0. Latest Publications (2025/Online/Accepted)

• Environmental impacts and emission reduction methods of vehicles equipped with driving automation systems: An operational-level review, Transportation Research Part C, 2025
• Identifying users transferring between transportation modes: A stable matching approach, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2025
• Platoon or Individual: An Adaptive Car-following Control of Connected and Automated Vehicles, Chaos Solitons & Fractals, 2025
• Brain Driving: Personalizing Vehicle Speed with DR-EEG Decoding and Situational Embeddings, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, online
• Exploring the relationship between built environment and bike-sharing demand: Does the trip length matter? Transportation Planning and Technology, online
• On the precise quantification of the impact of a single discretionary lane change on surrounding traffic, arXiv:2407.18557, 2024
• A Survey on Large Language Model-empowered Autonomous Driving, arXiv.2409.14165. 2024
• AI-Driven Day-to-Day Route Choice, arXiv.2412.03338, 2024
• NeuralMOVES: A lightweight and microscopic vehicle emission estimation model based on reverse engineering and surrogate learning, arXiv:2502.04417, 2025
• Estimating city-wide operating mode distribution of light-duty vehicles- A neural network-based approach, arXiv: 2503.22118, 2025
• Identifying public transit deserts: A travel demand-independent persistent homology-based method, Transportation Safety and Environment, 2025

1. Solo Author

• Refining time-space traffic diagrams: A simple multiple linear regression model, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024
• Portraying ride-hailing mobility using multi-day trip order data: A case study of Beijing, China, Transportation Research Part A, 2021 (2022 Key innovation in Transportation Sector, Ministry of Transport, China)
• Spatial-temporal fractal of urban agglomeration travel demand, Physica A, 2020
• Cooperative driving and a lane change-free road transportation system, Chapter of IET Book Traffic Information and Control, 2020
• Research based on high-fidelity NGSIM vehicle trajectory datasets: A review. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11429.60643, 2017

1. "Simple" Series

• Refining time-space traffic diagrams: A simple multiple linear regression model, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024
• Mapping to cells: a simple method to extract traffic dynamics from probe vehicle data, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. 2017
• A simple nonparametric car-following model driven by field data. Transportation Research Part B, 2015

2. Data-driven Traffic Modeling

• A simple nonparametric car-following model driven by field data. Transportation Research Part B, 2015
• On the impact of prior experiences in car following models model development, computational efficiency, comparative analyses and extensive applications, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2023
• A data-driven lane-changing model based on deep learning, Transportation Research Part C, 2019

2. Microscopic Traffic Modeling

• The impact of a single discretionary lane change on surrounding traffic: An analytic investigation, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023
• Empirical validation of vehicle type-dependent car-following heterogeneity from micro- and macro-viewpoints, Transportmetrica B, 2019
• A new car-following model from the perspective of visual imaging. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2015
• A discrete-flow form of the point-queue model, IEEE International Transportation Conference (ITSC), 2015, Spain
• A flexible traffic stream model and its three representations of traffic flow, Transportation Research Part C, 2017
• An anisotropic continuum model and its calibration with an improved monkey algorithm, Transportmetrica A, 2017

2. Traffic Stabilization

• A jam-absorption driving strategy for mitigating traffic oscillations, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2017
• Heterogeneous traffic mixing regular and connected vehicles: Modelling and stabilization, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2019
• Cooperative Driving Strategies of Connected Vehicles for Stabilizing Traffic Flow, Transportmetrica B, 2020
• A new reinforcement learning-based variable speed limit control approach to improve traffic efficiency against freeway jam waves, Transportation Research Part C, 2022
• Emissions-reduction strategy for connected autonomous vehicles on mixed traffic freeways, Physica A, 2024
• String stability analysis of connected vehicular systems based on car-following model, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 2021

2. Autonomous Intersection

• Erasing lane changes from roads: A design of future intersections, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2018
• Cooperative driving and a lane change-free road transportation system, Chapter of IET Book Traffic Information and Control, 2020
• Pedestrian shuttle service optimization for autonomous intersection management, Transportation Research Part C, 2024
• Is All-Direction Turn Lane a Good Choice for Autonomous Intersections? A Study of Method Development and Comparisons, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2023

