Publications
Selected publications by thrust. Dr. Hu has published 92 journal articles (as of September 2026), including 17 in Transportation Research Parts A–E and 11 in IEEE Transactions. For the full list, see Google Scholar.
Lab members are marked; * marks the corresponding author.
2026
A Fundamental Diagram-Consistent Fluid Queue Model for Dynamic Throughput under Heavy Traffic Congestion
CCFM: Collision-Constrained Flow Matching for Safety-Critical Scenario Generation
Confidence-Gated Topology Reasoning with Fiducial Marker Priors for Occlusion-Robust Lane Graph Prediction
FGD-VO: Enhancing Monocular Visual Odometry for Autonomous Vehicles with Reliable Inter-Frame Correspondence Modeling
From Clear to Adverse: A Survey of All-Weather LiDAR Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving
Highly Automated Vehicle Policy in the United States: Six Questions Exposing the Structural Misalignment Between Perception, Regulation, and Enforcement
Lightweight LiDAR-Based Cooperative Localization Model for Asymmetric Leader-Follower Cooperative Driving Automation System
Morning Commute in a Y-Shaped Traffic Network with Early and Late Arrivals
Multi-Label Scene Classification for Autonomous Vehicles: Acquiring and Accumulating Knowledge from Diverse Datasets
Optimizing Maintenance Routes for Highway Infrastructure Using Leader-Follower Autonomous Vehicles
Public or Private? A Unified Demand–Supply Coupled Framework for EV Infrastructure Investment
VisionEV: Multimodal Large Language Models for Spatially Aware Electric Vehicle Charging Demand Prediction Using Satellite Imagery
2025
A Review of Volume-Delay Functions Integrating Traditional Models and Emerging AI Technologies
Analytical Formulation of Autonomous Vehicle Freeway Merging Control with State-Dependent Discharge Rates
Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator (ATMA) Toolkit
Development of Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator (ATMA) Deployment Guidelines Considering Traffic and Safety Impacts
Enhancing Traffic State Estimation at Bottlenecks through Improved Demand Modeling: A Greenshields-Grounded Approach
Equitable Urban Electric Vehicle Charging: Feasibility and Benefits of Streetlight Charging in Kansas City Right-of-Way
Evaluating the Impact of Connected and Automated Vehicles to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
SimLKAS: A Simulation-Based Framework for the Verification and Validation of Lane Keeping Assistance Systems
2024
A Multi-State Merging Based Analytical Model for an Operation Design Domain of Autonomous Vehicles in Work Zones on Two-lane Highways
Bridging Multi-Level Vehicle Behavioural Patterns with Long-Term Pavement Condition: A Bidirectional Modelling Approach for Progressively Mixed Autonomous Traffic Flow
Bridging Specified States With Stochastic Behavioral-Consistent Vehicle Trajectories for Enhanced Digital Twin Simulation Realism
Infrastructure Sensor-Based Cooperative Perception for Early Stage Connected and Automated Vehicle Deployment
Kansas City, Missouri, Streetlight Electric Vehicle Charging: Strategies and Challenges for Site Selection of Streetlight Electric Vehicle Infrastructure in Kansas City, Missouri
Sustainable Distributed Adaptive Platoon in Multi-Agent Mobile-Edge Computing Networks for Lane Reduction Scenario
2023
A Machine Learning-Based Approach to Assess Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles on Pavement Roughness
Behavioral Investigation of Stochastic Lateral Wandering Patterns in Mixed Traffic Flow
Learning Electric Vehicle Driver Range Anxiety with an Initial State of Charge-Oriented Gradient Boosting Approach
Learning-Based Demand-Supply-Coupled Charging Station Location Problem for Electric Vehicle Demand Management
Online Longitudinal Trajectory Planning for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Flow with Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Optimization of Privacy Budget Allocation in Differential Privacy-Based Public Transit Trajectory Data Publishing for Smart Mobility Applications
2022
An Efficient and Explainable Ensemble Learning Model for Asphalt Pavement Condition Prediction Based on LTPP Dataset
Analytical Approximation and Calibration of Roundabout Capacity: A Merging State Transition-Based Modeling Approach
Development of Operation Guidelines for Leader-Follower Autonomous Maintenance Vehicles at Work Zone Locations
Identification of Operational Design Domain for Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator System on Multilane Highways
Online Inference of Lane Changing Events for Connected and Automated Vehicle Applications with Analytical Logistic Diffusion Stochastic Differential Equation
2021
Analytical Characterization of Multi-State Effective Discharge Rates for Bus-Only Lane Conversion Scheduling Problem
Evaluation Methodology of Leader-Follower Autonomous Vehicle System for Work Zone Maintenance
2020
A Differential Privacy-Based Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing Algorithm for Transit Smart Card Data
A Monte Carlo Tree Search-Based Mixed Traffic Flow Control Algorithm for Arterial Intersection
Analysis of Electric Vehicle Charging Behavior Patterns with Function Principal Component Analysis Approach
Quasi-Real Time Estimation of Turning Movement Spillover Events Based on Partial Connected Vehicle Data
Will Information and Incentive Affect Traveler's Day-to-Day Departure Time Decisions? An Empirical Study of Decision Making Evolution Process
2019
2018
2017
A Bayesian Network Model for Contextual Versus Non-Contextual Driving Behavior Assessment
A Sequential Decomposition Framework and Method for Calibrating Dynamic Origin-Destination Demand in a Congested Network
Development of a Behaviorally Induced System Optimal Travel Demand Management System