Greetings! My name is Yuyan Pan (潘芋燕), and I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Florida State University. My work leverages volume-delay function modeling and calibration, fundamental diagram and queueing theory, traffic demand management, big data and machine learning, electrical vehicle, connected automated vehicle, and open-source transportation modeling software development.

Research Interests

• Connected and Automated Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Traffic Demand Management

• Machine Learning Applications in Smart Mobility, Traffic State Estimation and Prediction

• Traffic Flow Theory, Transportation Network Optimization, Dynamic Traffic Assignment

Education Background

• Ph.D., Transportation Engineering

Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China. 2019-2023.

• Dissertation: Cross-resolution bottleneck analysis for dynamic mobility management: integrated parsimaneneous traffic flow fundamentals with data driven approaches

• M.S., Transportation Engineering

Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China. 2015-2018.

• Thesis: Research on autonomous vehicle’s route arrangement problem

• B.S., Transportation Engineering

Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China. 2010-2014.

Work Experience

• 2024/4~2025/7, Postdoctoral Scholar. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University.

• 2025/7~present, Postdoctoral Scholar. FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University.

Peer-Reviewed Publication

• Journal of Urban Planning and Development (1 Paper, 1 First-Authored).

• Applied Sciences (1 Paper, 1 Corresponding-Authored).

• Transportation Letters (1 Paper, 1 First-Authored).

• Multimodal Transportation (1 Paper, 1 First-Authored).

• Expert Systems with Applications (1 Paper, 1 First-Authored).

• Transportation Research Record (1 Paper, 1 First-Authored).

• Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems (2 Paper, 1 First-Authored).

• Journal of Advanced Transportation (1 Papers, 1 First-Authored).

• Urban Rail Transit (1 Papers, 1 Corresponding-Authored).

• Science Technology & Engineering (2 Papers, 1 First-Authored).

• Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development (3 Paper, 1 First-Authored).

See full list here: Google Scholar

Peer Reviewer

• Transportation Research Part B/C/E

• Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics

• Transportation Research Record

• Transportation

• Journal of Advanced Transportation

• Urban Rail Transit

• Multimodal Transportation

• International Journal of Intelligent Systems

• Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development

• Complexity

• Ain Shams Engineering Journal

• TRB Annual Meeting and Transportation Research Record (TRB)

• COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP)

Skills

• Programming: Python, GAMS, OSM2GMNS, Path4GMNS

• Simulation: DTALite, SUMO, VISSIM, TransCAD, Anylogic

• Statistics: SPSS, SQL, Zotero, Overleaf

• Visualization: GIS, QGIS, NeXTA GUI