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Bin Ran

Bin Ran

Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
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Dr. Bin Ran is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Ran is an expert in ITS and Connected Autonomous Mobility (CCM). Dr. Ran is the author of two leading textbooks on transportation planning and operations, and six books on intelligent highways; the author of over 900 scientific articles. He is the recipient of Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award from ITE in 2018. He has more than 200 patents or patents pending in the US, China, Japan, Europe, and other countries. Dr. Ran serves as a Board Member and the Chair for Committee on Connected Autonomous Mobility, International Road Federation (IRF), which serves as the forum of global collaboration for more than 180 countries. He leads a Task Force of Transportation Research Board (TRB) to develop system architecture and development roadmaps for vehicle-highway automation in the US.

Department

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Contact

2312, Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI 53706
p: (608) 262-0052

  • PhD 1993, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • MS 1989, University of Tokyo
  • BS 1986, Tsinghua University

  • Connected Autonomous Mobility (CAM)
  • Collaborative Automated Driving System (CADS)
  • Connected and Automated Vehicle & Highway (CAVH)
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Dynamic Transportation Network Models
  • Smart Cities & Big Data
  • Proactive Active Safety System
  • Traffic Simulation & Drive GPT

  • 2025 TRB Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation (ACP30), Best Paper Award
  • 2024 Top 0.05% Lifetime Global Highly Ranked Scholars™, Transport, ScholarGPS™
  • 2020 ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering: Part A, Best Paper Award
  • 2018 Institute of Transportation Engineers, Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award
  • 2017 International Student Graduation Celebration, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Faculty Award
  • 2016 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship
  • 2013 ITE Wisconsin, Martin Bruening Award for Best Paper
  • 2013 Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA), Outstanding Service Award
  • 2012 Tsinghua University, 1st Place Award for Excellent Textbook
  • 2010 Chinese Central Government, National Distinguished Expert, 1st Life Time Honor in Transportation Discipline
  • 1994 Council of University Transportation Centers, Charley Wootan Award for the best PhD dissertation in transportation
  • 1991 IBM/CRAY, IBM/CRAY Fellowship UIC Supercomputing Workshop
  • 1986 Japanese Government, Monbusho Scholarship
  • 1985 Tsinghua University, Excellent Student Awards (for top 10% ranking in class)

  • Yi, X., Wang, Q., Liu, Q., Rui, Y., & Ran, B. (2025). Advances in vehicle re-identification techniques: A survey. Neurocomputing, 614, 128745.
  • Liu, H., Shi, H., Yuan, T., Fu, S., & Ran, B. (2025). Bus travel feature inference with small samples based on multi-clustering topic model over Internet of Things. Future Generation Computer Systems, 163, 107525.
  • Wang, C., Zhao, Y., Li, L., Qu, X., & Ran, B. (2025). Enhancing Vehicle Platoons in Connected and Automated Environments With an Improved Spectral Clustering-Based Pinning Control Strategy. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  • Qiu, J., Fu, S., Ou, J., Tang, K., Qu, X., Liang, S., Wang, X., & Ran, B. (2025). Estimating link flow through link speed with sparse flow data sampling. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 40(2), 181-197.
  • Ma, H., Qian, C., Li, L., Qu, X., & Ran, B. (2025). Risk quantification based Adaptive Cruise control and its application in approaching behavior at signalized intersections. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 212, 107939.
  • Yuan, Y., Li, L., Qu, X., & Ran, B. (2024). Modeling and analysis of vehicle infrastructure cooperative industry based on tripartite evolutionary game theory. In Water Conservancy and Civil Construction Volume 2 (p. 507-516). CRC Press.
  • Jiang, J., Rui, Y., Chen, Z., & Ran, B. (2024). A Dynamic Routing Algorithm Based on Energy Consumption for Electric Vehicles. In 2024 8th International Conference on Green Energy and Applications (ICGEA) (p. 66-71).
  • Jiang, Y., Ma, Y., Xiao, G., Wu, Y., Ran, B., & Yao, Z. (2024). A capacity model of signalized intersection with dedicated lanes for automated vehicles. Transportation Letters, 16(7), 725-737.
  • Zhou, Y., Zhang, Z., Ding, F., Ahn, S., Wu, K., & Ran, B. (2024). A deep long short-term memory network embedded model predictive control strategies for car-following control of connected automated vehicles in mixed traffic. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • Wu, K., Li, P., Cheng, Y., Parker, S. T., Ran, B., Noyce, D. A., & Ye, X. (2024). A Digital Twin Framework for Physical-Virtual Integration in V2X-Enabled Connected Vehicle Corridors. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.00356.

  • CIV ENGR 571 - Urban Transportation Planning (Fall 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 579 - Seminar-Transportation Engineering (Fall 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 699 - Independent Study (Fall 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Fall 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Fall 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 699 - Independent Study (Summer 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Summer 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Summer 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Summer 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 489 - Honors in Research (Spring 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 579 - Seminar-Transportation Engineering (Spring 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 678 - Advanced Traffic Modeling and Computer Simulation (Spring 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 699 - Independent Study (Spring 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Spring 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Spring 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2026)
  • CIV ENGR 571 - Urban Transportation Planning (Fall 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 579 - Seminar-Transportation Engineering (Fall 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 699 - Independent Study (Fall 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Fall 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Fall 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 699 - Independent Study (Summer 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Summer 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Summer 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Summer 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 579 - Seminar-Transportation Engineering (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 678 - Advanced Traffic Modeling and Computer Simulation (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • CIV ENGR 571 - Urban Transportation Planning (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 579 - Seminar-Transportation Engineering (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 990 - Thesis (Fall 2024)
  • CIV ENGR 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2024)