Hi There! 👋
I'm Hui (Elvin) Wang.
About
Hui is a third-year PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong. Under the expert guidance of Professor Becky P.Y. Loo and with the invaluable support of The Joint Lab on Future Cities, he is exploring sustainable transport solutions to ensure the sustainability of future cities. Hui received his Master's degree in Transport Engineering from the College of Transportation Engineering, at Tongji University in June 2022 and the B.E. degree in Railway Transport Engineering from the School of Traffic and Transportation, at Beijing Jiaotong University in June 2019, respectively. He has been awarded several honors, including the China National Scholarship, Outstanding Graduate Award of Shanghai, and Outstanding Master's Thesis award.
His training encompasses both engineering and social sciences and his current research focuses on developing people-oriented and place-based methods to facilitate safe, inclusive, efficient, and healthy transport systems, contributing transformative changes to next-generation mobility.
Research Interests:
※ Transport planning, travel behavior and urban form
※ Rail operations, management and optimization
※ Walkability and health
※ Agent-based simulation, spatial analysis and econometrics
Education:
※ PhD (Transport Geography),
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Advisor:
Prof. Becky P.Y. Loo, Sep. 2022–Aug. 2026 (expected)
※ M.Eng (Transport),
Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Advisor:
Prof. Jing Teng, Sep. 2019–Jun. 2022
※ B.Eng (Railway Transport),
Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, Advisor:
Dr. Ying Wang &
Prof. Haiying Li, Sep. 2015–Jun. 2019
※ Exchange Student,
Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Oct. 2021–Jun. 2022
Email:
※
huiwanghk@connect.hku.hk
Welcome for any questions and collaborations.
Publications
Journal Article
* denotes corresponding author. ☘️ means Top 10% in the respective subject category.
- Jinyang Li, Hui Wang, Jing Teng*. (2025). Revisit bus network robustness from the perspective of service-physical dependency. Transportation Letters, 1–14.
- Becky P.Y. Loo, Hui Wang*. (2024). Dynamics of in-station time within metro systems: Measurement and determining factors. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 153, 106006.☘️
- Hui Wang, Becky P.Y. Loo*. (2024). The public transport disadvantaged in a highly transit-oriented city: An analytical framework, key challenges and opportunities. Journal of Transport Geography, 120, 103983.☘️
- Jinyang Li, Jing Teng*, Hui Wang. (2024). Measuring route diversity in spatial and spatial-temporal public transport networks. Transport Policy, 146, 42-58.☘️
- Lin Yang, Dewei Li*, Hui Wang, Yuan Gao. (2024). Integrating Stop Planning, Timetabling and Rolling Stock Planning on High-Speed Railway Lines: A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach. Expert Systems with Applications, 237, 121515.☘️
- Jinyang Li, Jing Teng*, Hui Wang. (2024). Measuring robustness in uncertain topologies: a study of on-demand bus networks. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 1-27.
- Wei Peng, Jing Teng*, Hui Wang. (2024). Understanding Heterogeneous Passenger Route Choice in Municipal Rail Transit with Express and Local Trains: An Empirical Study in Shanghai. Urban Rail Transit, 1-22. [PDF]
- Hui Wang, Jinyang Li, Pengling Wang, Jing Teng*, Becky P.Y. Loo. (2023). Adaptability analysis methods of demand responsive transit: A review and future directions. Transport Reviews, 1-22.☘️
- Zhuotong Bai, Hui Wang, Lin Yang, Jiajie Li, Huapu Lu*. (2023). A Rescheduling Approach for Freight Railway considering Equity and Efficiency by an Integrated Genetic Algorithm. Journal of Advanced Transportation. [PDF]
- Jinyang Li, Jing Teng, Hui Wang. (2023). Integrating bipartite network modelling and overlapping community detection: A new method to evaluate transit line coordination. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 628, 129169.
- Hui Wang, Jing Teng, and Becky P.Y. Loo. (2022). A Multi-Agent-Based Simulation: Explore the Adaptability of Route Deviation Demand Responsive Transit. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, HKSTS 2022. [PDF]
- Jing Teng, Hui Wang, Cen Zhang, Shaojie Liu. (2021). Evaluation of Operating Schemes on Municipal Rail Transit with Express/Local Mode. Transportation Research Record, 2675(12), 583-597. [PDF]
- Xiang Zheng, Hui Wang, Xingfang Xu, Jing Teng. (2020). Comprehensive Evaluation of the Municipality Rail Transit Operation Plan Under the Express and Local Train Mode. Journal of East China Jiaotong University, 37(06), 58-67. (In Chinese)
- Hui Wang, Xinjun Du, Haiying Li, Ying Wang, Zuixin He. (2019). A Study on Layout Adaptive Evaluation of Train Operation System. Railway Transport and Economy, 41(12), 97-104. (In Chinese)
| 2025 |
| 2024 |
| 2023 |
| in and before 2022 |
Presentation & Workshop
- Hui Wang, Becky P.Y. Loo, Rui Ma, He Wei. (2025). How Street Walkability and Community Shape Active Travel and Health: Evidence from Beijing. Presented at Euro Working Group on Transportation 27th Annual Conference, 1-3 September 2025, Edinburgh, UK.
