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Experience Publications Teaching Projects Honors Services Membership		Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Institute of Transportation Studies California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology 4038 Anteater Instruction and Research Bldg University of California Irvine, CA 92697-3600 Tel: 949-824-1672 Fax: 949-824-8385 http://www.its.uci.edu/~wjin
	Wen-Long Jin, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Experience

Assistant Professor

University of California, Irvine, CA

Associate Professor

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Post-Doctoral Researcher

University of California, Irvine, CA

Ph.D.

University of California, Davis, CA

M.S.

University of California, Davis, CA

B.S.

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui

Publications

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Network vehicular traffic dynamics

W.-L. Jin and Ling Li, "First-In-First-Out is violated in real traffic" Proceedings of Transportation Research Board, 2007. (pdf: 526 KB)
W.-L. Jin, Yu Zhang and Lianyu Chu, "Measuring First-In-First-Out violation among vehicles"Proceedings of Transportation Research Board, 2006. (pdf: 286 KB)
W.-L. Jin and R. Jayakrishnan (2005), "First-in-first-out properties of a commodity-based kinematic wave simulation model" Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1934:197-207. (pdf: 262 KB)
W.-L. Jin and Yu Zhang (2005), "Paramics simulation of periodic oscillations caused by network geometry" Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1934:188-196. (pdf: 1.47 MB)
W.-L. Jin and H. M. Zhang (2004), "A multicommodity kinematic wave simulation model of network traffic flow" Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1883:59-67. (pdf: 718 KB)
W.-L. Jin and H. M. Zhang (2003), "On the distribution schemes for computing fluxes through a highway merge" Transportation Research Part B, 37(6): 521-540. (pdf: 281KB)
W.-L. Jin and H. M. Zhang (2003), "The inhomogeneous kinematic wave traffic flow model as a resonant nonlinear system" Transportation Science, 37(3): 294-311. (pdf: 330KB)
W.-L. Jin and H. M. Zhang (2003), "The formation and structure of vehicle clusters in the Payne-Whitham traffic flow model" Transportation Research Part B, 37(3): 207-223. (pdf: 824 KB)
W.-L. Jin and H. M. Zhang (2003), "Nonequilibrium continuum traffic flow model with frozen sound wave speed" Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1852:183-192. (pdf: 427 KB)
H. M. Zhang and W.-L. Jin (2002), "A kinematic wave traffic flow model for mixed traffic" Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1802:197-204. (pdf: 299 KB)

Transportation network analysis

W.-L. Jin (2008), "On the stability of user equilibria in static transportation networks" Transportmetrica, 4(1):1-17. (pdf: 901 KB)

W.-L. Jin, "A new approach to analyzing stability of user equilibria in static transportation networks" Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, 2006.

K.-F. Qiu, L. Chen, Z. Wang and W.-L. Jin, "A kinematic wave model for emergency evacuation planning" Proceedings of ITS World Congress Annual Meeting, Beijing, China, 2007.
W.-L. Jin (2007), "A dynamical system model of the traffic assignment problem" Transportation Research Part B， 41(1):32-48. (pdf: 316 KB)

Inter-vehicle communication and vehicle infrastructure integration

W.-L. Jin and H.-J. Wang (2008), "Modeling connectivity of inter-vehicle communication systems with road-side stations" The Open Transportation Journal, 2:1-6.
- W.-L. Jin and H.-J. Wang, "Modeling connectivity of inter-vehicle communication systems with road-side stations" Proceedings of ITS World Congress Annual Meeting, Beijing, China, 2007. Nominated for best scientific paper award.
Rui Jiang, W.-L. Jin, and Qing-Song Wu (2008), "Instantaneous information propagation in free flow, synchronized flow, stop-and-go waves in a cellular automaton model" Chinese Physics B, 17(3):829-835.
W.-L. Jin, Zhe Wang, and Wei Lu, “A new framework for simulating inter-vehicle communication” Third China Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation, Nanjing, China, 2007.
W.-L. Jin and W. W. Recker (2007), "A Monte Carlo Simulation Model of Instantaneous Inter-Vehicle Communication" Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2000:8-15.
W. W. Recker, W.-L. Jin, X. Yang, and J. Marca (2007), "Autonet: Inter-vehicle communication and network vehicular traffic" International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems, forthcoming.
W.-L. Jin and W. W. Recker (2006), "Instantaneous information propagation in a traffic stream through inter-vehicle communication" Transportation Research Part B, 40(3):230-250. (pdf: 314 KB)

