Prof. S.C. WONG

Francis S Y Bong Professor in Engineering
Professor, Chair of Transportation Engineering
Ir Professor S.C. WONG, BBS, JP

BSc(Eng), The University of Hong Kong, China
MPhil, The University of Hong Kong, China
PhD, University College London, U.K.

 

FICE, FCIHT, FCILT, FHKIE, FHKSTS, MASCE, RPE

 

Office: HW 6-26
Phone: +852 2859 1964
Fax: +852 2559 5337
E-mail: hhecwsc@hku.hk
Homepage: https://www.civil.hku.hk/scwong/

 

Teaching Activities
  • CIVL2111 Transportation Engineering
  • CIVL3119 Traffic Engineering
  • CIVL6046 Theory of Traffic Flow
  • CIVL6047 Traffic Management and Control

 

Research Interests
  • Traffic signals
  • Continuum modeling for traffic equilibrium problems
  • Theory of traffic flow
  • Dynamic network modeling
  • Land-use and transportation problem
  • Urban taxi service
  • Road safety

 

Representative Research / Consultancy Projects
  • Enhancement of the trip matrix estimation procedure in the CTS-3 Model
  • Review of overseas practices on the formulation of road safety strategy and the effectiveness and the applicability in Hong Kong
  • First and second parking demand Study
  • Review of the Annual Traffic Census
  • Hong Kong Island North and Kowloon West Traffic Study

 

10 Selected Representative Publications
  • Wong, S.C., (1998). "Multi-commodity traffic assignment by continuum approximation of network flow with variable demand." Transportation Research Part B, 32, 567-581.
  • Yang, H., and Wong, S.C. (1998). "A network model of urban taxi services." Transportation Research Part B, 32, 235-246.
  • Wong, C.K., and Wong, S.C. (2003). "Lane-based optimization of signal timings for isolated junctions." T ransportation Research Part B, 37, 63-84.
  • Sze, N.N., and Wong, S.C. (2007). "Diagnostic analysis of the logistic model for pedestrian injury severity in traffic crashes." Accident Analysis and Prevention, 39, 1267-1278.
  • Lu, Y.D.., Wong, S.C., Zhang, M., and Shu, C.W. (2009). "The entropy solutions for the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards traffic flow model with a discontinuous flow-density relationship." Transportation Science, 43, 511-530.
  • Huang, L., Wong, S.C., Zhang, M., Shu, C.W., and Lam, W.H.K. (2009). "'Revisiting Hughes' dynamic continuum model for pedestrian flow and the development of an efficient solution algorithm." Transportation Research Part B, 43, 127-141.
  • Jiang, Y.Q., Wong, S.C., Ho, H.W., Zhang, P., Liu, R.X., and Sumalee A. (2011). "A dynamic traffic assignment model for a continuum transportation system. " Transportation Research Part B, 45, 343-363.
  • Lin Z.Y., Wong, S.C., Zhang, P., and Choi, K. (2018). "A predictive continuum dynamic user-optimal model for the simultaneous departure time and route choice problem in a polycentric city." Transportation Science, 52, 1496-1508.
  • Wong, W., and Wong, S.C. (2019). "Unbiased estimation methods of nonlinear transport models based on linearly projected data." Transportation Science, 53, 665-682.
  • Jia, S., Wong, S.C., and Wong, W. (2023) “Uncertainty estimation of connected vehicle penetration rate.” Transportation Science, 57, 1160-1176.

 

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