Assistant Professor Yang Huajie
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Education

Portland State University, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland, OR Ph.D. in Urban Studies
Dissertation: Short-term and long-term effects of new light rail transit service on transit ridership and traffic congestion at two geographical levels
Committee: Liming Wang (Chair), Jennifer Dill, Aaron Golub, Wayne Wakeland
Zhejiang University, College of Civil Engineer and Architecture, Hangzhou, China M.S., Urban Planning and Design                                                  
Shanxi University, College of Environment and Resources, Taiyuan, China B.S., Resources Environment and the Management of Urban and Rural Planning


Employment

2025/08 – present, Assistant professor, Ph.D. Supervisor, Institute of Urban and Sustainable Development, City University of Macau
2023/02 – 2025/08, Assistant professor, Ph.D. Supervisor, Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau
2021/08 – 2023/02, Assistant professor, Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau
2020/08 – 2021/08, Lecturer, Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau
2013/09 – 2023/07, Research assistant, National Institute for Transportation and Community 
2019/06 - 2019/09, Project Assistant, Urbanism Next at University of Oregon


Fields of interest

Sustainable Transportation and Land Use, Travel Behavior and Built Environment, New mobility, Urban Informatics


Funding


  1. Macao Science and Technology Development Class A Fund: The Influencing Mechanism of Cross-border Commuting between Guangdong and Macao on Residents' Health and Work Efficiency, 0027/2022/A, August 2022 - September 2024, MOP 334,000.00, Project Investigator.

  2. Guangdong-Macao in-depth cooperation zone Urban Planning and Construction Bureau: Hengqin Port Cross-Border Travel Passenger Satisfaction, 2023 -2024, RMB 98,000, Project Investigator.

  3. Macao Foundation: Transportation Policy and Project Evaluation- Methods and Practices, MF2331.  January 2024 - December 2024, Project Investigator.

  4. Macao Foundation: Urban Connectivity between Macao and Portuguese-speaking Countries from the perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative, Project Number: MF2313.  January 2023 - June 2024, MOP10,5000.00, Project Investigator.

  5. Macao Foundation: The Coupling Relationship between Urban Form and Climate Resilience: An Empirical Study Based on Macao, MF2017, December 2020 - December 2021/December, MOP 60,000.00, Project Investigator

  6. Joint research Funding by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Macao Science and Technology Development: Evaluation and Optimization of High-density Urban Space Environment for Land Reclamation in Macao, 0039/2020/AFJ, January 2021 - December 2023, MOP 1,652,200.00, Key Participant

  7. Joint research Project funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China and the Macao Science and Technology Development: Operating Mechanism and Active Control of Urban Transportation System under Intelligent Connected Conditions, 0091/2019/AMJ, Key Participant

  8. Municipal Affairs Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government Project Number :165/2020/DVPS- Overall Planning and Design Guidelines for Public Spaces in Yau Han and Tai Shan Communities, OTH-2010, May 2021 - August, MOP 1450,000.00, Key Participant.

  9. National Institute for Transportation of the U.S. and Community, Sustainable Land and Transportation Policy in the Era of Autonomous Vehicles: Scenario Analysis Based on Simulation, August 2018 - May 2020, $140,000, Key Participant.

  10. National Institute for Transportation and Community of the U.S.and Oregon Department of Transportation, NITC-RR-758, Transportation Cost Index: A Comprehensive Evaluation Index for Transportation and Land Use and Its Application in Oregon, Florida, and Utah, 2013/09-2016/06, $180,000, Key Participant

  11. National 863 Program Project, 2007AA12Z232, Key Technologies and Systems for Urban Heat Island Mitigation, 2010/07-2011/06, ￥1.1 million, Research Assistant


Journal articles

  1. Xu, Yan, Huajie Yang*, Zibin Ye, Xiaobo Ma, Lei Tong, and Xinyi Yu. "Leveraging Advanced Mathematical Methods in Artificial Intelligence to Explore Heterogeneity and Asymmetry in Cross-Border Travel Satisfaction." Mathematics 13, no. 11 (2025): 1896. (SCI, IF: 2.2, JCRQ1)

  2. Zhong, Jimin, Long Zhou, Huajie Yang, Mahyar Arefi, and Guoqiang Shen. "School supply-demand balance and accessibility optimization: A bi-objective spatial matching model using genetic algorithm." Journal of Transport Geography 128 (2025): 104297. (SSCI/SCI, IF: 6.3, CASQ1TOP)

  3. Yang, Huajie, Jiahao Shi, and Tao Tao. "Where do built environment attributes most effectively influence bike sharing usage?" Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 143 (2025): 104717. (SSCI/SCI, IF: 7.4, CASQ1TOP)

  4. Yang, Huajie, Jiali Lin, Jiahao Shi, and Xiaobo Ma. "Application of Historical Comprehensive Multimodal Transportation Data for Testing the Commuting Time Paradox: Evidence from the Portland, OR Region." Applied Sciences 14, no. 18 (2024): 8369. (SCI, IF: 2.5, JCRQ1)

