Publications

Preprints / Under Review / In Progress

Hurricane evacuation analysis with large-scale mobile device location data during Hurricane Ian [Link]
Luyu Liu*, Xiaojian Zhang, Shangkun Jiang, Xilei Zhao.
Under Review.

Post-hurricane building damage assessment using street-view imagery and structured data: A multi-modal deep learning approach. [Link]
Zhuoqun Xue, Xiaojian Zhang, David O. Prevett, Jennifer Bridge, Susu Xu, Xilei Zhao*.
Under Review.

Are mobile device location data biased for human mobility analysis?
Xiaojian Zhang*, Xiang Yan, Xilei Zhao*.
Under Review.

Simulating human behavior under earthquake early warning.
Matthew Wood, Sara McBride, Xilei Zhao, Dare Baldwin, Elizabeth S. Cochran, Xiaojian Zhang, Nicholas Luco, Ruggiero Lovreglio, Tom Cova*.
Under Review.

Assessing evacuation destination choices during Hurricane Ian: a gravity model approach Using mobile device location data.
Ally Recalde, Luyu Liu, Xiaojian Zhang*, Sangung Park, Xilei Zhao.
Under Review, Accepted for presentation at TRB 2025.

Achieving fairness of spatiotemporal travel demand modeling with dynamic weighting.
Xiaojian Zhang*, Xilei Zhao.
In Progression, Accepted for presentation at TRB 2025.

Household hurricane evacuation amid a late-warning event: empirical evidence from Hurricane Ian.
Xiaojian Zhang*, Shih-Kai Huang, Michael Lindell, Xilei Zhao.
In Progress.

Using mobile device location data for modeling the short-term impact of evacuation order issuance on traffic speed.
Shangkun Jiang, Xiaojian Zhang*, Yuan Liang, Sangung Park, Wai Wong, Xilei Zhao.
In Progress.

Journal Publications

Situational-aware multi-graph convolutional recurrent network (SA-MGCRN) for travel demand forecasting during wildfires. [Link]
Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao, Yiming Xu, Ruggiero Lovreglio*, Daniel Nilsson.
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Accepted, 2024.

ICN: Interactive Convolutional Network for Forecasting Travel Demand of Shared Micromobility. [Link]
Yiming Xu, Qian Ke, Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao*.
Geoinformatica, Accepted, 2024

Travel Demand Forecasting: A Fair AI Approach. Link]
Xiaojian Zhang*, Qian Ke, Xilei Zhao.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Accepted, 2024.

Scalable and rapid building damage detection after hurricane Ian using causal Bayesian networks and InSAR imagery. Link]
Chenguang Wang, Yepeng Liu, Xiaojian Zhang, Xuechun Li, Vladimir Paramygin, Peter Sheng, Xilei Zhao, Susu Xu.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Accepted, 2024.

Modeling protective action decision-making in earthquakes by using explainable machine learning and video data. Link]
Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao, Dare Baldwin, Sara McBride, Josephine Bellizzi, Elizabeth S. Cochran, Nicholas Luco, Matthew Wood, and Thomas J. Cova.
Scientific Reports, Accepted, 2024.

Analyzing spatial heterogeneity of ridesourcing demand determinants with explainable machine learning. [Link]
Xiaojian Zhang, Xiang Yan, Zhengze Zhou, Yiming Xu, Xile Zhao*.
Journal of Transport Geography, Accepted, 2024.

The short-term impact of congestion taxes on ridesourcing demand and traffic congestion: Evidence from Chicago. [Link]
Yuan Liang, Bingjie Yu, Xiaojian Zhang, Yi Lu, Linchuan Yang*.
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Accepted, 2023.

Real-Time forecasting of dockless scooter-sharing demand: A spatio-temporal multi-graph transformer approach. [Link]
Yiming Xu, Xilei Zhao*, Xiaojian Zhang, Mudit Paliwal.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Accepted, 2023.

Machine learning approach for spatial modeling of ridesourcing demand. [Link]
Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao*.
Journal of Transport Geography, Accepted, 2022.

A spatiotemporal analysis of e-scooters’ relationships with transit and station-based bikeshare. [Link]
Xiang Yan, Wencui Yang, Xiaojian Zhang, Yiming Xu, Ilir Bejleri, Xilei Zhao.
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Accepted, 2021.

