Associate Professor
Zuduo Zheng
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Personal details
Research field
Civil Engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Arizona State University)
Professional memberships and associations
Professional memberships
- Member, Chinese Overseas Transportation Association
- Member, Queensland Chinese Association of Scientists and Engineers (QCASE)
- Friend of TRB Committee on Traffic Flow Theory & Characteristics
- Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
- ITS Arizona
Teaching
Associate Professor Zuduo Zheng actively contributes to teaching excellence at QUT in several key areas of teaching, including new unit development, coordination and delivery, higher degree research (HDR) student supervision, leadership in teaching, and research in learning and teaching. Feedbacks on his teaching and supervision are overwhelmingly positive. His students have won many awards including the HDR Students High Achievers Award, SEF Publication Rewards, ITEANZ Student Award (university level). His HDR students frequently publish their work in top-ranked journals (Q1).
Teaching achievements
Current lecture subject areas
Guest lectures
Teaching achievements
- Member, the College of HDR Mentoring Supervisors, QUT, 2016 to present
- Certificate, the Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice, QUT
- Member of Class 2009-2010, the Exploratory Phase, the Preparing Future Faculty Program, the ASU Graduate College (Members are competitively selected)
Current lecture subject areas
- ENN542: Statistical and Optimisation Methods for Engineers
- ENB376: Transport Engineering
- ENB379: Transport Engineering & Planning Applications
- EGB272: Traffic and Transport Engineering
- EGB100: Engineering Sustainability and Professional Practice
- ENN576: Transport Planning and Strategic Modelling
- ENB372: Design and Planning of Highways
- UDN576: Transportation Infrastructure
- BEB801: Project 1
Guest lectures
- Guest lecturer at Arizona State University (Fall 2008): CEE 598—Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- Guest lecturer at Arizona State University (Spring 2008): CEE 598 —Traffic Flow Theory.
Publications
- Zheng, Z., Ahn, S., Chen, D. & Laval, J. (2013). The effects of lane-changing on the immediate follower: Anticipation, relaxation, and change in driver characteristics. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 26, 367–379. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/54027
- Chen, D., Laval, J., Zheng, Z. & Ahn, S. (2012). A behavioral car-following model that captures traffic oscillations. Transportation Research, Series B: Methodological, 46(6), 744–761. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/50312
- Chen, D., Laval, J., Ahn, S. & Zheng, Z. (2012). Microscopic traffic hysteresis in traffic oscillations: A behavioral perspective. Transportation Research, Series B: Methodological, 46(10), 1440–1453. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/54030
- Zheng, Z. & Washington, S. (2012). On selecting an optimal wavelet for detecting singularities in traffic and vehicular data. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 25(18), 18–33. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/50318
- Zheng, Z., (2012). Empirical analysis on relationship between traffic conditions and crash occurrences. Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, 43, 302–312. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/50891
- Zheng, Z., (2011). Empirical analysis of freeway traffic oscillation: Its safety impact and evolution. VDM Verlag. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41925
- Zheng, Z., Ahn, S., Chen, D. & Laval, J. (2011). Applications of wavelet transform for analysis of freeway traffic: Bottlenecks, transient traffic, and traffic oscillations. Transportation Research, Series B: Methodological, 45(2), 372–384. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41885
- Zheng, Z., Ahn, S., Chen, D. & Laval, J. (2011). Freeway traffic oscillations: Microscopic analysis of formations and propagations using Wavelet Transform. Transportation Research, Series B: Methodological, 45(9), 1378–1388. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41886
- Zheng, Z., Ahn, S. & Monsere, C. (2010). Impact of traffic oscillations on freeway crash occurrences. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 42(2), 626–636. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41883
- Su, D., Dong, J. & Zheng, Z. (2009). Shrinking Neighborhood Evolution - a novel stochastic algorithm for numerical optimization. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 3300–3305. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41924
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Zuduo, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- DECRA Research Followship 2016-2018.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Member, The Editorial Board, Transportation Research Part B (the most prestigious journal in transport engineering)
- Type
- Editor/Contributor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Guest Editor of Transportation Research Part C, Special Issue on modelling, calibrating, and validating car following and lane changing behaviour
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Member, the Editorial Board, Heliyon (The open access journal for all disciplines published by Elsevier)
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Transportation Research Part C (Start from 2013), a top ranked journal.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Research Fellowship,the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Travel Award from University of California, Los Angeles & US National Science Foundation
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- First prize, the Arizona ITE Paper Scholarship
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship,the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- University Graduate Fellowship for Academic Excellence, Arizona State University (Received this fellowship in 2007,2009, and 2010, respectively)
Selected research projects
- Title
- Modelling Mixed Traffic of Traditional, Connected, and Automated Vehicles
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE160100449
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.