2. Intelligent Vehicles

• Optimal toll design problems under mixed traffic flow of human-driven vehicles and connected and autonomous vehicles, Transportation Research Part C, 2021
• Estimation of lane-level travel time distributions under a connected environment, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2021
• Platoon or Individual: An Adaptive Car-following Control of Connected and Automated Vehicles, Chaos Solitons & Fractals, 2025
• Dynamic lane changing trajectory planning for CAV: A multi-agent model with path preplanning, Transportmetrica B, 2022
• Exploring the impact mechanism of communicating information on the perturbation propagation, Transportmetrica A, 2024
• Modeling the mixed traffic capacity of minor roads at a priority intersection, Physica A, 2024
• A mixed traffic car-following behavior model, Physica A, 2023
• Safety rule-based cellular automaton modeling and simulation under V2V environment, Transportmetrica A, 2021
• Digital Twin Empowered Mobile Edge Computing for Intelligent Vehicular Lane-Changing, IEEE Network, 2021

3. Time-space Traffic Diagram

• Refining time-space traffic diagrams: A simple multiple linear regression model, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024
• Constructing spatiotemporal speed contour diagrams: using rectangular or non-rectangular parallelogram cells, Transportmetrica B, 2019
• Estimating carbon dioxide emissions of freeway traffic: a spatiotemporal cell-based model, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020
• From rectangle to parallelogram: An area-weighted method to make time-space diagrams incorporate traffic waves, Digital Transportation and Safety, 2024
• Visualizing traffic dynamics based on floating car data, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, 2017
• Learning traffic as images: A deep convolutional neural network for large-scale transportation network speed prediction, Sensors, 2017
• Probe data-driven travel time forecasting for urban expressways by matching similar spatiotemporal traffic patterns. Transportation Research Part C, 2017

3. Sensing: Mapping to Cells

• Network-wide identification of turn-level intersection congestion using only low-frequency probe vehicle data, Transportation Research Part C, 2019
• Mapping to cells: a simple method to extract traffic dynamics from probe vehicle data, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. 2017

3. Traffic State Estimation

• TSR-GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Traffic State Reconstruction with Trajectory Data, Physica A, 2022
• Real-time estimation of freeway travel time with recurrent congestion based on sparse detector data. IET Intelligent Transport Systems. 2018
• A stochastic extension of Newell’s “three-detector method". Journal of Transportation Research Board, 2012

4. Day-to-day Route Choice

• Investigating day-to-day route choices based on multi-scenario laboratory experiments. Part I: route-dependent attraction and its modeling, Transportation Research Part A, 2023
• Investigating day-to-day route choices based on multi-scenario laboratory experiments. Part II: A route-dependent attraction-based stochastic process model, Communications in Transportation Research, 2024
• Day-to-day rerouting modeling and analysis with absolute and relative bounded rationalities, Transportmetrica A. 2018
• An analyzable agent based framework for modeling day to day route choice, Transportmetrica A, 2022
• A day-to-day route choice model based on travelers' behavioral characteristics, 9th International Conference of Traffic and Transportation Studies, Shaoxing, 2014

4. Route Guidance

• A traffic-condition-based route guidance strategy for a single destination road network. Transportation Research Part C, 2013
• A self-regulation traffic-condition-based route guidance strategy with realistic considerations: overlapping routes, stochastic traffic and signalized intersections, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2016
• Effectiveness of GRIPs in alleviating traffic congestion, Proceedings of ICE-Transport, 2016
• Data-based sorting algorithm for variable message sign location, Journal of Transportation Research Board, 2017

4. Network Equilibrium

• A multi-modal network equilibrium model considering captive travelers and mode correlation, Transportation, 2024
• A dynamic user equilibrium model for multi-region macroscopic fundamental diagram systems with time-varying delays, Transportation Research Part B, 2020
• Selfish routing equilibrium in stochastic traffic network: A probability-dominant description, PLoS ONE, 2017
• An N-path logit-based stochastic user equilibrium model, IEEE Access, 2018
• A train operation diagram-based equilibrium model for an urban rail transit network with transfer constraint. ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 2020

