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Academic Qualifications

2020, Ph.D. Urban Studies, Portland State University, USA

2013, Master in Urban Planning and Design, Zhejiang University, China

2010, Master in Resources Environment and the Management of Urban and Rural Planning, Shanxi University

Current Position

Assistant Professor , Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau

Working Experience

2013-2020  Research assistant, National Institute for Transportation and Communities, Portland State University

2019  Project assistant, Urbanism Next, University of Oregon

Research Area

Travel behavior and built environment

Sustainable transportation and land use

Emerging transportation modes

Smart city and urban informatics

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Wang, L., Gregor, B., Yang, H., Weidner, T., & Knudson, A. (2018). Capturing the built environment-travel interaction for strategic planning. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 11(1), 1287-1308.

Wang, L., Reiff B., Gregor, B., Yang, H., & Liu J., (2016). Transportation Cost Index: A Comprehensive Multimodal Performance Measure of Transportation and Land Use Systems. Transportation Research Procedia.

Dai, X., Lu, D., Guan, W., Wang, H., He, P., Xia, P., & Yang, H. (2014). Newly recorded Karlodinium veneficum dinoflagellate blooms in stratified water of the East China Sea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 101, 237-243.

Wang, W., Yang H., and Shao Y. & Tang S. (2013). “Three-dimensional Spatial Distribution Simulation of Outdoor Thermal Environment in Different Types of Urban Residential Areas in Summer Daytime - A Case Study of Hangzhou.” Journal of Zhejiang University (Engineering Science) (7) 1178-1185 (in Chinese).

Conference papers and presentations

Yang, H., & Wang, L. (2019). Testing the constant commuting time hypothesis amid substantial changes to transportation and land use: case study of Portland, Oregon 1994-2011. 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, USA. ttps://trid.trb.org/view/1572622

Wang, L., Gregor B., Yang H., Weinder T., and Knudson T., (2018). Development of a Multi-modal Travel Demand Module for the Regional Strategic Planning Model. 97th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.

Yang, H., & Wang, L. (2017). Heterogeneity in Elasticities of Travel Behavior to Built Environment: An Analysis with Latent Class Mixed Models. 56th Annual Conference of Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Denver, CO.

Wang, L. & Yang, H. (2016). Assess the Effect of Transit Investment on Congestion: A Case Study of New Starts Projects. 56th Annual Conference of Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, OR.

Project report

Wang, L., Joseph B., & Yang, H.. (2018) "Incorporate Emerging Travel Modes in the Regional Strategic Planning Model (RSPM) Tool".

Other research achievements

VETravelDemand: A Multimodal Travel Demand package for Regional Strategic Planning (https://github.com/cities-lab/VETravelDemand), core contributor.

Transportation Cost Index: an R Package for Performance Measure of Transportation and Land Use (https://github.com/cities-lab/tci), core contributor.

Academic Awards

2019  Student Educational Travel (SET), Portland State University

2018  Travel Award, International Association of China Planning

2018  John D. Gray Sustainable Development Endowed Scholarship, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University

2018  Student Scholar Award, National Institute for Transportation and Communities

2017  Student Scholar Award, National Institute for Transportation and Communities

2017  Travel Award, National Institute for Transportation and Communities

2012  Bronze Medal Award, IDEA-KING Chinese International Landscape Design Competition

2010-2013  Full Scholarship of Graduate Study, Zhejiang University

Professional Affiliations

Reviewer, Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board; Journal of Embedded Systems

2016-Now  Member, The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

2016-Now  Member, The International Association for China Planning