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Yufeng Zhang

Transportation Researcher

Hello! I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Systems Science (SSS) in Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU). Prior to joining BJTU, I obtained my doctorate degree from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in the U.S. and my bachelor’s degree from Southeast University in China.

My main research interests lie in the broad sense of urban mobility.

Research Interests

  • Behavioral and Operational Studies of Urban Mobility Services
    Planning and operations of the integrated transit-MaaS systems
    Sequential decision problem
    Statistical learning of traveling behaviors
  • Stochasticity and Reliability Modeling of Transportation Network and Facility
    Robust facility location problem
    Stochastic shortest path
    Urban last-mile freight logistics
  • Dynamic Pricing
    Dynamic toll design
    Mobility service providers dynamic pricing strategy
  • Traffic Assignment
    Static asymmetric traffic/transit assignment algorithm
    Dynamic traffic assignment
    Variational Inequality

Education

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
PhD, Civil Engineering, 2016–2021
MSc, Industrial Engineering, 2019-2020
MSc, Civil Engineering, 2019-2020
PhD Dissertation: On the Planning and Operations of the Integrated Transit and Mobility-as-a-Service Transportation System: An Equilibrium Analysis Approach

Southeast University
BSc (Cum laude), Transportation Engineering, 2012–2016
Academic Minor: Business Administration