Dr. J.T. KE

Professor J.T. KE
Assistant Professor (Transportation Engineering)

BEng, Zhejiang University, China
PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China

 

 

Office: HW 6-05
Phone: +852 3917 8556
Fax: +852 2559 5337
E-mail: kejintao@hku.hk
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/kejintao

 

Teaching Activities
  • CIVL1116 Introduction to Urban Development
  • CIVL3140 Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering
  • CIVL7018 Data Science for Civil Engineering
  • CIVL7019 Statistical Methods for Civil Engineering
  • GEOG7012 Transport Field Trip
  • ENGG1320 Engineers in The Modern World
  • CIVL4101 Capstone Design Project
  • CIVL4102 Final Year Project (BEng, Core)
  • CIVL7009 Dissertation (M.Sc., Core)

 

Research Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence for Transportation
  • Smart Mobility Services (Ride-Sharing, Ride-Sourcing, Last-Mile Delivery)
  • Urban Computing
  • Spatio-Temporal Traffic Pattern Analysis/Prediction
  • Transport Economics
  • Advanced Air Mobility

 

Representative Research / Consultancy Projects
  • MTR Research Funding (MRF), HKU-25003, “Multimodal traffic simulation, route recommendation and subsidy: Enhancing first and last mile connectivity for MTR”, Jan 1 2026 – 31 Dec 2028.
  • RGC General Research Fund (GRF), HKU17204525, “Matching strategy designs for e-hailing taxi markets under the broadcasting mechanism”, 1 Jan 2026 – 31 Dec 2028.
  • Smart Traffic Fund, PSRI/78/2311/RA, “SmartSim: AI-assisted Simulation Software for Multimodal Transportation Operations”, 1 Dec 2024 – 30 Nov 2026.
  • Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (PPR), Project No. 2024.A8.145.24A, “A Planning Scheme of Commercial Electric Vehicle Chargers for Promoting Green Transport in Hong Kong”, 25 July 2024 – 24 July 2025.
  • RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS), HKU27203323, “Modelling, simulation, and operational strategy designs for on-demand food delivery services”, 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026.
  • Environment Conservation Fund (ECF) Environmental Research, Technology Demonstration and Conference Project 2022, 102/2022, “Estimating carbon emissions, assessing decarbonization strategies and managing green transportation in Hong Kong with a multifunctional simulation platform”, 1 March 2024 – 28 Feb 2026.
  • Smart Traffic Fund, PSRI/29/2201/PR, “Development of a Simulation Platform and Artificial Intelligent Algorithms for Optimising Operation and Management of Taxi E-hailing Services”, 31 Mar 2023 – 30 Sep 2024.
  • Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 72201223, “Management and optimization for ride-sourcing markets under a mix of autonomous vehicles and human drivers”, 1 Jan 2023 – 31 Dec 2025.
  • RGC General Research Fund (GRF), HKU15209121, “Pareto efficient regulatory schemes for ride-sourcing markets”, 1 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2024.

 

Professional Activities
  • Editorial Advisory Board Member, Travel Behavior and Society, 2024−Present.
  • Editorial Advisory Board Member, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, 2022−Present.
  • Early Career Editorial Advisory Board, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Elsevier, 2021/04−Present.
  • Co-Chairs of Organizing Committee, The 29th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, HKSTS 2025, Hong Kong, Dec 8–9, 2025
  • Co-Chairs of Organizing Committee, The 9th International Symposium on Transport Network Resilience (INSTR2023), Hong Kong, Dec 13–14, 2023
  • Chair of Technical Program Committee, Committee of Artificial Intelligence Empowered Traffic Management and Service, World Transport Convention, 2024–Present.
  • Executive Chairman, Hong Kong Taxi Council, 2025–Present.

 

10 Selected Representative Publications
  • Zhang, K., Ke, J.*, Wang, H., and Yin, Y. (2025). Tactical operations of service region dimensioning, bundling, and matching for on-demand food delivery services. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 174, 105069.
  • Wang, C. and Ke, J.* (2024). Modelling a ride-sourcing market with a third-party platform integrator under batch matching mechanisms. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 192, 103803.
  • Li, X., Yang, H., and Ke, J.* (2023). Booking cum rationing strategy for equitable travel demand management in road networks. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 167, 261−274.
  • Zhou, Y., Yang, H., Ke, J.*, Wang, H., and Li, X. (2022). Competition and third-party platform-integration in ride-sourcing markets. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 159, 76−103.
  • Zhu, Z., Ke, J.*, and Wang, H. (2021). A mean-field Markov decision process model for spatial-temporal subsidies in ride-sourcing markets. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 150, 540−565. (ISTTT24 Special Issue)
  • Ke, J.*, Yang H., and Zheng Z. (2020). On ride-pooling and traffic congestion. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 142, 213−231.
  • Ke, J.., Yang H., Li X., Wang H.*, and Ye J. (2020). Pricing and equilibrium in on-demand ride-pooling markets. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 139, 411−431.
  • Ke, J., Xiao F.*, Yang H., and Ye J. (2020). Learning to delay in ride-sourcing systems: a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning framework. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 34(5), 2280−2292.
  • Yang H., Qin X., Ke, J.*, and Ye J. (2020). Optimizing matching time interval and matching radius in on-demand ride-sourcing markets. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 131, 84-105.
  • Ke, J., Zheng H., Yang H., and Chen X.* (2017). Short-term forecasting of passenger demand under On-demand ride services: A spatio-temporal deep learning approach. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 85, 591−608.

 

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