Academic Staff

Brief Biosketch

Dr. ZHANG Li is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining PolyU, he worked as a research fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at National University of Singapore. He received the bachelor's degree in Transportation Engineering from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 2018, and the Ph.D. degree in Traffic Control and Information Engineering from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2024. Dr ZHANG’s research expertise and interests mainly lie in the design and implementation of methods that combine optimization and reinforcement learning for solving problems arising in transportation and logistics, especially in resilient public transportation system, ridesharing system, and low-altitude air mobility. His work has been published in the leading international journals, including Transportation Research Part A/B/C/D/E, Omega, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Research Interests

• Urban Transportation Modeling and Optimization
• Resilient Transportation System Analysis and Designing
• Urban Transportation Electrification
• Low-altitude Air Mobility
• Urban Logistic Optimization

Selected Journal Publications

1. Sun, B., Yu, B., Wang, Y., Zhang, L*. Integrating freight transport into first-and-last-mile ridesharing services with modular autonomous vehicles. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2025, 202, 103337.
2. Zhang, L., Wang, Y., Yu, B*. Integrated shared autonomous vehicles and bus bridging service for MRT disruption management. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2025, 178, 105236.
3. Zhang, L., Meng, Q., Wang, H., Yu, B*. Joint bus dispatching and bus bridging timetabling for mass rapid transit disruption management. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2025, 196, 103215.
4. Xue, Y., Zhang, L., Sun, Y., Zhou, Y., Liu, Z., Yu, B*. Conflict-free optimal control of connected automated vehicles at unsignalized intersections: A condition-based computational framework with constrained terminal position and speed. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2025, 195, 103209.
5. Liu, Z., Yu, B., Chen, T., Zhang, L*. Integrating battery-related decisions into truck-drone tandem delivery problem with limited battery resources. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2025, 174, 105082.
6. Zhang, L., Chen, T., Yao, B., Yu, B*, Wang, Y. Routing and charging scheduling for the electric carsharing system with mobile charging vehicles. Omega-International Journal of Management Science, 2025, 131, 103211.
7. Liu, Z., Yu, B., Zhang, L*, Sun, Y. Resilience enhancement of multi-modal public transportation system via electric bus network redesign. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2025, 193, 103810.
8. Zhang, L., Chen, T., Liu, Z., Yu, B*. Analysis of multi-modal public transportation system performance under disruptions: a dynamic resilience assessment framework. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2024, 183, 104077.
9. Zhang, L., Liu, Z., Yu, B. Long, J*. A ridesharing routing problem for airport riders with electric vehicles. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2024, 184, 103470.
10. Zhang, L., Shan, W., Zhou, B., Yu, B*. A dynamic dispatching problem for autonomous mine trucks in open-pit mines considering endogenous congestion. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2023, 150, 104080.
11. Zhang, L., Liu, Z., Shan, W., Yu, B*. A stabilized branch-and-price-and-cut algorithm for the waste transportation problem with split service. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023, 178, 109143.
12. Zhang, L., Liu, Z., Yu, L., Fang, K., Yao, B*, Yu, B. Routing optimization of shared autonomous electric vehicles under uncertain travel time and uncertain service time. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2022, 157, 102548.
13. Zhang, L., Liu, Z., Wang, W., Yu, B*. Long-term charging infrastructure deployment and bus fleet transition considering seasonal differences. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2022, 111, 103429.
14. Zhang, L., Chen, T., Ding, C., Yu, B*. Routing optimization by considering multiple uses of vehicles and demand uncertainty: a real-world case study. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022, 23(12), 24991-25003.
15. Zhang, L., Chen, T., Yu, B*, Wang, C. Suburban demand responsive transit service with rental vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2021, 22(4), 2391-2403.