Control systems

W.-L. Jin (2005), "A method for computing quadratic Brunovsky forms" The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra: A publication of ILAS - The International Linear Algebra Society, 13:40-55. (pdf: 187 KB)

Theses and reports

W.-L. Jin (2003), "Kinematic wave models of network vehicular traffic", Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis. (pdf: 3.75 MB)
H. M. Zhang, T. Kim, X. Nie, W.-L. Jin, and L. Chu and W. W. Recker (2001), "Evaluation of on-ramp control algorithms" California PATH Research Report, UCB-ITS-PRR-2001-36. (pdf: 1.09 MB)
W.-L. Jin and H. M. Zhang (2001), "Solving the Payne-Whitham traffic flow model as a hyperbolic system of conservation laws with relaxation" Technical Report UCD-ITS-Zhang-2001-1. (pdf: 500 KB)
W.-L. Jin (2000), "Traffic flow models and their numerical solutions", Master Thesis, University of California, Davis. (pdf: 3.27 MB)
W.-L. Jin and H. M. Zhang (2000), "Evaluation of on-ramp control algorithms" Interim report, in preparation for a PATH project. (pdf: 131 KB)

Teaching

Instructor "Fundamentals of Intelligent Transportation Systems" University of Science and Technology of China. Fall semester, 2006; Fall semester, 2007.
Instructor "Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems" University of Science and Technology of China. Fall semester, 2006.
Instructor "Short Calculus: Integration (MAT 16B)." University of California, Davis, CA. Summer, 2003.
Instructor "Calculus: Multivariable Functions (MAT 21C)." University of California, Davis, CA. Summer, 2002.
Instructor "Short Calculus: Differentiation (MAT 16A)." University of California, Davis, CA. Summer, 2001.
Teaching Assistant "Short Calculus","Applications of Linear Algebra". University of California, Davis, CA. 1998-1999.

Projects

“Theoretical and empirical analysis of macroscopic dynamics of network vehicular traffic” National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50708107), 2008-2010. P.I.
“Studies on software computing methods for network traffic detection” Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Project) (No. 2007AA11Z222), 2008-2009. Co-P.I.
National Basic Research Program of China (973 Project) (No. 2006CB705506), 2008-2011.
"Studies on routing protocols for inter-vehicle communication systems" MOE-MS Key Laboratory of Multimedia Computing and Communication, USTC, Hefei, China, 2006-2008. P.I.
"AutoNet" NSF CMS project #0339243, Institute of Transportation Studies of UC Irvine, 2003-2006.
"Experimental and theoretical investigations of traffic flow at highway merges" University of California Transportation Center Funding. University of California, Davis, CA. 2002-2003
"Development and validation of kinematic wave traffic flow models for road networks" University of California Transportation Center Dissertation Grant. University of California, Davis, CA. 2001-2002
"Evaluation of On-Ramp Control Algorithms" California PATH program Project# MOU3013, Institute of Transportation Studies of UC Davis, 1999-2001.

Honors

Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 10th Anniversary Edition, 2008.
Hundred-Talent Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2006-2008.
Dissertation Grant, University of California Transportation Center, 2002.
Summer Research Fellowship, UC Davis, 2002
Summer Research Fellowship, UC Davis, 2001
Non-resident Tuition Fee Fellowship, UC Davis, 1998-2002

Services

Editorial board, "Open Transportation Journal", Bentham Science Publishers.

Guest editor, Special issue on "Inter-vehicle communication and intelligent transportation systems", International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems (IJVICS), 2006.

Session chair, International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Studies, Xin, China, 2006.

Organizer, Hefei Area Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, USTC, Hefei, China, July 05, 2006.

Co-Organizer, Student-Run Seminar, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis, 2002-2003.

Referee for various journals and conferences, 2003-present.

Membership

Member, INFORMS, 2004-2006.
Student Member, American Mathematical Society, 2002-2003.

May 2, 2008