Life-Oriented Behavioral Research for Urban Policy

Prof. Junyi Zhang’s main research interests are in the fields of urban and regional planning, transportation planning, traffic engineering, human behavior survey and modeling, tourism policy, environment and energy policy. As of October 2016, he published more than 360 peer-reviewed papers especially from the interdisciplinary perspective. He has been serving as an editorial board member in more than 10 internationally well-recognized journals and as a reviewer for nearly 40 famous international journals.

• Life-oriented Approach.- Empirical Evidence of Behavioral Interdependencies across Life Choices.- Lifestyles and Life Choices.- The Car-dependent Life.- Household Energy Consumption Behavior.- ICT-dependent Life and Its Impacts on Mobility.- Health-related Life Choices.- Life-oriented Tourism Behavior Research.- Influence of Land Use and Transport Policies on Women’s Labor Participation and Life Choices.- Mobility of the Elderly.- Risky Behaviors in Life: A Focus on Young People.- Adaptation of Behavior to Overcome Natural Disasters.- Mobility Biographies and Mobility Socialisation – New Approaches to an Old Research Field.- Biographical Interactions over the Life Course: Car Ownership, Residential Choice, Household Structure, and Employment/Education.- Household Time Use Behavior Analysis: A Case Study of Multidimensional Timing Decisions.- Models of Behavioral Change and Adaptation.- Behavioral Changes in Migration Associated with Jobs, Residences, and Family Life.- Future Perspectives of the Life-oriented Approach.