publications

Journal Papers (Published and Under Reviewed)

Conference Papers

(*: corresponding author)

• Enola Ma, Zilin Bian*, Jingqin Gao, Hai Yang, Kaan Ozbay, Joseph Chow.
  “A multi-dimension and high-granularity equity measurement for transportation services through accessibility and reliability.”
  Accepted in 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2025).

• Zerun Liu, Tu Lan, Zilin Bian*, Kaan Ozbay.
  “Development of a Comprehensive Framework for the Assessment of the Effects of Electric Trucks’ Weight Increase on Road Infrastructure: A New York City Case Study.”
  Accepted in 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2025).

• Di Sha, Zilin Bian, Fan Zuo, Kaan Ozbay, Jingqin Gao, Yu Tang.
  “Graph Neural Network Based Clustering for Enhancing Traffic Pattern Identification in Traffic Simulation Calibration and Validation.”
  Accepted in 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2025).

• Ruixuan Zhang, Juexiao Zhang, Zilin Bian*, Chen Feng, Kaan Ozbay.
  “SafetyAssistant: A Vision-Based Traffic Safety Analysis Framework Utilizing Large Language Models.”
  Accepted in 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2025).

• Tao Li, Zilin Bian*, Haozhe Lei, Fan Zuo, Ya-Ting Yang, Quanyan Zhu, Zhenning Li, Kaan Ozbay.
  “Multi-level Traffic-responsive Tilt Camera Surveillance Through Predictive Correlated Online Learning.”
  Accepted in 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2025).

• Zilin Bian*, Dachuan Zuo, Jingqin Gao, Kaan Ozbay, Zhenning Li.
  “Informed Along the Road: Roadway Capacity Driven Graph Convolution Network for Network-wide Traffic Prediction.”
  Accepted in IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2024). link

• Dachuan Zuo, Zilin Bian*, Fan Zuo, Kaan Ozbay.
  “Toward an Enhanced Risk Assessment Sensitivity for Autonomous Vehicles with the Safety Potential Field Approach.”
  Accepted in IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2024).

• Dachuan Zuo, Zilin Bian*, Fan Zuo, Kaan Ozbay.
  “Safety Potential Fields for Highway Driving Risk Assessment Considering Real-world Risk Perception.”
  Accepted in Road Safety and Simulation Conference (RSS 2024).

• Ruixuan Zhang, Juexiao Zhang, Zilin Bian*, Chen Feng, Kaan Ozbay.
  “When Language and Vision Meet Road Safety: Leveraging Multimodal Foundation Models to Assist in Accident Analysis.”
  Accepted in Road Safety and Simulation Conference (RSS 2024).

• Ruixuan Zhang, Wenyu Han, Zilin Bian, Kaan Ozbay, Chen Feng.
  “Learning When to See for Long-term Traffic Data Collection on Power-constrained Devices.”
  Accepted in IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2023).

• Fan Zuo, Jingqin Gao*, Kaan Ozbay, Zilin Bian, Daniel Zhang.
  “Urban Work Zone Detection and Sizing: A Data-centric Training and Topology-based Inference Approach.”
  Accepted in IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2023).

• Eren Kaval, Zilin Bian*, Kaan Ozbay.
  “Data-driven Quantification of the Resilience of Enforcement Policies on Transportation Systems: A Comparative Study of Two Major Winter Storms in Buffalo, New York.”
  Accepted in 103rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2024).

• Ruixuan Zhang, Tu Lan, Zilin Bian*, Kaan Ozbay.
  “MSinT: A Multi-view Spatio-informed Transformer for Overweighted Vehicle Forecasting.”
  Accepted in 103rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2024).

• Dachuan Zuo, Zilin Bian*, Fan Zuo, Kaan Ozbay.
  “Risk Estimation for Vehicles and Road Sections Using a Data-driven Risk Field Model.”
  Accepted in 103rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2024).

• Zilin Bian*, Dachuan Zuo, Jingqin Gao, Kaan Ozbay.
  “Adaptive Traffic Incident Duration Prediction: A Hybrid Approach of Change Detection and Bayesian Network.”
  Accepted in 102nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2023).

• Zilin Bian*, Dachuan Zuo, Jingqin Gao, Kaan Ozbay, Matthew D. Maggio.
  “A-TEAM: Advanced Traffic Event Analysis and Management Platform for Transportation Data-driven Problem Solving.”
  Accepted in 102nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2023).

• Zilin Bian*, Jingqin Gao, Kaan Ozbay, Zhenning Li.
  “Traffic Prediction Considering Multiple Levels of Spatial-temporal Information: A Multi-scale Graph Wavelet-based Approach.”
  Accepted in 101st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2022).

• Jingqin Gao*, Suzana Duran Bernardes, Yanyan Chen, Zilin Bian, Sai Sarath Chandra Pavuluri Venkata, Kaan Ozbay, Xuegang (Jeff) Ban, Di Yang.
  “Assessing Spatial Availability and Transportation Equity in Station-based Bike-sharing Systems in New York City Considering Covid-19 Post-lockdown Dynamics.”
  Accepted in 101st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2022).

• Zilin Bian, Fan Zuo, Jingqin Gao*, Yanyan Chen, Sai Sarath Chandra Pavuluri Venkata, Suzana Duran Bernardes, Kaan Ozbay, Xuegang (Jeff) Ban, Jingxing Wang.
  “Time Lag Effects of COVID-19 Policies on Transportation Systems: A Comparative Study of New York City and Seattle.”
  Accepted in 100th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2021).

• Di Sha*, Kaan Ozbay, Zilin Bian, and Ding Wang.
  “A Polynomial Chaos Expansion Based Approach for Efficient and Robust Calibration of Stochastic Transportation Simulation Models.”
  Accepted in 100th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2021).

• Ding Wang*, Kaan Ozbay, and Zilin Bian.
  “A Mixture Model-based Clustering Method for Fundamental Diagram Calibration Applied in Large Network Simulation.”
  In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2020.

• Zilin Bian*, Kaan Ozbay, and Abdullah Kurkcu.
  “Travel Time Uncertainty Prediction in the Presence of Non-recurrent Traffic Congestion.”
  Accepted in 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2020).

• Zilin Bian*, Kaan Ozbay.
  “Estimating Uncertainty of Work Zone Capacity Using Neural Network Models.”
  Accepted in 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2019).

• Scott Washburn*, Ahmed Al-Kaisy, Tapio Luttinen, Richard Dowling, Donald Watson, Amirhossein Jafari, Zilin Bian, and Aaron Elias.
  “Improved Analysis of Two-lane Highway Capacity and Operational Performance.”
  Accepted in 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB 2018).