Xiaopeng Li
Expert on connected & automated vehicles, automated, connected, electrical and shared (ACES) transportation, traffic operations, traffic energy, transportation safety, cooperative sensing, etc.
Professor, transportation engineering; director, Connected & Autonomous Transportation Systems Laboratory College of Engineering Work: 813-974-0778 xli2485@wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- Connected and Automated Vehicle Theory and Modeling. For example, vehicle coordination and trajectory optimization at stop-controlled intersections; integrated signal and trajectory optimization at signalized intersections.
- Modular Connected and Automated Vehicle. How to investigate fundamental scientific questions in macroscopic level fleet management and microscopic level vehicle operations of MAV transportation systems.
- Infrastructure Systems. Infrastructure design and fleet management interfacing shared EV/AV/EAV systems and power systems. EV applications to satisfy transportation needs during and after emergency situations.
- Trajectory Data Collection. The development of a real-world trajectory extraction tool, the Video-Based Intelligent Road Traffic Universal Analysis Tool (VIRTUAL).
- Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) Field Experiments. How to give the high-definition trajectory data to preform research on safety, mobility, stability, and energy issues.
Achievements
- Past Director, USDOT National University Transportation Center.
- Past Director, National Institute for Congestion Reduction (NICR).
- Recipient, National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.
- Chair, the Emerging Transportation Technology Testing (ET3) Committee.
- Founding Chair, the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS).