2026 Kaan Ozbay: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	52	3645	3493	1067	977	552	9744

Overview

Kaan Ozbay is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within engineering and social sciences, focusing on transportation and related systems.

The main fields of study covered by Ozbay include:

Engineering
Social Sciences

Their work extends into several subfields, notably:

Transportation
Building and Construction
Control and Systems Engineering
Automotive Engineering
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Key topics explored in Ozbay's research include:

Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Traffic control and management
Traffic and Road Safety
Urban Transport and Accessibility
Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Human-Automation Interaction and Safety

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Jingqin Gao (32 collaborations)
Fan Zuo (25 collaborations)
Di Yang (14 collaborations)
Zilin Bian (14 collaborations)
Joseph Y.J. Chow (12 collaborations)

Ozbay has contributed to a variety of publication venues, with multiple papers in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
Accident Analysis & Prevention

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Ozbay include:

Time lag effects of COVID-19 policies on transportation systems: A comparative study of New York City and Seattle, 2021, published in Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
Learning-Based Adaptive Optimal Control for Connected Vehicles in Mixed Traffic: Robustness to Driver Reaction Time, 2020, published in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
A validated multi-agent simulation test bed to evaluate congestion pricing policies on population segments by time-of-day in New York City, 2020, published in Transport Policy
Fusing crash data and surrogate safety measures for safety assessment: Development of a structural equation model with conditional autoregressive spatial effect and random parameters, 2021, published in Accident Analysis & Prevention
Proactive safety monitoring: A functional approach to detect safety-related anomalies using unmanned aerial vehicle video data, 2021, published in Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies

Ozbay has also contributed to book publications within transportation research, including works published by Transportation Research Board eBooks and National Academies Press eBooks. Titles include:

Algorithms to Convert Basic Safety Messages into Traffic Measures, 2022
Using Cooperative Automated Transportation Data for Freeway Operational Strategies, 2024
Implementing Machine Learning at State Departments of Transportation, 2024
Implementing and Leveraging Machine Learning at State Departments of Transportation, 2024

Best Publications

Derivation and Validation of New Simulation-Based Surrogate Safety Measure:

Kaan Ozbay;Hsuanchih Yang;Bekir Bartin;Sandeep Mudigonda

408
Citations
INCIDENT MANAGEMENT IN INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

Kaan Ozbay;Pushkin Kachroo

334
Citations
Empirical analysis of transportation investment and economic development at state, county and municipality levels

Joseph Berechman;Dilruba Ozmen;Kaan Ozbay

277
Citations
Estimation of incident clearance times using Bayesian Networks approach.

Kaan Ozbay;Nurettin Noyan

202
Citations
The impacts of time of day pricing on the behavior of freight carriers in a congested urban area: Implications to road pricing

José Holguín-Veras;Qian Wang;Ning Xu;Kaan Ozbay

183
Citations
Data-Driven Adaptive Optimal Control of Connected Vehicles

Weinan Gao;Zhong-Ping Jiang;Kaan Ozbay

171
Citations
Modeling traffic flow interrupted by incidents

Melike Baykal-Gürsoy;Weihua Xiao;Kaan Özbay

168
Citations
Overall Impacts of Off-Hour Delivery Programs in New York City Metropolitan Area

José Holguín-Veras;Kaan Ozbay;Alain Kornhauser;Matthew A. Brom

166
Citations
Quantifying effects of ramp metering on freeway safety.

Chris Lee;Bruce Hellinga;Kaan Ozbay

157
Citations
Contribution of transportation investments to county output

Kaan Ozbay;Dilruba Ozmen-Ertekin;Joseph Berechman

157
Citations
Use of real-world connected vehicle data in identifying high-risk locations based on a new surrogate safety measure

Kun Xie;Di Yang;Kaan Ozbay;Hong Yang

152
Citations
Life-Cycle Cost Analysis: State of the Practice Versus State of the Art

Kaan Ozbay;Dima Jawad;Neville A. Parker;Sajjad Hussain

130
Citations
Crash frequency modeling for signalized intersections in a high-density urban road network

Kun Xie;Xuesong Wang;Kaan Ozbay;Hong Yang

128
Citations
Work Zone Safety Analysis and Modeling: A State-of-the-Art Review

Hong Yang;Kaan Ozbay;Ozgur Ozturk;Kun Xie

126
Citations
A secure and efficient inventory management system for disasters

Eren Erman Ozguven;Kaan Ozbay

115
Citations
Stochastic Humanitarian Inventory Control Model for Disaster Planning

Kaan Ozbay;Eren Erman Ozguven

113
Citations
Time lag effects of COVID-19 policies on transportation systems: A comparative study of New York City and Seattle

Zilin Bian;Fan Zuo;Jingqin Gao;Yanyan Chen

113
Citations
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACCESSIBILITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Kaan Ozbay;Dilruba Ozmen-Ertekin;Joseph Berechman

111
Citations
Analysis of Traffic Crashes Involving Pedestrians using Big Data: Investigation of Contributing Factors and Identification of Hotspots

Kun Xie;Kaan Ozbay;Abdullah Kurkcu;Hong Yang

110
Citations
Feedback Control Theory for Dynamic Traffic Assignment

Pushkin Kachroo;Kaan M.A. Özbay

105
Citations
Guidelines for Life Cycle Cost Analysis

Kaan Ozbay;Neville A Parker;Dima Jawad

56
Citations