# Open to work!
target = 'PhD'
year = '2025 Fall'
fields = ['sustainable mobility']
interests = [
    'urban sensing and traffic-related emission modeling',
    'mixed traffic future with AVs, EVs, and micromobility',
    'equity-aware transportation assessment and management',
    ]
interests.append(float('inf'))

Experience

Employment

2024.07-2024.08: Research Assistant, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (supervisor: Prof. An Wang).

Education

2022.08-present: MSc of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Southeast University (supervisor: Prof. Ran Tu).
2018.09-2022.06: BEng of Traffic and Transportation, Southeast University.

News

2024.12: 🎉 Check our latest online paper on brake wear particle emission modeling in TR-part D!
2024.10: 🎉 Our TRB paper was selected for presentation at the Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Committee Meeting on 8 Jan!
2024.07: 🎉 I will be a poster presenter at Urban Transitions 2024 in Sitges, Spain!
2024.05: 📣 I will work with Prof. An Wang at PolyU (Hong Kong) as a summer research assistant from July to Sept.!
2023.10: 🎉 New TRB paper accepted! Plan to be a poster presenter at TRB 2024 in Washington, D.C.!

Projects

TRB.2024

Light-duty Vehicle Brake Wear Particle Emission Modeling
[Paper] [Code]

Brake wear particle emission modeling.
Spatial and temporal analysis.
Trip-level influencing factor analysis.

Transp.Res.D.2023

Electric Bus Charging Planning and Scheduling
[Paper1] [Paper2] [Code]

Electric vehicle scheduling optimization.
ALNS algorithm development.
Cost-effectiveness evaluation under uncertainty.

Outcomes

Check my google scholar for a full list of publications:

Journal

2024.12: Modeling Urban Brake Wear Particle Emissions: A Ride-hailing Case in Chengdu, China. Qiuzi Chen, An Wang, Shunyao Wang, Haobing Liu, Luyang Gong, Ran Tu*. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
2024.08: Co-optimizing Electric Bus Dispatching and Charging Considering Limited Resources and Battery Degradation. Chenming Niu, Qiuzi Chen, Ran Tu*, Di Huang, Yujian Ye. Multimodal Transportation.
2024.04: Drivers’ Acceptance of Eco-Driving Guidance Assistance System Based on Technology Acceptance Model. Ran Tu*, Shan Xue, Siyu Jiang, Qiuzi Chen. Journal of Tongji University（Natural Science）.
2023.05: Cost-effective Electric Bus Resource Assignment Based on Optimized Charging and Decision Robustness. Qiuzi Chen, Chenming Niu, Ran Tu*, Tiezhu Li, An Wang and Dengbo He. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.

Conference

2025.01: Influencing Factors, Spatial Distribution, and Mitigation of Light-Duty Vehicle Brake Wear Particle Emissions in the Urban Area. Qiuzi Chen, An Wang, Shunyao Wang, Haobing Liu, Ran Tu*. TRB 104th Annual Meeting.
2024.01: Modifying MOVES Brake Wear Emission Modeling for Light-Duty Vehicles in a Metropolitan Area. Qiuzi Chen, Haobing Liu, Shunyao Wang, Ran Tu*. TRB 103rd Annual Meeting.
2023.01: Investigating the Resource Allocation of Electric Buses with Uncertainty through Optimal Charging Strategy. Qiuzi Chen, Chenming Niu, Ran Tu*, Tiezhu Li, An Wang, Dengbo He. TRB 102nd Annual Meeting.
2022.01: Optimizing the Charging Plan and Fleet Size of Electric Buses with Energy Consumption Variations. Yifei Su, Aijia Zhang, Tiezhu Li, Qiuzi Chen, Jian Sun, Ran Tu*. TRB 101st Annual Meeting.

Qiuzi Chen