On July 8, the International Symposium on Urban and Sustainable Transportation was successfully held by the College of Transportation Engineering in the Academic Exchange Center of South Campus, Chang’an University. Professor Jidong Tao, the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and the Secretary of Commission for Discipline Inspection of our University, and Shuai, a researcher from the Society Department of the Shaanxi Science and Technology Association, were invited to attend the meeting. The opening ceremony was hosted by Professor Ge Yingen, the Dean of the College of Transportation Engineering.

Jidong Tao gave a welcome speech on behalf of the university, expressing his warm welcome and heartfelt thanks to all the experts and scholars for their arrival, and introduced the history of Chang'an University, disciplines and majors, school-running characteristics, international exchanges and cooperation, and so on. He also briefly introduced the establishment background and construction goals of the College of Transportation Engineering.

Meeting site

In the first keynote speech session, Professor Ming Zhang from the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin gave a report on Generation of Intercity Travel in Super-large Regions --- Data Analysis Based on National Travel Survey in the United States. Professor Chenghe Guan, from the New York University Shanghai, introduced his research on How Perception and Measurement of the Environment Affects Active Travel based on the case of multiple types of people in Chengdu. Professor Xiaoyan Huang from the Northwest Land and Resources Research Center at Shaanxi Normal University presented her research on the “Impact of Commuting Carbon Emissions by Different Income Groups”; Pengyu Zhu, the Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology reported “A Study on the Influencing Factors of the Travel Chain Based on the United States and Abu Dhabi”.

In the second keynote speech session, Professor Zhongren Peng from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida introduced a study on the cost-effectiveness issues of different micro-transit systems. Sicheng Wang, the Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina introduced his research entitled The resilience and recovery of ride-hailing services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Yiming Wang, from the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, UK, shared a new research on Clean Air Zones and Land Value Gradient Changes in English Cities. The Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Ohio State University, Zhenhua Chen, introduced their latest progress on the issue of predicting the future development scale of high-speed rail through urban scale laws.

The conference also arranged a “Meeting Editors” session for students and young scholars. The session was chaired by Dr. Xinyu (Jason) Cao, the professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part D. Guests participating in the discussion included Professor Becky P Y Loo (from Hong Kong University), the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Travel Behaviour and Society and the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Transport Geography, Professor. Qisheng Pan (from University of Texas at Arlington), the Associate Editor of Frontiers of Urban and Rural Planning, Professor. Wang Donggen, (from Hong Kong Baptist University), the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Travel Behavior and Society, and Professor Ying-en Ge, the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part D (from Chang'an University).

Eight young scholars from our college also shared their latest research progress with the experts and scholars attending the seminar in the poster session.

This seminar has a main venue and two branch-venues, which were simultaneously broadcast live on Tencent Conference Online. Professor Yingen Ge and Professor Yuanqing Wang from the College of Transportation Engineering hosted the two keynote report sessions, respectively. This conference strengthened the exchanges and cooperation between our college and international scholars in the field of urban and sustainable transportation, and played a positive role in promoting the research activities of our college research in the field of urban and sustainable transportation.

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