Fred Song

Assistant Professor @ University of Wyoming

My research interests are traffic operations and safety, driver behavior, intelligent transportation systems, and vehicle automation.

Before joining UW, I was a researcher with Connecticut Transportation Institute at UConn.

Team

Ramesh Dhimal, PhD Student in Civil Engineering

Raul Freyre, MS Student in Civil Engineering

Kiran Neupane, MS Student in Civil Engineering

Graduates:

Zaw Soe, MS in Civil Engineering 2025; Thesis: Analysis of Network Operation Performance and Safety Impacts of Truck Platooning Regulations with Overtaking Opportunities on Two-lane Undivided Highways in Wyoming

Recent Papers

Song, Y., Z.T. Soe, R. Freyre. “Gap Opening Control to Facilitate Human-Driven Vehicle Overtaking of Connected and Automated Vehicle Platoons on Two-Lane Highways”. In the Third IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies (IEEE MOST), Newark, DE, May 4-6, 2025.

Song, Y. “Deciding Truck Platooning Operational Rules with Stochastic Approximation for Vehicle Safe Overtaking on Two-Lane Undivided Highways”. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 26 (5), 2025.

Song, Y. “Integrated Overtaking Model and Safety Analysis for Truck Platooning Requirements on Two-lane Undivided Highways”. Transportation Research Record, 2678 (8), 2024.

For a more complete list, please check out my Google Scholar page.