Assistant Professor (Transportation Engineering)   Dr W.Y. SZETO   BEng, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology MPhil, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology FCILT, MCIHT, MIEEE, MHKSTS   Office:      HW 5-26 Phone:     +852 28578552 Fax:         +852 25595337 E-mail:     ceszeto@hku.hk Homepage:   http://web.hku.hk/~ceszeto/

 

Teaching Activities

• CIVL8012   Optimization techniques for engineering applications
• CIVL1011   Transportation engineering

 

Research Interests

• Transport network design
• Transport network reliability
• Transport logistics
• Sustainable transport
• Public transport
• Pricing in transport networks
• Dynamic traffic assignment
• Modeling landuse-transport-environment interaction
• Game theory approaches to transport and logistics problems
• Matheuristics approaches to transport and logistics problems
• Multi-objective optimization for transport and logistics problems

 

Representative Research / Consultancy Projects

• Sustainable transport planning considering land use transport interaction over time and activity based travel behaviour, Grant Number: 200902172003. Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund - General Award. The University of Hong Kong, HK$ 100000, Principal investigator, August 2010- July 2012.
• Managing degradable multi-modal transport networks with multiple private public transport operators considering travel choice behaviour and information provision. Grant number: 201001159008. Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research for New Staff, The University of Hong Kong, HK$ 240000, Principal investigator, April 2010- March 2011.
• Transport Network Reliability, Design and Modelling: Game Theoretical Approaches. Start up grant R-264-000-229-112, NUS, SGD180000. Principal investigator.
• Methodologies for Online Adaptive Traffic Management and Offline Transport Network Planning Considering Environmental, Spatial, and Temporal Dimensions together with Uncertainties in Demand and Supply. Lecturer Development Fund. School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin. May 06, €15000. Principal investigator.
• Instrumented Vehicle - SMART Car. Research Capacity Building Grant, Trinity College Dublin. Sep 2005-Sep 2006, €26500. C. Co-investigator.

 

Representative Publications

1. Lo H.K. and Szeto W.Y. (2009) Time-dependent transport network design under cost-recovery. Transportation Research Part B, 43, 142-158.
2. Szeto W.Y. and Lo H.K. (2008) Time-dependent transport network improvement and tolling strategies, Transportation Research Part A, 42, 376-391.
3. Szeto W.Y. (2007) Competition between information service providers and toll road operators: modeling frameworks, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations, 11, 41-56.
4. Szeto W.Y. and Lo H.K. (2006) Dynamic traffic assignment: properties and extensions. Transportmetrica, 2, 31-52.
5. Szeto W.Y. and Lo H.K. (2006) Transportation network improvement and tolling strategies: the issue of intergeneration equity, Transportation Research Part A, 40, 227-243.
6. Szeto, W.Y. and Lo, H.K. (2005) Strategies for Road Network Design over Time: Robustness under Uncertainty. Transportmetrica, 1, 47-63.
7. Szeto W.Y. and Lo H.K. (2004) A cell-based simultaneous route and departure time choice model with elastic demand. Transportation Research B, 38, 593-612.
8. Lo H.K. and Szeto W.Y. (2004) Modeling Advanced Traveler Information Services: static versus dynamic paradigms. Transportation Research Part B, 38, 495-515.
9. Lo H.K. and Szeto W.Y. (2002) A cell-based variational inequality formulation of the dynamic user optimal assignment problem. Transportation Research Part B, 36, 421-443.
10. Lo H.K. and Szeto W.Y. (2002) A methodology for sustainable traveller information services. Transportation Research Part B, 36, 113-130.