Jianling Li

Jianling Li is professor of urban planning at the University of Texas, Arlington (UTA), where she teaches transportation planning and GIS.  She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include impacts of transportation planning and policies on individual travel and organizational investment decisions, as well as the relationship between transportation and health outcomes.  Professor Li was a recipient of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Faculty Fellowship in 2001, and has received Research Excellence Awards for recognition of scholarship from UTA since the establishment of the award in 2004.  She served as an invited panelist on a project panel for the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), the Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Science from 2006 to 2009.  She has chaired the student paper competition for the Transportation Planning Division of the American Planning Association since 2006.

Professor Li is also a certified planner of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).  Prior to joining the faculty at UTA, she was a postdoctoral fellow at California Partner for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) at the University of California at Berkeley, working on projects related to evaluation of electronic toll collection and other intelligent transportation system technology impacts.  She also had six years of practical experience as a professional planner at the Guangzhou Urban Planning Bureau in China. 

Selected Publications

Li, Jianling and Patricia Newcomb, 2009, “Disparities in Childhood Asthma Hospitalizations: A Spatial Analysis of Contextual Effects,” in the Journal of Transportation Research Part D. Volume 14, Issue 5, pp. 317-325.

Han, Chien-Pai, and Jianling Li, 2009, “Evaluating Estimation Techniques of Transportation Price Elasticity,” in the Transportation Research Record: the Journal of Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., No. 2115, pp. 94 -101.

Newcomb, Patricia, and Jianling Li, 2008, “Predicting Admissions for Childhood Asthma Exacerbations Based on Proximity to Major Roadways and Demographic Factors,” in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 40:4, pp.319–325.

Li, Jianling, 2007, “Potential Users’ Perspective on Managed Lanes: Insights from a Focus Group Study,” in the Journal of Public Works Management and Policy, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 416-430.

Li, Jianling, P. Embry, S. Mattingly, K. Sadabadi, I. Rasmidatta, and M. Burris, 2007, “Who Chooses to Carpool and Why: An Examination of Texas Carpoolers,” in Transportation Research Record: The Journal of Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., No. 2021, pp.110-117. 

Burris, M., K. Sadabadi, S. Mattingly, M. Mahlawat, Jianling Li, I. Rasmidatta, and A. Saroosh, 2007, “Reaction to the Managed Lane Concept by Various Groups of Travelers,” in Transportation Research Record: The Journal of Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., No. 1996, pp.74-82.

Li, Jianling, 2006, “Toll Financing Practices in the United States,” in the Journal of Municipal Finance, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp.45-68.

Li, Jianling, and Martin Wachs, 2004, “The Effect of Federal Transit Subsidy Policy on Transit Investment Decisions: The Case of San Francisco’s Gary Corridor,” in the Journal of Transportation, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.43-67.

Li, Jianling, 2001, “Explaining High-Occupancy-Toll Lane Use,” in the Journal of Transportation Research Part D, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 61-74.
Li, Jianling, and Martin Wachs, 2001, “How Federal Subsidies Shape Local Transit Choices,” in ACCESS, No. 18, pp.10-14.

Li, Jianling and Martin Wachs, 2000, “A Test of Improved Transit Performance Measures for Transit Investment Decisions,” in the Journal of Transportation, Vol. 27, pp. 243-267.

Li, Jianling, D. Gillen, and J. Dahlgren, 1999, “Benefit-Cost Evaluation of the Electronic Toll Collection System: A Comprehensive Framework and Application,” in Transportation Research Record: The Journal of Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C. Vol. 1659, pp. 31-38.

Li, Jianling, and Brian Taylor, 1998, “Outlay Rates and the Politics of Capital versus Operating Subsidies in Federal Transit Finance,” in Transportation Research Record: The Journal of Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C. Vol. 1618, pp. 78-86.