Education
Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2000
M.E., Chongqing University 1996
B.E., Chongqing University 1993
Current Research Interests
Transportation network modeling, OD demand estimation and forecasting, and Marine transportation.
Courses Taught
- CENG 10 Surveying
- CENG 125 Municipal Engineering
- CENG 145 Transportation Engineering
- CENG 149 Civil Systems Engineering
- CENG 150/250 Traffic Engineering
- CENG 151 Special Topics in Transportation Engineering
For a list of Civil Engineering course descriptions, visit the Undergraduate Courses page.
Publications
- Z. Yan, R. He, and H. Yang, “The small world of global marine crude oil trade based on crude oil tanker flows”, Regional Studies in Marine Science, 51, 102215, 2022.
- Z. Yan, L. Cheng, R. He, and H. Yang, “Extracting ship stopping information from AIS data”, Ocean Engineering, 250, 111004, 2022.
- Z. Yan, Y. Xiao, L. Cheng, R. He, and B. Ran, “Exploring AIS data for intelligent maritime routes extraction”, Applied Ocean Research, 101, 102271, 2020.
- Z. Yan, Y. Xiao, L. Cheng, S. Chen, X. Zhou, X. Ruan, and R. He, “Analysis of global marine oil trade based on automatic identification system data”, Journal of Transport Geography, 83, 2020.
- Zhang, X., He, R., Shi, Q., Ban, J., and Ran, B.(2013). "Critical Traffic Control Locations for Emergency Evacuation." ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering,139(10), 1030–1038.