5. Sustainability-oriented Optimization

• Planning dynamic wireless charging infrastructure for battery electric bus systems with the joint optimization of charging scheduling, Transportation Research Part C, 2024
• A robust approach to integrated wireless charging infrastructure design and bus fleet size optimization, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022
• Optimal design of community shuttles with an adaptive-operator-selection-based genetic algorithm, Transportation Research Part C, 2021
• Optimal timetable development for community shuttle network with metro stations. Transportation Research Part C, 2015
• Demand responsive service-based optimization on flexible routes and departure time of community shuttles, Sustainability, 2020
• A sustainable road pricing oriented bilevel optimization approach under multiple environmental uncertainties, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2022
• Time-of-day pricing for toll roads under traffic demand uncertainties: A distributionally robust simulation-based optimization method, Transportation Research Part C, 2022
• A prediction-based forward-looking vehicle dispatching strategy for dynamic ride-pooling, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2024
• Optimal location of lane-changing warning point in a two-lane road considering different traffic flows, Physica A, 2020

6. Resilience

• On the dynamic vulnerability of an urban rail transit system and the impact of human mobility, Journal of Transport Geography, 2024 (Best Paper Award, TRB 2024-AMR10)
• Vulnerability and resilience of transportationsystems A recent literature review, Physica A, 2021
• Sustainability evaluation of multi-component subsea transmission system considering failure dependence and maintenance activities, Ocean Engineering, 2024
• Multi-crowdsourced Data Fusion for Modeling Link-level Traffic Resilience to Adverse Weather Events, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2024

7. Large Language Models

• ChatGPT as Your Vehicle Co-Pilot: An Initial Attempt, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2023
• Semantic Understanding and Prompt Engineering for Large-scale Traffic Data Imputation using Graph Transformer, Information Fusion, 2024
• A Survey on Large Language Model-empowered Autonomous Driving, arXiv.2409.14165, 2024
• AI-Driven Day-to-Day Route Choice, arXiv.2412.03338, 2024
• CoT-Drive: Efficient Motion Forecasting for Autonomous Driving with LLMs and Chain-of-Thought Prompting, arXiv:2503.07234, 2025

7. Machine Learning and Prediction

• Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving Using Spatial-Temporal Graph Attention Transformer, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022
• A Generative Adversarial Network for travel times imputation using trajectory data, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 2021
• Short-term prediction of urban rail transit origin-destination flow: A channel-wise attentive split-convolutional neural network method, Transportation Research Part C, 2021
• Time-dependent trip generation for bike sharing planning: A multi-task memory-augmented graph neural network, Information Fusion, 2024
• Spatiotemporal Fusion Transformer for Large-scale Traffic Forecasting, Information Fusion, 2024
• A cohesion-based heuristic feature selection for short-term traffic forecasting, IEEE Access, 2019
• Predicting Station-level Hourly Demand in a Large-scale Bike-sharing Network: A Graph Convolutional Neural Network Approach, Transportation Research Part C, 2018
• Learning traffic as images: A deep convolutional neural network for large-scale transportation network speed prediction, Sensors, 2017
• Mapping sidewalk accessibility with smartphone imagery and Visual AI: a participatory approach, Philosophical Transactions A, 2024

8. Data Analysis

• Portraying ride-hailing mobility using multi-day trip order data: A case study of Beijing, China, Transportation Research Part A, 2021 (2022 Key innovation in Transportation Sector, Ministry of Transport, China)
• Exploring competitiveness of taxis to ride-hailing services from a multidimensional spatio-temporal perspective: A case study in Beijing, China, Journal of Transport Geography 2024
• Understanding user’s travel behavior and city region functions from station-free shared bike usage data, Transportation Research Part F, 2020
• Identifying users transferring between transportation modes: A stable matching approach, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2025
• Spatial-temporal fractal of urban agglomeration travel demand, Physica A, 2020
• Analysis of Travel Demand between Transportation Hubs in Urban Agglomeration Based on Mobile Phone Call Detail Record Data, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, 2022
• An interactive city choice model and its application for measuring the intercity interaction, Frontiers in Physics, 2022
• Exploring the inter-modal relationship between taxi and subway in Beijing, China, Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2018
• Measuring Taxi Accessibility Using Grid-based Method with Trajectory, Sustainability, 2018
• Mining crowdsourced trajectory and geo-tagged data for spatial-semantic road map construction, Transactions in GIS, 2022
• A figure-eight hysteresis pattern in macroscopic fundamental diagrams and its microscopic causes. Transportation Letters, 2015
• A day-to-day invariant macroscopic fundamental diagrams for probe vehicles, 2018 International Conference on Traffic Engineering and Transportation System. Shenzhen, China, 2018
• Analysis of vehicle driving styles at freeway merging areas using trajectory data, 25th IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Macau, China, 2022
• Traffic Conflict Analysis at Freeway Interchange Merging Areas: A Joint Model Based on Tobit and Survival Analysis Model, 23rd COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals, 2023
• Bus-car mode identification: A traffic condition-based random forests method, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 2020
• Speed Limit: Obey, or Not Obey? arXiv:2307.12189, 2023
• Factors affecting injury severity in motorcycle crashes: different age groups analysis using Catboost and SHAP techniques, Traffic Injury Prevention, 2024
• Home-based Trips Analysis and Households Travel Behavior Case Study of Nablus City, Palestine, World Transport Convention, 2022

