Publications

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Selected Publications
2026
Under Review

DPEP: Differentiable Predictive Ethics-Aware Planner

Rui Gan, et al.

Under review, 2026

arXiv Coming Soon Code
CVPR Workshop 2026

CrashSight: A Phase-Aware, Infrastructure-Centric Video Benchmark for Traffic Crash Scene Understanding and Reasoning

Rui Gan, Junyi Ma, Pei Li, Xingyou Yang, Kai Cheng, Sikai Chen, and Bin Ran

CVPR 2026 Workshop DriveX (Archival Track, Poster), 2026

arXiv Coming Soon Code Website
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HERMES: A Holistic End-to-End Risk-Aware Multimodal Embodied System with Vision-Language Models for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving

Weizhe Tang, Junwei You, Jiaxi Liu, Zhaoyi Wang, Rui Gan, Zilin Huang, Feng Wei, and Bin Ran

arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00993, 2026

TR-C

V2X-VLM: End-to-End V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving Through Large Vision-Language Models

Junwei You, Zhuoyu Jiang, Zilin Huang, Haotian Shi, Rui Gan, Keshu Wu, Xi Cheng, Xiaopeng Li, and Bin Ran

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 183, 105457, 2026

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2025
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SEAL: Vision-Language Model-Based Safe End-to-End Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Long-Tail Modeling

Junwei You, Pei Li, Zhuoyu Jiang, Zilin Huang, Rui Gan, Haotian Shi, and Bin Ran

arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.21041, 2025

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Planning Safety Trajectories with Dual-Phase, Physics-Informed, and Transportation Knowledge-Driven Large Language Models

Rui Gan, Pei Li, Keke Long, Bocheng An, Junwei You, Keshu Wu, and Bin Ran

arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.04562, 2025

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V2X-LLM: Enhancing V2X Integration and Understanding in Connected Vehicle Corridors

Keshu Wu, Pei Li, Yang Zhou, Rui Gan, Junwei You, Yang Cheng, Jingwen Zhu, Steven T. Parker, Bin Ran, David A. Noyce, and Zhengzhong Tu

arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.02239, 2025

TR-C

Goal-based Neural Physics Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Model

Rui Gan, Haotian Shi, Pei Li, Keshu Wu, Bocheng An, Junwei You, Linheng Li, Junyi Ma, Chengyuan Ma, and Bin Ran

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 179, 105283, 2025

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FollowGen: A Scaled Noise Conditional Diffusion Model for Car-Following Trajectory Prediction

Junwei You, Rui Gan, Weizhe Tang, Zilin Huang, Jiaxi Liu, Zhuoyu Jiang, Haotian Shi, Keshu Wu, Keke Long, Sicheng Fu, Sikai Chen, and Bin Ran

Communications in Transportation Research, vol. 5, 100215, 2025

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TRB 2025

V2X-LLM: Improving Vehicle-to-Everything Integration and Understanding with Large Language Models

Keshu Wu, Rui Gan, Junwei You, Yang Cheng, Pei Li, Jingwen Zhu, and Steven T. Parker

TRB 104th Annual Meeting, 2025

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TRB 2025

Efficient Large-Scale Traffic Forecasting via Multi-Subgraph Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks

Bocheng An, Chuang Cui, Rui Gan, Linheng Li, Xu Qu, and Bin Ran

TRB 104th Annual Meeting, 2025

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TRB 2025

Real-World Data Inspired Interactive Connected Traffic Scenario Generation

Junwei You, Pei Li, Yang Cheng, Keshu Wu, Rui Gan, Steven T. Parker, and Bin Ran

TRB 104th Annual Meeting, 2025

2024
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IEEE TITS

A Freeway Traffic Flow Prediction Model Based on a Generalized Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network

Rui Gan, Bocheng An, Linheng Li, Xu Qu, and Bin Ran

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 13682–13693, 2024

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IEEE IoT

Vehicular Speed Prediction Method for Highway Scenarios Based on Spatiotemporal Graph Convolutional Networks and Potential Field Theory

Linheng Li, Bocheng An, Dapeng Zhang, Rui Gan, Zhi Zhou, Xu Qu, and Bin Ran

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 3330–3349, 2024

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TRB 2024

How Does C-V2X Perform in Urban Environments? Results from Real-world Empirical Experiments on Urban Arterials

Pei Li, Keshu Wu, Yang Cheng, Zilin Huang, Rui Gan, Steven T. Parker, and David A. Noyce

TRB 103rd Annual Meeting, 2024

2023
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TRB 2023

Generalized Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolution Networks with Dynamic Information for Traffic Speed Prediction

Rui Gan, Bocheng An, Linheng Li, Xu Qu, and Bin Ran

TRB 102nd Annual Meeting, 2023

2022
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交通运输工程学报

基于广义时空图卷积网络的交通群体运动态势预测

曲栩, 甘锐, 安博成, 李林恒, 陈志军, 冉斌

交通运输工程学报, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 79–88, 2022

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IoTSC 2022

Modelling Acceleration Lane Length in CAV Lane Merge Area Based on Breakdown Probability

Xingchen Lv, Rui Gan, Lanjie Liu, Haojie Ma, Peipei Mao, and Xu Qu

2nd International Conference on Internet of Things and Smart City (IoTSC), 2022

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TRB 2022

A DDPG-Based Variable Speed Limit Control for Consecutive Bottleneck

Rui Gan, Xu Qu, Peipei Mao, Linheng Li, and Bin Ran

TRB 101st Annual Meeting, 2022

Patents
Patent
US Patent

Connected Reference Marker System for Vulnerable Road User Protection

Bin Ran, Junwei You, Rui Gan, Yang Cheng, et al.

US Patent App. 19/233,422, 2025

Patent
US Patent

Device Allocation System for Distributed Autonomous Vehicle-Cloud Operations

Bin Ran, Sicheng Fu, Rui Gan, Yang Cheng, et al.

US Patent App. 19/172,285, 2025

Patent
US Patent

Proactive Sensing Systems for Automated Driving Systems

Bin Ran, Rui Gan, Sicheng Fu, Yang Cheng, et al.

US Patent App. 19/065,311, 2025

Patent
US Patent

Distributed Computing for Autonomous Vehicles

Bin Ran, Sicheng Fu, Rui Gan, Yang Cheng, et al.

US Patent App. 18/762,995, 2024

Work in Progress
In Progress

Bridging Physical and Language Models: A Physics-Constrained LLM Framework for Human-Centric Driving Safety

Rui Gan, Pei Li, Bocheng An, Junyi Ma, and Bin Ran

Developing a hybrid framework that constrains LLM reasoning with physics-based vehicle dynamics to ensure safe and human-compatible trajectory planning in complex driving scenarios.

In Progress

Ethical Decision-Making in Autonomous Vehicles: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Fair Risk Management

Rui Gan, Linheng Li, Tiantong Nan, Junyi Ma, and Bin Ran

Applying reinforcement learning to learn context-dependent ethical policies that distribute risk fairly among all road users in unavoidable conflict scenarios.

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