2025 9th International Conference on Traffic Engineering and Transportation System (ICTETS 2025)

Biography: Rui Jiang received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow from 2005 to 2006 and the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Research Fellow from 2008 to 2009. He is currently a Professor with the School of Systems Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, where he is involved in the fields of traffic flow theory and intelligent transportation systems. He has published over 100 papers in journals and conference including TS、TR Part-A/B/C/D/E、POM、IEEE TITS、ISTTT. He serves as an Editorial Board Editor for Transportation Research Part B, an Academic Editor for Journal of Advanced Transportation, an Editorial Board Member for Physica A, and an Associate Editor for Transportmetrica A.

Title:Mixed Traffic of Human Driven and Automated Vehicles: Experimental Study and Simulation

Abstract: This paper aims to study how the automated vehicles (AVs) impact the traffic oscillation growth in a mixed platoon of human driven vehicles (HVs) and AVs. To this end, we perform an experimental investigation complemented by extended simulation studies. In the experiment, the leading vehicle moves with a constant speed as a moving bottleneck, while the following vehicles consist of six programmable AVs implementing to a constant time gap car-following policy, uniformly distributed among varying numbers of HVs. Thus, the market penetration rate (MPR) of AVs decreases with the platoon size increases. The experimental results indicate that at high MPRs, AVs effectively suppress the growth of oscillations. However, the dampening effect diminishes abruptly and almost vanishes as the MPR decreases from 67% to 50%. In contrast, traffic throughput exhibits an approximately linear relationship with MPR. A simulation study is conducted to reproduce these findings. A good agreement with the experimental results validates the simulation study. The simulation study is then extended to a broader range of scenarios, yielding several insights: (i) the position of AVs within mixed platoons has subtle effects on overall flow rate but significantly impacts oscillation growth; (ii) fine-tuning upper-level control parameters can potentially reduce oscillations while also enhancing throughput; (iii) the synergy between automated driving and vehicle-to-vehicle communication has the potential to further attenuate traffic oscillations.

Biography: Prof. Xiaoning Zhang obtained his Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2003. He has dedicated his career to research and consulting in the optimization and management of transportation and logistics systems. Recognized for his achievements, he has been awarded the title of Outstanding Academic Leader in Shanghai (2019), granted a Special Government Allowance by the State Council (2016), designated as a Shanghai Dawn Scholar (2013), named a National Outstanding Young Scholar (2011), honored as a New Century Excellent Talent by the Ministry of Education (2010), and selected for the Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Rising Star Program (2009). Currently, Prof. Zhang serves as an editorial board member of Transportation Research B, an executive council member of the Society for Management Science and Engineering, a deputy director of the Transportation Management Research Society, and a council member of the Systems Engineering Society of China. His primary research interests encompass the optimization and management of transportation and logistics systems, as well as transportation economics.

Biography: Yingen Ge joined the School of Transportation Engineering at Chang’an University in the fall of 2021. In 2016, he was selected for the Shanghai High-Level Talent Recruitment Program. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the internationally renowned academic journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport & Environment, Associate Editor of Transport Policy and Transport, and editorial board member of International Journal of Sustainable Transportation and China Journal of Highway and Transport. Additionally, he is a council member of the Fourth Board of the Management Science and Engineering Society and Vice Chair of the Second Committee of the Transportation Management Branch.
His research is interdisciplinary in nature, applying theories, models, and methods from management science and operations research to address transportation problems. His work primarily spans the fields of transportation management, traffic and environment, international transport and logistics, transportation economics and policy, as well as transportation modeling and applications. To date, he has published over 150 academic journal papers.

Since 2010, he has led one major project supported by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, two key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (one of which is a Sino-European international cooperation project), two general projects, and five international collaboration and exchange projects. He has also presided over two provincial/ministerial-level projects and participated in three national-level major and key projects. He possesses extensive experience in both high-level academic research and practical transportation modeling, software development, as well as integrated land-use and transportation planning consultancy. Furthermore, he maintains broad international connections.

