Henry Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

University of Minnesota

500 Pillsbury Drive S.E.

Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone 612 625 6347

Fax 612 626 7750
 

Email: henryliu@umn.edu

Education

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Aug. 2005 – present

• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Aug. 2003 – Aug. 2005

• Post-Doctoral Researcher, California PATH, University of California, Berkeley, Aug. 2000 -- Jul. 2003

• Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, Jan. 2002 -- May 2003
  

Recent Honors and Awards

• CTS Research Partnership Award, University of Minnesota, 2009

• Council of University Transportation Centers New Faculty Member Award, 2007

• IEEE Twin Cities Section Young Engineer of the Year, 2007

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• Transportation Network Modeling and Simulation, Research Projects
• Traffic Control and Operations, Research Projects

SMART-Signal Project Web Site

US Patent

• Liu, H., Ma, W., and Wu, X. Traffic Flow Monitoring for Intersections with Signal Control, Provisional Patent No. 61100436. Formal Patent Application No. 12/567449, Filed by the University of Minnesota on Sept. 25, 2009.

Research Group   Open Research Positions   Former Students and Visiting Researchers

Recent Courses

• CE 3201 Introduction to Transportation Engineering, Spring 2007, Spring 2009
• CE 4211/5211 Traffic Engineering, Spring 2006, Spring 2009
• CE 5214 Transportation System Analysis, Fall 2006
• CE 8216 Urban Traffic Operations, Fall 2006
• CE 8217 Transportation Network Analysis, Fall 2005, Fall 2007

STREET Project Website

1. Liu, H., Ma, W., Wu, X., and Hu, H. (2009) Real Time Estimation of Arterial Travel Time under Congested Conditions, Transportmetrica, Accepted. [pdf]

2. He, X., Guo, X., and Liu, H. (2009) A Link-based Day-to-day Traffic Assignment Model, Transp. Res. Part B, Accepted. [pdf]

3. Liu, H. and Wu, X. (2009) Stochasticity of Freeway Operational Capacity and Chance Constrained Ramp Metering, Transp. Res., Part C, Accepted. [pdf] 

4. He, B.S., He, X., and Liu, H. (2009) Solving a Class of Constrained "black-box" Inverse Variational Inequalities, European Journal of Operations Research, Accepted. [pdf]

5. Liu, H. and Danczyk, A. (2009) Optimal Sensor Locations for Freeway Bottleneck Identification, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 24(8), 535-550. [pdf]

6. Liu, H., Wu, X., Ma, W., and Hu, H., (2009) Real-Time queue length estimation for congested signalized intersections, Transp. Res., Part C, 17(4), 412-427.[pdf]

7. Ban, J. and Liu, H. (2009) A link-node discrete-time dynamic second best toll pricing model with a relaxation solution algorithm, Network and Spatial Economics, Vol. 9, 243-267. [pdf]

8. Ban, J., Lu, S., Ferris, M., and Liu, H.(2009) Risk averse second best toll pricing, Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT 18), 197-218. [pdf]

9. Liu, H. and Ma, W., (2009) A virtual vehicle probe model for time-dependent travel time estimation on signalized arterials, Transp. Res., Part C, 17(1), 11-26. [pdf]

10. He, B.S., He, X.Z., Liu, H., and Wu, T. (2009) Self-adaptive projection method for co-coercive variational inequalities, European Journal of Operational Research, 196 (1), 43-48. [pdf]

11. Ban, J., Liu, H., Ferris, M.C. and Ran, B., (2008) A link-node complementarity model and solution algorithm for dynamic user equilibria with exact flow propagations, Transp. Res., Part B, 42(9), 823-842. [pdf]

12. Liu, H., He, X., and He, B.S. (2007) Method of successive weighted averages (MSWA) and self-regulated averaging schemes for solving stochastic user equilibrium problem. Network and Spatial Economics, Accepted. [pdf]

13. Liu, H., Xin, W., Adam, Z., and Ban, J., (2007) A Game Theoretical Approach for Modeling Merging and Yielding Behavior at Freeway On-Ramp Section, Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT 17), 197-211. [pdf]

14. Yang, F. and Liu, H., (2007) A general modeling framework for travelers' day-to-day route choice adjustment processes, Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT 17),  813-835. [pdf]

15. Liu, H., He, X., and Recker, W., (2007) Estimation of the time-dependency of values of travel time and its reliability from loop detector data, Transp. Res., Part B, 41(4), 448-461. [pdf]

16. Liu, H., Ban, J., Ma, W., and Mirchandani, P., (2007) Model Reference Adaptive Control Framework for Real-Time Traffic Management under Emergency Evacuation, ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 133(1), 43-50. [pdf]

17. Ban, J., Liu, H., Ferris, M.C. and Ran, B., (2006) A general MPCC model and its solution algorithm for continuous network design problem, Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 43 (5-6), 493-505. [pdf]

18. Liu, H., Recker, W., and Chen, A. (2004) Uncovering the contribution of travel time reliability to dynamic route choice using real-time loop data, Transp. Res., Part A, 38, 435-453. [pdf]

19. Chu, L., Liu, H., Recker, W., and Zhang, H. M., (2004) Performance evaluation of adaptive ramp metering algorithms in microscopic traffic simulation model, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, 130 (3), 330-338. [pdf]

20. Liu, H., Ban, J., Ran, B., and Mirchandani, P., (2002) An analytical dynamic traffic assignment model with stochastic network and travelers' perceptions, Transp. Res. Rec., 1783, pp.125-133. [pdf]