Assoc. Prof. Tao Liu,Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Dr. Tao Liu is an Associate Professor of School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University. He specializes in intelligent transportation, smart transit planning and operations, connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), and mobility as a service (MaaS). He was involved in developing computer-aided transit scheduling systems, which were successfully implemented in several public transport companies in China. He was also involved in developing an autonomous modular-vehicle transport system, which was supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation. Dr. Liu has experience in managing two National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) research projects, including one cooperative project funded by NSFC and European Research Council. Dr. Liu has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and 3 book chapters.