Academic Rank

Professor

Telephone

85234008327

Fax

85223659291

Mailing address

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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/

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

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.