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Prof. Tao Wang
Guilin University of Electronic Technology

Biography: Tao Wang, male, 1985.11, Ph. He is the dean of School of Architecture and Transportation Engineering, the director of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Intelligent Transportation, the deputy editor-in-chief of Digital Transportation and Safety, the expert of Guangxi Traffic Smoothness Project in 2017, and the "Thousand Young and Middle-aged Backbone Teachers of Guangxi Higher Education Institutions" in 2018. His main research interests include urban transportation planning and management, intelligent network transportation, traffic behavior and safety, etc. He has published more than 50 academic papers in these fields, including 30 SCI papers. He has presided over 3 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 3 projects of Guangxi Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 projects of Guangxi Innovation Driving Project, and completed 4 projects of 973 project, National Key Research and Development and National Natural Science Foundation of China as the main personnel, and won the Science and Technology Progress Prize of Guangxi for 2 times. He has presided over and completed more than 50 engineering application projects in more than 10 cities, such as comprehensive transportation system planning, transportation design, urban intelligent transportation system design, etc.

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Assoc. Prof. Haodong Yin

Beijing Jiaotong University

Biography: Haodong Yin, born in January 1988, is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Systems Science, Beijing Jiaotong University. He has been recognized as an Outstanding Young Talent by the Beijing Rail Transit Society and a Haijin Industrial Leader in Jinan. Dr. Yin serves as the Deputy Director of the Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory for Future Urban Smart Traffic Management and the Executive Director of the Advanced Technology Research Center for Low-Altitude Traffic at Beijing Jiaotong University. He is also a Standing Committee Member of the Emergency Management Committee of the Chinese Society of Systems Engineering and a Committee Member of the Digital Twin and Future City Committee of the Chinese Society for Urban Studies. Additionally, he holds editorial roles as a Youth Editorial Board Member for several journals, including Urban Rapid Rail Transit, Railway Computer Applications, and Journal of Safety and Environment. His research focuses on rail transit system management and low-altitude traffic management.

In recent years, Dr. Yin has led 16 research projects, including 3 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects and 1 key project under the Beijing Natural Science Foundation-Fengtai Joint Fund. He has also overseen more than 10 enterprise engineering projects, commissioned technology development initiatives, and technology transfer projects in the rail transit industry. He has published over 30 SCI-indexed papers in journals such as Transportation Research Part C, Transportation Research Part E, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Dr. Yin holds more than 20 authorized invention patents and 20 software copyrights. His research achievements have earned him the 2024 CTS Best Paper Award and inclusion in the 2023 Capital Frontier Academic Achievements. He has also received 7 scientific and technological awards, including the Second Prize of the China Railway Society Science and Technology Progress Award, the Second Prize of the Urban Rail Transit Association Science and Technology Progress Award, and the First Prize of the Beijing Rail Transit Society Science and Technology Progress Award.

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Assoc. Prof. Changhong Zhou

Guilin University of Electronic Technology

Biography: Changhong Zhou, Ph.D., is an associate professor (university-appointed professor) and master's supervisor at the School of Architecture and Transportation Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology. He serves as Assistant Dean of the School, Deputy Director of the Guangxi Key Laboratory of ITS, and Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of New Infrastructure Construction in The Transport Sector, Education Department of Guangxi. He is also an executive council member of the Guangxi Society of Mechanics.
Dr. Zhou’s research focuses on the digitalization and intelligentization of transportation infrastructure, covering nonlinear computational theory, intelligent inspection technologies, high-performance material development, and smart asset-management systems. He has led three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and participated in eight others; he has also headed two provincial/ministerial-level projects and been involved in more than 30 other research programs. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, published two monographs, contributed to three textbooks, and helped compile three technical standards, while filing for and being granted 30 invention patents.
He has served on the technical committees of the World Transport Convention (WTC), the International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology (ICPT), and the Chinese European Workshop on Functional Pavement Design (CEW), among others, and is one of the founders of the National Symposium on Mechanics and Numerical Simulation of Pavement Materials.

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