  5. Zhou, Long, Yixin Li, Jialin Cheng, Yu Qin, Guoqiang Shen, Bin Li, Huajie Yang, and Sihong Li. "Understanding the aesthetic perceptions and image impressions experienced by tourists walking along tourism trails through continuous cityscapes in Macau." Journal of Transport Geography 112 (2023): 103703. (SSCI, IF: 6.1, JCRQ1)

  6. Bai, Shujun, Yingxia, Yun，Yan Song& Huajie Yang (2023). Study on pre-calculation of building carbon emission based on the unit scale of regulatory detailed plan in urban renewal: An example of Wuhan Binjiang Business District VII, Urban Development Studies, 30(03), 59-65. (CSSCI).

  7. Yang, Huajie. "Assessing the Effects of New Light Rail Transit on Regional Traffic Congestion and Transit Ridership: A Synthetic Control Approach." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 24, no. 7 (2023): 7613-7620. (SCI, IF=9.551, CASQ1 TOP)

  8. Xi, Zhijie, Chaosu Li, Long Zhou, Huajie Yang, and René Burghardt. "Built environment influences on urban climate resilience: Evidence from extreme heat events in Macau." Science of The Total Environment 859 (2023): 160270. (SCI, IF=10.754, JCRQ1)

  9. Zhou, Long, Sihong Li, Chaosu Li, Guoqiang Shen, Huajie Yang, Pengyu Zhu, Haoying Han, and Bin Li. "Spatial congruency or mismatch? Analysing the COVID-19 potential infection risk and urban density as businesses reopen." Cities (2022): 103615. (SCI, IF=9.551, JCRQ1)

  10. Wang, Liming, Brian Gregor, Huajie Yang, Tara Weidner, and Anthony Knudson. "Capturing the built environment-travel interaction for strategic planning." Journal of Transport and Land Use 11, no. 1 (2018): 1287-1308. (SSCI, IF=2.739, JCRQ3)

  11. Wang, Liming, Bud Reiff, Brian Gregor, Huajie Yang, and Jenny Liu. “Transportation Cost Index: A Comprehensive Multimodal Performance Measure of Transportation and Land Use Systems.” Transportation Research Procedia, (2016).

  12. Dai, Xinfeng, Douding Lu, Weibing Guan, Hongxia Wang, Piaoxia He, Ping Xia, and Huajie Yang. "Newly recorded Karlodinium veneficum dinoflagellate blooms in stratified water of the East China Sea." Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 101 (2014): 237-243. (SCI, IF=2.887 JCRQ2)

  13. Wang, Weiwu, Huajie Yang, and Yuling Shao. “Three-dimensional Spatial Distribution Simulation of Outdoor Thermal Environment in Different Types of Urban Residential Areas in Summer Daytime - A Case Study of Hangzhou.” Journal of Zhejiang University (Engineering Science) 47, no. 7 (2013) (in Chinese).

Book

  1. Yang, Huajie (2024). "Transportation Policy and Project Evaluation", Singapore: Springer, ISBN: 978-981-15-7257-9, ISBN: 978-981-97-5429-8.

Project report

  1. Wang, Liming, Joseph Broach, and Huajie Yang. "Incorporate Emerging Travel Modes in the Regional Strategic Planning Model (RSPM) Tool." (2018).

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

  1. Shi, Jiahao, Tao Tao, and Huajie Yang*. Nonlinear and Spatial Variations in Built Environment Impacts on Bike Sharing Usage on Workdays and Non-workdays. Proceedings of the 104th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 5-9, 2025.

  2. Lee, Sangwan., Liming Wang, Hongwei Dong and Huajie Yang. (2021) Temporal Dynamics of the Effects of Light Rail on the Housing Prices: A Case Study of Portland, Oregon. World Symposium on Transport & Land Use Research, Portland, August 9-11, 2021.

  3. Yang, Huajie and Liming Wang. Testing the constant commuting time hypothesis amid substantial changes to transportation and land use: a case study of Portland, OR 1994-2011. Proceedings of the 98th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 14-17, 2019.

  4. Wang, Liming, Brian Gregor, Huajie Yang, Tara Weinder, and Tony Knudson. Development of a Multi-modal Travel Demand Module for the Regional Strategic Planning Model. Proceedings of the 97th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 7-11, 2018.

  5. Wang, Liming, Huajie Yang, and Jenny Liu. Transportation Cost Index as a Performance Measure for Transportation and Land Use Systems: New Approaches and Application in Portland, OR. Proceedings of the 95th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 10-14, 2016.

  6. Wang, Liming, Bud Reiff, Brian Gregor, Huajie Yang, and Jenny Liu. Transportation Cost Index: A Comprehensive Multimodal Performance Measure of Transportation and Land Use Systems. Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 11-15, 2015.

