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Journal Articles

1. Negin Shariat, Dingtong Yang and R. Jayakrishnan (2025) “Partnering with transportation network companies (TNCs) for low-demand service: is it viable and beneficial for transit agencies?”, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 201, p. 104682. Available at: 10.1016/j.tra.2025.104682. [ITS-Irvine record]
2. Marjan Mosslemi, Dingtong Yang and R. Jayakrishnan (2025) “Estimating Benefits of Same Day Delivery Services with an Integrated Activity-Based Travel Optimization Approach”, Procedia Computer Science, 257, pp. 722–730. Available at: 10.1016/j.procs.2025.03.093. [ITS-Irvine record]
3. Dingtong Yang, Michael F. Hyland and R. Jayakrishnan (2024) “Tackling the crowdsourced shared-trip delivery problem at scale with a novel decomposition heuristic”, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 188, p. 103633. Available at: 10.1016/j.tre.2024.103633. [ITS-Irvine record]
4. Dingtong Yang and Michael F. Hyland (2024) “Electric vehicles in urban delivery fleets: How far can they go?”, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 129, p. 104127. Available at: 10.1016/j.trd.2024.104127. [ITS-Irvine record]
5. Dingtong Yang, Navjyoth J. S. Sarma, Michael F. Hyland and R. Jayakrishnan (2021) “Dynamic modeling and real-time management of a system of EV fast-charging stations”, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 128, p. 103186. Available at: 10.1016/j.trc.2021.103186. [ITS-Irvine record]
6. Pengyuan Sun, Dingtong Yang and Wen-Long Jin (2020) “Eco-Driving Algorithm with a Moving Bottleneck on a Single-Lane Road”, Transportation Research Record, 2674(12), pp. 493–504. Available at: 10.1177/0361198120961381. [ITS-Irvine record]
7. Daisik Nam, Dingtong Yang, Sunghi An, Jiangbo Gabriel Yu, R. Jayakrishnan and Neda Masoud (2018) “Designing a transit-feeder system using multiple sustainable modes: Peer-to-peer (P2P) ridesharing, bike sharing, and walking”, Transportation Research Record, 2672(8), pp. 754–763. Available at: 10.1177/0361198118799031. [ITS-Irvine record]

Conference Papers

1. Dingtong Yang and Michael Hyland (2025) “Electric Vehicles in Urban Delivery Fleets: How Far Can They Go?”, in Proceedings, 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Washington, D.C.. [ITS-Irvine record]
2. Dingtong Yang and Michael F. Hyland (2023) “More Dedicated Vehicles or Crowdsourced Couriers? A Strategic Capacity Planning Problem in Last-mile Crowdsourced Delivery”. 102nd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2023. [ITS-Irvine record]
3. Dingtong Yang, Michael F. Hyland and R. Jayakrishnan (2021) “Set Cover-based Formulation and Decomposition Solution Approach for the Crowdsourced Package Delivery Problem”. 100th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. [ITS-Irvine record]
4. J.S. Navjyoth Sarma, Daisik Nam, Michael F. Hyland, Felipe Augusto de Souza, Dingtong Yang, Arash Ghaffar and I. Omer Verbas (2020) “Effective and Efficient Fleet Dispatching Strategies for Dynamically Matching AVs to Travelers in Large-scale Transportation Systems”, in 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 1–6. Available at: 10.1109/ITSC45102.2020.9294340. [ITS-Irvine record]
5. Pengyuan Sun, Dingtong Yang and Wenlong Jin (2020) “Eco-driving algorithm with a moving bottleneck on a single lane”, in Proceedings of the 99th annual meeting of the transportation research board. [ITS-Irvine record]
6. Dingtong Yang (2020) “Management of EV fast charging stations: Dynamic pricing schemes based on station queues with state dependent arrivals”, in Proceedings of the 3rd annual irvine symposium for emerging research in transportation (ISERT 2020). [ITS-Irvine record]
7. Dingtong Yang and R. Jayakrishnan (2019) “A practical data-driven approach to analyze inter-agency passenger transfer with GTFS data: A case study of the city of long beach”, in Proceedings of the 98th annual meeting of the transportation research board, p. 5p. [ITS-Irvine record]
8. Jiangbo Gabriel Yu, Dingtong Yang, Daisik Nam, Sunghi An and R. Jayakrishnan (2018) “An implementation-ready approach for multiple-van multi-criteria dynamic demand rebalancing at bike-share stations”, in Proceedings of the 97th annual meeting of the transportation research board, p. 3p. [ITS-Irvine record]

