Date: Dec 13
Time: 8AM CDT - 10PM Beijing Time
ABSTRACT: Singapore is one of the city-states in the world with an acclaimed transport system that provides its residents with a variety of accessibility and mobility options. Integrated land-use and transportation planning had been playing a vital role in keeping it rejuvenated in accordance with increasing travel demand. Due to limited land availability coupled with increasing population density, public transportation continues to play as a major mode of commuting. Despite adequate quantity of supply of mobility infrastructure and efficient operation of public transport, private car ownership is still high in Singapore. The nation is moving towards a car-lite future with an aim of reducing reliance on private vehicles and hence, progresses towards creating a more sustainable and liveable environment that benefits the city and its communities in several ways, including mobility. The presentation will cover items such as: introducing Singapore’s move towards a low-carbon and car-lite society, discussing innovative mobility and land development solutions at a town-based level and sharing some key techniques adopted in investigating a holistic mobility plan-ning. The success of Singapore’s low-carbon and car-lite mobility policy planning is heavily attributed to the subscrip-tion of evidence-based practice approach which relies on data analytics and scientific modeling results.
BIO: Professor Der-Horng Lee is helmed by the ‘Qiushi’ Chair Professorship of Zhejiang University (ZJU), China. He is currently the Dean of Zhejiang University – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute. Prior to ZJU, Professor Lee was a tenured professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singa-pore (NUS). He is an elected Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore (SAEng). Professor Lee’s primarily research areas include Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Intelligent Port Logistics Systems, Sustainable Liveable Smart City. Professor Lee was graduated with his PhD degree from the University of Illinois in 1996. He was an Honoree of 2002 TR100 Award (renamed to TR35 in 2005) by MIT’s Technology Review. A TEDx speaker, Professor Lee has been extensively quoted and frequently interviewed by local and international media with more than 500 interviews of his views and proposals on technology, urban mobility, urban policies, infrastructure development, etc. Professor Lee is listed in “World’s Top 2% Scientists” published by Stanford University, USA. Professor Lee was received by Chinese Pres-ident Xi Jinping in Beijing in October 2019.
CIRCLE: The Center for Infrastructure Resilience in Cities as Livable Environments is one of three research themes supported by the joint Dynamic Research Enterprise for Multidisciplinary Engineering Sciences (DREMES), established between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Zhejiang University (ZJU). The CIRCLE Distin-guished Lecture Series is intended to provide opportunities for faculty and students to meet and interact with interna-tionally renowned experts in the field.
