Research & Publications

RESEARCH

Core Topics

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed Journals

2021

  • Abkarian, H., Chen, Y. and Mahmassani, H. Understanding Ridesplitting Behavior with Interpretable Machine Learning Models using Chicago Transportation Network Company Data. Transportation Research Record.
  • Mete, F., Corr, D.J., Wilbur, M.P. and Chen, Y.* Bridge Response and Heavy Truck Classification Framework Based on a Two-step Machine Learning Algorithm. Transportation Research Record.

2020

  • Borowski, E., Chen, Y. and Mahmassani, H. Social media effects on sustainable mobility opinion diffusion: Model framework and implications for behavior change. Travel Behaviour and Society.
  • Hong, Z., Chen, Y.* and Wu, Y. A driver behavior assessment and recommendation system for connected vehicles to produce safer driving environments through a “follow the leader” approach. Accident Analysis & Prevention.
  • Soria, J., Chen, Y., and Stathopoulos, A. Ridesourcing Behavior Profiles: Application of K-Prototype Analysis on Large-scale data from Chicago, Illinois. Transportation Research Record.
  • Ahmad, HA., Chen, Y., and Mahmassani, H. Travel Time Variability and Congestion Assessment Through the Experience of Mobility Companies: Network Relations and Origin-Destination Clusters. Transportation Research Record.
  • AI Hajj Hassan, L. Mahmassani, H. and Chen, Y.  Reinforcement Learning Framework for Freight Demand Forecasting to Support Operational Planning Decisions. Transportation Research Part E.

2019

  • Zhang, K., Chen, Y. and Nie, Y. Hunting image: Taxi search strategy recognition using Sparse Subspace Clustering. Transportation Research Part C.
  • To, D., Chen, Y.* and Si, D. Traveler’s Next Activity Predication with Location Social Network Data. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Prediction of Human Mobility (PredictGIS 2019).
  • Chen, Y., Kim, J. and Mahmassani, H.S. Operational Scenario Definition in Traffic Simulation-based Decision Support Systems: Pattern Recognition using a Clustering Algorithm. ASCE’s Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems.
  • Xu, X., Mahmassani, H. S. and Chen, Y.  Privately Owned Autonomous Vehicle Optimization Model Development and Integration with Activity-Based Modeling and Dynamic Traffic Assignment Framework. Transportation Research Record, 2673(10), 683–695.
  • Mete, F., Chen, Y., Stathopoulos, A. and Corr, D. A Comparative Study of Predictive Analysis Methods to Estimate Bridge Response. Transportation Research Record, 2673(9), 365–376.
  • Biehl, A., Chen, Y., Sanabria, K., Uttal, D. and Stathopoloulos, A. Where does Active Mobility Fit within Narratives Distinguished by Space and Place? Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.

2018

  • Chen, Y., Hyland, M., Wilbur, M. and Mahmassani, H.S. Characterization of Taxi Fleet Operational Networks and Vehicle Efficiency: A Chicago Case Study. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198118799165
  • Hyland, M., Hong, Z., Pinto, H. and Chen, Y.*  Hybrid Cluster-Regression Approach to Model Bikeshare Station Usage. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 115, 71-89.
  • Hong, Z., Chen, Y. and Mahmassani, H. S. Recognizing Network Trip Patterns Using a Spatio-Temporal Vehicle Trajectory Clustering Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 19(8), 2548-2557.
  • Chen, Y., Mahmassani, H.S. and Frei, A. Incorporating social media in travel and activity choice models: conceptual framework and exploratory analysis. International Journal of Urban Sciences, 22(2), 180-200.

2017

  • Hong, Z., Chen, Y. and Mahmassani, H.S.Commuter Ride-Sharing Using Topology-Based Vehicle Trajectory Clustering: Methodology, Application and Impact Evaluation. Transportation Research Part C.
  • Hong, Z., Mahmassani, H.S., Xu, X., Mittal, A., Chen, Y., Halat, H. and Alfelor Roemer. Effectiveness of Predictive Weather-Related ATDM Strategies for Network Management Perspective. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.
  • Mjahed, L. B., Mittal, A., Elfar, A., Mahmassani, H.S. and Chen, Y. Exploring the Role of Social Media Platforms in Informing Trip Planning: The Case of Yelp.com. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

2016

  • Chen, Y. and Mahmassani, H.S. Exploring Activity and Destination Choice Behavior in Two Metropolitan Areas Using Social Networking Data. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

2015

  • Chen, Y., Mahmassani, H.S, Hong, Z., Hou, T., Kim, J., Halat, H. and Alfelor, R. On-line Implementation and Evaluation of Weather Responsive Coordinated Signal Timing Operations. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.
  • Chen, Y., Mahmassani, H.S. and Hong, Z. Improving Online Network Traffic Prediction through Data Mining and Pattern Matching for Dynamic Origin-Destination Demand Estimation. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

2014

  • Chen, Y., Frei, A. and Mahmassani, H.S. From Personal Attitudes to Public Opinion: Information Diffusion in Social Networks towards Sustainable Transportation. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

2013

Peer-reviewed conference proceeding

2023

  • Liang, H., Qian, Y., and Chen, Y*. Modeling the Impact of Social Networks on Drivers’ Route Choice Behavior. Transportation Research Board.
  • Dai, T., Wang, Q., Qiu, Z., and Chen, Y*. An Optimization Approach to Design Bike-sharing Station under Uncertainty. Transportation Research Board.