Peer-review conference presentations

  1. Wenlei Du, Tao Tao, and Huajie Yang*. Comparative Spatiotemporal Analysis of Weather and the Built Environment Nonlinear Effects on Ride-hailing and Taxi Service Usage Patterns, , presented at the 16th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, Xiamen,  China, July 03-06, 2025

  2. Ruru Jia and Huajie Yang. Examine spatial accessibility to COVID-19 vaccine sites in Oregon, presented at the 16th Asian Planning School Association (APSA) Congress, Bali, Indonesia, August 29th-September 2nd. 

  3. Hanxi Li and Huajie Yang. Estimating the Impact of Urban Form on Commuting Behavior in Chinese Cities, presented at the 2022 World Transport Convention (WTC), Wuhan, China, December 2-4th. 

  4. Jiali Lin and Huajie Yang. Examining the impacts of built environmental on stay-at-home behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Portland, OR region, presented at the 16th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, Wuhan, China, June 23-27, 2022. 

  5. Yang, Huajie and Liming Wang. Using high resolution archival transportation data to estimate the short- and long-term effects of light rail transit at the corridor level: Case studies of two LRT lines in Portland, OR, presented at the 59th Annual Conference of Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Greenville, SC, October 24-27, 2019. 

  6. Wang, Liming, Joseph Broach and Huajie Yang. Incorporating Emerging Travel Modes in Strategic Planning Models Using Data from Stated Choice Experiments, presented at the 17th TRB Transportation Planning Applications Conference, Portland, OR, June 2-5, 2019. 

  7. Yang, Huajie. The effects of transit improvement on traffic and land use at different geographical scales: three empirical essays, presented at the PhD Workshop on Transport Modeling and Travel Behavior Research at the 98th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 14-17, 2019. 

  8. Yang, Huajie and Liming Wang. Testing the constant commuting time hypothesis amid substantial changes to transportation and land use: a case study of Portland, OR 1994-2011, presented at the 12th International Association for China Planning Conference, Xi’an, China, June 30-July 1, 2018. .

  9. Wang, Liming and Huajie Yang. Heterogeneity in Elasticities of Travel Behavior to Built Environment: An Analysis with Latent Class Mixed Models, presented at the 57th Annual Conference of Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Denver, CO, October 12-15, 2017. 

  10. Yang, Huajie and Liming Wang. Assess the Effect of Transit Investment on Congestion: A Case Study of New Starts Projects, presented at the 56th Annual Conference of Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, OR, November 3-6, 2016. 

  11. Wang, Liming, Jenny Liu, Huajie Yang, Brian Gregor, and Bud Reiff, Transport Cost Index: A Comprehensive Performance Measure of Transport and Land Use Systems and Application in Oregon, presented at the 62nd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association (NARSC), Portland, OR, November 11-14th, 2015. 

Other research achievements


  1. A Multimodal Travel Demand package for Regional Strategic Planning), VETravelDemand (https://github.com/cities-lab/VETravelDemand), Key Participant.

  2. R Package for Transportation Cost Index, A Comprehensive Performance Measure of Transportation and Land Use  (https://github.com/cities-lab/tci), Key Participant.



Awards

  1. Outstanding young editorial board member, Urban Rail Transit, 2025

  2. Research Commendation, City University of Macau, 2025

  3. Best Oral Presenter Award, City+2024@Kitakyushu 

  4. Student Educational Travel (SET), Portland State University, 2019

  5. Travel Award, International Association of China Planning, 2018

  6. John D. Gray Sustainable Development Endowed Scholarship, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University, 2018

  7. Student Scholar Award, National Institute for Transportation and Communities, 2018   

  8. Bronze Medal Award, IDEA-KING Chinese International Landscape Design Competition, 2012


Professional service, affiliations and development

Committee Member, Transport and Land Use Committee of the World Transport Congress (WTS)
Committee Member, the City+ International Urban Research Committee
Young Editorial Board Member, Urban Rail Transit
Young Editorial Board Member, Digital Transportation and Safety
Member, International China Planning Association (IACP)
Member, American Association of Schools of Architecture (ACSP)
Member: Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Invited Member, Macau Urban Planning Association (MUPI)
Board Member, Professional Committee of Bay Area Collaborative Planning and Governance of Urban Planning Society of Shenzhen


Reviewer

Travel Behavior and Society, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Building and Environment, Urban Rail Transit, Journal of Embedded Systems, International Urban Planning, Journal of Lanzhou University (Social Sciences Edition), Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, International Institute of Chinese Planning (IACP) Annual Meeting, City+ International Conference of Young Scholars on Urban Studies, Springer Nature Book 


Skills

ArcGIS, QGIS, ENVI, R, Python, SPSS, SQL programming, GitHub, VISUM, Photoshop, AutoCAD




 
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