PhD-University of Hong Kong -Transportation or Logistics

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Below is a PhD opportunity in University of Hong Kong, followed by the information and contact of the supervisor.

PhD research scholarships in Transportation or Logistics at the University of Hong Kong (HKU)

HKU has recently been ranked 24th among the world’s Universities (Source: THE - QS World University Rankings 2009).
From time to time, PhD research scholarships are available to the full-time Ph.D candidates. Depending on the performance of the candidate, the scholarships can provide up to a monthly stipend of HK$20,000 (approximately US$2,600) and a conference and research-related travel allowance of HK$10,000 (approximately US$1,300) per year for a period of three years. The details of the scholarships and other financial assistance can be found at
http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/web/apply/index_ps4.htm#4a

The PhD admission details and the course work requirement can be found at http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/rola/generalinfo.htm
http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/web/apply/index.htm
http://www.hku.hk/civil/h2f.htm

For the proposed supervisor, please consider Dr. Wai Yuen SZETO, Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at HKU (email: drwszeto@yahoo.com.hk). He was Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the National University of Singapore and Trinity College Dublin, respectively. His research interests include

• dynamic traffic assignment,
• transport network design,
• transport network reliability,
• game theoretic approaches to transport and logistic problems,
• public transport,
• transport logistics,
• pricing,
• meta-heuristics for transport and logistics problems, and
• landuse-transport-environment.

Dr Szeto has been published over 70 referred journal and proceeding papers. He has also received international research awards including:
1.
The HKIE (Hong Kong Institution of Engineers) Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers (2008)
2.
The EASTS (Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies) Outstanding Paper Award (2003)
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The outstanding paper “Time-dependent Transport Network Design: A Study of Budget Sensitivity", out of about 460 papers presented at (or 800 abstracts submitted for) the 5th biannual EASTS Conference in 2003.
3.
The WCTR (World Conference on Transport Research) Prize (2001)
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The best paper “A Cell-based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model", out of about 700 papers presented at (or 1100 abstracts submitted for) the 9th triennial WCTR Conference in 2001.