Dr S C Wong, Associate Professor
 

S.C. Wong received his B.Sc.(Eng.) and M.Phil. degrees in civil and structural engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 1986 and 1989 respectively, and with the award of a Croucher Foundation Scholarship obtained his Ph.D. degree in transport studies from University College London in 1994. He served as a member of the Tuen Mun Road Traffic Incident Independent Expert Panel appointed by the Chief Executive of the Government of HKSAR in 2003. He received an Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the University of Hong Kong in 2000-2001, an Outstanding Paper Award in the 4th Conference of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies in 2001, and a Research Prize for the Civil Engineering Paper of the Year Award 2003 from the Civil Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers in 2003. His research interests include optimization of traffic signal settings, continuous modeling for traffic equilibrium problems, theory of traffic flow, traffic management and control, transportation planning and network modeling, and road safety. In the past decade, he has been involved in a number of consultancy projects, including the parking demand studies, review of annual traffic census, O-D matrix estimation for CTS-3 models, and some territorial and regional transport studies. He is currently a technical advisor for the transport group of Ove Arup & Partners (HK); a Visiting Professor of the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, and Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing; a Council Member and Chairman of the Membership Committee of the Chartered Institute of Transport in Hong Kong; Vice-president of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies; a member of the Road Safety Research Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government; and a member of two international committees, A1C05 Network Modeling Committee of the Transportation Research Board and Committee of Application of Advanced Technologies in Transportation of the American Society of Civil Engineers, USA. He is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of four journals, Transportation Research Part B, Journal of Advanced Transportation, ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development, and Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology. He has also been serving as a Guest Editor for several special issues in the following journals, Transportation, Journal of Advanced Transportation, ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development, and ITS Journal.