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Prof. Li Zuomin is the appointed Director of the Centre of Excellence since March 2009, succeeding Prof. Zhou Wei.
The China Urban Sustainable Transport Research Center (CUSTReC) initiated activities in 2006. VREF is financing the Centre through 2010. Twenty four researchers are employed at the Centre. They collaborate with an additional 12 international researchers in China and the outside world. The collaboration provides the Centre with access to international expertise and opportunities for the Centre.
In March 2009, Prof. Zhou Wei, who was appointed to other duties, was replaced by Prof. Li Zuomin.
Appointed in 2007 as the President of CATS, Li Zuomin began to take over all the responsibilities formerly undertaken by his predecessor. His work ranges from transport engineering to transport planning and manage ment, and to human resources development and management.
China Academy of Transport Sciences (CATS), Ministry of Communications, Beijing, P.R. China
Link to the Centre's Website
- Suggestion on urban low carbon transport system construction in China
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Research theme:
Green & Safe Transports
Year: 2011
Type: Research article - Policy Making on Urban Transport Energy Saving
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Research theme:
Policy approaches to urban mobility
Year: 2011
Type: Research article - Smooth, Efficient, Safe, Green—Main Issues of Sustainable Urban Public Transport in China
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Research theme:
Public Transport Development
Year: 2010
Type: Book - Practices and Policies of Green Urban Transport in China
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Research theme:
Policy approaches to urban mobility
Year: 2010
Type: Research article - Policy for energy saving of urban transport in China
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Research theme:
Policy approaches to urban mobility
Year: 2009
Type: Book - Draft of Policy Recommendation on Promoting Urban Public Transport Priority Development in China
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Research theme:
Public Transport Development
Year: 2009
Type: Report - Transit‐Oriented Development—The Concept and Its Practice in China: Challenges and options
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Research theme:
Transport Planning & Governance Systems
Year: 2009
Type: Book - Bi-level programming model and solution method for mixed transportation network design problem
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Research theme:
Urban Traffic Management
Year: 2009
Type: Research article - Annual report on sustainable transport development in China
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Research theme:
Policy approaches to urban mobility
Year: 2007
Type: Report - Study on the relationship between land utilization and sustainable development of urban transport in China
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Research theme:
Policy approaches to urban mobility
Year: 2007
Type: Research article - Research on Urban Transport Sustainable Developing Model and Countermeasures for China Central Cities
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Research theme:
Transport Planning & Governance Systems
Year: 2007
Type: Report - Challenges and Policy Options for Sustainable Urban Transportation Development in China
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Research theme:
Policy approaches to urban mobility
Year: 2007
Type: Research article - Transport-Related Resource and Environmental Issues in China
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Research theme:
Policy approaches to urban mobility
Year: 2006
Type: Research article - Strategy Vision and Policy Recommendations on China’s Sustainable Transport
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Research theme:
Policy approaches to urban mobility
Year: 2006
Type: Research article - The development and current status of China’s transportation system
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Research theme:
Policy approaches to urban mobility
Year: 2006
Type: Research article
MOBILITY AND ACCESS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN CITIES
The Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) and VREF are launching a Call for Presentations for their 3-day workshop to be given in Addis Ababa 17-19 September 2019.
Call open until 2019-06-24
The VREF invites PhD students and researchers in early stages of their career to apply for a Study Visit Grant to be supported with up to SEK 30 000.
Invitation open until 2019-10-31
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This Meeting of the Minds' blog monthly releases interviews of global transportation researchers from the VREF's Future Urban Transport Program Network.
This CityFix series, produced by the WRI (World Ressources Institute) Ross Center for Sustainable Cities and supported by the VREF, discusses walking and cycling in cities with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Each year the Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research awards a scholarship to a prominent researcher.
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