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Motao Zhu

Engineering · The Ohio State University

Established · publishing since 1997

Publications

170

Citations

2,761

Est. group size

~11

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

30

Publishing since 1997

Research summary
AI-generated

Motao Zhu studies road traffic safety, focusing on who gets injured in crashes and why, including older drivers, teen drivers with traffic violations, distracted and impaired driving, and the effects of laws like phone bans and licensing renewal policies. This work combines crash data analysis with public health and injury epidemiology methods to inform policies aimed at reducing driving-related injuries. Students would likely engage with large administrative or survey datasets on crashes, driver behavior, and safety policy evaluation.

Traffic and road safetyOlder and teen driver riskInjury epidemiologyDistracted and impaired drivingTransportation policy evaluation

Publication output grew from 2017 through a peak around 2020-2022, then has gradually declined in the most recent few years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 10.8/year recently
2017: 7 publications172018: 9 publications182019: 17 publications192020: 17 publications202021: 20 publications20212022: 19 publications222023: 13 publications232024: 12 publications242025: 9 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Injury Epidemiology×11
  • Traffic Injury Prevention×10
  • Journal of Safety Research×9
  • Abstracts×7
  • Research Square×7
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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