Theses and Dissertations

1. Dingtong Yang (2021) Planning and Operation of a Crowdsourced Package Delivery System: Models, Algorithms and Applications. Ph.D.. UC Irvine. Available at: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2kv034hw (Accessed: October 12, 2023). [ITS-Irvine record]

Technical Reports

1. Michael Hyland and Dingtong Yang (2022) Evaluating Mixed Electric Vehicle and Conventional Fueled Vehicle Fleets for Last-mile Package Delivery. PSR-TBD. Available at: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/67538 (Accessed: October 11, 2023). [ITS-Irvine record]
2. Michael Hyland and Dingtong Yang (2022) Evaluating Mixed Electric Vehicle and Conventional Fueled Vehicle Fleets for Lastmile Package Delivery. Research Report. ITS-Irvine. Available at: https://metrans.org/assets/research/psr%2021-35%20to_055_hyland%20final%20report.pdf. [ITS-Irvine record]
3. Michael Hyland, Dingtong Yang and Navjyoth Sarma (2021) Non-myopic pathfinding for shared-ride vehicles: A bicriteria best-path approach considering travel time and proximity to demand. Research Report PSR-19-31. ITS-Irvine. Available at: https://www.metrans.org/assets/research/psr-19-31_hyland_final-report.pdf. [ITS-Irvine record]
4. Michael Hyland, Dingtong Yang and Navjyoth Sarma (2021) Non-Myopic Path-Finding for Shared-Ride Vehicles: A Bi-Criteria Best-Path Approach Considering Travel Time and Proximity To Demand. PSR-19-31. Available at: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/58489 (Accessed: October 11, 2023). [ITS-Irvine record]
5. R. Jayakrishnan, Michael G. McNally, JIANGBO YU, Daisik Nam, Dingtong Yang and Sunghi An (2018) Designing a Transit-Feeder System Using Bikesharing and Peer-to-Peer Ridesharing. Final Report CA17-3135. ITS-Irvine. Available at: https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/research-innovation-system-information/documents/final-reports/ca17-3135-finalreport-a11y.pdf. [ITS-Irvine record]

Policy Briefs

1. Michael Hyland, Susan Pike, Siwei Hu, Jacob Berkel, Yan Xing, Ritun Saha, Geoffrey Vander Veen and Dingtong Yang (2024) Job Access, Agency Cost, and VMT Impacts of Offering Microtransit alongside Fixed-route Transit. Policy Brief UC-ITS-RIMI-4I. UC ITS. Available at: https://doi.org/10.7922/g2th8k2w. [ITS-Irvine record]
2. Michael Hyland, Susan Pike, Siwei Hu, Jacob Berkel, Yan Xing, Ritun Saha, Geoffrey Vander Veen and Dingtong Yang (2024) Job Access, Agency Cost, and VMT Impacts of Offering Microtransit alongside Fixed-route Transit. Policy Brief UC-ITS-RIMI-4I. UC ITS. Available at: https://doi.org/10.7922/g2th8k2w. [ITS-Irvine record]
3. Michael Hyland and Dingtong Yang (2023) Evaluating Mixed Electric Vehicle and Conventional Fueled Vehicle Fleets for Last-mile Package Delivery. Policy Brief. ITS-Irvine. Available at: https://metrans.org/assets/research/21-35%20hyland%20psr%20research%20brief%20template.pdf. [ITS-Irvine record]
4. Michael Hyland, Dingtong Yang and Navjyoth Sarma (2021) Non-myopic pathfinding for shared-ride vehicles: A bicriteria best-path approach considering travel time and proximity to demand. Policy Brief. ITS-Irvine. Available at: https://www.metrans.org/assets/research/psr-19-31_hyland_research-brief.pdf. [ITS-Irvine record]

Preprints

1. Dingtong Yang and Michael Hyland (2023) “Electric Vehicles in Urban Delivery Fleets: How Far Can They Go?”. Rochester, NY: SSRN. Available at: 10.2139/ssrn.4569874. [ITS-Irvine record]
2. Dingtong Yang, Michael F. Hyland and R. Jayakrishnan (2022) “Tackling the Crowdsourced Delivery Problem at Scale through a Set-Partitioning Formulation and Novel Decomposition Heuristic”. arXiv. Available at: 10.48550/arXiv.2203.14719. [ITS-Irvine record]