Research

Selected working papers

• Gong, Z., Zhang, Z., Zhang, F. Airline fleet sizing, dispatching, and pricing strategies under passenger and cargo demand uncertainties with dedicated and convertible aircraft.
• Li, D., Sun, W., Zhang, F. Order allocation and vehicle routing problems of an integrated logistics platform with crowdsourced and professional couriers.
• Lin, J., Zhang, F. On urban co-modality: Service network design for a bus-integrated freight transport system.
• Lin, J., Zhang, F., Yin, Y. Parking-and-Charging-as-a-Service: Online admission and allocation policies for an integrated parking and charging reservation system.
• Shao, S., Lin, J., Zhang, F. Metro-integrated crowdsoured urban delivery system: service network design under demand and supply uncertainty.
• Sun, W., Wu, L., Zhang, F. An exact algorithm to solve vehicle routing problem with drones for delivery and surveillance tasks after disasters.
• Sun, W., Wu, L., Zhang, F. Robust optimization for truck-and-drone collaboration with travel time uncertainties.
• Zhang, Z., Liu, W., Zhang, F. To park or to share your autonomous vehicles?
• Zhang, Z., Lin, J., Gong, Z., Zhang, F., Liu, W. The emergence of rideshare buddy-pooling platform: Dynamic user equilibrium and operation decisions.
• Zhu, X., Liu, W., Zhang, F. Resource allocation for an air-rail-integrated co-modality platform considering both demand and supply uncertainties.

Research Grants

• “Parking and Charging as a Service: Capacity Allocation and Pricing Strategies”, 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2027, General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, PI.
• “Urban co-modality in public transport systems: Synergize passenger and freight movements”, 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2024, Early Career Scheme (ECS), Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, PI.
• “Synchronization and optimization of an integrated passenger-freight transport system with demand uncertainties”, 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2024, Science Fund for Young Scholars, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), PI.
• “Order allocation and vehicle routing optimization of an integrated logistics platform with crowdsourced and dedicated couriers”, 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2027, General Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), PI.
• “Transport modelling and management for the transition to autonomous driving”, 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022, Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff, University Research Committee, HKU, PI.
• “SynchroHub: Cyber-Physical internet for synchronizing cross-border logistics hubs in the Greater Bay Area (GBA)”, 3 January 2023 to 2 January 2028, Theme-based Research Scheme, Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, Co-PI.

Technical reports

• Draft recommendations for improved information and communications for real-time yard and network management (2018). Deliverable D2.2 of project OptiYard: Optimised Real-time Yard and Network Management. Submitted to European Commission on 31 July 2018.
• Impact assessment of the GPS-based positioning in railway network (2018). Deliverable D6.1 of project RAPPORT: Real-time Accurate Positioning & Protection of Rail Transport. Submitted to Innovate UK on 30 April 2018.
• Final business case synthesis report (2018). Deliverable D1.8 of project NeTIRail-INFRA: Needs Tailored Interoperable Railway. Submitted to European Commission on 9 March 2018.
• Cost and user benefit report (2018). Deliverable D1.4 of project NeTIRail-INFRA: Needs Tailored Interoperable Railway. Submitted to European Commission on 28 Febuary 2018.
• Impact assessment methodology development (2017). Deliverable D4.1 of project SMaRTE: Smart Maintenance and the Rail Traveller Experience. Submitted to European Commission on 11 December 2017.

Invited talks

• Collaborative passenger and freight transportation: modeling, analysis, and optimization. George Washington University. Washington DC, US, 9 January 2025.
• Synchronization of Integrated Passenger and Freight Transportation Systems. Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Hong Kong, 28 October 2024.
• Urban co-modality: Transforming the future of passenger and freight transportation. The 24th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2024). Shenzhen, China, 25 July 2024.
• Urban co-modality: Transforming the future collaborative passenger and freight transportation. TechTalk, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, China, 20 June 2024.
• Modeling and optimization of urban crowdshipping services. Greater Bay Area Symposium on Smart Transportation Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Guangzhou, China, 4 May 2024.
• Modeling and optimization of crowdshipping service. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 30 March 2024.
• Urban co-modality: Synergize passenger and freight transportation. The 4th Symposium on Travel Behavior and Transportation Science, co-organized by North China University of Technology, Beihang University, and Beijing Jiaotong University. Beijing, China, 28-30 July 2023.
• A spatiotemporal analysis of the robustness of high-speed rail network in China, International Symposium on High-speed Railway and Environment, organized by Shijiazhuang Tiedao University and Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 26 September 2020.
• Quantifying Demand and Impacts of High-speed Rail System. School of Economics and Management, Beihang University. Beijing, China, 11 September 2019.
• Quantifying Demand and Impacts of High-speed Rail System. College of Metropolitan Transportation, Beijing University of Technology. Beijing, China, 10 September 2019.
• Unlock the sharing economy in the parking sector for recurrent commuting trips. School of Economics and Management, Beihang University. Beijing, China, 15 October 2018.
• The substitution and complementary effects between high-speed rail and air transport. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University. Beijing, China, 15 October 2018.
• Quantifying complex interactions between high-speed rail and air transport. Sino-US Global Logistics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Shanghai, China, 19 June 2018.
• Multimodal transport systems – modelling, analysis and management. College of Transport & Communications, Shanghai Maritime University. Shanghai, China, 17 June 2018.
• Impact Assessment of Condition-Based Maintenance for metro lines in Bangkok and London. Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University. Salaya, Thailand, 26 January 2018.
• Economic Modelling and Analysis of Transport Systems. College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University. Changsha, China, 27 December 2017.
• Modelling and Analysis of Multimodal Transport Systems. School of Engineering, Sun-Yat Sen University. Guangzhou, China, 16 June 2017.

Academic services

Editorial Board Member

• Transportation Planning and Technology
• International Journal of Intelligent Transportation System Research
• International Conference on Transportation and Space-time Economics
• International Workshop on Computational Transportatioin Science
• International Symposium on Travel Behavior and Transportation Science

Guest Editor

• Special Issue of Transportmetrica B on “Advances in Air Transportation Management”
• Special Session of TSTE 2019 conference on “High-speed rail and air transport”

Journal Reviewer

• Transportation Science
• Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
• Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
• Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
• Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
• Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
• Transportmetrica A: Transport Science
• Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics
• Transport Policy
• Travel Behaviour and Society
• Networks and Spatial Economics
• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
• International Journal of Logistics
• Transportation Planning and Technology
• Transportation Research Record
• Journal of Advanced Transportation
• Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
• Journal of Transportation Engineering
• Journal of Management Science and Engineering
• Regional Science, Policy and Practice
• Research in Transportation Economics

Conference and Public Report Reviewer

• International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT)
• Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board (TRB)
• International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS)
• International Conference on Vehicle Technology andIntelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS)
• International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP)
• International Conference on Transportation and Space-time Economics (TSTE)
• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC)
• Government Office for Science of the UK