Dr. Enhui Chen serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Transportation Management Engineering at the College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University. He is a recipient of the Shanghai Leading Talent (Overseas) Funding Initiative. He has enriched his academic experience as a visiting scholar at Northwestern University and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. His research interests lie in modeling travel behavior and optimizing mobility service within multimodal transportation systems. In the last five years, he has contributed 16 papers to SCI-indexed journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and Transportation Research part A/D, with seven of these as the first author in top-tier journals, including one paper recognized as an ESI Highly Cited Paper. He has also been granted three authorized invention patents.
Education
03/2017-07/2021 Southeast University,Transportation Engineering, PhD
10/2019 -10/2020 Northwestern University,Transportation Systems Analysis and Planning, Visiting Phd student /Visiting Scholar
Experience
08/2021 - 08/2023 Research Fellow, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore
11/2023 - present Assistant Professor, College of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University
Research interests
Multimodal transportation systems modeling; Data-driven analysis; Urban computing
Honors & Awards
Shanghai Leading Talent (Overseas) Funding, 2023.
National Scholarship, 2020.
Publications
Chen, E., Ye, Z., Wang, C., & Xu, M. (2019). Subway passenger flow prediction for special events using smart card data. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 21(3), 1109-1120.
Chen, E., Ye, Z., Wang, C., & Zhang, W. (2019). Discovering the spatio-temporal impacts of built environment on metro ridership using smart card data. Cities, 95, 102359.
Chen, E., Ye, Z. & Wu, H. (2021). Nonlinear effects of built environment on intermodal transit trips considering spatial heterogeneity. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 90, 102677.
Chen, E., Stathopoulos, A., & Nie, Y. M. (2022). Transfer station choice in a multimodal transit system: An empirical study. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 165, 337-355.
Chen, E., Zhang, W., Ye, Z., & Yang, M. (2022). Unraveling latent transfer patterns between metro and bus from large-scale smart card data. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 23(4), 3351-3365.
Chen, E., Liu, Y., & Yang, M. (2023). Revealing senior mobility patterns and activities in urban transit systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2023.3275389.
Chen, E., & Ye, Z. (2021) Identifying the nonlinear relationship between free-floating bike sharing usage and built environment. Journal of Cleaner Production, 280, 124281.
Chen, E., Yan, Y., Ye, Z., Wang, C., & Du, C. (2022). Investigating impacts of illegal crossings on vehicle operations at unmarked midblock locations. Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, 14(2), 177-196.