The goals were to gain insight into the characteristics of traffic, demand of transportation, travel behaviors, mobility patterns, intermodal facility operations and urban dynamics to solve inherent and novel issues, such as congestion, accessibility, safty, risk, spatial structure, etc. The ultimate objectives were to enhance the Level of Service (LOS), the Quality of Service (QoS), and the land use to promote the planning and development of eco-friendly, comfortable, safe, and sustainable transportation and mobility systems.
The above studies involved multiple data sources of different cities or regions (Greater Paris Metropolis, Dalian, etc.), such as synthetic data, new passive massive datasets - Big Data of ITS systems (smart ticketing-Smartcard/etc., FCD, GPS/AVL, Smartphone, etc.), OpenData (smart ticketing-Smartcard/etc., GTFS, OSM, etc.), and transport surveys (EGT, RP, Original-designed sampling survey). They were funded by projects, funds, fellowships or grants which were supported by our institutions and complied with the GDPR and intellectual property protection, LICIT of ENTPE - IFSTTAR (ex INRETS), LVMT of École des Ponts ParisTech (IP Paris) - IFSTTAR - UPEM, GRETTIA of UGE (ex IFSTTAR), MATRiS of CYU - Cerema, and College of transportation engineering of Dalian Maritime University.
Research funds as PI
Sub-program, research visit, student fellowship and student grant hosting
2025, China Link program in DTE in CTE at DMU, funded by the CSC (China Scholarship Council) of the Ministry of Education, China
2021-2022, Sub-program about Covid-19 impact on public transportation network in GRETTIA at UGE, funded by UGE in synergy with the LABILITY Smart Lab of Ile-de-France region, France
2019, Hosting a research visit for Franco-British collaboration between École des Ponts ParisTech and Lancaster in LVMT at École des Ponts ParisTech, funded by the Transversal Group - City and digital of the LABEX Futurs Urbains of Paris Est Sup, France
2016-2022, 1 fellowship for co-mentored PhD candidate, 1 grant for post-master apprenticeship, and 6 grants for internship and international exchange program in LVMT at École des Ponts ParisTech, funded by projects VINCI ParisTech Environment Research Lab; ENPC-IdFM Chairs; Géolytics-FUI, France
Research projects as key researcher
2020, ENPC-IdFM Chair on Territorial Mobility at École des Ponts ParisTech, funded by the mobility authority IdFM of Ile-de-France region, France
2017-2019, Géolytics-FUI at École des Ponts ParisTech, funded by the FUI funds of Interministeries, France
2014-2020, ENPC-IdFM Chair on Socioeconomic Analysis of Urban Passenger Transit at École des Ponts ParisTech, funded by the mobility authority IdFM of Ile-de-France region, France
2011-2013, ADViCe at ENTPE, funded by the PREDIT IV funds of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, France
Grant and fellowship
2023, ChunHui Plan: Grant for research visiting, funded by the Ministry of Education, China
2017, Grant for Summer School, funded by the European COST Action TU0903 - MULTITUDE project, Europe
2016, Grant for Summer School, funded by the European COST Action TU1305 - Social Networks and Travel Behaviour project, Europe
2010-2013, PhD research fellowship ARD Region Rhônes Alpes - ARC 7 at ENTPE, funded by the Rhônes Alpes Region, France
2010, Grant for graduation internship (Master R), ISIR, UPMC-CNRS, funded by the UPMC (Sorbonne University), France
Keywords: Traffic flow theory (Vehicle - Passenger); Traffic control; Network modeling; Demand modeling; (Digital) Mobility analytics; Machine learning; Simulation (SymuVia/SUMO, CapTA/VISUM); Optimization (Automatization); Transportation systems; Public transportation