About
Dr. Chaoru Lu is currently an Associate Professor of smart mobility at the Department of Civil Engineering and Energy Technology. His research work mainly lies in intelligent transport system, traffic flow theory, autonomous vehicle, and transport electrification.
Education
Ph.D. Iowa State University,2017
MS Texas A and M University-Kingsville, 2014
BS Hunan University of Science and Technology, China , 2011
Research Areas
intelligent transport system, traffic flow theory, autonomous vehicle, and transport electrification
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Public transport Transport Modelling Intelligent Transport Systems Zero Emission Transport Intelligent Transportation Systems
Research groups
Research projects
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Net-Zero Future
To enable a rapid global movement toward the built environmentʼs carbon footprint reduction, this project will initiate an international alliance to coordinate and perform research, educational, and outreach activities to realize net-zero built structures.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Zhou, Guang-Jing; Xie, Dong-Fan; Zhao, Xiao-Mei;
Lu, Chaoru
; Zhou, Cheng-Dong; Zhang, Chao-Yang
(2024).
Collaborative optimization of vehicle scheduling and speed regulation for autonomous customized bus systems.
20 p.
Applied Mathematical Modelling.
Vol. 128.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2024.01.032
Sai, Qiuyue; Bi, Jun; Zhao, Xiaomei; Guan, Wei;
Lu, Chaoru
(2023).
Understanding Travel Behavior of Electric Car-Sharing Users under Impact of COVID-19.
23 p.
World Electric Vehicle Journal.
Vol. 14.
https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj14060144
Sai, Qiuyue; Bi, Jun; Zhao, Xiaomei; Guan, Wei;
Lu, Chaoru
(2023).
Joint optimization of infrastructure deployment and fleet operations for an electric carsharing system by considering multi-type vehicles.
19 p.
Journal of Cleaner Production.
Vol. 414.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137681
Wu, Shan; Hadachi, Amnir;
Lu, Chaoru
; Vivet, Damien
(2023).
Transformer for multiple object tracking: Exploring locality to vision.
6 p.
Pattern Recognition Letters.
Vol. 170.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2023.04.016
Ma, Qinglu; Wang, Xinyu; Zhang, Shu;
Lu, Chaoru
(2023).
Distributed Self-Organizing Control of CAVs Between Multiple Adjacent-Ramps.
11 p.
IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems (Print).
Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3244185
Wu, Shan; Hadachi, Amnir;
Lu, Chaoru
; Vivet, Damien
(2023).
MOTT: A new model for multi-object tracking based on green learning paradigm.
8 p.
AI Open.
Vol. 4.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiopen.2023.09.002
Namazi, Elnaz; Mester, Rudolf;
Lu, Chaoru
; Li, Jingyue
(2022).
Geolocation estimation of target vehicles using image processing and geometric computation.
11 p.
Neurocomputing.
Vol. 499.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.10.127
Liu, Chenhui; Zhao, Li;
Lu, Chaoru
(2022).
Exploration of the characteristics and trends of electric vehicle crashes: a case study in Norway.
11 p.
European Transport Research Review.
Vol. 14.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12544-022-00529-2
Li, Chao; Zhao, Xiao-Mei; Xie, Dong-Fan; He, Zhengbing;
Lu, Chaoru
(2022).
Exploring the impact mechanism of communicating information on the perturbation propagation.
34 p.
Transportmetrica A: Transport Science.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23249935.2022.2035013
Sai, Qiuyue; Bi, Jun; Wang, Yongxing; Zhi, Ru;
Lu, Chaoru
(2022).
Pick-Up Time Analysis and Prediction for Carsharing Users Based on Decision Tree.
SAE International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Energy, Environment, & Policy.
Vol. 3.
https://doi.org/10.4271/13-03-02-0010
