Using new big mobility data sources, such as mobile phone traces and public transport smart card data, I develop models to estimate, explain and predict spatial-temporal behavior of people, which can help urban authorities, mobility companies and retail companies make better decisions.
In this website, you can (1) find my CV below, and (2) find the summary of my research in the portfolio section.
Education
- Ph.D. in Transport & Planning, TU Delft, 2015 - 2019 (expected).
- Topic: Using big data to inform travel demand models.
- Supervisors: Gonçalo Correia, Bart van Arem, and Harry Timmermans.
- M.S. in Transport & Planning, TU Delft, 2013 - 2015.
- B.S. in Transportation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2009 - 2013.
Publications
- Yihong Wang, Gonçalo Correia, Bart van Arem. Relationships between mobile phone usage and activity-travel behavior: A review of the literature and an example. The Evolving Impact of ICT on Activities and Travel Behaviur 3 (2019): 81.
- Yihong Wang, Gonçalo Correia, Erik de Romph, Bruno F. Santos. Road network design in a developing country using mobile phone data: An application to Senegal. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (2018): early access.
- Yihong Wang, Gonçalo Correia, Bart van Arem, Harry Timmermans. Understanding travellers’ preferences for different types of trip destination based on mobile internet usage data. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 90 (2018): 247-259.
- Yihong Wang, Gonçalo Correia, Erik de Romph, Harry Timmermans. Using metro smart card data to model location choice of after-work activities: An application to Shanghai. Journal of Transport Geography 63 (2017): 40-47.
Honors and awards
- First prize winner in Social Media HackBorne: What Makes Citizens in Borne Community Tick, €750 prize, 2017.
- Innovation Prize winner in Shanghai Open Data Application in Social Credit, ¥5,000 prize, 2017.
- Third place winner on the leaderboard of Shanghai WO+ Open Data Contest, 2016.
- TRAIL Ph.D. Scholarship, funded by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), 2015.
- Transport Prize winner in Data for Development in Senegal (D4D Senegal) Challenge, $2,000 prize, 2015.
- Third prize winner in China Undergraduate Contest of Logistic Planning, 2013.
Conference presentations
- “A neighborhood-based collaborative filtering algorithm for secondary activity location choice prediction using smart card data.” Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 2019.
- “Understanding travelers’ preferences for different types of trip destinations based on mobile internet usage data.” International Conference on Travel Behavior Research, 2018.
- “Using mobile internet usage behavior data to understand travel behavior.” TRAIL Congress, 2017.
- “Understanding multiday activity patterns based on mobile internet usage behavior.” NetMob, 2017.
- “Using public transport smart card data to model location choice of after-work activity: An application to Shanghai.” TRAIL Congress, 2016.
- “Use of mobile phone data for planning a road network: Application to the country of Senegal.” EWGT, 2015.
- “National and regional road network optimization for Senegal using mobile phone data.” NetMob, 2015.
Invited talks
- “Using big data to inform travel demand models.” Beijing University of Technology, 2018.
- “Using big data to inform travel demand models.” Beijing Jiaotong University, 2018.
- “Social Network Crawler: A data-driven social network recommendation system for a public event.” Feiten, Feiten, Feiten (a congress about data and policies organized by Provincie Overijssel), 2018.
Activity and services
- Reviewer of Journal of Transport Geography, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, Journal of Advanced Transportation, Applied Geography and IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
- Member of Beijing City Lab.
Teaching
- Teaching assistant for Emerging Topics for Transport & Planning (for master students), TU Delft, 2019.
- Teaching assistant for Transportation and Spatial Modeling (for master students), TU Delft, 2016 - 2017.
- Teaching assistant for Inleiding Civiele Techniek (for bachelor students), TU Delft, 2016 - 2017.