2025 9th International Conference on Traffic Engineering and Transportation System (ICTETS 2025)

Biography: Rui Jiang is a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University. His research primarily focuses on road traffic flow, pedestrian traffic flow, travel behavior, and connected and automated vehicles. He has led more than 10 research projects, including the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National High-Level Talents Youth Program, and projects under the National Key R&D Program of China. He has published over 100 papers in renowned domestic and international academic journals and conferences, such as Transportation Science, ISTTT, Transportation Research Part B, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Research Parts C/D/E, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Physical Review E. He has been consecutively recognized as a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher by Elsevier for multiple years, with one of his papers receiving over 900 SCI citations. He has received several awards, including the First Prize of Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, the Second Prize of Science and Technology Award of Anhui Province, the Second Prize of Natural Science Award of Beijing Municipality, and the First Prize of Outstanding Natural Science Paper Award of Anhui Province. He serves as an editorial board member for journals such as Transportation Research Part B, Transportmetrica A, and Physica A.

Biography: Prof. Xiaoning Zhang obtained his Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2003. He has dedicated his career to research and consulting in the optimization and management of transportation and logistics systems. Recognized for his achievements, he has been awarded the title of Outstanding Academic Leader in Shanghai (2019), granted a Special Government Allowance by the State Council (2016), designated as a Shanghai Dawn Scholar (2013), named a National Outstanding Young Scholar (2011), honored as a New Century Excellent Talent by the Ministry of Education (2010), and selected for the Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Rising Star Program (2009). Currently, Prof. Zhang serves as an editorial board member of Transportation Research B, an executive council member of the Society for Management Science and Engineering, a deputy director of the Transportation Management Research Society, and a council member of the Systems Engineering Society of China. His primary research interests encompass the optimization and management of transportation and logistics systems, as well as transportation economics.

Biography: Yingen Ge joined the School of Transportation Engineering at Chang’an University in the fall of 2021. In 2016, he was selected for the Shanghai High-Level Talent Recruitment Program. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the internationally renowned academic journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport & Environment, Associate Editor of Transport Policy and Transport, and editorial board member of International Journal of Sustainable Transportation and China Journal of Highway and Transport. Additionally, he is a council member of the Fourth Board of the Management Science and Engineering Society and Vice Chair of the Second Committee of the Transportation Management Branch.
His research is interdisciplinary in nature, applying theories, models, and methods from management science and operations research to address transportation problems. His work primarily spans the fields of transportation management, traffic and environment, international transport and logistics, transportation economics and policy, as well as transportation modeling and applications. To date, he has published over 150 academic journal papers.
Since 2010, he has led one major project supported by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, two key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (one of which is a Sino-European international cooperation project), two general projects, and five international collaboration and exchange projects. He has also presided over two provincial/ministerial-level projects and participated in three national-level major and key projects. He possesses extensive experience in both high-level academic research and practical transportation modeling, software development, as well as integrated land-use and transportation planning consultancy. Furthermore, he maintains broad international connections.

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