Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Aug 2013-Aug 2018
University of Southern California
Doctor of Philosophy, Urban Planning and Development
Dissertation: Location of Warehouses and Environmental Justice: Three Essays
Committee Members: Genevieve Giuliano, Marlon Boarnet, and Manuel Pastor
Sep 2011- Jun 2013
University of California, Los Angeles
Master of Urban and Regional Planning
Thesis: Compactness of Urban Growth, the Environment, and the Quality of Life: Evidence from China, 2000-2010
Committee Members: Rui Wang, Donald Shoup, and Martin Wachs
Sep 2006-Jul 2011
Peking University
Bachelor of Engineering, Urban Planning;
Bachelor of Science, Economics
Advisor: Canfei He
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Primary
Transportation-Environment-Institution Research
Secondary
Urban Transportation and Land Use; Freight; Parking; Urban Analytics (GIS, Big Data, Econometric Modeling)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Tongji University
September 2019 - present
Research Professor
Department of Traffic Engineering
Tongji University
December 2019 - September 2020
Associate Research Professor
Department of Traffic Engineering
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Aug 2018-present
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of City and Regional Planning
University of Gothenburg
2016
Visiting Researcher
Department of Business Administration
University of Southern California
2013-2018
Research Assistant
METRANS Center
University of California, Los Angeles
2011-2013
Research Assistant
Department of Urban Planning
China Academy of Urban Planning and Design
2010
Intern
Office of Transportation Planning
Peking University
2008-2011
Research Assistant
Department of Urban Planning
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Zhou, Y., Yuan, Q., Yang, C. and Wang, Y., 2021. “Who you are determines how you travel: Clustering human activity patterns with a Markov-chain-based mixture model”. Travel Behaviour and Society, 24, pp.102-112.
Chen, X., Guo, Y., Yang, C., Ding, F. and Yuan, Q.*, 2021. “Exploring Essential Travel during COVID-19 Quarantine: Evidence from China”. Transport Policy.
Yang, C., Chen, M. and Yuan, Q.*, 2021. “The application of XGBoost and SHAP to examining the factors in freight truck-related crashes: An exploratory analysis”. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 158, p.106153.
Yang, C, Chen, M. and Yuan, Q.* “The Geography of Freight trucks-related Crashes in Major Trade Gateways: Evidence from the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area”, Journal of Transport Geography, forthcoming
McDonald, N. and Yuan, Q.* “Freight Loading Space Provision: Evidence from the U.S.A”, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, forthcoming
Xiao, Z., Yuan, Q.*, Sun, Y. and Sun, X., 2021. “New paradigm of logistics space reorganization: E-commerce, land use, and supply chain management”. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 9.
Li, G., Sun, W., Yuan, Q.*, and Liu, S. 2020. “Planning Versus the Market: Logistics Establishments and Logistics Parks in Chongqing, China”, Journal of Transport Geography, 82
Yuan, Q.*, 2019. “Planning Matters: Institutional Perspectives on Warehousing Development and Mitigating Its Negative Impacts”. Journal of the American Planning Association, 85(4), 525-543.
McDonald, N., Yuan, Q. and Naumann, R., 2019. Urban freight and road safety in the era of e-commerce. Traffic injury prevention, 20(7), pp.764-770.
Giuliano, G.*, Kang, S., and Yuan, Q., 2019. “Agglomeration Economies and Evolving Urban Form”, Annals of Regional Science, in print
Yuan, Q.*, 2019. “Does context matter in environmental justice patterns? Evidence on warehousing location from four metro areas in California”, Land Use Policy, 82, 328-338.
Yuan, Q. and Zhu, J.*, 2019. “Logistics sprawl in Chinese metropolises: Evidence from Wuhan”, Journal of Transport Geography, 74, 242-252
Yuan, Q.*, 2018. “Mega Freight Generators in My Backyard: A Longitudinal Study of Environmental Justice in Warehousing Location”, Land Use Policy, 76, 130-143
Yuan, Q.*, 2018. “Location of Warehouses and Environmental Justice”, Journal of Planning Education and Research, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0739456X18786392
Yuan, Q.*, 2018. “Environmental Justice in Warehousing Location: State of the Art”, Journal of Planning Literature, 33(3), 287-298
Giuliano, G.*, Kang, S. and Yuan, Q., 2018. “Using proxies to describe the metropolitan freight landscape”, Urban Studies, 55(6), 1346-1363
Wang, R.*, and Yuan, Q., 2017. “Are Denser Cities Greener? Evidence from China, 2000-2010”, Natural Resources Forum, 41(3), 179-189
Shoup, D.*, Yuan, Q. and Jiang, X., 2017. “Charging for Parking to Finance Public Services”, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 37(2), 136-149
Wang, R.*, and Yuan, Q., 2013. “Parking Practices and Policies under Rapid Motorization: The Case of China”, Transport Policy, 30, 109-116
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
[1] Yuan, Q., 2019. “Policies and Practices on Urban Resilience in China”, In A Handbook of Urban Resilience, edited by Michael A. Burayidi, John Twigg, Adriana Allen, and Christine Wamsler, forthcoming
[2] Giuliano, G., Kang, S., Hutson, N. and Yuan, Q., 2019. “Material Flows in the Global City”. In Urban Empires: Cities as Global Rulers in the New Urban World, edited by Edward Glaeser, Karima Kourtit, and Peter Nijkamp, forthcoming
[3] Giuliano, G., Showalter, C., Yuan, Q. and Zhang, R., 2018. “Managing the Impacts of Freight in California”. National Center for Sustainable Transportation. Available at: https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/NCST-TO-035-Giuliano_Freight-Impacts-CA_Final-Report_JAN-2018.pdf
[4] Giuliano, G., Kang, S., Yuan, Q. and Hutson, N., 2018. “Southeast LA Transportation Study: I-710 Freight Corridor”, Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs and California Community Foundation. Available at
https://calstatela.patbrowninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Giuliano_ForWeb.pdf
[5] Shoup, D., Yuan, Q. and Jiang, X., 2018. Parking Benefit Districts in Beijing. In Parking and the City, edited by Donald Shoup, London: Routledge, 473-482.
[6] Shoup, D., Yuan, Q. and Jiang, X., 2017. “Parking Benefit Districts in China”, ACCESS, No. 51, Spring 2017.
[7] Giuliano, G., Kang, S., Yuan, Q. and Shin, E., 2017. “Understanding Freight Flows in Cities 1: Does Density Crowd out Freight Intensive Activities?” MetroFreight Center of Excellence. Available at https://www.metrans.org/sites/default/files/research-project/MF%2016-4.1a_%20Freight%20Flows%20Final%20Report_012317_0.pdf
[8] Kim, A. M., Lu, B. and Yuan, Q., 2015. The Revealed Preferences of Migrant Housing Demand. (in Chinese). Proceedings of China Annual National Planning Conference 2015
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2020 - present
Tongji University
Professor
Urban Logistics; Public Policy Analysis; Freight Transportation System
Department of Traffic Engineering
Spring 2019
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Guest Lecturer
Complete, Safe, and Equitable Streets; Public Transportation; Transportation Policy
Department of City and Regional Planning
Fall 2015
University of Southern California
Teaching Assistant
Advanced Finance and Investment for Planning and Development; Economics for Policy Planning and Development
Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis