Fan Yang at CCNY

		Fan Yang, Ph.d. Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering Grove School of Engineering University Transportation Research Center City College, City University of New York 140th St and Convent Ave New York, NY 10031 Phone: (212) 650-8058 FAX: (212) 650-6965 Email: fyang at ccny dot cuny dot edu
What's New RA Position Openings for Spring and Fall, 2008 Education May, 2005 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin at Madison Dec, 2003 M.S. University of Wisconsin at Madison Jul, 1997 B.E. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Work Experience Sep, 2007 - present Assistant Professor, The City College of New York, NY Aug, 2006 - Dec, 2006 Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California. Jan, 2005 - Jul, 2007 Transportation and Logistics, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Redlands, CA *Research Interests* Dynamic Transportation Network Modeling Intelligent Transportation Systems Transportation Infrastructure Management Logistics and Freight Network Modeling Statistical Methods and Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) in Transportation Courses Fall, 2007 Analytical Methods in Civil Engineering (CE H1000), City College of New York. Fall 2006 Advanced Transportation Network Analysis (CE 599), University of Southern California. Selected Projects A Smarter I-278 Corridor: Moving People, Freight, and the Regional Economy, Phase I (sponsored by USDOT and NYSDOT). Dynamic Routing and Scheduling System: design algorithms to solve online large-scale dynamic scheduling problems for nationwide day-to-day operations over 400 branches, 3000 technicians, and 1.6 million customers. A WebGIS-based Accident Location Query and Reporting system. Referred Journal Papers and Book Chapters Yang, F. and Liu, H., 2007. A New Modeling Framework for Traveler’s Day-to-Day Route Adjustment Processes. Allsop R.E., Bell M.G.H., and Heydecker, B.G. (Eds.), Transportation and Traffic Theory, Elsevier, 813-837. Yang, F., Yin, Y., Lu, J., 2007. A Steepest-Descent Day-to-Day Dynamic Toll. To appear in Transportation Research Record. Lu, J., Yang, F., Ban, X., Ran, B., 2006. Moments Analysis for Improving Decision Reliability Based on Travel Time. Transportation Research Record, 1968, 109-116. Lu, J., Ban, X., Qiu, Z., Yang, F., Ran, B., 2005. A Robust Optimization Model for Route Guidance Based on ATIS. Transportation Research Record, 1935, 1-7. Yang, F., Yin, Z., Liu, H., and Ran, B., 2004. An On-line Recursive Short-term Traffic Prediction Algorithm. Transportation Research Record, 1879, 1-8. Yang, F., Liu, H., He, R., Ban, X., Ran, B., 2003. Bi-level Formulation for Optimal Traffic Information Dissemination. Transportation Research Record, 1836, 21-28. Journal Papers Under Review Yang, F., Liu, H., 2007. Travelers’ Day-to-Day Stochastic Route Choice Adjustment Process and Traffic Equilibria. Yang, F., Szeto, W.Y., 2007. Day-to-Day Static and Dynamic Tolls in Drivers’ Rational Behavior Adjustment Process. Yang, F., Zhang, D., 2007. Day-to-Day Stationary Link Flow Pattern. Yang, F., 2007. Day-to-Day Dynamic Optimal Tolls with Elastic Demand. Lee, C., Ran, B., Yang, F., 2006. Applying Hybrid Trees Approach to Analyze Driver Compliance Behavior with Variable Message Signs (VMS). Peer Reviewed Conference Papers Yang, F., 2007. An Efficient Approach to Compute the Analytic Solution of the Stationary Distribution in the Markov Traffic Assignment. Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Transportation Research, CD-ROM, Berkeley, USA.. Yang, F., 2007. Efficient Approximated Matching Methods for Online Incident Data Management. Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting, CD-ROM, Washington DC, USA.. Yang, F., Szeto, W.Y., 2006. Day-to-day Dynamic Congestion Pricing Policies towards System Optimal. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Dynamic Traffic Assignment, Leeds, United Kingdom, 266-275. Tao, Y., Yang, F., Qiu, Z.J., Ran, B., 2005. Travel Time Prediction in Presence of Traffic Incidents Using Different Types of Neural Networks. Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting, CD-ROM, Washington DC, USA.. Yang, F., Lee, C., Ban, X., Ran, B., 2005. Using the Temporal Difference Learning Method in Multi-step Freeway Speed Prediction. Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, CD-ROM, San Francisco, USA.. Ban, X., Liu, H., Yang, F., Ran, B., 2005. A Traffic Assignment Model with Fuzzy Travel Time Perceptions. Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, CD-ROM, San Francisco, USA. Lee, C., Yang, F., Ran, B., 2004. Developing a Driver Compliance Model for ATIS. Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Washington DC, USA, 459-464. Yang, F., Sun, H., Ran, B., 2004. Temporal Difference Learning with Recurrent Neural Network in Multi-step ahead Freeway Speed Prediction. Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 83rd Annual Meeting, CD-ROM, Washington DC, USA. Yin, Z., Yang, F., Liu, H., Ran, B., 2004. Using Image Sensors to Measure Real-Time Traffic Flow Parameters. Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 83rd Annual Meeting, CD-ROM, Washington DC, USA. Sun, H., Xiao, H., Yang F., Ran, B., Tao, Y., Oh, Y., 2004. Wavelet Preprocessing for Local Linear Traffic Prediction. Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 83rd Annual Meeting, CD-ROM, Washington DC, USA. Services Session Chair, Day-to-day Traffic Dynamics and Traffic Equilibria, the 2005 INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Session Chair, General Transportation Dynamics, the 2005 INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Paper/Proposal Reviewer: Transportation Research Part C Transportation Transportation Research Record ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering Journal of Advanced Transportation Intelligent Transportation System Journal IEEE International Conferences on Intelligent Transportation Systems World Conference on Transport Research Annual Proposal Review for METRANS Center, University of Southern California.