Wei Fan

Education: Ph.D. in Civil Engineering – Transportation, The University of Texas at Austin

Courses Taught:

• CEGR 5161 – Advanced Traffic Engineering
• CEGR 6262 – Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
• CEGR 6167 – Discrete Choice Modeling
• Econometrics and Data Analysis
• CEGR 6161/8161 – Traffic Control and Operation
• CEGR 5262 – Traffic Engineering
• CEGR 6164/8164 – Traffic Safety
• CEGR 6166/8166 – Urban Transportation Networks: Operations and Optimization

Biography:

Dr. Wei (David) Fan is a Full Professor and Transportation Area Coordinator in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), where he also holds the title of Distinguished Scholar in the William States Lee College of Engineering (LCoEN). He serves as Director of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education (CAMMSE). Additionally, he is the Thrust Leader and Associate Director of the NC Transportation Center of Excellence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology.

Dr. Fan’s research expertise includes sustainable transportation and resilient infrastructure systems (optimization and simulation); big data analytics in transportation (machine learning, artificial intelligence, travel demand analysis, safety data analysis, and discrete choice modeling); connected, autonomous, and electric vehicles (technology, impact analysis, simulation, optimization, and control); shared mobility and multimodal transportation systems (carsharing, bikesharing, transit, and non-motorized modes); traffic operations and control (simulation, active traffic management, variable speed limits, and managed lanes); and transportation network modeling (traffic assignment, network design, travel time reliability, congestion pricing, and bottleneck mitigation). His work also encompasses operations research and software development.

He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Transportation Planning and Technology. He is also a handling editor for Transportation Research Record (TRR) and serves on several additional editorial boards. Dr. Fan has been Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on research projects totaling over $17.35 million in funding. His sponsors include USDOT, FHWA, NCHRP, SHRP2 Education Connection, TxDOT, and NCDOT. He has published 140 peer-reviewed journal articles, in addition to numerous proceedings papers and technical reports in his areas of expertise. In September 2024, Dr. Fan was ranked among the top 2% of the most-cited scientists worldwide in both “Single Year 2023” and “Career” categories in the fields of “Economics and Business” (Logistics and Transportation) and “Civil Engineering.”

Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/professorweifan/