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20202026
most citedExamining spatial heterogeneity of ridesourcing demand determinants with explainable machine learning

34 citations · 53 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

stat.AP2026

Design and Validation of a Grid-based Home Detection via Stay-Time (GHOST) Software for Mobile Location Data

Alessandra Recalde, Mustafa Sameen, Xiaojian Zhang +1

Accurately detecting home locations from GPS data generated by mobile devices is a foundational step in human mobility research, with significant implications for transportation pl…

stat.AP2026

Evacuation destination choices during Hurricane Ian: A direct demand modeling approach

Alessandra Recalde, Luyu Liu, Xiaojian Zhang +3

Hurricanes are causing unprecedented damage to the natural environment, infrastructure, and communities. Understanding evacuation behavior is essential for improving emergency prep…

cs.AI2025

Synthesizing Attitudes, Predicting Actions (SAPA): Behavioral Theory-Guided LLMs for Ridesourcing Mode Choice Modeling

Mustafa Sameen, Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao

Accurate modeling of ridesourcing mode choices is essential for designing and implementing effective traffic management policies for reducing congestion, improving mobility, and al…

cs.CE2024★ 1 cited

Hurricane Evacuation Analysis with Large-scale Mobile Device Location Data during Hurricane Ian

Luyu Liu, Xiaojian Zhang, Shangkun Jiang +1

Hurricane Ian is the deadliest and costliest hurricane in Florida's history, with 2.5 million people ordered to evacuate. As we witness increasingly severe hurricanes in the contex…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Post-hurricane building damage assessment using street-view imagery and structured data: A multi-modal deep learning approach

Zhuoqun Xue, Xiaojian Zhang, David O. Prevatt +3

Accurately assessing building damage is critical for disaster response and recovery. However, many existing models for detecting building damage have poor prediction accuracy due t…

cs.LG2023

Causality-informed Rapid Post-hurricane Building Damage Detection in Large Scale from InSAR Imagery

Chenguang Wang, Yepeng Liu, Xiaojian Zhang +6

Timely and accurate assessment of hurricane-induced building damage is crucial for effective post-hurricane response and recovery efforts. Recently, remote sensing technologies pro…

cs.CY2023

ICN: Interactive Convolutional Network for Forecasting Travel Demand of Shared Micromobility

Yiming Xu, Qian Ke, Xiaojian Zhang +1

Accurate shared micromobility demand predictions are essential for transportation planning and management. Although deep learning models provide powerful tools to deal with demand…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Situational-Aware Multi-Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network (SA-MGCRN) for Travel Demand Forecasting During Wildfires

Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao, Yiming Xu +2

Real-time forecasting of travel demand during wildfire evacuations is crucial for emergency managers and transportation planners to make timely and better-informed decisions. Howev…

cs.LG2023

Travel Demand Forecasting: A Fair AI Approach

Xiaojian Zhang, Qian Ke, Xilei Zhao

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning have been increasingly adopted for travel demand forecasting. The AI-based travel demand forecasting models, though generate accur…

cs.LG2022★ 34 cited

Examining spatial heterogeneity of ridesourcing demand determinants with explainable machine learning

Xiaojian Zhang, Xiang Yan, Zhengze Zhou +2

The growing significance of ridesourcing services in recent years suggests a need to examine the key determinants of ridesourcing demand. However, little is known regarding the non…

econ.GN2022★ 5 cited

The Short-term Impact of Congestion Taxes on Ridesourcing Demand and Traffic Congestion: Evidence from Chicago

Yuan Liang, Bingjie Yu, Xiaojian Zhang +2

Ridesourcing is popular in many cities. Despite its theoretical benefits, a large body of studies have claimed that ridesourcing also brings (negative) externalities (e.g., inducin…

cs.CY2021★ 3 cited

Real-Time Forecasting of Dockless Scooter-Sharing Demand: A Spatio-Temporal Multi-Graph Transformer Approach

Yiming Xu, Xilei Zhao, Xiaojian Zhang +1

Accurately forecasting the real-time travel demand for dockless scooter-sharing is crucial for the planning and operations of transportation systems. Deep learning models provide r…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

A Clustering-aided Ensemble Method for Predicting Ridesourcing Demand in Chicago

Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao

Accurately forecasting ridesourcing demand is important for effective transportation planning and policy-making. With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), researchers have sta…

cs.CY2021★ 3 cited

Do e-scooters fill mobility gaps and promote equity before and during COVID-19? A spatiotemporal analysis using open big data

Xiang Yan, Wencui Yang, Xiaojian Zhang +3

The growing popularity of e-scooters and their rapid expansion across urban streets has attracted widespread attention. A major policy question is whether e-scooters substitute exi…

math.OC2020

Optimizing Demand-Responsive Paratransit Operations: A Mixed Integer Programming Approach

Xiaojian Zhang, Yu Yang, Abigail L. Cochran +2

The traditional demand-responsive paratransit system plays an important role in connecting people to health care, particularly those who are carless, low-income, senior, underinsur…