Dr. Yongjun Shen is a full professor of the School of Transportation at Southeast University in China. He received his Ph.D in Transportation Sciences from Transportation Research Institute (IMOB) of Hasselt University, Belgium in 2012, and continued to work in Hasselt University as a postdoc researcher and later an assistant professor. From October 2017, he started to work at the School of Transportation of Southeast University.
Dr. Shen’s current research interests include traffic and transportation safety, behavior-related data mining and decision making, naturalistic and simulated driving, smart and sustainable transportation, etc. During the past years, Dr. Shen has coordinated and participated in a number of transportation-related research projects funded by EU, FWO, IWT, NSFC, MOST, etc., based on which he has published over 120 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals, books, and conferences, such as Transportation Research Part C/D/F, Accident Analysis and Prevention, etc., and has obtained more than 10 patents. In addition, he has served as an editorial board member of the international journal of Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, as a guest editor of several international journals, such as Transportation Research Part D, and as an international program committee member of several international conference series, such as FLINS, ISKE, and WTC.
Any interested Ph.D applicants with a Master degree in Transportation Engineering or relevant areas are encouraged to apply for the international Ph.D program in Southeast University at Nanjing, China. If you have any queries, please contact Dr. Shen for more information.
Email：shenyongjun@seu.edu.cn
Selected Journal Publications
Qu, Q., Shen, Y., Yang, M., Zhang, R., Zhang, H., Expressway traffic incident detection based on deep learning from spatiotemporal features with macro and micro data fusion, Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 2024.
Yang, M., Bao, Q., Shen, Y., Qu, Q., Thirty years of research on driving behavior active intervention: a bibliometric overview, Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition), 2023, 10(5): 721-742.
Gao, M., Zhao, Y., Shen, Y., Yu, X., Gou, S., Bao, Q., Which factors are most relevant to drivers’ overtaking choices at two-lane highways: a comparative analysis between questionnaire surveys and driving simulation, Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 2023, 95: 202-2014.
Bao, Q., Liu, J., Shen, Y., Drivers’ lane changing interactive behaviour characteristics at urban expressway based on two-vehicle driving simulation, Journal of Southeast University (Natural Science Edition), 2023, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 165-173.
Zhang, R., Bao, Q., Brijs, K., Hermans, E., Shen, Y., Identification and comparative safety analysis of overtaking patterns on two-lane highways: a simulator study with novice drivers, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2023, 2677(1): 541-553.
Bao, Q., Qu, Q., Tang, H., Chen, J., Shen, Y., Multi-drivers risk evaluation based proactive intervention of drivers' risky behavior under connected transportation contexts, Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology, 2022, 22(4): 283-292.
Bao, Q., Tan, X., Qu, Q., Shen, Y., Prediction of electric vehicle charging demand based on user space-time activities and fuzzy decision-making, Journal of Southeast University (Natural Science Edition), 2022, 52(6): 1209-1218.
Babaee, S., Toloo, M., Hermans, E., Shen. Y., A new approach for index construction: the case of the road user behaviour index, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021, 152: 106993.
Shen, Y., Tan, X., Brijs, T., Fitness-to-drive evaluation for elderly drivers by combining functional ability test and simulated driving, Journal of Southeast University (Natural Science Edition), 2021, 51(1): 171-177.
Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Bao, Q., Brijs, T., Wets, G., Towards better road safety management: lessons learned from inter-national benchmarking, Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020, 138: 105484.
Rizvi, S.M.A., Ahmed, A., Shen, Y., Real-time incident detection and capacity estimation using loop detector data, Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2020, 2020: 8857502.
Usama, M., Zahoor, O., Shen, Y., Bao, Q. Dockless bike-sharing system: solving the problem of faulty bikes with simultaneous rebalancing operation, Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2020, 13(1): 491-515.
