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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

• Mobile Sensor Data Modeling and Applications: including probe data based traffic state estimation and Lagrangian Traffic Flow Models.

• Microscopic Vehicle Characteristics and Control in Connected Vehicle Environment: focusing on the bi-directional control, traffic stability analysis, cyber security, adaptive cruise control, and microscopic traffic coordination methods.

• Transportation Big Data Analytics: including data mining on social network data, mobile location data for travel demand and activity pattern analysis.

• Traffic operations: including freeway traffic flow and traffic management models, methodologies, and technologies, arterial traffic state estimation, Active Traffic and Demand Management (ATDM) technologies and their microscopic implementation.

Summary

Dr. Peter J. Jin is also an affiliated member of the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT). His research area is in Intelligent Transportation Systems with special interests in mobile sensor and content data, connected vehicles, and active transportation and demand management. His recent research interests include transportation Big Data analytics, vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, and unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) application in traffic monitoring and incident management.

Professional Affiliations

•    Member of TRB Surface Transportation Weather Committee (AH010) since 2014
•    Reviewer for Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems since 2011
•    Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2012
•    Reviewer for Physica A, since 2012
•    Reviewer for Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, 2012
•    Reviewer for Transportation Research Part C, since 2012
•    Reviewer for Journal of Advanced Transportation, since 2014

 

Education

•    Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, December 2009
•    M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 2007
•    B.S., Automation, College of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China, 2005