2022

  • Hernandez, A., Raymer, M. and Chen, Y*. Characterizing the Nature of the COVID-19 Bike Boom. Transportation Research Board.

2021

  • Abkarian, H., Chen, Y. and Mahmassani, H. Capturing the Effects of Social Networks and Mobility on Viral Spread: Agent-based Model and Scenario Application. Transportation Research Board.

2020

  • Soria, J., Chen, Y. and Stathopoulos, A. Competing on-demand Mobility Services: Spatial and Sociodemographic Investigation of Taxi and Ridesourcing Services in Chicago, Illinois. The 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 12-16 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Borowski, E., Soria, J., Y., Schofer, J. and Stathopoulos, A. Inequities in Utilization of On-Demand Mobility during Rail Transit Disruptions in Chicago. The 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 12-16 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Borowski, E., Y., and Mahmassani, H. S. Social Media Effects on Sustainable Mobility Opinion Diffusion: Implications for Behavior Change. The 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 12-16 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Chen, R., Chen, Y. and Jiang, G. Experiments on Reputation Rating Systems for Online Mobility Services. The 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 12-16 January, Washington, D.C.

2019

  • Xu, X., Mahmassani, H.S., and Chen, Y.  Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on Household Activity and Travel Scheduling: An Integrated Dynamic Network Modeling Approach. The 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 13-17 January, Washington, D.C.
  • AI Hajj Hassan, L., Mahmassani, H., and Chen, Y. A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Freight Demand Forecasting to Support Operational Planning Decisions. The 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 13-17 January, Washington, D.C.
  • AI Hajj Hassan, L., Chen, Y., and Mahmassani, H. Utilization Rate as a Resilience Index for Supply Chain Networks. The 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 13-17 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Zhang, K., Chen, Y., and Y. Nie.  “Hunting Image”: Taxi Search Strategies Recognition Using Sparse Subspace Clustering. The 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 13-17 January, Washington, D.C.

2018

  • Hong, Z., Chen, Y., and Mahmassani, H.S. Active Demand Management with Commuter Ride-Sharing Program under Disruptions: A Case Study in Chicago. The 97th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 7-11 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Mete, F., Chen, Y., Stathopoulos, A., and Corr, D.J. Assessment of Bridge Performance through Machine Learning Algorithms: a Comparative Study. The 97th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 7-11 January, Washington, D.C
  • Chen, Y., Hong, Z., Wu, Y., and Mahmassani, H.S. Keeping Score: Incorporating Driver Behavior Scoring System with Connected Vehicles to Improve Traffic Service Quality. The 97th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 07-11 January, Washington, D.C.

2017

  • Chen, Y., Mahmassani, H.S and Zhao, F. Space, Friendship and Virtual Social Networks: Properties of Location-based Social Networks and Travelers’ Destination Choice. The 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 08-12 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Chen, Y., Mittal, A. and Mahmassani, H.S. Twitter or Chatter?Involving Social Media Data Analysis in Traffic Management: Incident Detection. The 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 08-12 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Biehl, A., Sanabria, K., Chen, Y., Uttal D., Stathopoulos, A. Comparing the (Active) Transport Needs of Neighborhoods using Focus Groups.The 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 08-12 January, Washington, D.C.

2016

  • Chen, Y., Hong, Z. and Mahmassani, H.S. Weighted Cluster Analysis for Operational Scenario Definition in Traffic Management Applications. The 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 10-14 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Hong, Z., Chen, Y. and Mahmassani, H.S. Spatial Trajectory Clustering for Potential Route Identification and Participation Analysis for Carpool Commuters. The 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 10-14 January, Washington, D.C.

2015

  • Chen, Y., Frei, A. and Mahmassani, H.S. Incorporating Social Media Data in Choice Models: An Exploration. 14th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, 19-23 July, Windsor, U.K.
  • Chen, Y., Frei, A. and Mahmassani, H.S. Incorporating Social Media Data in Travel Choice Models: Conceptual Framework and Exploratory Analysis. International Choice Modelling Conference, 10-13 May, Austin, TX.
  • Chen, Y., Frei, A. and Mahmassani, H.S. Exploring Activity and Destination Choice Behavior in Social Networking Data. Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 11-15 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Hong, Z., Mahmassani, H.S. and Chen, Y.  Empirical Analysis of Freeway Flow Breakdown and Recovery: The Effect of Snow Weather. Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 11-15 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Chen, Y., Talebpour, A. and Mahmassani, H.S. Friends don’t let friends drive on bad routes: modeling the impact of social networks on drivers’ route choice behavior. Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 11-15 January, Washington, D.C.

