Jiawen Yang

Jiawen Yang is assistant professor in the City and Regional Planning Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches courses including economic analysis for planning, transportation investment decisions, transportation modeling and geographic information systems. He researches on urban and regional spatial development, transportation and infrastructure planning and investment, and transportation-land use interaction in international contexts.
 

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Selected Works

Yang, Jiawen, 2008, “Policy Implications of Excess Commuting: Examining the Impacts of Changes in Metropolitan Spatial Structure,” Urban Studies, 45: 391-405

Yang, Jiawen and Ferreira, Joseph, “Choices vs. Choice Sets: a Commuting Spectrum Method for Representing Job-Housing Possibilities,” Environment and Planning B, 35(2) 364 – 378

Yang, Jiawen and Catherine Ross, 2007, “Implementing Spatial Planning in China’s Market Economy,” Urban Planning Forum (in Chinese), No. 6.

Yang, Jiawen, 2007, “Computing Accessibility Measures with Integrating GIS and DBMS”, Proceeding of American Society of Civil Engineering, pp. 58-66.

Yang, Jiawen and Ralph Gakenheimer, 2007, “Assessing the Mobility and Accessibility Consequences of Land Use Transformation in Urban China”, Habitat International, 31: 345-353. 

Yang, Jiawen, and Changchun Feng, Guangzhong Cao, 2007, “Land and Transportation Development in China: An Economic Analysis of Government Behavior,” Journal of Transportation Research Board.  No. 2038, pp. 78-83.

Yang, Jiawen, 2007, “Letter to Editor: Understanding Urban Planning in China,” Journal of American Planning Association. 73: 2.

Gakenheimer, Ralph, and Jiawen Yang, 2006, “Land and Access in Chinese Cities”, Urban Planning International (in Chinese), No. 6.

Yang, Jiawen, 2006, “Transportation Implications of Land Development in a Transitional Economy: Evidence from Housing Relocation in Beijing, China,” Journal of Transportation Research Board. No. 1954, pp. 7-14. 

Yang, Jiawen, 2005, “Commuting Impacts of Spatial Decentralization: A comparison of Boston and Atlanta,” Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 35, 69-78. (First place winner for M. Jarvin Emerson Award).

Yang, Jiawen, and Joseph Ferreira, 2005, “Evaluating Measures of Job-housing Proximity: Boston and Atlanta, 1980-2000,” In K. Krizek and D. Levinson (Ed.), Access to Destinations. Elsevier Ltd, pp 171-193.