- Hui Wang, Becky P.Y. Loo (2024). Dynamics of in-station time within metro systems: Measurement and determining factors Presented at Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies annual meeting, 9-10 December 2024, Hong Kong.
- Hui Wang, Becky P.Y. Loo (2023). A comprehensive evaluation of rural accessibility based on public transport: A case study from Hong Kong. Presented at International Conference for Computational Social Science, 17-20 July 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Hui Wang. (2023). Demand-Responsive Transit: Adaptability Analysis and Future Directions. (Report in Chinese). Workshop at Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning & Design, Beijing 2023.
- Jing Teng, Tong Wu, Cen Zhang, Jinyang Li, and Hui Wang. (2023). Exploring heterogeneity in preferences for Mobility as a Service: An Airport Ground Access Case. Presented at The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 102nd Annual Meeting, USA 2023.
- Hui Wang, Lin Yang, Zhuotong Bai. (2020). A Multi-Objective Railway Freight Timetable Reschedule Approach with Extensive and Stochastic Delay. Presented on the 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting, USA 2020.
Projects
Project highlights:
※Propose a holistic framework to identify public transport disadvantaged areas.
※Perform a case study in Hong Kong.
Data:
※GTFS: Hong Kong Datastore (open data).
※Population & facilities: Hong Kong Common Spatial Data Infrastructure (CSDI) Portal (open data).
Output:
[Research paper]
[Video]
Project highlights:
※ An agent-based simulation to measure the dynamics of in-station time.
※ Recommends both long-term and short-term measures.
Data:
※Passenger flow, station structure, & operation plan: MTR Corporation Limited.
Output:
[Research paper]
[Video]
Project highlights:
※ Reviews the adaptability analysis methods of DRT.
※ An agent-based simulation to measure the operation of DRT.
※ A techno-economic assessment method is developed.
Output:
[Research paper 1]
[Research paper 2]
Honors:
※ Outstanding Master's Thesis award from Tongji University.
Project highlights:
※ Productivity layout evaluation & optimization of the train operation department.
※ Adjustment in the train operation department is the most complex due to the involvement of personnel.
※ A study integrating railway transportation engineering and management.
Sponsor:
※ China State Railway Group Co., Ltd.
Output:
[Research paper]
Project highlights:
※ Develop a passenger flow assignment model (multinomial logit model) for express/local line problems.
※ Solve the assignment model based on the method of successive averages algorithm.
Sponsor:
※ Guangzhou Metro Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Output:
[Research paper 1]
[Research paper 2]
Project highlights:
※ Conduct behavior survey for traveling to/from Qingdao new airport
※ Suggest operation mode of MaaS for Qingdao city
.
Sponsor:
※ Qingdao Municipal Government.
Output:
※ My policy recommendations on MaaS planning for Qingdao city have been adopted by the government and can be found on their official website.
[Website]
Project highlights:
※ Review of EU railway interconnection
※ Research standard setting of timetable collaborative optimization
※ Analyze of enterprise management and coordination mechanism
Sponsor:
※ China Railway Design Group Co., Ltd.
Project highlights:
※ Analyze collaborative operation scheduling system
Sponsor:
※ Scientific Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport.
Service
- Student Member at HKU Research Hub of Population Studies (since 2025)
- Student Fellow at HKU Joint Lab on Future Cities (since 2022)
- Student Fellow at HKU Institute of Transport Studies (since 2022)
- Student Member at US Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (2020-2021)
Awards
- Outstanding Master's Thesis award from Tongji University. (2023)
- Outstanding Graduate Award of Shanghai. (2022)
- Excellent Student Title at Tongji University. (2020)
- Top 50 Mi Yue (Clash Lane) in Central and Western District, Hong Kong [Honor of Kings]. (2023)
- Top 100 Erin (Farm Lane) in Central and Western District, Hong Kong [Honor of Kings]. (2023)
- The First Prize: INFORMS: The 2020 RAS Problem Solving Competition. (2020) [International]
- The Second Prize: The 17th China Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling. (2020) [National]
- The Second Prize: The 16th China Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling. (2019) [National]
- Honorable Mention: Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling. (2018) [International]
- The Second Prize: Asia and Pacific Mathematical Contest in Modeling. (2018) [International]
- China National Scholarship. (2021)
- The Social Activities Scholarship at Tongji University. (2020)
- The Second Scholarship at Beijing Jiaotong University. (2018)