Shah, S.A.R., Ahmad, N., Shen, Y., Kamal, M.A., Basheer, M.A., Brijs, T.Relationship between road traffic features and accidents: An application of two-stage decision making approach for transportation engineers, Journal of Safety Research, 2019, 69: 201-215.
Shen, Y. Developing a comprehensive road safety index: A revisit of the SUNflowerNext study, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2018, 2672(38): 46-57.
Behnood, H.R., Ayati, E., Brijs, T., Neghab, M.P., Shen, Y. A fuzzy decision support system in road safety planning. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Transport, 2017, 170(5): 305-317.
Bao, Q., Kochan, B., Shen, Y., Bellemans, T., Janssens, D., Wets, G. Activity-based travel demand modeling framework FEATHERS: Sensitivity analysis with decision trees. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2016, 2564: 89-99.
Li, T., Ruan, D., Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Wets, G. A new weighing approach based on rough sets theory and granular computing for road safety indicator analysis. Computational Intelligence, 2016, 32(4): 517-534.
Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Bao, Q., Brijs, T., Wets, G., Wang, W. International benchmarking of road safety: State of the art. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2015, 50: 37-50.
Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Bao, Q., Brijs, T., Wets, G.. Serious injuries: an additional indicator to fatalities for road safety benchmarking. Traffic Injury Prevention, 2015, 16(3): 246-253.
Bastos, J.T., Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Brijs, T., Wets, G., Ferraz, A.C.P. Traffic fatality indicators in Brazil: State diagnosis based on data envelopment analysis research. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2015, 81: 61-73.
Bastos, J.T., Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Brijs, T., Wets, G., Ferraz, A.C.P. Bootstrapping DEA scores for road safety strategic analysis in Brazil. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2015, 8: 29-38.
Bao, Q., Kochan, B., Bellemans, T., Shen, Y., Creemers, L., Janssens, D., Wets, G. (2015). Travel demand forecasting using activity-based modeling framework FEATHERS: An extension. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2015, 30(8): 948-962.
Babaee, S., Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Wets, G., Brijs, T., Ariën, C. Combining driving performance information in an index score: A simulated curvetaking experiment. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2014, 2434: 44-51.
Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Bao, Q., Brijs, T., Wets, G. Road safety development in Europe: A decade of changes (2001-2010). Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2013, 60: 85-94.
Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Brijs, T., Wets, G. Data envelopment analysis for composite indicators: A multiple layer model. Social Indicators Research, 2013, 114(2): 739-756.
Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Brijs, T., Wets, G., Vanhoof, K. Road safety risk evaluation and target setting using data envelopment analysis and its extensions. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2012, 48: 430-441.
Bao, Q., Ruan, D., Shen Y., Hermans, E., Janssens, D. Improved hierarchical fuzzy TOPSIS for road safety performance evaluation. Knowledge-Based Systems, 2012, 32: 84-90.
Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Ruan, D., Wets, G., Brijs, T., Vanhoof, K. A generalized multiple layer data envelopment analysis model for hierarchical structure assessment: A case study in road safety performance evaluation. Expert Systems with Applications, 2011, 38(12): 15262-15272.
Shen, Y., Ruan, D., Hermans, E., Brijs, T., Wets, G., Vanhoof, K. Sustainable road transport in the European Union: Changes in undesirable impacts. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2011, 2242: 37-44.
Shen, Y., Ruan, D., Hermans, E., Brijs, T., Wets, G., Vanhoof, K. Modeling qualitative data in data envelopment analysis for composite indicators. International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management, 2011, 2(1): 21-30.
Shen, Y., Li, T., Hermans, E., Ruan, D., Wets, G., Vanhoof, K., Brijs, T. A hybrid system of neural networks and rough sets for road safety performance indicators. Soft Computing, 2010, 14(12): 1255-1263.
Shen, Y., Hermans, E., Ruan, D., Wets, G., Brijs, T. Vanhoof, K. Evaluating trauma management performance in Europe: A multiple-layer data envelopment analysis model. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2010, 2148(2): 69-75.