Dr. Jinhua Zhao

Dr. Jinhua Zhao
Dr. Jinhua Zhao,
Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Location: CEME - Room 2007; WMA - Room 225
Telephone: 604.822.2196; 604-822-0107
Facsimilie: 604.822.6901
Email: jinhua.zhao@ubc.ca

 

Biography:

Dr. Zhao is an assistant professor at University of British Columbia, jointly appointed in the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Department of Civil Engineering. Dr. Zhao holds Master of Science, Master of City Planning, Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s degree from Tongji University. Dr. Zhao’s research interests include urban transportation planning, transportation economics and policy, information technology and public transportation, and urban development and planning in China. Dr. Jinhua Zhao is the Commissioner of China Planning Network (CPN), a think tank focused on China's urbanization. CPN is dedicated to advancing the state of scholarship on China’s urban development and making it accessible to the widest population in China.

More at my SCARP website.

Research Interests:

  • Travel Behavior and Transport Policy
  • Urbanization and Urban Management in China
  • Public Transit

Courses:

  • CIVL441/583/PLAN548J Transportation planning and analysis
  • CIVL587/PLAN548A Urban transportation economics and policy
  • PLAN548O/CIVL 589A Mobility management in rapidly urbanizing world

Publications (* indicates co-authored publications with graduate students):

  • *Chen, T. and J. Zhao (2012) Bidding to Drive: Car License Auction Policy in Shanghai and Its Public Acceptance, Transport Policy, doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.11.016
  • *Frumin, M. and J. Zhao (2012) Analyzing Passenger Incidence Behavior in Heterogeneous Transit Services Using Smartcard Data and Schedule-Based Assignment". Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No.2274 (2012), 52-60, doi: 10.3141/2274-05
  • Zhao, J. (2011) A Subjective Measure of Car Dependence, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2231, p44-52
  • *Gallop, C., C. Tse and J. Zhao (2011) A Seasonal Autoregressive Model of Vancouver Bicycle Traffic Using Weather Variables, Journal on Civil Engineering 1.4: 9 - 18.
  • *Tse, C., J. Zhao, and J. Wang (2012) Potential and Reality of Using High Speed Rail for Commuting in Yangtze River Delta, IEEE/ASCE/ASME Joint Rail Conference Proceedings
  • Huo, Y., W. Li, J. Zhao and S. Zhu (2011) Analysis of the Maximum Straight Line Length for Prairie Highway using Driver’s Heart Rate Variability, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems. 4 (3): 370-377
  • Wilson, N., Zhao, J. & Rahbee, A. (2009) The Potential Impact of Automated Data Collection Systems on Urban Public Transport Planning. In N. Wilson and A. Nuzzolo (Eds.) Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation Networks: Theory and Applications. Springer.
  • Zhao, J., A. Rahbee and N. Wilson (2007) Estimating a Rail Passenger Trip Origin-Destination Matrix Using Automatic Data Collection Systems. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. 22 (5): 376 – 387
  • Wang, D. and J. Zhao (2002) Urban System Structure Analysis and Regional Development Potential Visualization: the Urban System Analysis Package, City Planning Review, 26 (8)
  • Wang, D. and J. Zhao (2000) Developing the Computer Assisted Hinterland Division System: an Analysis Tool for Urban System Planning, City Planning Review, 24 (12)

Conference Presentations

2013

  • T. Chen and J. Zhao (2013) State-city vs. City in A Region: Shanghai’s Non-local Vehicles as A Dilemma in Transportation Policy Transfer from Singapore, Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
  • Zhao, J. and T. Chen (2013) Car Owners as Supporting Constituency for Car Deterring Policies: Preference Variations in Shanghai’s Car Licensing Policy, Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
  • Zhao, Z., J. Zhao and Q. Shen (2013) Has Shanghai’s Transportation Demand Passed Its Peak Growth? Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 2013
  • Campbell, R. and J. Zhao (2013) Beijinger Life Aspirations and Implications for Transportation Planning, Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
  • Frumin, M., J. Zhao, N. Wilson and Z. Zhao (2013) Automatic Data for Applied Railway Management: A Case Study on the London Overground, Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
  • Zhao, J. and J. Lee (2013) Experience or Memory: Happiness of Commuting, Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
  • Zhao, J., M. Frumin, N. Wilson and Z. Zhao (2013) Unified Estimator For Excess Journey Time Under Heterogeneous Passenger Incidence Behavior Using Smartcard Data, Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
  • Zhao, J., A. Lung and Z. Guo (2013) Quantity and Quality of Productive Use of Transit Commuting Time: A Heckman Model, Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
  • Block-Schachter, D. and J. Zhao (2013) Hysteresis and Urban Rail, Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
  • Guo, Z., A. Derian and J. Zhao (2013) Smart Devices and Travel Time Use by Bus Passengers in Vancouver, Canada, Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2012

