Prof. Dr. Zhichao Cao currently serves as an associate professor and master’s supervisor at the College of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Nantong University, China. He completed his PhD in transportation regulations and management at Beijing Jiaotong University in January 2017. From 2017 to 2018, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Okuma University in New Shilin under the guidance of Professor Avi Ceder, a top expert in the field of transportation. In May 2018, he came to Jiangsu Nantong University. Until May 2024, he published 29 articles as the first author of correspondence author, of which 11 are SCI research articles by first authors. He has presided over one Ministry of Education Youth Fund Project (provincial level) in 2019, one Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund Project (provincial level) in 2020, and one National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund Project (national level) in 2021. His main research areas include the integration of pure electric public transportation energy management and transportation regulations, dangerous goods transportation management and emergency resource distribution, modernization of urban road transport operation organization, and intelligent network-linked automated public transportation system control.