Publications

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Articles Published in Refereed Archival Journals

(*means corresponding author. Bold underline ( ) indicates my students, and single underline ( ) indicates students I mentored significantly.)

  1. Chen, D., Srivastava, A., Ahn, S., Li, T., 2019. " Traffic dynamics under speed disturbance in mixed traffic with automated and non-automated vehicles". (Proceeding of the 23rd International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory, Lausanne, Switzerland. Also forthcoming in Transportation Research Part C).

  2. Chen, D., Ahn, S., 2018. “Capacity-drop at Extended Bottlenecks: Merge, Diverge, and Weave.” Transportation Research Part B, 108, 1-20.

  3. Chen, D., Ahn, S., Chitturi, M., Noyce, D., 2017. “Towards vehicle automation: roadway capacity formulation for traffic mixed with regular and automated vehicles”. Transportation Research Part B, 100, 196-221.

  4. Chen, D., Ahn, S., Chitturi, M., Noyce, D.,2017. “Truck platooning on uphill grades under coordinated adaptive cruise control (CACC)”. (Proceeding of the 22nd International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory, Chicago, IL, acceptance rate < 18%. Forthcoming in Transportation Research Part C.).

  5. Han, Y., Chen, D., Ahn, S., 2017. “Variable speed limit control at fixed freeway bottlenecks using connected vehicles.” Transportation Research Part B, 98, 113-134.

  6. Chen, D., Ahn, S., Bang, S., Noyce, D., 2016. “Car-following and lane-changing behavior involving heavy vehicles.” (2016 Transportation Research Board Cunard Award). Transportation Research Record: Journal of Transportation Research Board, Volume 2561.

  7. Han, Y., Chen, D., Ahn, S, 2015. “Analysis of driver response and traffic evolution under variable speed limit control.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of Transportation Research Board, Volume 2490.

  8. Chen, D., Ahn, S., 2015. “Variable speed limit control for non-recurrent severe freeway bottlenecks.” Transportation Research Part C, 51, 210-230.

  9. Chen, D., Ahn, S., Hegyi, A., 2014. “Variable speed limit control for steady and oscillatory queues at fixed freeway bottlenecks.” Transportation Research Part B, 70(2014), 340-358.

  10. Chen, D., Ahn, S., Laval, J. A., Zheng, Z., 2014. “On the periodicity of traffic oscillations and capacity drop: the role of driver characteristics.” Transportation Research Part B, 59 (1), 117-136.

  11. Zheng, Z, Ahn, S., Chen, D., Laval, J. A., 2013. “The effects of lane-changing on the immediate follower: anticipation, relaxation, and change in driver characteristics.” Transportation Research Part C, 26, 367-379.

  12. Chen, D., Laval, J. A., Ahn, S., Zheng, Z., 2012. “Traffic hysteresis: a driver behavioral perspective.” Transportation Research Part B, 46 (10), 1440-1453.

  13. Chen, D., Laval, J. A., Zheng, Z., Ahn, S., 2012. “Traffic oscillations: A behavioral car-following model.” Transportation Research Part B, 46 (6), 744-761.

  14. Zheng, Z., Ahn, S., Chen, D., Laval, J. A., 2011. “Freeway traffic oscillations: microscopic analysis of formations and propagations using wavelet transform.” Transportation Research Part B, 45(9), 1378-1388. (Also in the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium of Transportation and Traffic Theory, acceptance rate < 15%.)

  15. Zheng, Z., Ahn, S., Chen, D., Laval, J. A., 2010. “Application of wavelet transform for analysis of freeway traffic: bottlenecks, transient traffic, and traffic oscillations.” Transportation Research Part B, 45 (2), 372-384.

  16. Laval, J. A, Chen, D., Guin, A., Benamer, K., Ahn, S., 2009. “Evolution of oscillations in congested traffic: improved estimated method and additional empirical evidence.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of Transportation Research Board, Volume 2124.

Invited Book chapter:

1. Calvert, S., Mahmassani, H., Meier, J. N., Varaiya, P., Hamdar, S., Chen, D., Li, X., Talebpour, A., Mattingly, S. P., 2018. Chapter “Traffic Flow of Connected and Automated Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities” in “Road Vehicle Automation 4”, Springer.

2. Arem, B., Abbas, M., Li, X., Head, L., Zhou, X., Chen, D*., Bertini, R., Mattingly, S., Wang, H., Orosz, G., 2016. Chapter “Integrated Traffic Flow Models and Analysis for Automated Vehicles” in “Road Vehicle Automation 3”, Springer.

Reports

1. Lu, X., Chen, D., Shladover, S., 2014. “Preparations for Field Testing of Combined Variable Speed Advisory (VSA) and Coordinated Ramp Metering (CRM) for Freeway Traffic Control.” Technical Report UCB-ITS-PRR-2014-1, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

2. Chen, D., Ahn, S., Bang, S., Noyce, D., 2016. “Effects of Heavy Vehicles on Dynamic Traffic Features,” Project Number 09-08, National Center for Freight & Infrastructure Research & Education.

Conference papers

  1. Xu, Y , Chen*, D., Sun, J., 2019. “Vehicle Cooperation Around Lane-Changing” The 98th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C.

  2. Li, T., Chen*, D., Ge, T., Raucci, D., 2018. “A Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Traffic Network Partitioning.” Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics Committee Mid-Year Meeting, Woods Hole, MA, August 2018.

  3. Lu, X., Lee, J., Chen, D., Bared, J., Dailey, D., Shladover, S, 2014. “Freeway Micro-simulation calibration: case study using Aimsun and Vissim with detailed field data.” The 93rd Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C.

  4. Chilukuri, B. R., Laval, J. A., Chen, D., 2013. “Some traffic features during on-ramp queue flush.” The 92nd Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C. (Note: the paper presented in 2013 was significantly revised and enriched after the version presented at the Innovations in Traffic Flow Theory, and Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Symposium, Florida, 2012.)

  5. Chen, D., Laval, J. A., 2012. “Effects of Queue Spillback in User Optimum Dynamic Traffic Assignment Problem: Analytical and Graphical Solutions on Simple Network.” The 91st Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C.