
Mobility Data Initiative
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CR2C2 - Region 4 University Transportation Center (UTC)
Mobility COE - Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles
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Zhang*, Z., Liu, J., Qian, X., Guo, S., Yang*, C., and Jones, S., 2025. Envisioning Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAVs) for 374 Small and Medium-sized Urban Areas in the United States: The Roles of Road Network and Travel Demand. Forthcoming in Journal of Transport Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104302
Zhang*, Z., Liu, J., Peña-Bastidas*, J. & Jones, S., 2024. Charging Infrastructure Assessment for Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles in 374 Small and Medium-Sized Urban Areas: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach. Transport Policy,155, pp. 58-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.06.017
Xu*, N., Pena-Bastidas*, J., Yang*, C., Liu, J., Hockstad, T. and Jones, S., 2025. Urban and Regional Air Mobility (URAM) and Relocation Decisions in the United States: Insights from a Machine Learning-Supported Path Analysis. Transport Policy, 170, pp. 92-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.05.021
Pena-Bastidas*, J., Liu, J., Jones, S. and Lee, H.Y., 2025. The Role of Emerging Mobility Solutions in Shaping Care-Seeking Behaviors in Rural Communities: A National Survey with Stated Choice Experiment. Transport Policy, 162, pp. 313-324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.12.016
Xu*, N., Nie*, Q., Liu, J. and Jones, S., 2024. Linking short-and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel behavior and travel preferences in Alabama: A machine learning-supported path analysis. Transport policy, 151, pp.46-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.04.002
Zhang*, Z., Liu, J., Nie*, Q. & Jones, S., 2024. Shared Low-speed Autonomous Vehicles for Short-Distance Trips: Agent-Based Modeling with Mode Choice Analysis. Transportation Planning and Technology, in-press. https://doi.org/10.1080/03081060.2024.2373322
Xu*, N., Nie*, Q., Liu, J. and Jones, S., 2023. Post-pandemic shared mobility and active travel in Alabama: A machine learning analysis of COVID-19 survey data. Travel Behaviour and Society, 32, p.100584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2023.100584
Islam, R., Adanu, E., Liu, J. and Jones, S., 2025. The potential of using SAVs in evacuating vulnerable population during tornado early warning: A case study of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Transportation Planning and Technology, pp.1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/03081060.2024.2445646
Fu*, X., Nie*, Q., Liu, J., Zhang, Z. and Jones, S., 2022. How do college students perceive future shared mobility with autonomous Vehicles? A survey of the University of Alabama students. International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, 11(2), pp.189-204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtst.2021.11.006
Javier Pena-Bastidas*, Jun Liu, Steven Jones, 2025. Spatial Order of Regional Travel Demand: A study of 486 Urbanized Areas in the United States. TRBAM-25-04569. Presented at The Transportation Research Board 104th Annual Meeting, January 2025, Washington D.C.
Zihe Zhang*, Chenxuan Yang*, Jun Liu, Steven Jones, 2025. Feasibility Assessment of a Multimodal Urban Air Mobility System in Small and Medium-Sized Urban Areas: Integrating Shared Autonomous Vehicles and Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft. TRBAM-25-05167. Presented at The Transportation Research Board 104th Annual Meeting, January 2025, Washington D.C.
Jun Liu, Javier Pena-Bastidas*, Zihe Zhang*, and Steven Jones, 2024. Enabling Dynamic Ridesharing in Shared Autonomous Vehicle Fleets: A Study of 374 Small and Medium-Sized Urban Areas. Presented at The Transportation Research Board 103rd Annual Meeting, January 2024, Washington D.C.
Jun Liu, Xinwu Qian, Shuocheng Guo, Zihe Zhang*, Chenxuan Yang*, Steven Jones, 2023. Envisioning Shared Autonomous Vehicles for 374 Small and Medium-Sized Urban Areas in the United States: The Roles of Road Network and Regional Travel Demand - TRBAM-23-04292. Presented at The Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual Meeting, January 2023, Washington D.C.
Liu, J., Jones, S. and Adanu, E.., 2020. Challenging human driver taxis with shared autonomous vehicles: a case study of Chicago. Transportation Letters, 12(10), pp.701-705.
Loeb, B., Kockelman, K.M. and Liu, J., 2018. Shared autonomous electric vehicle (SAEV) operations across the Austin, Texas network with charging infrastructure decisions. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 89, pp.222-233.Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 89, 222-233. DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2018.01.019.
Liu, J., Kockelman, K.M., Boesch, P.M. and Ciari, F., 2017. Tracking a system of shared autonomous vehicles across the Austin, Texas network using agent-based simulation. Transportation, 44(6), pp.1261-1278. DOI: 10.1007/s11116-017-9811-1.