Samitha Samaranayake

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Samitha Samaranayake is a scholar working on Transportation, Automotive Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Samitha Samaranayake has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Transportation, 30 papers in Automotive Engineering and 17 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Samitha Samaranayake's work include Transportation Planning and Optimization (33 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (29 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (10 papers). Samitha Samaranayake is often cited by papers focused on Transportation Planning and Optimization (33 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (29 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (10 papers). Samitha Samaranayake collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Denmark. Samitha Samaranayake's co-authors include Emilio Frazzoli, Javier Alonso–Mora, Daniela Rus, Alex Wallar, Alexandre M. Bayen, Sébastien Blandin, Ricardo A. Daziano, Prateek Bansal, T.W. Williams and R. Kapur and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Samitha Samaranayake

49 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

On-demand high-capacity ride-sharing via dynamic trip-vehicle assignment

2017 789 citations Javier Alonso–Mora, Samitha Samaranayake et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samitha Samaranayake United States	16	1.0k	910	448	434	266	53	1.5k
Michael W. Levin United States	28	1.6k 1.5×	1.5k 1.7×	752 1.7×	142 0.3×	1.6k 6.2×	101	2.5k
Sin C. Ho Hong Kong	15	919 0.9×	634 0.7×	569 1.3×	105 0.2×	87 0.3×	23	1.6k
Francesco Viti Luxembourg	24	674 0.6×	1.6k 1.7×	911 2.0×	76 0.2×	1.0k 3.9×	181	2.1k
Carlos Lima Azevedo Denmark	21	654 0.6×	756 0.8×	337 0.8×	131 0.3×	257 1.0×	66	1.2k
Ravi Seshadri United States	17	466 0.4×	683 0.8×	363 0.8×	99 0.2×	288 1.1×	64	1.1k
Pedro M. d’Orey Portugal	14	329 0.3×	214 0.2×	173 0.4×	68 0.2×	163 0.6×	36	703
Xianbiao Hu United States	18	431 0.4×	502 0.6×	343 0.8×	51 0.1×	307 1.2×	77	1.0k
Zhenliang Ma Sweden	21	302 0.3×	834 0.9×	542 1.2×	27 0.1×	174 0.7×	95	1.2k
Rahul Nair Ireland	15	569 0.5×	844 0.9×	444 1.0×	120 0.3×	164 0.6×	39	1.3k
Mehdi Nourinejad Canada	17	813 0.8×	618 0.7×	478 1.1×	269 0.6×	260 1.0×	53	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Samitha Samaranayake

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samitha Samaranayake

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Dogan, Timur, et al.. (2025). A review of urban resilience frameworks: Transferring knowledge to enhance pandemic resilience. ArXiv.org. 3(4). 271–292.

Pereira, Francisco C., et al.. (2024). Incremental expansion of large scale fixed and mobile charging infrastructure in stochastic environments: A novel graph-based Benders decomposition approach. Applied Energy. 380. 124985–124985. 2 indexed citations

Speranza, M. Grazia, et al.. (2023). On the Value of Dynamism in Transit Networks. Transportation Science. 57(3). 578–593. 2 indexed citations

Hu, Yue, et al.. (2023). Estimating road traffic impacts of commute mode shifts. PLoS ONE. 18(1). e0279738–e0279738.

Samaranayake, Samitha, et al.. (2023). A joint machine learning and optimization approach for incremental expansion of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice. 178. 103863–103863. 15 indexed citations

Junge, Matthew, et al.. (2022). Safe reopening of university campuses is possible with COVID-19 vaccination. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0270106–e0270106. 6 indexed citations

Luo, Qi, et al.. (2022). Managing public transit during a pandemic: The trade-off between safety and mobility. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 138. 103592–103592. 13 indexed citations

Samaranayake, Samitha, et al.. (2022). Shareability network based decomposition approach for solving large-scale single school routing problems. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 140. 103691–103691. 9 indexed citations

Banerjee, Siddhartha, et al.. (2021). Plan Your System and Price for Free: Fast Algorithms for Multimodal Transit Operations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Luo, Qi, et al.. (2020). Managing Public Transit during a Pandemic: The Trade-Off between Safety and Mobility. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Samaranayake, Samitha, et al.. (2019). Bounded Asymmetry in Road Networks. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11951–11951. 5 indexed citations

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Bansal, Prateek, et al.. (2018). A framework to integrate mode choice in the design of mobility-on-demand systems. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 105. 648–665. 94 indexed citations

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Samaranayake, Samitha, et al.. (2017). Integrating Shared-Vehicle Mobility-on-Demand Systems with Public Transit. Transportation Research Board 96th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 18 indexed citations

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Alonso–Mora, Javier, Samitha Samaranayake, Alex Wallar, Emilio Frazzoli, & Daniela Rus. (2017). On-demand high-capacity ride-sharing via dynamic trip-vehicle assignment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(3). 462–467. 789 indexed citations breakdown →

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Samaranayake, Samitha, et al.. (2017). Ridepooling with trip-chaining in a shared-vehicle mobility-on-demand system. 1–7. 7 indexed citations

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Spieser, Kevin, et al.. (2016). Shared-Vehicle Mobility-on-Demand Systems: A Fleet Operator's Guide to Rebalancing Empty Vehicles. Transportation Research Board 95th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 43 indexed citations

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Reilly, Jack, Samitha Samaranayake, Maria Laura Delle Monache, et al.. (2015). Adjoint-Based Optimization on a Network of Discretized Scalar Conservation Laws with Applications to Coordinated Ramp Metering. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 167(2). 733–760. 22 indexed citations

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Samaranayake, Samitha, Jack Reilly, Walid Krichene, et al.. (2015). Discrete-time system optimal dynamic traffic assignment (SO-DTA) with partial control for horizontal queuing networks. 89. 663–670. 9 indexed citations

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Samaranayake, Samitha, Sébastien Blandin, & Alexandre M. Bayen. (2012). Speedup Techniques for the Stochastic on-time Arrival Problem. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 17 indexed citations

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Samaranayake, Samitha, et al.. (2003). A reconfigurable shared scan-in architecture. 9–14. 67 indexed citations

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