Lixing Yang

15.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
240 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Lixing Yang is a scholar working on Transportation, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lixing Yang has authored 240 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 171 papers in Transportation, 159 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 96 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lixing Yang's work include Transportation Planning and Optimization (171 papers), Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency (141 papers) and Railway Engineering and Dynamics (95 papers). Lixing Yang is often cited by papers focused on Transportation Planning and Optimization (171 papers), Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency (141 papers) and Railway Engineering and Dynamics (95 papers). Lixing Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Italy and United States. Lixing Yang's co-authors include Ziyou Gao, Shukai Li, Yuan Gao, Keping Li, Tao Tang, Jiateng Yin, Jianguo Qi, Xuesong Zhou, Kai Yang and Jungang Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Automatica and European Journal of Operational Research.

In The Last Decade

Lixing Yang

222 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

Dynamic passenger demand oriented metro train scheduling ... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Dynamic passenger demand oriented metro train scheduling with energy-efficiency and waiting time minimization: Mixed-integer linear programming approaches
    2017 266 citations Jiateng Yin, Lixing Yang et al. Transportation Research Part B Methodological profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lixing Yang China 50 5.1k 4.8k 2.6k 1.5k 1.5k 240 7.8k
Keping Li China 30 1.3k 0.2× 1.5k 0.3× 714 0.3× 943 0.6× 682 0.5× 226 3.1k
Xuesong Zhou United States 36 1.8k 0.4× 2.9k 0.6× 604 0.2× 1.1k 0.7× 1.6k 1.1× 114 4.6k
Anita Schöbel Germany 31 1.3k 0.2× 1.3k 0.3× 386 0.1× 422 0.3× 359 0.2× 134 3.0k
Maged Dessouky United States 45 2.6k 0.5× 2.6k 0.5× 335 0.1× 758 0.5× 1.5k 1.0× 142 5.8k
Jianjun Wu China 38 1.7k 0.3× 3.6k 0.8× 613 0.2× 825 0.5× 1.5k 1.0× 218 5.2k
Jean‐François Cordeau Canada 56 9.3k 1.8× 2.4k 0.5× 332 0.1× 854 0.6× 3.6k 2.5× 185 12.0k
Xiaobo Qu China 53 1.0k 0.2× 3.2k 0.7× 452 0.2× 3.0k 2.0× 2.1k 1.4× 241 8.1k
Daniele Vigo Italy 45 8.7k 1.7× 1.4k 0.3× 300 0.1× 554 0.4× 2.8k 1.9× 117 10.6k
Leo Kroon Netherlands 39 3.9k 0.8× 2.8k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 207 0.1× 653 0.4× 107 4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lixing Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lixing Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lixing Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lixing Yang based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lixing Yang. Lixing Yang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Li, Shukai, et al.. (2025). Multi-step look ahead deep reinforcement learning approach for automatic train regulation of urban rail transit lines with energy-saving. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 145. 110181–110181.
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Li, Shukai, et al.. (2025). Dynamic adjustment strategy of electric bus operations: A spatial branch-and-bound method with acceleration techniques. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 171. 105003–105003. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jinlei, et al.. (2024). EF-former for short-term passenger flow prediction during large-scale events in urban rail transit systems. Information Fusion. 117. 102916–102916. 14 indexed citations
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Luan, Xiaojie, et al.. (2024). Integrated optimization of train timetabling and rolling stock circulation problem with flexible short-turning and energy-saving strategies. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 166. 104756–104756. 3 indexed citations
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Yin, Jiateng, et al.. (2024). Model for Intercity Railway Schedule Optimization Incorporating Metrorail Transfers. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2678(12). 1395–1415. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Lixing, et al.. (2024). New Exact Algorithm for the integrated train timetabling and rolling stock circulation planning problem with stochastic demand. European Journal of Operational Research. 316(3). 906–929. 9 indexed citations
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Gao, Jiaqi, et al.. (2024). Data-driven traffic sensor location and path flow estimation using Wasserstein metric. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 133. 211–231. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Kai, et al.. (2024). Hybrid risk-averse location-inventory-allocation with secondary disaster considerations in disaster relief logistics: A distributionally robust approach. Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review. 186. 103558–103558. 9 indexed citations
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Yin, Jiateng, et al.. (2023). Optimization of system resilience in urban rail systems: Train rescheduling considering congestions of stations. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 185. 109657–109657. 21 indexed citations
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Yang, Lixing, et al.. (2023). Robust collaborative passenger flow control on a congested metro line: A joint optimization with train timetabling. Transportation Research Part B Methodological. 168. 27–55. 25 indexed citations
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Ji, Hangyu, Rui Wang, Chuntian Zhang, et al.. (2023). Optimization of train schedule with uncertain maintenance plans in high-speed railways: A stochastic programming approach. Omega. 124. 102999–102999. 12 indexed citations
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Li, Shukai, et al.. (2023). Hierarchical optimal control framework to automatic train regulation combined with energy-efficient speed trajectory calculation in metro lines. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 149. 104059–104059. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Jian, et al.. (2023). Short-term passenger flow prediction for multi-traffic modes: A Transformer and residual network based multi-task learning method. Information Sciences. 642. 119144–119144. 20 indexed citations
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Yin, Jiateng, Miao Wang, Andrea D’Ariano, Jinlei Zhang, & Lixing Yang. (2023). Synchronization of train timetables in an urban rail network: A bi-objective optimization approach. Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review. 174. 103142–103142. 15 indexed citations
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Huang, Zhipeng, et al.. (2022). Optimization of train timetables in high-speed railway corridors considering passenger departure time and seat-class preferences. Transportation Letters. 15(2). 111–128. 5 indexed citations
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Hu, Yuting, Shukai Li, Maged Dessouky, Lixing Yang, & Ziyou Gao. (2022). Computationally efficient train timetable generation of metro networks with uncertain transfer walking time to reduce passenger waiting time: A generalized Benders decomposition-based method. Transportation Research Part B Methodological. 163. 210–231. 10 indexed citations

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