Research Interests

1. Urban Transportation and Land Use

2. Public Facilities and Services Planning

3. Urban Geography

Education

1. Ph.D. (2005): Urban Science and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

2. M.S. (2000): Human Geography, Peking University, China.

3. B.S. (1997): Double Major in Economic Geography and Software Engineering, Peking University, China.

Courses Taught

1. Transportation Planning and Policy

2. Special Topics in Urban and Rural Planning

Key Research Activities Principal Research Projects

1. General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Dynamic Impacts of Compulsory Education Policies on Equalizing Educational Opportunities for Migrant Children and Optimization Strategies (January 2023 – December 2026, Ongoing).

2. Major Program of the National Social Science Foundation of China: Theory and Practice of Equalizing Basic Public Services and Accessibility in China's Relatively Developed Regions (Chief Expert, April 2020 – December 2022).

3. Shenzhen Stable Support Program Key Project: Research on Coordinated Transport Development Mechanisms in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (January 2021 – December 2023, Ongoing).

4. General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Quantifying Health Effects and Mechanisms of Transit Metropolis Development: A Physical Activity Perspective (January 2017 – December 2020).

5. Shenzhen Overseas High-Level Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program: Integrated Transport-Land Use Planning Decision Support System (January 2014 – December 2016).

6. General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Polycentric Spatial Structure Development and Transport Performance Under Rail Transit (January 2014 – December 2017).

Recent Books

1. Yang, J., Duan, Y. (2023). Rail Transit-Oriented Integrated Development Policies and Planning. Science Press.

2. Xinyu Jason Cao, Chuan Ding, Jiawen Yang，Urban Transport and Land Use Planning: A Synthesis of Global Knowledge，Elsevier, 2022.

Selected Publications

[1]. Xiangfu Kong, Jiawen Yang, Jiandong Qiu, Qin Zhang, Xunlai Chen, Minquan Wang, S Jiang, 2022, Post‐event flood mapping for road networks using taxi GPS data, Journal of Flood Risk Management, e12799.

[2]. Duan Yang, He Zhenzi,  Jiawen Yang (2021). Challenges of integrated transport-land use planning in the high-speed rail era: A case study of China's HSR station location. Journal of Human Settlements in West China, 29–35.

[3]. Jiawen Yang, Yufei Zhou，Jason Cao, 2021, Elaborating threshold and synergistic effects of subway access and land uses on urban vitality in Shenzhen, Transportation Research Part A, 144, 74-88

[4]. Jiawen Yang, Pingren Su and Jason Cao, 2020, On the importance of Shenzhen metro transit to land development and threshold effect, Transport Policy, 99: 1-11

[5]. Jiawen Yang，Lili Zhu，Yang Duan， Jiangping Zhou，Hanxi Ma, 2020, Developing metro-based accessibility: Three aspects of China’s Rail+Property practice， Transportation Reearch Part D, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2020.102288

[6]. Jason Cao, Zhesong Hao, Jiawen Yang, Jiangbin Yin, Xiaoyan Huang, 2020, Prioritizing neighborhood attributes to enhance neighborhood satisfaction: An impact asymmetry analysis, Cities, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102854

[7]. Chuan Ding, Xinyu Cao, Meixuan Dong, Yi Zhang, Jiawen Yang, 2019, Non-linear relationships between built environment characteristics and electric-bike ownership in Zhongshan, China, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 75: 286–296 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.09.005

[8]. Xiongbin LIN, Jiawen Yang*, 2019, Supporting Green Transportation with Transportation Impact Assessment in China, Transportation Research Part D: Transportation and Environment, 73: 67-75.

[9]. Lingqian Hu, Jiawen Yang*, Tianren Yang, Ruanjie Tu, Jing Zhu, 2020, Urban Spatial Structure and Travel in China, Journal of planning literature, 35(1):6-24, DOI: 10.1177/0885412219853259

[10]. Jiawen Yang, Peiling Zhou, 2019, Obesity Epidemic and Metropolitan-Scale Built Environment: Examining the health effects of polycentric development, Urban Studies, DOI: 10.1177/0042098019844177

[11]. Jiawen Yang, Huaqing Zhou, Meng Zhou, 2018, Bus transit subsidy under China’s transit metropolis initiative: The case of Shenzhen, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 1-8.

[12]. Xiongbin Lin, Jiawen Yang, Ian MacLachlan, 2018, High-speed rail as a solution to metropolitan passenger mobility: The case of Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou metropolitan area, Journal of Transport and Land Use, 11:1257-1270

Awards and Honors

1. World's Top 2% Most Influential Scientists (Single-Year Impact, 2021).

2. Peking University Hundred Talents Program (Awarded in 2012).

3. Pengcheng Scholar (Long-term Distinguished Professor, Awarded in 2014).

4. Shenzhen National-Level High-Level Talent (Awarded in 2020).

5. Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher (2014–2019).

Professional Service

1. Associate Editor: Journal of the American Planning Association.

2. Associate Editor: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.

3. Editorial Board Member: International Urban Planning.