Chenfeng Xiong
Chenfeng Xiong

Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering

Faculty Fellow, Strategic Initiative for Climate, Justice, and Sustainability, Villanova University

I study how people move, and how mobility systems shape safety, health, climate, and equity.

  • Mobility Data
  • AI + Big Data
  • Simulation
  • Travel Behavior
  • Safety + Health
  • Climate + Equity
NovaMobility Lab Villanova Human Mobility Data Lab
100+ Publications
$12M+ Sponsored Research
30+ Students + Alumni

Human mobility data · AI + simulation · policy evidence

Mobility intelligence for transportation, health, and climate.

My group turns large-scale human mobility data into models, platforms, and policy evidence for safer, healthier, and more equitable transportation systems.

Featured Projects Publications NovaMobility Lab
Mobility Data Systems National and international movement, activity, and OD-flow analytics.
AI + Simulation Agent-based models, behavioral inference, and scenario evaluation.
Policy + Decision Support Evidence for agencies, communities, health partners, and climate action.

Featured projects

Research with data products, public agencies, and interdisciplinary partners.

Long-distance mobility flows in South Africa NIH · Mobility + Health

Human Mobility and SARS-CoV-2 Dynamics

Mobility-informed analysis of long-distance travel, activity patterns, and disease dynamics in South Africa and Nigeria.

 Top origin-destination zonal flows by air in the United States NextGen NHTS · National OD Data

National Origin-Destination Flow Analytics

Scalable data infrastructure and analytics for national passenger flows, multimodal travel measurement, and household travel survey modernization.

 Transit desert and mirage typology map FTA · Equity + Transit

Transit Equity, Deserts, and Mirage

Decision-support methods for identifying transit deserts, quantifying equity gaps, and designing credit-based sustainable mobility programs.

Publication evidence

100+ publications across mobility, safety, health, climate, and transportation systems.

Our publication portfolio connects transportation engineering with spatial analytics, travel behavior, epidemiology, climate resilience, and data-driven public policy.

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Mobility and health Human movement data for exposure, public health, and disease dynamics.
Travel behavior and OD flows Large-scale measurement of trips, activities, and multimodal systems.
Equity, safety, and climate Evidence for transportation investments, decarbonization, and access.

NovaMobility Lab

The Villanova Human Mobility Data Lab builds scalable mobility datasets, computational pipelines, and research-ready analytics for national and international transportation problems.

TB-scale pipelinesLocation-based services, trajectories, surveys, and system data.
Cloud + HPC computingSpark, Hadoop, HBase, Docker, Sedona, and high-performance computing.
Mobility visualizationMaps, dashboards, and spatial-temporal data products.
Policy-facing analyticsResearch outputs for agencies, collaborators, and communities.

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Join the group

I welcome motivated Ph.D. students, postdocs, visiting scholars, undergraduate researchers, and exceptional high-school interns interested in mobility data, modeling, computing, and public policy.

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