UGOD Thrust Seminar | Urban development and travel behaviour change in Shenzhen and Hong Kong
Supporting the below United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:支持以下聯合國可持續發展目標：支持以下联合国可持续发展目标：
Chinese cities have experienced unprecedent developments especially expansion over the past decades. Concurrently one has witnessed the revolutionary changes of the transport infrastructure in the cities especially the development of rail transit network and mobility transformation. In this seminar I shall discuss the implications of such changes for people’s daily trip making in terms of changes in travel time, travel distance, transport mode use, etc. Shenzhen, a pioneer in China’s economic reform and urban development, will be the empirical case to demonstrate the relationships between the changes. Further, Hong Kong shall be used as a reference case to contextualize the changes.
Professor Wang is currently Chair Professor and Head of Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also the Director of the Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies (CURS). His major research interests span activity-travel behavior, time geography, socio-spatial segregation and geography of wellbeing. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Travel Behavior and Society (2013 - ) and Editorial Board Member of international journals including the Journal of Transport Geography (2013 - ), Transport Reviews (2021-), and Annals of American Association of Geographers (2014-2017). He is Fellow and Board Member of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies and was the Chairman of Hong Kong Geographical Association (2009-2013). Professor Wang has led a number of research projects founded by Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). His recent publications appear in leading international journals in geography, transportation research, and urban studies including Transportation Research Part A and D; Applied Geography; Housing Studies; Cities; Urban Studies; Transport Reviews; Journal of Transport Geography; etc.