Associate Professor
Zuduo Zheng

This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
Dr. Zuduo Zheng is an Associate Professor in the Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology. He has won several awards in the USA, Australia and China. His research findings have been regularly published in top-ranked journals in his field and presented at important technical conferences. Dr. Zheng joined QUT in May 2011 as a Lecturer and Early Career Academic Fellow. Prior to his role at QUT, he conducted research in the United States for several years. Besides his academic profile at QUT, more information on his research can be found at his project webpage: http://www.connectedandautonomoustransport.com/Academic appointments
- DECRA Research Fellow, Australian Research Council, 2016-2018
- Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, August 2016 – Present
- Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, August 2014 – July 2016
- Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, May 2011 – July 2014
- Early Career Academic fellow, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, May 2011 – May 2012
- Research Associate, the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, January 2012 – December 2012
- Post-doctoral Researcher, Minnesota Traffic Observatory, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States, August 2010 – May 2011
Research interests
- Traffic flow theories, operations, and safety (connected and autonomous vehicles in particular);
- Travel behaviour, strategic transport planning and modeling, and sustainable transportation systems;
- Decision making, choice modelling, and human factor;
- Advanced data analysis techniques (e.g., mathematical modeling, econometrics, numerical optimization)
Current projects
- Modelling Mixed Traffic of Traditional, Connected, and Automated Vehicles; Sponsor: Australian Research Council.
- Market Intelligence and Technology Assessment – EEV Towards a Green Mobility Solution for ASEAN and Australia; Sponsor: AutoCRC & Malaysia Automotive Institute.
Previous projects (since Dr. Zheng joined QUT in 2011)
- Loan Material Distribution Cost Reduction; Sponsor: The State Library of Queensland.
- RIB Mining System Monitoring and Optimisation; Sponsor: Department of Industry – Enterprise Connect
- Who Killed New York City’s Congestion Pricing? An International Comparison Analysis and its Implication to Australia; Sponsor: The United States Studies Centre at University of Sydney.
- Impact of Traffic Characteristics on Crash Occurence: A Meta Analysis Approach; Sponsor: TCT Tesic GmbH
- Survey Design, Survey Data Analysis & Modeling; Sponsor: CRC for Rail Innovation: Urban Rail Travel Behaviour Project.
Personal details
Discipline
Civil Engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Arizona State University)
Professional memberships and associations
- Member, Chinese Overseas Transportation Association
- Member, Queensland Chinese Association of Scientists and Engineers (QCASE)
- Friend of TRB Committee on Traffic Flow Theory & Characteristics
- Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
- ITS Arizona
Teaching
Teaching achievements
- Member, the College of HDR Mentoring Supervisors, QUT, 2016 to present
- Certificate, the Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice, QUT
- Member of Class 2009-2010, the Exploratory Phase, the Preparing Future Faculty Program, the ASU Graduate College (Members are competitively selected)
Current lecture subject areas
- ENN542: Statistical and Optimisation Methods for Engineers
- ENB376: Transport Engineering
- ENB379: Transport Engineering & Planning Applications
- EGB272: Traffic and Transport Engineering
- EGB100: Engineering Sustainability and Professional Practice
- ENN576: Transport Planning and Strategic Modelling
- ENB372: Design and Planning of Highways
- UDN576: Transportation Infrastructure
- BEB801: Project 1
Guest lectures
- Guest lecturer at Arizona State University (Fall 2008): CEE 598—Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- Guest lecturer at Arizona State University (Spring 2008): CEE 598 —Traffic Flow Theory.
Experience
Editorial roles
- Member, The Editorial Board, Transportation Research Part B (2016 - present)
- Member, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology (2016 - present)
- Guest Editor of Transportation Research Part C, Special Issue on modelling, calibrating, and validating car following and lane changing behaviour (2015 - 2016)
- Member, the Editorial Board, Heliyon (The open access journal for all disciplines published by Elsevier) (2015 - present)
- Member, The Editorial Board, Transportation Research Part C (2013 - present)
- Member, The Editorial Board, The Open Transportation Journal (2011 - present)
Conferences and events (invited speakers)
- The 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2017), Los Angeles, California, USA, July 17-21, 2017
- The Sixth International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology (ICTTP2016), Brisbane, Australia, August 2016
- 2016 summer meeting, Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics Committee, Transportation Research Board, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the United States of America
- 13th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals
Committee memberships
- Local Organizing and Scientific Committee, 2016 summer meeting, Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics Committee, Transportation Research Board, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the United States of America.
- The Scientific Committee, the 6th Road Safety & Simulation International Conference, Delft University of Technology, Netherland, October 2017.
