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Our lab has a new name: Community-Centered Advanced Mobility (CAM) Lab, formerly the Connected & Automated Mobility Lab. The new name reflects our growing research across travel behavior, infrastructure systems, and vehicle technologies, with a shared goal of developing transportation solutions that better serve communities.
Xinke Cui and Dr. Zhiwei Chen’s modular transit research is scheduled for INFORMS 2026 (November 1–4, San Francisco).
Dr. Zhiwei Chen was appointed to the Early Career Editorial Board of the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Congratulations to Amir Bagheri on receiving Drexel’s Teaching Assistant Excellence Award!
Dr. Zhiwei Chen served as a panelist on post-bachelor’s career paths at the ITE Mid-Colonial District Student Leadership Summit in Lancaster, PA, sharing perspectives on careers in academia. Drexel ITE students also attended.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen coauthored a paper on integrated electric bus and charger scheduling in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Drs. Zhiwei Chen and Li Zhang received the Grimes Family Faculty Award. The award supports their research on safe autonomous driving.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen was appointed as Guest Editor for a special issue on trustworthy AI in transportation in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological.
PennDOT awarded funding for analysis of Pennsylvania’s fine and coarse aggregate reserve balances, with Dr. Miguel Pando as PI and Dr. Zhiwei Chen as Co-PI. Thank you, PennDOT!
Dr. Zhiwei Chen gave a talk about CAM Lab’s research on modular automated transit systems at the TRB Annual Meeting.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen was appointed as a Handling Editor of Transportation Research Record.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen was appointed to the editorial board of Transportation Research Part E.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen led a paper on travel choice prediction with provable and adaptable fairness guarantees in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological.
Xinke Cui and Dr. Zhiwei Chen’s modular transit work was presented at INFORMS.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen coauthored a paper on changing comfort attitudes toward autonomous shuttles in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen gave a talk about CAM Lab’s research on fair travel choice prediction at Shaoxing University.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen joined the TRB Standing Committee on Transit System Planning.
Urvishkumar Bharti joined CAM Lab as a PhD student.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen was appointed as Executive Guest Editor for a special issue on emerging vehicle technologies in Transportation Research Part E.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen and collaborators presented their research on fair travel choice prediction at the TRB Annual Meeting.
Philadelphia’s 2024 Vision Zero Annual Report described the City’s work with Dr. Zhiwei Chen and a team of student researchers to analyze traffic demand throughout the day.
Congratulations to Channacy Un on receiving an Undergraduate Research Mini-Grant with Dr. Zhiwei Chen! Thank you, Drexel’s Pennoni Honors College!
NSF awarded funding through its Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) program for decision embedded deep learning in transit systems. Thank you, NSF!
NSF awarded funding through its Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) program for a collect, relay, and deliver model for food secure aging communities, with Dr. Zhiwei Chen as PI. Thank you, NSF!
Dr. Zhiwei Chen led a paper on the distributional equity impacts of automated vehicles in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.
Amir Bagheri joined CAM Lab.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen coauthored a paper on modular vehicles for airport baggage transportation in Journal of Air Transport Management.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen coauthored a paper on car following model calibration in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen coauthored a paper combining vehicle trajectory control with physical testing in Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles.
Xinke Cui joined CAM Lab as a PhD student.
NSF awarded RAPID funding for collecting and curating traffic data following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, with Dr. Zhiwei Chen as sole PI. Thank you, NSF!
Dr. Zhiwei Chen gave an invited talk about CAM Lab’s research on the impacts of deep learning on transit timetabling in the University of Michigan’s NGTS Seminar Series.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen gave an invited talk about CAM Lab’s research on the equity impacts of automated vehicles at the Southeast Florida transportation modeling users group meeting.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen and collaborators presented four papers at the TRB Annual Meeting.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen coauthored a paper on context aware trajectory prediction in Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen was appointed as Co-chair of the Vehicle-Road-Cloud Collaboration and Highway Application Technical Committee and Youth Member of the Traffic Psychology, Behavior, and Injury Prevention Technical Committee of the World Transport Convention.
Drexel Engineering featured Erik Stellato and Sebastiano Villano’s launch of an Institute of Transportation Engineers student chapter, with Dr. Zhiwei Chen as faculty advisor.
CAM Lab students presented three research projects at the ITSPA Annual Conference.
NSF awarded RAPID funding to study transit use following Philadelphia’s I-95 bridge collapse, with Dr. Zhiwei Chen as sole PI. Thank you, NSF!
Dr. Zhiwei Chen participated in a panel discussion at the fifth biennial Passenger Railway Engineering Education Symposium (p-REES) in Washington, DC.
Boeing, through Drexel University’s College of Engineering, awarded funding to launch the Smart & Healthy Transport Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) course, led by Dr. Zhiwei Chen with Drs. Shannon Capps and Gina Lovasi. Thank you, Boeing!
Dr. Zhiwei Chen coauthored a review of vehicle platoon merging and splitting in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen joined Drexel University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering and launched CAM Lab.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen received the COTA Best Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Dr. Zhiwei Chen led a paper on modular autonomous vehicle corridors in Transportation Science.