9. Policy

• Closing the loophole of vehicle ownership restriction: The impact of non-local vehicle restriction on new vehicle registrations and air pollution, Transportation Research Part A, 2024
• Private vehicle drivers' acceptance of autonomous vehicles: The role of trait mindfulness, Transport Policy, 2024
• The effect of the ‘yield to pedestrians’ policy on risky pedestrian behaviors: Is it a ‘two-edged sword’? Transportation Research Part A, 2023
• How to promote the transition from solo driving to mobility services delivery? An empirical study focusing on ridesharing, Transport Policy, 2022
• Commuters' acceptance of and behavior reactions to license plate restriction policy: A case study of Tianjin, China, Transportation Research Part D. 2017

10. Review and Perspectives

• Environmental impacts and emission reduction methods of vehicles equipped with driving automation systems: An operational-level review, Transportation Research Part C, 2025
• Trajectory data-based traffic flow studies: A revisit, Transportation Research Part C, 2020
• Automated Vehicle-involved Traffic Flow Studies A Survey of Assumptions, Models, Speculations, and Perspectives, Transportation Research Part C, 2021
• Shared mobility: Characteristics, impacts, and improvements, Transportation Research Part D, 2021
• Space Weather Effects on Transportation Systems: A Review of Current Understanding and Future Outlook, Space Weather, 2024
• Vulnerability and resilience of transportationsystems A recent literature review, Physica A, 2021
• Special issue on methodological advancements in understanding and managing urban traffic congestion, Transportmetrica A, 2022
• Guest Editorial: Modeling, Operation and Management of Traffic Mixed with Connected and Automated Vehicles, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 2024
• Vehicle Sensor Data-based Transportation Research: Modeling, Analysis, and Management, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2019
• Route guidance strategies revisited: Comparison and evaluation in an asymmetric two-route traffic system. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2014
• Research based on high-fidelity NGSIM vehicle trajectory datasets: A review. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11429.60643, 2017
• Six Questions on Network-wide Traffic Prediction. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10498.63681, 2019.9

11. Others (Selected)

• A novel one-stage approach for pointwise transportation mode identification inspired by point cloud processing, Transportation Research Part C, 2023
• Road Intersection Optimization Considering Spatial-temporal Interactions among Turning Movement Spillovers, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022
• Deep Learning Empowered Traffic Offloading Intelligent Software Defined Cellular V2X Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2020
• Energy-efficient resource allocation for dynamic priority-based in-vehicle mobile-health communications, IEEE Systems Journal, 2020
• Mobile traffic sensor routing in dynamic transportation systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2014
• Gating control for a single bottleneck link based on traffic load equilibrium, International Journal of Civil Engineering, 2016
• Empirical study on the influence of learning ability to individual travel Behavior, Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology, 2009
• Approximating the minimum distribution of two normally distributed variables each with the same mean and variance. Fifth International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization, 2012
• Introduction to applications of swarm in transportation research, Fourth International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization, 2011
• Delays caused by motorized vehicles unable to clear intersections in China: Graphical analysis. Journal of Central South University, 2013
• Exploring the relationship between EGG and ordinary driving behavior: A simulated driving study. Journal of Transportation Research Board, 2018

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