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Tianming Liu

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

2350 Hayward Street

2340 GG Brown Building

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125

United States

  • University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

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

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

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Dec 2022
Tianming Liu, Zhengtian Xu, Daniel Vignon, Yafeng Yin, Zhiwei Qin and Qingyang Li
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
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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
Tianming Liu, Zhengtian Xu, Daniel Vignon, Yafeng Yin, Zhiwei Qin and Qingyang Li
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
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ride sourcing, driver incentive, supply management, welfare effects

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

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 02 May 2023
Tianming Liu, Zhengtian Xu, Daniel Vignon, Yafeng Yin, Qingyang Li and Zhiwei Qin
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
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Ride sourcing, driver behavior, incentive effects, supply management

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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
Tianming Liu, Zhengtian Xu, Jussi Keppo, Yafeng Yin and Hongtu Zhu
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
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Ride-sourcing, Driver behavior, Bounded rationality, Behavioral queueing theory, Supply management

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

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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
Tianming Liu, Jirong Yang, Yafeng Yin, Manzi Li, Linghao Wang and Zheng Zhu
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

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