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Yafeng Yin

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Scholarly Papers (38)

1.

Can Large Language Models Capture Human Travel Behavior? Evidence and Insights on Mode Choice

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Sep 2024
Tianming Liu, Manzi Li and Yafeng Yin
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 1,019 (55,295)
Citation 10

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Travel behavior, Large language model, Behavioral alignment, Demand forecasting

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The Three-Sided Market of On-Demand Delivery

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Oct 2021
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, York University, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Singapore Management University - School of Computing and Information Systems
Downloads 606 (110,538)
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On-Demand Delivery, Sharing Economy, Multi-sided Markets, Continuum Approximation

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End-to-End Learning of User Equilibrium: Expressivity, Generalization, and Optimization

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Aug 2024
Zhichen Liu and Yafeng Yin
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 540 (128,467)

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Network equilibrium, end-to-end, neural networks, auto-differentiation

4.

Joint pricing and delayed empty relocation policies for ride-sourcing systems

Number of pages: 113 Posted: 09 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2023
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 371 (199,515)

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Ride-sourcing, dynamic joint pricing-empty relocation, capacity sizing, queueing, fluid approximation, network of double-ended queues, exponentially fast convergence, exponentially small loss.

5.

Equilibrium Analysis of Urban Traffic Networks with Ride-Sourcing Services

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 24 May 2021
George Washington University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Division of Engineering and Computer Science, NYU Shanghai, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and DiDi Labs - DiDi Research Institute
Downloads 360 (206,453)
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ride-sourcing systems, vacant trips, network equilibrium, traffic congestion

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Geometric Matching and Spatial Pricing in Ride-Sourcing Markets

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 11 May 2018
Liteng Zha, Yafeng Yin and Zhengtian Xu
University of Florida, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and George Washington University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Downloads 346 (215,681)
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ride sourcing, spatial pricing, geometric matching, spatial equilibrium, regulation

Threshold-Based Incentives for Ride-Sourcing Drivers: Implications on Supply Management and Welfare Effects

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Dec 2022
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, George Washington University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, New York University (NYU) - NYU Tandon School of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, DiDi Labs and DiDi Labs
Downloads 187 (403,854)

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Ride sourcing, driver incentive, supply management, welfare effects

Threshold-Based Incentives for Ride-Sourcing Drivers: Implications on Supply Management and Welfare Effects

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Jan 2023
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, George Washington University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, New York University (NYU) - NYU Tandon School of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, DiDi Labs and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 70 (887,392)

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ride sourcing, driver incentive, supply management, welfare effects

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End-to-End Learning of User Equilibrium with Implicit Neural Networks

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Sep 2022
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 257 (296,486)
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Network equilibrium, neural-network-based variational inequality, end-to-end learning, and implicit layer

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Strategic Driver Repositioning in Ride-Hailing Networks with Dual Sourcing

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Mar 2022
Harbin Institute of Technology, Department of Transportation Engineering, University of Iowa - Department of Business Analytics, George Washington University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Harbin Institute of Technology
Downloads 237 (321,897)

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Ride-hailing market, dual sourcing, network equilibrium, supply management

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Regulating the Ride-hailing Market in the Age of Uberization

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 03 May 2022
Daniel Vignon, Yafeng Yin and Jintao Ke
New York University (NYU) - NYU Tandon School of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and The University of Hong Kong
Downloads 219 (348,255)

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ride-hailing; regulation; commission cap; competition

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The Dual Effects of Team Contest Design on On-Demand Service Work Schedules

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 05 May 2022
Harbin Institute of Technology, Department of Transportation Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), University of Iowa - Department of Business Analytics, Harbin Institute of Technology and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 219 (348,255)

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On-demand service platforms, Team competition, Payment scheme design, Quasi-variational inequality

12.

Itinerary Planning for Cooperative Truck Platooning

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2020
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Downloads 207 (368,123)
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truck platooning, itinerary planning, concave minimum cost flow, outer approximation, approximation algorithm;

13.

Effects of Threshold-Based Incentives on Drivers' Labor Supply Behavior

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 02 May 2023
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, George Washington University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, New York University (NYU) - NYU Tandon School of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, DiDi Labs and DiDi Labs
Downloads 201 (378,726)
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Ride sourcing, driver behavior, incentive effects, supply management

14.

