Zhanhong Cheng

Ph.D. candidate

Zhanhong Cheng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University. He received his master’s and bachelor’s degree from Harbin Institute of Technology. His current research focuses on utilizing passengers’ behavior patterns for better transit operation, planning, and forecasting. His master’s thesis is about the effect of the route choice model on traffic paradox.

Research Interests

Machine learning
Data-driven transportation modeling
Sustainable transportation

Selected Publications

Cheng, Z., Trépanier, M., & Sun, L. (2020). Probabilistic model for destination inference and travel pattern mining from smart card data. Transportation, 1-19. (link)

Cheng, Z., Trepanier, M., & Sun, L. (2020). Incorporating travel behavior regularity into passenger flow forecasting. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.00992. (link)

Cheng, Z., Trepanier, M., & Sun, L. (2021). Real-time forecasting of metro origin-destination matrices with high-order weighted dynamic mode decomposition. arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00466. (link)