1. Researchers

The Institution of Transportation System Organization and Control (hereinafter referred to as the ITSOC)   consits of some faculties from School of Automobile, School of Economics and Management and School of Information Engineering.

ITSOC currently has 20 full-time faculties, including 4 professors, 7 associate professors, and 9 lecturers. Currently, the ITSOC employs 2 part-time professors, namely the ‘Changjiang Scholars’ Chair Professor and the ‘Shaanxi Province Hundred Talents Program’ Distinguished Professor.

2. Research fields

ITSOC mainly focuses on the scientific research in the following 7 fields: the operation organization and control of multi-mode transportation systems, the coordinated control of urban integrated transportation systems, the coordinated organization and control of driver-vehicle-road  systems, transportation and travel intelligent services, transportation mode organization and simulation optimization, transportation hub planning design and operation simulation optimization, technical and economic analysis of passenger and cargo transportation.

3. Research team and research directions

At present, the ITSOC has the ‘Changjiang Scholars’ Chair Professor Platform Team ‘Key Technologies and Application Research of Transportation and Logistics Intelligentization’, ‘Shaanxi Province Hundred Talents Program’ Distinguished Professor Platform Team ‘Integrated Transportation System Simulation and Control’ and Chang'an University Key Discipline Construction Platform Team ‘Transportation Economic System Analysis and Policy Research’ research team.

(1) Research direction of the ‘Key technologies and applications of transportation and logistics intelligence’ research team: 1) complex network theory and application of transportation and logistics; 2) system simulation and optimization of transportation and logistics; 3) transportation and travel intelligent services; 4) blockchain theory and application of transportation and logistics; 5) Smart logistics and emergency logistics.

(2) The research direction of the research team of ‘Integrated Transportation System Simulation and Control’: 1) Urban multi-modal transportation system operation organization and control; 2) Urban integrated transportation system coordinated control; 3) coordinated organization and control of driver-vehicle-road system; 4) Multimodal transportation Integrated organization and simulation optimization; 5) Transportation hub planning and operation simulation optimization.

(3) The research direction of the ‘Transportation Economic System Analysis and Policy Research’ team: 1) Transportation volume statistics and forecasting technologies and methods; 2) Transportation system planning theory; 3) Transportation economic operation analysis; 4) Transportation policy and regulation system; 5) Transportation games.

4. Scientific research foundations

In the past five years, ITSOC has undertaken 20 national, provincial and ministerial level vertical scientific research projects such as national key research and development projects, projects funded by natural science fund of China, and has published 35 SCI/SSCI papers and 15 EI papers.