A Generalized Fluid Model of Ride-Hailing Systems

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 24 May 2021
George Washington University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Texas at Houston - MD Anderson Cancer Center and DiDi Labs - DiDi Research Institute
Downloads 188 (405,402)
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Ride-hailing, fluid model, spatiotemporal characteristics, optimal pricing

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Economic Analysis of Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative Approach for Enabling Automated Driving

Accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 May 2021 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2022
New York University (NYU) - NYU Tandon School of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Toyota Research Institute
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automated driving, automated vehicles, vehicle-infrastructure cooperation, infrastructure, digitalization

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Accelerating the Adoption of Automated Vehicles by Subsidies: A Dynamic Games Approach

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 01 May 2019
Qi Luo, Romesh Saigal, Zhibin Chen and Yafeng Yin
University of Iowa - Department of Business Analytics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 184 (411,650)
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Automated vehicles, subsidy policy, dynamic Stackelberg games, diffusion of innovations.

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Regulating Ridesourcing Services with Product Differentiation and Congestion Externality

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 127, 2021,103088, ISSN 0968-090X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103088.
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2021
Daniel Vignon, Yafeng Yin and Jintao Ke
New York University (NYU) - NYU Tandon School of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and The University of Hong Kong
Downloads 183 (413,774)
Citation 1

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Ridesourcing service, regulation, pooling, congestion externality, commission cap, and congestion toll

18.

Bounded Rationality in Ride-Sourcing Drivers' Dwelling at Transportation Terminals: A Behavioral Queueing Analysis

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2025
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, George Washington University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS) - NUS Business School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
Downloads 168 (449,518)

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Ride-sourcing, Driver behavior, Bounded rationality, Behavioral queueing theory, Supply management

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Optimal Design of Solo and Pool Services for On-Demand Ride-hailing

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, York University, University of Toronto and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 155 (480,208)
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Ride-hailing; pooling; bilateral meeting; closed-queue systems

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A Unifying Graph-Coloring Approach for Intersection Control in a Connected and Automated Vehicle Environment

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2022
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Downloads 146 (508,926)
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Intersection control; connected and automated vehicles; graph coloring; approximation algorithm; traffic signal control; signal-free control.

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Optimal Investment in Driving Automation: Individual vs. Cooperative Sensing

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Apr 2022
Mehdi Nourinejad, Sina Bahrami and Yafeng Yin
York University, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 140 (524,371)
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Connected automated vehicles, sensor configuration, cooperative sensing, sensing policy

Joint Optimization of Water and Traffic Flow Discharge During Flood Evacuations

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Aug 2024
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, York University, University of Toronto and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Evacuation, Flood, CTM, Muskingum-Cunge, Benders decomposition

Joint Optimization of Water and Traffic Flow Discharge During Flood Evacuations

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 06 Sep 2024
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, York University, University of Toronto and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Evacuation, Flood, CTM, Muskingum-Cunge, Benders decomposition

23.

Constructing Transportation Network Equilibrium Models from Empirical Data: An Inverse Learning Perspective

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Jan 2026
Zhichen Liu and Yafeng Yin
State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 127 (569,079)

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Network equilibrium modeling, empirical observation, inverse optimization, bilevel program

24.

Participatory Traffic Control: Leveraging Connected and Automated Vehicles to Enhance Network Efficiency

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2024
Minghui Wu, Ben Wang, Yafeng Yin and Jerome Lynch
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Duke University
Downloads 125 (576,708)

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Connected and automated vehicles, participatory traffic control, network efficiency, mean-field control, day-to-day traffic dynamics

25.

Learning Multimodal Markov Departure Time Choice

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 May 2024
Ben Wang, Qi Luo and Yafeng Yin
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Iowa - Department of Business Analytics and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 120 (596,393)

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Multimodal transportation systems, dynamic departure time choice, generalized mean field games, learning in stochastic games

26.

Optimal Contract Design for Ride-Sourcing Services Under Dual Sourcing

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 31 Aug 2020
Harbin Institute of Technology, Department of Transportation Engineering, George Washington University - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa - Department of Business Analytics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Harbin Institute of Technology and DiDi Labs - DiDi Research Institute
Downloads 119 (600,462)

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ride-sourcing market, dual sourcing, contract design, freelancers, contractors

27.