Conference Proceedings

Earthquake early warning: Toward modeling optimal protective actions. [Link]
Matthew Wood, Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao, Sara K. McBride, N, Luco, D. Baldwin, Tom Cova.
Proceedings of the 12th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake EngineeringResearch Institute, Salt Lake City, UT. 2022.

Optimizing demand-responsive paratransit operations: a mixed integer programming approach. [Link]
Xiaojian Zhang, Yu Yang, Abigail L. Cochran, Noreen McDonald, Xilei Zhao*.
2021 55th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

A dynamic shared bikes rebalancing method based on demand prediction. [Link]
Xiaojian Zhang, Hongtai Yang*, Rong Zheng, Zhichen Jin, Bowen Zhou.
2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC) (pp. 238-244). IEEE.

Earthquake early warning: toward modeling optimal protective actions. [Link]
Matthew Wood, Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao, Sara K. McBride, Nicolas Luco, Dare Baldwin, Thomas J. Cova.
National Earthquake Engineering Conference 12 (12NCEE). In Salt Lake City, Utah, UT, USA.

Presentations/Talks

Travel Demand Forecasting: A Fair AI Approach.
Xiaojian Zhang, Qian Ke, Xilei Zhao*.
University of Florida AI Graduate Seminar, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Are mobile device location data biased for human mobility analysis?
Xiaojian Zhang, Xiang Yan, Xilei Zhao*.
Transportation Research Board 103rd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.

The short-term impact of congestion taxes on ridesourcing demand and traffic congestion: evidence from chicago.
Yuan Liang, Bingjie Yu, Xiaojian Zhang*.
Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.

Preserving fairness in AI-based travel demand forecasting models.
Xiaojian Zhang, Qian Ke, Xilei Zhao*.
Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.

Optimizing rural demand-responsive transport operations for medical trips.
Xiaojian Zhang, Abigail L. Cochran, Noreen McDonald, Xilei Zhao*.
TRANSED: Mobility, Accessibility & Demand Response Transportation Conference. Sept. 2022. Virtually.

Modeling and interpreting protective action decision-making during earthquakes using machine learning.
Xiaojian Zhang, Matthew Wood, Xilei Zhao, Sara K. McBride, Nicolas Luco, Dare Baldwin, Thomas J. Cova.
Natural Hazards Center Researchers Meeting 2022. Jul. 2022. Virtually.

Forecasting person activity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of clematis street in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao, Louis Merlin, John Renne.
Natural Hazards Center Researchers Meeting 2022. Jul. 2022. Virtually.

Forecasting person activity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of clematis street in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao, Louis Merlin, John Renne.
The 7th Annual UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region, Boca Raton, FL, USA.

Examining spatial heterogeneity in the determinants of ridesourcing trips with explainable machine learning.
Xiaojian Zhang, Zhengze Zhou, Xiang Yan, Xilei Zhao.
The 7th Annual UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region, Boca Raton, FL, USA.

Examining spatial heterogeneity in the determinants of ridesourcing trips with explainable machine learning.
Xiaojian Zhang, Zhengze Zhou, Xiang Yan, Xilei Zhao.
Transportation Research Board 101st Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.

Optimization of intercity demand response transit service design considering zoning strategy.
Hongtai Yang, Rong Zheng, Wenbo Fan, Xiaojian Zhang, Zhaolin Zhang.
Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.

A clustering-aided ensemble method for predicting ridesourcing demand in Chicago.
Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao.
The 5th Graduate Research Symposium at the University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA.

A clustering-aided ensemble method for predicting ridesourcing demand in Chicago.
Xiaojian Zhang, Xilei Zhao.
Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.

A dynamic shared bikes rebalancing method based on demand prediction.
Xiaojian Zhang, Hongtai Yang*, Rong Zheng, Zhichen Jin, Bowen Zhou.
2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Aukland, New Zealand.

Technical Reports and Datasets

Earthquake PA Videos and Annotations. [Link]
Xiaojian Zhang, Dare Baldwin.
Open Science Framework, Feb. 16, 2024.

M7.8 Turkey-Syria Earthquake Impact Estimates from Near-real-time Crowdsourced and Remote Sensing Data. [Link]
Xuechun Li, Joshua, Dimasaka, Xiaojian Zhang, Xiao Yu, Chenguang Wang, Hae Young Noh, Xie Hu, Xilei Zhao, Susu Xu.
DesignSafe-CI, Mar. 1st, 2023.