Herbert Wang, PhD '23

Herbert Wang, PhD '23 research uses urban big data to improve or better understand transportation planning. He is also particularly interested in how smart city is developed, the characteristics of, and whether inclusiveness is addressed when building a smart city.

His dissertation titled “Explore Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) Services Satisfaction Using Social Media Data in the era of Urban Big Data” investigates how customers are perceiving ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft on Twitter, and what factors are impacting their satisfaction levels.

• PhD in Urban and Regional Planning
  University at Buffalo, the State University of New York
• Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP)
  Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
• BS in Geographic Information System
  Wuhan University

• Wang, C. H., Steinfeld, E., Maisel, J. L., & Kang, B. (2021). Is your smart city inclusive? Evaluating proposals from the US Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge. Sustainable Cities and Society, 74, 103148. [IF: 7.59]
• Wang, C., & Hess, D. B. (2020). Role of Urban Big Data in Travel Behavior Research. Transportation Research Record, 0361198120975029. [IF:1.56]
• Kang, B., Wang, C., & Baek, S. R. (2020). No association between Safe Routes to school programs and school-age pedestrian or bicyclist collisions in New York State. Journal of Transport & Health, 18, 100866. [IF: 2.42]
• Silverman RM, Patterson KL, & Wang C. (2021). Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) on the Geographic, Socio-economic, and Public Policy Periphery: A Critical Case Study of Blocked Mobility in the City of San Diego, California. Critical Sociology. April 2021. [IF: 1.507]