Curbing Cruising-as-Substitution-For-Parking in Automated Mobility

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2022
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Toyota Research Institute
Downloads 108 (649,907)
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Parking, automated vehicles, cruising-as-substitution-for-parking, congestion, tolling

28.

Large-Scale Inverse Learning of User Equilibrium via Multiconvex Optimization

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Jan 2026 Last Revised: 08 May 2026
Zhichen Liu, Yafeng Yin, Xi Lin and Zihao Wang
State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Downloads 100 (689,572)

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network equilibrium model, inverse learning, multiconvex optimization, context-dependent

29.

Dynamics in Credit-Based Mobility Systems: Convergence to Periodic Mode Usage Equilibrium

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Nov 2024
Hongxing Ding, Xinwei Li, Hai Yang and Yafeng Yin
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Civil Engineering and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 75 (837,727)

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Credit charge-cum-reward scheme, periodic mode usage equilibrium, dynamic model, learning behavior, adaptation behavior

30.

Investment and Financing of Roadway Digital Infrastructure for Automated Driving

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2026
Sina Bahrami, Mehdi Nourinejad and Yafeng Yin
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, York University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 70 (875,328)
Citation 1

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Connected automated vehicles, Cooperative sensing, Vehicular connectivity, Investment policy

31.

Is CAV Participatory Traffic Control Socially Beneficial? Incentive Mechanisms and Policy Design

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Sep 2025
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Duke University
Downloads 65 (933,592)

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Connected and automated vehicles, participatory traffic control, incentive design, economic analysis, cost of agency, bottleneck model

32.

Toward LLM-Agent-Based Modeling of Transportation Systems: A Conceptual Framework

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 May 2025
Tianming Liu, Jirong Yang and Yafeng Yin
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 64 (924,743)

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Transportation system modeling, travel behavior, travel demand modeling, agentbased simulation, large language model, transportation planning

33.

Optimal Build-Operate-Transfer Road Contracts Under Asymmetric Traffic Demand Information: A Signaling Game Analysis

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Mar 2022
Central South University, Central South University, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Tianjin University of Technology and Education and Central South University
Downloads 56 (1,000,027)
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Build-operate-transfer road, Asymmetric information, Signaling game, Potential traffic demand, Travel cost elasticity of demand.

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Aligning LLM agents with human learning and adjustment behavior: a dual agent approach

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Nov 2025
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Zhejiang University and Zhejiang University
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Travel demand modeling, Large language model agent, Day-to-day behavior, Automatic calibration, Agent-based simulation

Inverse Estimation of The Perturbed Utility Route Choice Model

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 May 2026
Ben Rosenblad, Xi Lin and Yafeng Yin
University of Michigan, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 26 (1,459,262)

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Route Choice, Perturbed Utility, Discrete Choice, Networks, Inverse Estimation

Inverse Estimation of The Perturbed Utility Route Choice Model

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 May 2026
Ben Rosenblad, Xi Lin and Yafeng Yin
University of Michigan, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 8 (1,628,763)

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Route Choice, Perturbed Utility, Discrete Choice, Networks, Inverse Estimation

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Soft Hierarchical Diffusion for Conditional Tabular Data Generation: Application to Travel Survey Entries

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 May 2026
Peisen Li, Tianming Liu and Yafeng Yin
University of Michigan, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Downloads 5 (1,575,921)

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Conditional tabular data generation, deep generative models, diffusion model, travel demand modeling

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Hybrid Access in the Panama Canal: Equilibrium, Welfare, and Distributional Effects

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Jun 2026
Xi Lin, Xiwen Bai, Zhongjun Ma and Yafeng Yin
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Markov Perfect Equilibrium, Queuing Systems, Maritime Management

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Inverse Learning of Distributional User Equilibrium with Uncertainty Quantification

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 04 Jun 2026
Peisen Li, Zhichen Liu and Yafeng Yin
University of Michigan, State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Inverse Learning, Distributional User Equilibrium, Uncertainty Quantification, Robust Congestion Pricing

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An Auction Mechanism for Platoon Leader Determination in Single-Brand Cooperative Vehicle Platooning

Posted: 19 Mar 2021
Xiaotong Sun and Yafeng Yin
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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vehicle platooning, energy savings, driving-effort reduction, auction, truthful $\epsilon-$approximate mechanism