Pinlong Cai

1.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
30 papers, 694 citations indexed

About

Pinlong Cai is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Pinlong Cai has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 694 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 12 papers in Automotive Engineering and 12 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Pinlong Cai's work include Traffic control and management (15 papers), Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques (12 papers) and Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (9 papers). Pinlong Cai is often cited by papers focused on Traffic control and management (15 papers), Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques (12 papers) and Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (9 papers). Pinlong Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Pinlong Cai's co-authors include Guangquan Lu, Yunpeng Wang, Chuan Ding, Peng Chen, Jianping Sun, Yunpeng Wang, Daocheng Fu, Licheng Wen, Botian Shi and Yu Qiao and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Expert Systems with Applications and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

In The Last Decade

Pinlong Cai

25 papers receiving 677 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A spatiotemporal correlative k-nearest neighbor model for short-term traffic multistep forecasting

2015 347 citations Pinlong Cai, Yunpeng Wang et al. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies profile →
Drive Like a Human: Rethinking Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models

2024 82 citations Daocheng Fu, Licheng Wen et al. profile →
TrafficGPT: Viewing, processing and interacting with traffic foundation models

2024 57 citations Daocheng Fu, Zhao Zhang et al. Transport Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pinlong Cai China	9	409	334	333	151	81	30	694
Angshuman Guin United States	14	377 0.9×	296 0.9×	328 1.0×	109 0.7×	49 0.6×	61	670
Qingchao Liu China	12	252 0.6×	178 0.5×	143 0.4×	140 0.9×	80 1.0×	58	587
Zeyu Yang China	13	225 0.6×	312 0.9×	267 0.8×	219 1.5×	145 1.8×	45	762
Jiwon Kim Australia	14	288 0.7×	246 0.7×	403 1.2×	207 1.4×	39 0.5×	45	769
Zhaosheng Yang China	13	304 0.7×	237 0.7×	229 0.7×	78 0.5×	58 0.7×	120	528
Toru Seo Japan	13	555 1.4×	620 1.9×	368 1.1×	256 1.7×	73 0.9×	41	858
Yilong Ren China	16	316 0.8×	271 0.8×	216 0.6×	208 1.4×	155 1.9×	85	831
Xiang Song China	13	298 0.7×	205 0.6×	337 1.0×	167 1.1×	52 0.6×	22	593
Jingqiu Guo China	17	328 0.8×	386 1.2×	308 0.9×	297 2.0×	60 0.7×	45	773
Fangce Guo United Kingdom	14	343 0.8×	214 0.6×	264 0.8×	119 0.8×	54 0.7×	31	520

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pinlong Cai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pinlong Cai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pinlong Cai 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 Pinlong Cai. Pinlong Cai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Liang, Xiao, et al.. (2025). A Global Dataset Mapping the AI Innovation from Academic Research to Industrial Patents. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1261–1261. 1 indexed citations

Fu, Daocheng, et al.. (2024). TrafficGPT: Viewing, processing and interacting with traffic foundation models. Transport Policy. 150. 95–105. 57 indexed citations breakdown →

Fu, Daocheng, Licheng Wen, Pinlong Cai, et al.. (2024). LimSim++: A Closed-Loop Platform for Deploying Multimodal LLMs in Autonomous Driving. 1084–1090. 16 indexed citations

Ren, Yilong, Han Jiang, Pinlong Cai, et al.. (2024). AccidentGPT: A V2X Environmental Perception Multi-modal Large Model for Accident Analysis and Prevention. 472–477. 7 indexed citations

Li, Hongyang, Huijie Wang, Jia Zeng, et al.. (2024). 自动驾驶开源数据体系：现状与未来. Scientia Sinica Informationis.

Wen, Licheng, Pinlong Cai, Daocheng Fu, et al.. (2023). How drivers perform under different scenarios: Ability-related driving style extraction for large-scale dataset. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 196. 107445–107445. 8 indexed citations

Zhou, Jianshan, Daxin Tian, Xuting Duan, et al.. (2023). Robust Car-Following Control of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: A Stochastic Model Predictive Control Approach. 77–83.

Wen, Licheng, Daocheng Fu, Pinlong Cai, et al.. (2023). LimSim: A Long-Term Interactive Multi-Scenario Traffic Simulator. 1255–1262. 7 indexed citations

Zhou, Jianshan, Daxin Tian, Xuting Duan, et al.. (2023). Delay-Optimal Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure Computing with IRS-Enhanced Secure Wireless Communications. 78. 1720–1725.

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Fu, Daocheng, et al.. (2023). Incremental path planning: Reservation system in V2X environment. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 623. 128914–128914. 7 indexed citations

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Cai, Pinlong & Guangquan Lu. (2023). Trajectory Guidance for Connected Human-Driving Vehicles through the Interactions between Drivers and Roadside Units. Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A Systems. 149(11). 1 indexed citations

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Wen, Licheng, et al.. (2023). Human-Like Decision Making at Unsignalized Intersections Using Social Value Orientation. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine. 16(2). 55–69. 4 indexed citations

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Yu, Yi, et al.. (2023). RoW-based Parallel Control for Mixed Traffic Scenario: A Case Study on Lane-Changing. 5397–5402. 2 indexed citations

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Cai, Pinlong, Jia He, & Yikang Li. (2023). Hybrid cooperative intersection management for connected automated vehicles and pedestrians. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(2). 91–101. 11 indexed citations

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Cai, Pinlong, Junjie Zhang, Xuan Zhao, & Yikang Li. (2022). General Driving Behavior Model based on the Desired Safety Margin for Vehicle Flow Simulation. 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). 743–748. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Yunpeng, Pinlong Cai, & Guangquan Lu. (2020). Cooperative autonomous traffic organization method for connected automated vehicles in multi-intersection road networks. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 111. 458–476. 90 indexed citations

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Cai, Pinlong, Yunpeng Wang, & Guangquan Lu. (2018). Tunable and Transferable RBF Model for Short-Term Traffic Forecasting. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 20(11). 4134–4144. 18 indexed citations

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Cai, Pinlong, Hao Chen, & Jingxin Zhang. (2017). An adaptive multi-kernel RBF model using state matching. 39. 163–167. 1 indexed citations

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Cai, Pinlong, Yunpeng Wang, Guangquan Lu, et al.. (2015). A spatiotemporal correlative k-nearest neighbor model for short-term traffic multistep forecasting. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 62. 21–34. 347 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cai, Pinlong, Yunpeng Wang, Guangquan Lu, & Peng Chen. (2015). An Improved K-Nearest Neighbor Model for Road Speed Forecast Based on Spatiotemporal Correlation. 1. 342–351. 1 indexed citations

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