  • Zhao, J. and T. Chen (2012) Regulating Automobile Growth in China, Berkeley Symposium: Urban Transport Pathways:  Do the Experiences of the US and the EU Offer Lessons for the Developing World?
  • Zhao, J. (2012) Impossibilities of Sustainable Transportation in China, International Stockholm Transportation Summit 2012, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Zhao, Z. and J. Zhao (2012) Evolution of Trip Chaining Complexity in London from 1991 to 2010. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Cincinnati, OH, November 2012
  • Zhao, J. and T. Chen (2012) Car Owners as Supporting Constituency for Car Deterring Policies: Preference Variations in Shanghai’s Car Licensing Policy, The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 53rd Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Zhao, J., M. Frumin, N. Wilson and Z. Zhao (2012) Unified Estimator for Excess Journey Time under Heterogeneous Passenger Incidence Behavior using Smartcard Data. The 5th International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability, Hong Kong, China, December 2012
  • Zhao, J. and T. Chen (2012) Public Acceptance of the Car Ownership Management Policies in Shanghai, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY
  • Frumin, M. and J. Zhao (2012) Analyzing Passenger Incidence Behavior in Heterogeneous Transit Services Using Smartcard Data and Schedule-Based Assignment, Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting, Washington D.C
  • Tse, C., J. Zhao, and J. Wang (2012) Potential and Reality of Using High Speed Rail for Commuting in Yangtze River Delta, IEEE/ASCE/ASME Joint Rail Conference, Philadelphia, PA
  • Zhao, J. (2012) Rise and Decline of Bicycle in China and Hope for Revival, Velo-City 2012 Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC
  • Zhao, J. and T. Chen (2012) Bidding to Drive: Automobile License Auction Policy in Shanghai, Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting, Washington D.C
  • Gallop, C., C. Tse and J. Zhao (2012) A Seasonal Autoregressive Model of Vancouver Bicycle Traffic Using Weather Variables, Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting, Washington D.C
  • Tse, C. and J. Zhao (2012) Transportation Related Environmental Knowledge and Attitude of the Chinese Youth, Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting, Washington D.C

2011

  • Zhao, J. (2011) Preference Shaping in Transportation: Potential and Taboos, Plenary Session on Public Transit, ACT Canada Sustainable Mobility Summit 2011, Vancouver, BC
  • Zhao, J. and J. Wang (2011) High Speed Rail and Commuting Patterns in China, 52nd Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Zhao, J. (2011) Urban Mobility Management in Shanghai and Lessons for Vancouver’s Transportation Finance, Metro Vancouver and Translink Joint Seminar, Vancouver, BC
  • Zhao, J. (2011) Macro Transportation Planning in Chinese Cities, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, Municipal Engineers Division Annual Conference, Richmond, BC
  • Zhao, J. (2011) The Buck Stops Here: Realizing Our Transportation Visions, Youth Summit for Sustainable Transportation 2011 Connecting Communities, Vancouver, BC
  • Zhao, J. (2011) Car Use, Car Dependence and Intent to Reduce Car Use, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA
  • Zhao, J. (2011) A Subjective Measure of Car Dependence, Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C

2010

  • Zhao, J. (2010) Environmental Attitude and Car Dependence, 51st Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Minneapolis, MN
  • Zhao, J. (2010) Vanity or Utility? Heterogeneity in the Influence of Car Pride on Car Ownership, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C
  • Zhao, J. (2010) Attitudinal Factors Influencing China’s Urban Mobility Challenge, Roundtable of Getting Transport on Track at the 18th Annual meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UN CSD-18), New York, NY
  • Zhao, J. (2010) Implication of China’s Rapid Urbanization on Planning Education, Symposium of “Learning from China Planning”, International Association of China Planning
  • Zhao, J. (2010) Low Carbon City and Low Carbon China: Embed Low Carbon Thinking in China’s Urban Development, Opening Remark, China Planning Network Urbanization Summit 2010, Nanjing, China

