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Publications

Ishana Ratan, Alison E. Post, Tanu Kumar, and Mridang Sheth. “Which Local Governments Adopt New Technology First? Agency Size and Bureaucratic Champions for Open Transit Data.” 2025. Journal Article. Urban Affairs Review.

Giselle Mendonça Abreu, Alexandra Pan, Alison E. Post, Nathan Malkin, and Karen Trapenberg Frick. “Smart City Technologies as Threats or Opportunities? Explaining Variation in Cybersecurity Risks.” 2025. Journal Article. Journal of Urban Technology. 

Shih-Hung Chiu, Tianyu Han, Alison E. Post, Ishana Ratan, and Kenichi Soga. “Studying Tech Adoption With ‘Text-As-Data’: Opportunities, Pitfalls, and Complementarities in the Case of Transportation.” 2025. Journal Article. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, vol. 52, no. 1.

Alison E. Post, Ishana Ratan, Mary C. Hill, Amy Huang, Kenichi Soga, and Bingyu Zhao. “Benchmarking “Smart City” Technology Adoption in California: An Innovative Web Platform for Exploring New Data and Tracking Adoption.” 2022. Research Report. Institute for Transportation Studies, U.C. Berkeley. 

Amy Huang, Alison E. Post, Ishana Ratan, Mary C. Hill, and Bingyu Zhao. “Where are Private “Smart City” Transportation Technologies Concentrated in California?.” 2022. Policy Brief. Institute for Transportation Studies, U.C. Berkeley. 

Karen Trapenberg Frick, Tanu Kumar, Ruyin Li, Giselle Kristina Mendonça Abreu, and Alison E. Post. “Benchmarking “Smart City” Technology Adoption in California: Developing and Piloting a Data Collection Approach.” 2021. Research Report.  Institute for Transportation Studies, U.C. Berkeley. 

Karen Trapenberg Frick, Tanu Kumar, Ruyin Li, Atharva Patil, and Alison E. Post.  “The General Transit Feed Specification Makes Trip-Planning Easier—Especially During a Pandemic— Yet its Use by California Agencies is Uneven.” 2020. Policy Brief. Institute for Transportation Studies, U.C. Berkeley. 

Karen Trapenberg Frick, Tanu Kumar, and Alison E. Post.“Background Paper: The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Makes Trip-Planning Easier—Especially During a Pandemic—Yet its Use by California Agencies is Uneven.” 2020. Research Report. Institute for Transportation Studies, U.C. Berkeley.