Teaching

2024 Fall

I was invited by William Barbour to give two guest lectures for Vanderbilt CE4510 /5510 Transportation Engineering on Traffic data collection and analysis, talking about the Traffic Flow Theory and giving hands-on tutorial on I-24 MOTION data anlaysis. 

Congratulations, undergraduate students are able to work with this incredibly large-scale trajectory dataset!

2023 Fall

I was invited by Ahmad Taha to give a guest lecture for Vanderbilt CE4240/5240 Introduction to Infrastructure System, talking about the Transportation System.

• This lecture aims to introduce the transportation system in terms of vision, models, and application.

• Vision: one of the high-level visions is to educate Civil Engineering students about the opportunities and challenges in transportation systems in face of climate change.

• Paradox of transportation: highlights that increased infrastructure often leads to more congestion. This includes a phenomenon known as "phantom jam," where congestion even occurs without any apparent cause. 

• Model: the model section delves deeply into mathematical models that explain transportation system dynamics, microscopic and macroscopic, urban and freeway, particularly focusing on freeway macroscopic models. It will also offer an in-depth explanation of the LWR model, a first-order macroscopic model.

2021 Fall

Transportation Planning, Southeast University, Teaching Assistant, with instructor Dr. Xiaomeng Shi

• Helped with the preparations for the slides and graded the assignments.

• Delivered a guest lecture on carbon-neutrality in the perspective multi-modal transportation planning.