Bike-Network Expansion” Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, September. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808320954205
Moran, M.E. 2020. “Eyes on the Bike Lane: Crowdsourced Traffic Violations and Bicycle Infrastructure in San Francisco, CA.” Transport Findings, April. https://doi.org/10.32866/001c.12651
Moran, M.E., B. Laa, and G. Emberger. 2020. “Six Scooter Operators, Six Maps: Spatial Coverage and Regulation of Micromobility in Vienna, Austria.” Case Studies on Transport Policy, March. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2020.03.001
Chatman, D.G., and M.E. Moran. 2019. “Autonomous Vehicles in the United States: Understanding Why and How Cities and Regions Are Responding.” University of California Institute of Transportation Studies. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29n5w2jk.
Research Spotlight
Treating COVID with Bike Lanes: Design, Spatial, and Network Analysis of ‘Pop-Up’ Bike Lanes in Paris

Many cities responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by erecting new bike lanes (Kraus and Koch 2021), but there has been little scrutiny of where these lanes are being installed, how they relate to pre-COVID networks, what street uses they replaced, and their design characteristics (such as their level of physical protection and bi-directionality).