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Hongru Yu has a total of 19 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:

  • Shejun Deng

    College of Architectural Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, China

    3 shared publications
  • Caoye Lu

    Jiangsu Communications Planning and Design Institute Limited by Share Ltd., Nantong 226000, China

    2 shared publications
  • Shijun Yu

    Vehicle & Transportation Department, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing 210094, P. R. China

    2 shared publications
  • Bin Ran

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    1 shared publication
  • Chenglu Yang

    Ministry of Transport, Key Laboratory of Transport Industry of Big Data Application Technologies for Comprehensive Transport, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    1 shared publication
  • Jun Zhang

    Affiliation Department of Transportation Engineering, College of Architectural Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

    1 shared publication

Latest Publications

  • Capturing Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Passenger Flow Patterns in IoT-Enabled Multimodal Transport Hub via Structured Decomposition and Integration

    by Hongru Yu, Yuanli Gu, Chenglu Yang, Ziwei Yi, Wenqi Lu, Bin Ran

    Multimodal transport hubs are pivotal nodes for improving urban transportation efficiency, and accurate passenger flow prediction constitutes the core of their operational management. Although massive volumes of data can be collected via Internet of Things (IoT) sensing systems, data missing frequently occurs due to equipment malfunctions and communication interruptions. Coupled with the inherently complex spatio-temporal dependencies of passenger flow, traditional methods prove ineffective in such scenarios. Existing studies mostly adopt the paradigm of imputation first, then prediction, which easily induces error propagation and lacks robustness under incomplete data conditions. To address this challenge, a novel Structured Decomposition and Integration (SDI) framework is proposed for robust passenger flow prediction with incomplete data. First, a Spectral-Guided Hierarchical Variational Mode Decomposition (SGH-VMD) method is designed to decouple the aliased modes of complex passenger flow sequences, yielding highly representative decomposed features. Second, with these decomposed features as inputs, a Dual Generative Adversarial Network with Gradient Penalty (Duel-GAN-GP) is constructed to collaboratively complete missing value generation and future sequence prediction, and aggregate the prediction results to reconstruct an integrated passenger flow structure. In addition, the model integrates an efficient self-attention mechanism with multi-scale positional encoding to capture long-range temporal dependencies and model the complex evolution process of passenger flow. Comprehensive validations are conducted on a real dataset from a large-scale multimodal transport hub. Experimental results show that the SDI framework outperforms mainstream baseline models in both accuracy and stability across various artificially simulated incomplete data scenarios, and can fully meet the requirements of real-time applications. Ablation experiments further verify the independent contributions of each core component, providing an effective theoretical solution for modeling complex spatio-temporal passenger flow under incomplete data conditions.

  • Open Access

    Recovering Missing Passenger Flow Data in Subway Stations via an Enhanced Generative Adversarial Network

    by Hongru Yu, Yuanli Gu, Mingyuan Li, Shejun Deng, Wenqi Lu, Yuming Heng

    To address the challenges posed by incomplete data in passenger flow prediction and organizational tasks, this paper proposes ProbSparse self‐attention conditional generative adversarial imputation net (ProbSA‐CGAIN), a novel imputation model framework built on the enhanced generative adversarial network (GAN). The model leverages conditional GANs for controlled data generation using external conditional information. It adopts a denoising autoencoder structure for reconstructing and estimating missing passenger flow data. The integration of an efficient ProbSparse self‐attention mechanism captures spatiotemporal evolution features, reducing computational complexity. Additionally, the model incorporates auxiliary conditional information to enhance data imputation accuracy by learning interdependencies among multiple data variables. Further, the model integrates local positional encoding and multi‐layer global temporal encoding, offering diverse perspectives on spatiotemporal information. Experimental evaluations with real passenger flow data demonstrate the model's superiority over advanced baseline models across various missing patterns and rates. Notably, it exhibits high stability in data restoration, particularly for datasets with higher missing rates, affirming its effectiveness in predicting and inferring missing passenger flow data based on auxiliary data and multi‐view positional information, ensuring reliable imputation. The experiments also assess the model's proficiency in attributing different spatiotemporal features, confirming its commendable training and restoration efficiency.


