Marie Sklodowska-Curie Future Roads Fellow
Academic Division: Civil Engineering
Research group: Construction Engineering
Email: jl2439@eng.cam.ac.uk
Research interests
Dr. Liu's research interests include transport resilience, transport reliability, transport robustness, transport management and optimization. He is dedicated to evaluating transport performance under various disruptions and disturbances. He aims to alleviate the adverse effects resulting from these disruptions, thereby offering effective solutions to enhance the reliability, resilience, and sustainability of our transportation systems.
Strategic themes
Energy, transport and urban infrastructure
Topic: Measuring and enhancing the resilience of road infrastructure networks to climate change
(1) To understand travel characteristics and cascading failure processes in road networks when climatic events occur.
(2) To evaluate the impact of climatic events on the performance of road networks.
(3) To measure the resilience of road networks to climate change.
(4) To enhance the resilience of road networks to climate change.
Research projects
Measuring and enhancing the resilience of road infrastructure networks to climate change
Climate change has raised a series of problems for the environment and society, which causes transport unreliable and vulnerable. Therefore, measuring and enhancing the resilience of Road Infrastructure Networks (RINs) is significant in building resilient transport and society. The outcomes of the project and their application in transportation are:
- Enriching and improving the research theories and methods on traffic resilience;
- Measuring the impact of climatic events on RINs’ operation and assessing their resilience to climate change.
- Optimizing the maintenance strategy and restoration strategy for improving the ability of RINs to resist climatic events, which guides the operators to reduce the climatic impact on RINs.
Teaching activity
Two years teaching experience.
Biography
Dr. Liu is focused on the research theme of transport resilience, reliability, and vulnerability. He earned a Ph.D. degree from Southwest Jiaotong University and was a Ph.D. visiting student at the University of Maryland. Before becoming a Marie Curie co-funded Future Roads Fellow at the University of Cambridge, he worked at Kunming University of Science and Technology for two years.
Dr. Liu is an investigator in several projects with research topics centred around transport resilience and reliability. He is the first/corresponding author of 22 peer-reviewed journal papers and 13 conference papers, with several selected as "Editor’s choice" and best papers. Dr. Liu serves as a reviewer for 13 international journals and is a member of the editorial board for two journals.
In Cambridge, Dr. Liu will evaluate the impacts of climate change on transport performance and propose effective models and methods to mitigate the negative impacts caused by various climatic events. He aims to contribute to building a reliable, resilient, and sustainable transport system, enhancing the reliability, efficiency, and safety of our daily travel.
Department role and responsibilities