Ruey (Kelvin) Cheu, PhD, PE – The University of Texas at El Paso

EXPERTISE

Dr. Ruey (Kelvin) Cheu earned his Ph.D. degree in Transportation Systems Engineering at the University of California at Irvine in 1994. His research interest and expertise include traffic operations, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), public and intermodal transportation, transportation logistics and transportation security. He has led and involved in projects funded by TxDOT, El Paso MPO, FHWA, USDOT and other agencies.  He has published more than 73 papers in international peer reviewed journals and more than 100 papers in conferences. His publications has been cited more than 2700 times, with h-index of 29. This earns him #11 most cited scholar in Transportation Engineering category in Google Scholar. Dr. Cheu was an Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part C. In January 2016, he stepped down from this position to take up the responsibility of Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Transportation Science & Technology. He still maintains the positions as an Associate Editor of Journal of Transportation of the ITE, and Editorial Board Member of Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is a recipient of the TRB 2011 Greg Harrington Award for Excellence in Visualization. Since arriving at UTEP in August 2006, Dr. Cheu has graduated 4 Ph.D. and 23 Master students, among them are 14 female or minority students. Dr. Cheu is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas.

(a) Professional Preparation / EDUCATION

The National University of Singapore                B.E Civil Engineering                                         1987

The National University of Singapore                M.E Civil Engineering                                        1990

University of California at Irvine                         Ph.D Transportation Systems Engineering        1994

(b) APPOINTMENTS / PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

9/2014 – Present     Professor of The University of Texas at El Paso

8/2016 – 8/2014      Associate Professor of The University of Texas at El Paso

1/2002 – 7/2006      Associate Professor of The National University of Singapore

8/1998 – 12/2001    Associate Professor of The National University of Singapore

3/1994 – 7/1998      Lecturer of The National University of Singapore

(c) PUBLICATIONS / TECHNICAL PAPERS (most relevant to proposal)

  1. Balal, E., Cheu, R. L. and Sarkodie-Gyan, T., “A binary decision model for discretionary lane changing move based on fuzzy inference system.” Transportation Research 67C, 47-61, 2016.
  2. Balal, E., Cheu, R. L., Sarkodie-Gyan, T. and Miramontes, J., “Analysis of discretionary lane changing parameters on freeways.” International Journal of Transportation Science & Technology, 3(3), 277-296, 2014
  3. Yang, J., Cheu, R. L., Guo, X. and Romo, A., “Analysis of vehicle-following heterogeneity using self-organizing feature maps.” Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2014.
  4. Wang, H., Cheu, R. L. and Lee, D-H., “Intelligent taxi dispatch system for advanced reservations.” Journal of Public Transportation, 17(3), 115-128, 2014.
  5. Wang, H. and Cheu, R. L., “Operations of a taxi fleet for advance reservations using electric vehicles and charging stations.” Transportation Research Record 2352, 1-10, 2013

Other Significant Products

  1. Kek, A. G. H, Cheu, R. L., Meng, Q. and Fung, C. H.. “Decision support system for vehicle relocation operations in carsharing systems.” Transportation Research, 45E(1), 149-158, 2009
  2. Kek, A. G. H., Cheu, R. L and Chor, M. L.. “Relocation simulation models for multiple-station shared-use vehicle systems.” Transportation Research Record 1986, 81-88, 2006
  3. Wang, H., Lee, D-H. and Cheu, R. L.. “Dynamic routing of commercial vehicle operations in real-time traffic conditions.” Transportation Research Record 1882, 201-209, 2004
  4. Lee, D-H., Wang, H., Cheu, R. L. and Teo, S. H.. “Taxi dispatch system based on current demands and real-time traffic information.” Transportation Research Record 1882, 193-200, 2004
  5. Choy, M. C., Cheu, R. L., Srinivasan, D. and Logi, F.. “Real-time signal control using agents with online reinforcement learning.” Transportation Research Record 1836, 64-75, 2003

(d) COLLABORATORS AND OTHER AFFILIATIONS:

Ladislav Bina, Helena Novakova, Tomas Horak, Miroslav Svitek, Andrej Privyl (Czech Technical University); Anton Hudak (University of Zilina, Slovakia); Salvador Hernendez (Oregon State University); Rafael Aldrete, Rajat Rajbhandari (Texas A&M Transportation Institute); Hongchao Liu (Texas Tech University);  Hao Xu (University of Nevada, Reno); Randy Machemehl (University of Texas at Austin); Qi Yi, Lei Yu, Medhi Azimi (Texas Southern University); Avinash Unnikrishnam (West Virginia University); Der-Horng Lee, Qiang Meng (National University of Singapore); Jie Yang, Xiucheng Guo (Southeast University), Hao Wang (Ninbo Institute of Technology), Lan Wu (Nanjing Forestry University), Susana Vargas, Gerardo Chang, Eduardo Sanchez, Valeria Quevedo (University of Piura, Peru), Read Aldouri, Wen-Whai Li, Rosa Fitzgerald, Carlos Chang, Heidi Taboada, Jose Espiritu, Sandra Aquirre-Corvarubias, Thompson Sarkodie-Gyan, Ann Gates, Carlos Ferregut, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Vladik Kreinovich,  Soheil Nazarian, Cesar Carrasco (The University of Texas at El Paso), Noe Vargas (Carnegie-Mellon University), Victor Larios (University of Guadlajara).

Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor: Stephen Ritchie, University of California, Irvine.

Dissertation & Thesis Advisor:

4 Ph.D. dissertations and 12 master theses at NUS, 4 Ph.D. dissertations and 23 master theses at UTEP:

(e) HONORS AND AWARDS (most recent awards):

  • 2014 Best Associate Editor Award, Transportation Research Part C:Emerging Technologies. Elsevier.
  • 2013 Czech Republic State Fund for Transport Infrastructure Award for Best Master Thesis with Tomas Rendl at the 11th European Transport Congress, in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • 2011 Greg Herrington Award for Excellence in Visualization Research. Transportation Research Board Committee on Visualization in Transportation (ABJ95)