Biography
Meijing ZHANG is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Singapore University of Technology and Design, working with Prof. Ying XU. Before that, she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Engineering Systems and Design from the Singapore University of Technology. She was awarded the prestigious President Graduate Fellowship during her doctoral studies. Prior to her Ph.D., she completed a Bachelor’s degree in Traffic Engineering and another Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Beijing Jiaotong University, China. She later pursued a Master’s degree in Transport and Business Management from Imperial College London, UK. In recognition of her research excellence, she received the Best Applied Research Paper Award in 2023 from the Transportation Research Board Urban Freight Transportation Committee in Washington D.C., US.
Education
- 2013 – 2017, B.E. in Traffic Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
- 2015 – 2017, B.M. in Accounting, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
- 2017 – 2018, M.S. in Transportation and Business Management, Imperial College London, UK
- 2019 – 2023, Ph.D. in Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Research Interest
Urban freight, Sustainable mobility, Transportation
Selected Publications
- Zhang, M., & Cheah, L. (2024). Prioritizing Outlier Parcels for Public Transport-Based Crowdshipping in Urban Logistics.Transportation Research Record, 2678(3), 601-612.https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231182429
- Zhang, M., Cheah, L., & Courcoubetis, C. (2023). Exploring the Potential Impact of Crowdshipping Using Public Transport in Singapore.Transportation Research Record, 2677(2), 173-189.https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221123246
- Zhang, M., Cheah, L., “Optimization framework for matching decisions in public transport-based crowdshipping in urban logistics,” in 2023 11th International Conference on Traffic and Logistic Engineering, Macau, China, 25-27 August 2023.
- Zhang, M., Cheah, L., “Prioritising Outlier Parcels for Crowdshipping in Urban Logistics,” in Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 8-12 January 2023. (Best Applied Research Paper Award from Transportation Research Board Urban Freight Transportation Committee).
- Zhang, M., Cheah, L. and Courcoubetis, C., “Exploring the Potential Impact of Crowdshipping Using Public Transport in Singapore,” in 4th VREF Conference on Urban Freight (VREF), Online, 23-25 March 2021.
Awards
- 2019 – 2023, SUTD President’s Graduate Fellowship, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.
- 2023 Best Applied Research Paper Award, Transportation Research Board Urban Freight Transportation Committee (AT025), Washington D.C., 2023.