Oak Ridge National Laboratory  Center for Transportation Analysis  National Transportation Research Center  2360 Cherahala Boulevard  Knoxville, TN 37932  United States of America

(865) 946-1221 (office)  (865) 946-1314 (fax)  xiongd@ornl.gov (email)

Specialty Research Areas:

• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Modeling and Simulation
• Planning and Systems Analysis
• Remote Sensing
• Geographic Information Systems
• Spatial Databases and Spatial Algorithms
• Intermodal Freight Flow Analysis
  

Current or Recent Work:

• Automated road network matching and data integration
• Spatial algorithms for road network extraction from high resolution images
• Remote sensing and GIS applications in transportation planning and evacuation analysis
• Intermodal freight flow modeling and analysis
• Spatial databases, interoperability and location referencing for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• GIS-based highway network design and analysis

Significant Publications:

Huang, B., D. Xiong, and H. Li, “An Integrated Approach to On-Line Environmental Simulation and Visualization,” forthcoming, the Journal of Environmental Informatics, 2004.

Xiong, D. and J. Sperling, “Semiautomated matching for network database integration”, Volume 59, Issues 1-2 , August 2004, Pages 35-46, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Special Issue on Advanced Techniques for Analysis of Geo-spatial Data.

Xiong, D., “Automated Road Network Extraction from High-Resolution Images,” report prepared for The National Consortium on Remote Sensing for Transportation – Hazards, Safety and Disaster Assessment, March 2001.

Xiong, D., “A Three-Stage Computational Approach to Network Matching,” Transportation Research C, Vol. 8, pp. 13-36, 2000.

Xiong, D., and H. Lin, “Spatial Data Handling for ITS: Perspective, Issues and Approaches,” Geoinformatica, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2000.

Xiong, D., “Database Development of Land Use Characteristics along Major U.S. Highways,” ORNL/TM-2000/160, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, prepared for U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2000.

Xiong et al, “Spatial Data Integration and Interoperability for ITS,” Proceedings, Geographic Information Systems for Transportation Symposium (GIS-T), Salt Lake, Utah, April 20-22, 1998.

Southworth, F., D. Xiong and D. Middendorf, “Development of Analytical Intermodal Networks Using GIS,” Geographic Information Systems for Transportation Symposium (GIS-T), Greensboro, North Carolina, March 24-26, 1997.

Xiong, D. and Marble, D., "Strategies for Real Time Spatial Analysis Using Massively Parallel SIMD Computers: An Application to Urban Traffic Flow Analysis,” International Journal of Geographic Information Systems, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 769-789, 1996.

Xiong, D. and S. Gordon, "Data Structure and Information Coding for ITS Location Referencing Messages,” Proceedings, Geographic Information Systems for Transportation Symposium (GIS T), Sparks, Nevada, April 2 5, 1995.

Xiong, D., "Traffic Flow Modeling with Visualization Tools,” Proceedings, GIS/LIS'92, San Jose, California, November 10 12, 1992.

Xiong, D., "Generation of Topological Relationships and its Applications in GIS,” GIS Research Papers, Surveying and Mapping Publication House, Beijing, China, 1989.

Xiong, D., "Automated Classification in Land Use by Using Map Information to Assist Remote Sensing Data,” Mem. of Nanjing Institute of Geography, Science Press, Academia Sinica, No. 4, 1987.