2014

  • Chen, Y., Kim, J. and Mahmassani, H.S. Pattern Recognition Using Clustering Algorithm for Scenario Definition in Traffic Simulation-based Decision Support Systems. 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • Chen, Y., Frei, A. and Mahmassani, H.S. An Exploration of Attitude Diffusion Mechanisms in a Social Network. Proceedings of Computational Approaches to Social Modeling. WebSci 2014, 24-26 June, Bloomington, IN.
  • Chen, Y., Kim, J. and Mahmassani, H.S. Pattern Recognition of Weather Scenarios using K-means Clustering Algorithm and Applications in Traffic Simulation-based Decision Support Systems. Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 13-17 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Mahmassani, H.S., Kim, J., Chen, Y., Stogios, Y., Brijmohan, A. and Vovsha, P. Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools. Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 13-17 January, Washington, D.C.
  • Zockaie, A., Chen, Y. and Mahmassani, H.S. Time-Dependent Origin-Destination Estimation with En-Route Information Drivers: Methodology and Application to Large-Scale Network. Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 13-17 January, Washington, D.C.

Other Conference Proceeding 

  • Zhou, Y., Chen, Y. and Mahmassani, H.S. (2019). Identifying Network Characteristics of Bike-sharing system and Station Usage: Chicago Divvy Bike Case Study. Presented at INFORMS, October 20-23, Seattle, Washington.
  • AI Hajj Hassan, L., Chen, Y. and Mahmassani, H.S.(2018). Short-term Traffic Flow Forecasting using Approximate Bayesian Computation: Adapting to Perturbations. Will present at the INFORMS 13th Data Mining and Decision Analytics (DMDA) Workshop, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Chen, Y., Mittal, A. and Mahmassani, H.S. (2017). Get Insight into Social Media Analysis and Incident Detection. Presented at INFORMS, October 22-25, Houston, Texas.
  • Hyland, M., Hong, Z., Pinto, H., and Chen, Y. (2017). A Hybrid Cluster-Regression Approach to Forecast Ridership at Bikeshare Stations: Case Study of Chicago’s Divvy System. Presented at The 58th Transportation Research Forum Annual Meeting in Chicago. (‘Best student paper – runner up’ award).
  • Chen, Y., Mahmassani, H.S. and F. Zhao. (2016). Properties of Location-Based Social Networks and Travelers Destination Choice. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), November 13-16, Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Zockaie, A., Chen, Y. and Mahmassani, H.S. (2013). Estimating Dynamic Network O-D Patterns with Informed Drivers: Methodology and Large-Scale Network Application. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), October 6-9, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Technical Reports

  • Throneburg, M., Chen, Y. and Patel, Sanjay. Human-Centered, Augmented Intelligence Software for Water and Wastewater.
  • Mahmassani, H.S., Chen, Y and Hassan L. Tools for Tactical Decision-Making/Advancing Methods for Predicting Performance.
  • Stathopoulos, A., Horvat, A., Chen, Y., and Punel, A. Is Ours Better than Mine? Investigating Collaborative Consumption Systems.
  • Mahmassani, H.S., Hong, Z., Chen, Y., Xu, X., Frei, A., Talebpour, A. and Halat, H. Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation (AMS) Testbed Development and Evaluation to Support Dynamic Mobility Applications (DMA) and Active Transportation and Demand Management (ATDM) Programs: Chicago Testbed.
  • Mahmassani, H.S. Hou, T., Kim, J., Chen, Y., Halat, H. and Haas, R. (2014). Deployment of Weather-Responsive Traffic Estimation and Prediction System (TrEPS) in Utah. U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
  • Mahmassani, H.S., Frei, C., Frei, A., Story, J., Lem, L., Talebpour, A., Chen, Y., Zockaie, A., Saberi, M., Halat, H., Haas, R. (2013) Analysis of Network and Non-Network Factors on Traveler Choice: Towards Improving Modeling Accuracy for Better Transportation Decision-Making. Contract No: DTFH61-06-D-00005, Task No: T-11-013, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
  • Mahmassani, H.S., Kim, J. and Chen, Y. (2012). SHAR 2 L04 Project Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures in Operations and Planning Modeling Tools. Delcan Corporation.
  • Mahmassani, H.S., Kim, J., Hou, T., Zockaie, A., Saberi, M., Jiang, L., Verbas, O, Cheng, S., Chen, Y. and Haas, R. (2012) Implementation and Evaluation of Weather Responsive Traffic Estimation and Prediction System. Contract No: DTFH61-06-D-00005, Task No: T-10-005, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. (http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/46000/46300/46357/FHWA-JPO-12-055_FINAL_PKG.pdf)