- Program Committee, the 6th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, Porto, Portugal, February 2017.
- The International Program Committee, 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2014
Professional training workshops
- Certificate, Training course of Discrete Choice Analysis: Models, Estimation and Applications by Professors David Hensher, William (Bill) Greene, and Michiel Bliemer (with support from Dr Andrew Collins), Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney. 18-22 August 2014
- Certificate, Training course of Transport Data Analysis and Modeling Methodologies by Professors Simon Washington, Fred Mannering, and Matthew G Karlaftis, Queensland University of Technology. 18 - 22 November 2013
- Invited participant, Mathematics of Traffic Flow Modeling, Estimation and Control, Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, An NSF Math Institute at UCLA, 7-9 December 2011
- Member of Class 2012, Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice. Queensland University of Technology
- Member of Class 2009-2010, the Exploratory Phase, the Preparing Future Faculty Program, the ASU Graduate College (Members are competitively selected)
Visiting positions
- Visiting Professor, The University of Naples Federico II – Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (DICEA), Italy, November 2015
- Visiting Professor, Tongji University, China, 2015 & 2016
Grant reviewers
- Assessor, Research Councils UK (RCUK)
- Assessor, Australian Research Council
Journal reviewers
- Transportation Research Part B
- Transportation Research Part A
- Transportation Research Part C
- Transportation Research Part D
- Transportation Research Part F
- Transportation Science
- Accident Analysis & Prevention
- Traffic Injury Prevention
- Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
- Journal of Transportation Engineering
- Journal of Advanced Transportation
- Advances in Civil Engineering
- the 12th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR, 2010)
- the Transportation Research Board Annual Meetings (2010, 2011, 2012)
- the International IEEE Conference on ITS (2008, 2009, 2012)
- the ITE’s 2009 Technical Programs (2008)
Selected publications
- Zheng Z, Ahn S, Chen D, Laval J, (2013) The effects of lane-changing on the immediate follower: Anticipation, relaxation, and change in driver characteristics, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 26, pp. 367-379.
- Chen D, Laval J, Zheng Z, Ahn S, (2012) A behavioral car-following model that captures traffic oscillations, Transportation Research, Series B: Methodological, 46 (6), pp. 744-761.
- Chen D, Laval J, Ahn S, Zheng Z, (2012) Microscopic traffic hysteresis in traffic oscillations: A behavioral perspective, Transportation Research, Series B: Methodological, 46 (10), pp. 1440-1453.
- Zheng Z, Washington S, (2012) On selecting an optimal wavelet for detecting singularities in traffic and vehicular data, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 25 (18), pp. 18-33.
- Zheng Z, (2012) Empirical analysis on relationship between traffic conditions and crash occurrences, Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, 43, pp. 302-312.
- Zheng Z, (2011) Empirical analysis of freeway traffic oscillation: Its safety impact and evolution, VDM Verlag.
- Zheng Z, Ahn S, Chen D, Laval J, (2011) Applications of wavelet transform for analysis of freeway traffic: Bottlenecks, transient traffic, and traffic oscillations, Transportation Research, Series B: Methodological, 45 (2), pp. 372-384.
- Zheng Z, Ahn S, Chen D, Laval J, (2011) Freeway traffic oscillations: Microscopic analysis of formations and propagations using Wavelet Transform, Transportation Research, Series B: Methodological, 45 (9), pp. 1378-1388.
- Zheng Z, Ahn S, Monsere C, (2010) Impact of traffic oscillations on freeway crash occurrences, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 42 (2), pp. 626-636.
- Su D, Dong J, Zheng Z, (2009) Shrinking Neighborhood Evolution - a novel stochastic algorithm for numerical optimization, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 3300-3305.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Zuduo, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- DECRA Research Followship 2016-2018.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Member, The Editorial Board, Transportation Research Part B (the most prestigious journal in transport engineering)
- Type
- Editor/Contributor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Guest Editor of Transportation Research Part C, Special Issue on modelling, calibrating, and validating car following and lane changing behaviour
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Member, the Editorial Board, Heliyon (The open access journal for all disciplines published by Elsevier)
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Transportation Research Part C (Start from 2013), a top ranked journal.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Research Fellowship,the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Travel Award from University of California, Los Angeles & US National Science Foundation
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- First prize, the Arizona ITE Paper Scholarship
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship,the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- University Graduate Fellowship for Academic Excellence, Arizona State University (Received this fellowship in 2007,2009, and 2010, respectively)
Research projects
- Title
- Modelling Mixed Traffic of Traditional, Connected, and Automated Vehicles
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE160100449
- Start year
- 2016
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