Recently, the 14th International Conference on Transportation Research co-hosted by the HKSTS Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies and the Hong Kong Baptist University, was held in Hong Kong, Kowloon, InterContinental Grand Stanford Hotel.
Dr. Li Zhichun, a teacher from School of Management of HUST, won HKSTS Outstanding Dissertation Paper Award and Gordon Newell Memorial Prize by his thesis titled Modeling Heterogeneous Drivers Responses to Route Guidance and Parking Information Systems in Stochastic and Time-Dependent Networks, which was completed in 2009.
This is the first time that the mainland scholar got the Award. Dr. Li Zhichun on the morning of December 10 in the General Assembly made a 30-minute keynote address, reporting his research project.
This Prize was established to commemorate the deceased founder of the science of traffic, Professor Gordon Newell, also a physicist and applied mathematician of University of California at Berkeley. The award-winning papers will be published in the SCL journal Journal of Transportmetrica.
Dr. Li Zhichun s research results have been published in "Transportation Research Part B", "European Journal of Operational Research", "Transportation Research Record" and "Networks and Spatial Economics" and other mainstream international SCI journals.
