Jiawen Yang, Ph.D.

  Assistant Professor

BRIEF BIO

Jiawen Yang teaches courses including transportation planning methods and investment decisions, transportation modeling and GIS, and economics for planning. He researches on urban transportation and land use planning, urban information systems, urban and regional development, and international planning.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D, 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• M.S. 2000, Beijing ( Peking ) University

• B.S. 1997, Beijing ( Peking ) University

RESEARCH

"Land Use and Access in China "(2005)

"Intelligent Middleware for Understanding Neighborhood Markets" (2004-2005)

"The Effectiveness of Job-housing Balance as a Congestion Relief Strategy." (2003-2005)

"The Interactive Effects of Telecommunications and Transportation on Residential Location Flexibility and Choice." (2001-2002)

"The Spatial Structure of China's City System Under the Opening-up Policy." (1996-2000)

PUBLICATIONS

• Yang, Jiawen, 2006, “Commuting Impacts of Spatial Decentralization: A comparison of Boston and Atlanta,” forthcoming in the Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy. Paper won the first-place M. Jarvin Emerson Award by the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association.
• Yang, Jiawen, and Joseph Ferreira, 2005, “Evaluating Measures of Job-housing Proximity: Boston and Atlanta, 1980-2000,” forthcoming in Access to Destinations, edited by Kevin Krizek and David Levinson, to be published by Elsevier Ltd              
• Yang, Jiawen, and Yixing Zhou, 2001, "Ranking Ports on Chinese Mainland,"Human Geography (in Chinese), 16(6), pp.1-6.
• Zhou, Yixing, and Jiawen Yang, 2001, "The Tendency of Freight Flow in 1990s China ,"Zhongguo Ruangkexue ( China Management Science, in Chinese ) , 6, pp.85-89.
• Yang, Jiawen, and Yixing Zhou, 1999, "Accessibility: Its Concept, Measurement and Application," Geography and Territorial Research (in Chinese), 15 (2).
• Yang, Jiawen, 1999, "Urban Structural Transformation in the Communication Era,"Urban Studies (in Chinese), No.4.
• Yang, Jiawen, 1999, "Improvement Strategies for Chinese Import and Export Logistic Systems,"China Business and Market (in Chinese), No.5.