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Zengxiang Lei

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2016Rising activity
Transportation Planning and OptimizationTransportation and Mobility InnovationsUrban Transport and AccessibilityHuman Mobility and Location-Based AnalysisElectric Vehicles and Infrastructure

Publications

39

Citations

293

Est. group size

~5

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

11

Publishing since 2016

Research summary
AI-generated

Zengxiang Lei's research focuses on understanding and modeling human travel behavior using large-scale data sources such as mobile phone records, smartphone GPS traces, and transit ridership logs. Work spans transportation planning topics like microtransit and ridesharing demand, disaster-related evacuation decision-making (e.g., hurricanes combined with COVID-19), and metro/transit network resilience, with some recent exploration into machine learning methods applied to these problems. This research would suit students interested in data-driven transportation systems, urban mobility analysis, or disaster/emergency travel behavior modeling.

Human mobility and travel behavior analysis using mobile phone/GPS dataTransportation network resilience and disaster evacuation planningMicrotransit, ridesharing, and demand-responsive transportationMetro/transit system operations and demand modelingApplied machine learning methods for transportation problems

Publication output has grown over the last decade, rising from a couple of papers per year around 2017-2021 to a more active and consistent pace of roughly 5-7 papers annually since 2022.

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

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.2/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 1 publication192020: 2 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 7 publications7222023: 3 publications232024: 7 publications7242025: 6 publications252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×5
  • Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies×3
  • Transportation Research Board 97th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board×3
  • IET Intelligent Transport Systems×2
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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