2009

  • Zhao, J. (2009) Transportation Planning as Preference Accommodating and Preference Shaping: Incorporating Traveler Preferences into Transportation Planning, at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Crystal City, Virginia
  • Zhao, J. (2009) The Challenge of China’s Fast Urbanization to its Commitment to Environment Protection and Climate Change Mitigation, Introduction to the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC)- China Planning Network (CPN) Urban Energy, Climate Change and Transportation Roundtable, Beijing, China
  • Zhao, J. (2009) Transportation Planning in the Context of China’s Fast Economic Development and Urbanization Process, Guest Lecture at Urban Transportation Planning Class, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Zhao, J. (2009) Fixed-Preference Assumption in London’s Transportation Models and its Consequences to Transportation Planning, Presented at the Research Seminar Series, Transport for London, UK
  • Zhao, J. (2009) Responsive City, the Role of New Technologies in City Planning, Panelist, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Speaker Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Zhao, J. (2009) Inconsistency between Public Attitudes toward Environment and Public Support for Government Actions to Protect the Environment, Presented at the Research Seminar Series, Transport for London, UK
  • Zhao, J. (2008) Impossibilities of China’s Urban Transportation, Guest Lecture at Urban Transportation Planning Class, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Zhao, J. (2007) Smart Travel Demand Management and Congestion Charging: Transportation Policy Innovations in London, Guest Lecture at School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, UK
  • Wilson, N., J. Zhao, & A. Rahbee (2005) Extending the value of Automated Data Collection Systems, Presentation at the Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C
  • Zhao, J. (2005) Passenger Route Choice in Chicago Transit Authority Subway System, Guest Lecture at Department of Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
  • Zhao, J. (2005) Modeling Chicago’s Subway Path Choice Modeling using Discrete Choice Analysis Method, the 2nd New England Transportation Student Research Symposium, Cambridge, MA

Under Review

  • *Zhao, J., M. Frumin, N. Wilson and Z. Zhao (2012) Unified estimator for excess journey time under heterogeneous passenger incidence behavior using smartcard data, Transportation Research Part C (conditionally accepted)
  • *Zhao, J., Z. Zhao and Q. Shen (2012) Has Shanghai’s Transportation Demand Passed Its Peak Growth Period? Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • *Block-Schachter, D. and J. Zhao (2012) Hysteresis and Urban Rail: the Effects of Past Urban Rail on Current Residential and Travel Choices, Journal of American Planning Association
  • Frumin, M., J. Zhao, N. Wilson and Z. Zhao. Automatic Data for Applied Railway Management: A Case Study on the London Overground, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Guo, Z, A. Derian, and J. Zhao (2012) Smart Devices and Travel Time Use by Bus Passengers in Vancouver, Canada, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
  • Huo, Y., J. Zhao, W., Li and S. Zhu (2012) Measuring Bus Service Reliability using Automatic Vehicle Location Data: An Example of Bus Rapid Transit in Changzhou, China, Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Huo, Y., W., Li, J. Zhao and X. Chen (2012) Modeling Bus Delay At Bus Stop, Transport

Research Grants (awarded since 2010):

  • Bidding to Drive: Car License Auction Policy in Shanghai and its Public Acceptance, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant, PI, 2012-2015
  • Monitoring and Improving Transit Service Reliability using Automatic Data Collection Systems, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant, PI, 2012-2017
  • Monitoring and Improving Transit Service Reliability Using Automatic Data Collection System, Accelerate Program, MITACS in Partnership with Translink, PI, 2012
  • Knowledge Mapping for UBC’s Community Engagement, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC, PI, 2012-2013
  • Car Pride, Car Ownership and Urban Mobility in China: A Pilot Study, Martha Piper Research Fund, UBC, PI, 2010-2012
  • Reviving Bicycles in Beijing Neighborhoods, Hampton Partnership Development Fund, UBC, PI, 2011-2012
  • Mapping the collaborative knowledge network at UBC: A social network analysis of the intellectual interactions in the UBC community, Humanities and Social Science (HSS) Research Grant, UBC, PI, 2011-2012

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