  • Open Access

    Research on the Optimization Method of Bus Travel Safety Considering Drivers’ Risk Characteristics

    by Yue Dou, Shejun Deng, Hongru Yu, Tingting Li, Shijun Yu, Jun Zhang

    Bus drivers have an important role in ensuring road safety, as their driving circumstances fluctuate due to the combined influence of physiological, psychological, and environmental dynamics, which can cause complex and varied driving dangers. Quantifying and assessing drivers’ risk characteristics under various scenarios, as well as finding the best fit with their work schedules, is critical for enhancing bus safety. This research first uses the entropy weight method, which is based on historical warning data, to examine the risk characteristics of bus drivers in various complicated contexts. It then creates an objective function targeted at minimizing the operational risk for a specific bus route. This function uses the quasi-Vogel approach and an improved simulated annealing algorithm to optimize and restructure the scheduling table, taking individual driver risk characteristics into account. Finally, the analysis is confirmed and examined with actual operational data from the Zhenjiang Bus Line 3. The data show that enhanced bus operations resulted in a 7.22% gain in overall safety and a 33.76% improvement in balancing levels. These insights provide valuable theoretical guidance as well as practical references for the safe operation and administration of public buses.


  • Open Access

    Research on the Evolution Mechanism of Congestion in the Entrances and Exits of Parking Facilities Based on the Improved Spatial Autoregressive Model

    by Hongru Yu, Shejun Deng, Caoye Lu, Yucheng Tang, Shijun Yu, Lu Liu, Tao Ji

    The entrance and exit area of parking facilities has the characteristics of high concentration of urban traffic and prominent traffic intertwining phenomenon, which easily induces rapid congestion of mixed heterogeneous traffic at specific times and local locations and quickly spreads to the entire road section or even a larger area. In order to better understand the congestion distribution characteristics and propagation effects of access section of the parking entrance and exit from the mid and microperspective, a 5 m lane width pixel grid is used to divide the frontage road research. It also proposes a spatially robust autoregressive model and complex network tools suitable for analysis of local traffic flow to analyze it. The results show that as spatial scale increases, the congestion propagation decreases sharply and spatial adjacency within the fourth order can account for more than 90% of the propagation; the frontage road to the entrance and exit is the place where the congestion first happens, and the congestion gradually attenuates as it propagates to the inner lane and the upstream of the road segments; the lateral congestion propagation attenuates faster, so the area affected by congestion is mainly distributed in the outermost lane. This paper can provide theoretical guidance for alleviating traffic congestion in the entrance and exit areas of parking facilities and has theoretical and empirical significance.


  • Open Access

    Research on Operation Characteristics and Safety Risk Forecast of Bus Driven by Multisource Forewarning Data

    by Shejun Deng, Hongru Yu, Caoye Lu

    To prevent and control public transport safety accidents in advance and guide the safety management and decision-making optimization of public transport vehicles, based on the forewarning and other multisource data of public transport vehicles in Zhenjiang, holographic portraits of public transport safety operation characteristics are constructed from the perspectives of time, space, and driver factors, and a prediction model of fatigue driving and driving risk of bus drivers based on BP neural network is constructed. Finally, model checking and virtual simulation experiments are carried out. The result of the research shows that the driver’s fatigue risk during the period of 7 : 00-8 : 00 am is much higher than other periods. When the bus speed is about 30 km/h, the driver fatigue forewarning events occur the most. Drivers aged 30–34 years have the largest proportion of vehicle abnormal forewarning, drivers aged 40–44 years have the largest proportion of fatigue forewarning events, and drivers with a driving experience of 15–19 years have the largest overall proportion of various forewarning events. When the vehicle speed range is (18, 20) km/h and (42, 45) km/h, the probability of fatigue driving risk and driving risk forewarning increases sharply; and when the vehicle speed is lower than 17 km/h or 41 km/h, the probability of fatigue driving risk and driving risk forewarning, respectively, is almost zero. The probability of fatigue forewarning during low peak hours on rainy days is about 30% lower than that during peak hours. The probability of driving forewarning during flat peak hours is 15% higher than that during low peak hours and about 10% lower than that during peak hours. This paper realized for the first time the use of real forewarning data of buses in the full time, the whole region, and full cycle to carry out research. Related results have important theoretical value and practical significance for scientifically guiding the safety operation and emergency management strategies of buses, improving the service level of bus passenger transportation capacity and safety operation, and promoting the safety, health, and sustainable development of the public transportation industry.