Hong Kong Supervisors
Personal information
Academic Rank
Professor
Contact information
Telephone
85234008327
Fax
85223659291
Mailing address
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Employment information
Institution
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Department
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Administrative Post (if any)
Construction and Transportation Unit Leader
Personal Webpage
https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cee/people/anthony.chen/
Application Project
Project Name in English
Integrated Strategic and Operational Planning for the Urban Transportation-Electricity Megasystem
Project Name in Chinese
城市交通-電力巨系統的戰略與運行一體化規劃研究
Brief description of the Project
Recent years have witnessed the massive adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) globally, which could significantly reduce the energy dependence on petroleum and lower greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. EVs heavily rely on a sufficient supply of electricity, which could in turn affect the traffic management strategies. On the other hand, the electricity power industry is facing various tasks to expand its grid to satisfy the growing demand and maintaining its operation reliability and stability in face of the boosting number of EVs. Existing electricity grids cannot well accommodate recurrent and non-recurrent load variations and are often inefficient, wasteful, and dysfunctional when the demand abnormally fluctuates. Overall, there is a great need to coherently manage the transportation and electricity systems with the involvement of EVs in a smart, efficient, reliable, and robust manner. This project aims at developing a set of modeling and computational tools for the strategic and operational planning of the proposed transportation-electricity megasystem for the future EV development in Hong Kong. Objectives: 1. To model and manage the spatio-temporal energy consumption pattern required to power the electrified transportation systems for planning the charging infrastructures with consideration of the complex trip-making behavior in the multi-modal transportation network. 2. To develop a transportation-electricity megasystem that enables analyses of the interaction, coordination and management between transportation systems and electricity systems for improving the efficiency, reliability, and flexibility of the overall megasystem. 3. To apply the resulting system modeling tools to appraise the long-term economic feasibility and benefit of the proposed transportation-electricity megasystem in Hong Kong. Keywords: Transportation system; Energy system; Electric vehicles; Strategic and operational planning; Transportation-electricity megasystem
Academic Discipline of the Research Project
Transportation Engineering and Mathematics
Academic Discipline (specifically) in Chinese
0823 交通運輸工程
Is this an inter-disciplinary project ?
Yes
Discipline 1)
Transportation
Academic Discipline (specifically) in Chinese
0823 交通運輸工程
Discipline 2)
Computer Science
Academic Discipline (specifically) in Chinese
0812 計算機科學與技術
Special Requirement for the Postdoctoral Fellow Candidates(if any)
Good in Mathematics, Operations Research and Computer Programming
Academic Qualifications
B.S. (Civil Engineering), University of California at Irvine, USA, 1992

M.S. (Civil Engineering), University of California at Irvine, USA, 1994

Ph.D. (Transportation Engineering), University of California at Irvine, USA, 1997
Professional Accomplishments, Honors, Awards and Patents
The 2018 Best Paper in the ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A: “Two-Stage Bicycle Traffic Assignment Model” by Ryu, S., Chen, A., Su, J., Choi, K. (2018)

The 2017 Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) Outstanding Paper Award: “Solving the combined modal split and traffic assignment problem with captive mode users and overlapping routes” by Ryu, S., Chen, A., Wang, G., Choi, K. (2017)

Distinguished Visiting Professor from the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), Thailand (2017)

Highly cited researcher in the field of Civil Engineering selected by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy and Elsevier (2016)

Chang Jiang Chair Professorship (长江学者讲座教授), Tongji University, Shanghai, China (2015-2017)

The 2014 National Convention on Civil Engineering (NCCE) Best Paper of the Transportation, Traffic and Logistics Engineering (TRL) Section "Assessing redundancy of freight transportation network for pre-disaster highway planning", the 19th National Convention on Civil Engineering (NCCE), 14-16 May 2014, Khon Kaen, Thailand.

The 2013 ABJ70 Shinya Kilkuchi Best Paper Award: "Stochastic network design problem with fuzzy goals", the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications Committee, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., USA.

Oriental Scholar of Shanghai Universities (上海高校特聘教授), Tongji University, Shanghai, P.R. China (2011-2014).

William Mong Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2009).

Certificate of Appreciation from the President Sang-Bum Lee of University of Seoul, Korea (2006).

The 2005 Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) Outstanding Paper Award, "Analysis of regulations on build-operate-transfer scheme: A case study of the Ban Pong-Kanchanaburi Motorway in Thailand", out of 600 papers presented in the 6th EASTS Conference, 21-24 September 2005, Bangkok, Thailand.

The 2004 Hong Kong Society of Transportation Studies (HKSTS) Outstanding Student Paper Award: "Adaptation of the paired combinatorial logit model to the route choice problem", Hong Kong.
Are you a member of the Society of Hong Kong Scholars?
Yes
Research direction and research fund
Major Research Interests
Transportation network reliability / vulnerability / flexibility / redundancy / resiliency analysis;
Transportation systems modeling and analysis;
Public transport and pedestrian studies;
Applied optimization to civil infrastructures
Number of Current PhD Students
9
Number of PhD Trained
10
Number of Postdoctoral Fellows Supervised
10
Active Research Grants in the Capacity of PI
1. Doubly stochastic day-to-day traffic assignment model with application to transportation network resilience analysis - a 3-year research project funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) Research Grant in Hong Kong (HK$891,600), Date of award - June 2021

2. Considering multi-dimensional travel choice in transportation network vulnerability and optimization analysis - a 4-year research project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (CNY 490,000), Date of award - Aug. 2020.

3. 3D GIS, Land-Use Planning Scenarios, and Transport Models for Urban Simulation - a 2-year research project sponsored by the Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) at PolyU (HK$2.0 million), Date of award - Oct. 2019.

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