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Research outputs on COVID-19

The following are some of our major outputs of research on COVID-19.

Papers published

  1. Junyi Zhang (2021) People’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic during its early stages and factors affecting those responses. Nature – Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8: 37. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00720-1 [Highly Cited Paper]
  2. Shuang Ma#, Shuangjin Li#, and Junyi Zhang* (2021) Diverse and nonlinear influences of built environment factors on COVID-19 spread across townships in China at its initial stage. Nature – Scientific Reports, 11, 12415.
  3. Junyi Zhang*, Yoshitsugu Hayashi (2022) Research Frontier of COVID-19 and passenger transport: A focus on policymaking. Transport Policy, 119, 78-88.
  4. Stephane Hess, ……………….., Junyi Zhang and Mark H P Zuidgeest (2022) The path towards herd immunity: predicting COVID-19 vaccination uptake through results from a stated choice study across six continents. Social Science & Medicine, 298, 114800.
  5. Junyi Zhang, Tao Feng, Jing Kang, Shuangjin Li, Rui Liu, Shuang Ma, Baoxin Zhai, Runsen Zhang, Hongxiang Ding & Taoxing Zhu (2021) “What should be computed” for supporting post-pandemic recovery policymaking? A life-oriented perspective. Computational Urban Science, 1, Article number 24.
  6. 张峻屹 (2021) 后疫情时代交通运输领域的一体化碳减排政策. 城市交通. Online 2021-07-21 [Zhang J. (2021) Integrated Policy for Post-COVID-19 Carbon Reduction in Transport Sector. Urban Transport of China]
  7. Shuangjin Li#, Shuang Ma#, Junyi Zhang* (2021) Scenario analyses of COVID-19 policymaking in highly tourism-dependent developing countries by developing a system dynamics model: A case study on Cambodia. Tourism Economics (First Published January 17, 2022)
  8. Rothengatter, W., Zhang, J., Hayashi, Y., Nosach, A., Wang, K., Oum, T.H. (2021) Pandemic waves and the time after Covid-19 – Consequences for the transport sector. Transport Policy, 110, 225-237 (Highly Cited Papers)
  9. Zhang, J. (2021) Governance for Post-COVID-19 Carbon Reduction: A Case Study of the Transport Sector (May 23, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3851398
  10. Hongxiang Ding, Junyi Zhang* (2021) Dynamic associations between temporal behavior changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and subjective assessments of policymaking: A case study in Japan. Transport Policy, 110, 58-70.
  11. Runsen Zhang, Junyi Zhang (2021) Long-term pathways to deep decarbonization of the transport sector in the post-COVID world. Transport Policy, 110, 28-36.
  12. Junyi Zhang*, Runsen Zhang, Hongxiang Ding, Shuangjin Li, Rui Liu, Shuang Ma, Baoxin Zhai, Saori Kashima, Yoshitsugu Hayashi (2021) Effects of transport-related COVID-19 policy measures: A case study of six developed countries. Transport Policy, 110, 37-57.
  13. Junyi Zhang*, Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Lawrence D. Frank (2021) COVID-19 and Transport: Findings from a World-wide Expert Survey. Transport Policy, 103, 68-85 [Highly Cited Paper & Hot Paper]
  14. Shuangjin Li, Shuang Ma, and Junyi Zhang* (2021) Association of built environment attributes with the spread of COVID-19 at its initial stage in China. Sustainable Cities and Society, 67, 102752. [Highly Cited Paper]
  15. Saori Kashima*, Junyi Zhang* (2021) Temporal trends in voluntary behavioural changes during the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in Japan. Public Health, 192, 37-44.
  16. Junyi Zhang (2020) Transport policymaking that accounts for COVID-19 and future public health threats: A PASS approach. Transport Policy, 99, 405-418. [Highly Cited Paper]
  17. 林良嗣・張峻屹(2021) COVID-19パンデミック対策・政策と交通部門の役割．国際交通安全学会誌、Vol. 46, No. 1, 64-74. Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Junyi Zhang (2021) COVID-19 Pandemic Countermeasures and Policy, and the Role of the Transport Sector. IATSS Review, Vol. 46, No. 1, 64-74.

Books

  1. Junyi ZHANG (2023) Research Handbook on Transport and COVID-19. Edward Elgar Publishing (underwriting)
  2. Junyi ZHANG, Tao Feng, Saori Kashima (2022) COVID-19 & Pandemics, Lifestyles, and the Built Environment: Towards an Inclusive Future for Planetary Health, Springer (underwriting)
  3. Junyi ZHANG, Yoshitsugu Hayashi (2022) Transportation Amid Pandemics: Lessons Learned From COVID-19, Elsevier.
    • Junyi Zhang and Yoshitsugu Hayashi (2022) COVID-19 and Transport: Recording the History of Fights Against Pandemics. In: Junyi Zhang and Yoshitsugu Hayashi (eds.), Transportation Amid Pandemics: Lessons Learned From COVID-19, Chapter 1, Elsevier.
    • Shuang Ma, Shuangjin Li, Junyi Zhang (2022) The impacts of the built environment factors and population mobility on the spread of COVID-19 during its initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic: A case of China. In: Junyi Zhang and Yoshitsugu Hayashi (eds.), Transportation Amid Pandemics: Lessons Learned From COVID-19, Chapter 4, Elsevier.
    • Rui Liu, Hongxiang Ding, Junyi Zhang (2022) Social contact patterns and changes at leisure/tourism activity settings during COVID-19 period: An international comparison. In: Junyi Zhang and Yoshitsugu Hayashi (eds.), Transportation Amid Pandemics: Lessons Learned From COVID-19, Chapter 16, Elsevier.
    • Linghan Zhang, Rui Liu, Junyi Zhang, Fengzhi Sun (2022) Tourism policy responses to COVID-19 and first-stage tourism recovery in China. In: Junyi Zhang and Yoshitsugu Hayashi (eds.), Transportation Amid Pandemics: Lessons Learned From COVID-19, Chapter 24, Elsevier.
    • Runsen Zhang, Junyi Zhang, Wenchao Wu, Tatsuya Hanaoka (2022) Assessing the impacts of COVID-19 on carbon emissions from the road transport sector in China. In: Junyi Zhang and Yoshitsugu Hayashi (eds.), Transportation Amid Pandemics: Lessons Learned From COVID-19, Chapter 26, Elsevier.
    • Jing Kang, Junyi Zhang (2022) COVID-19 and big data technologies: Experience in China. In: Junyi Zhang and Yoshitsugu Hayashi (eds.), Transportation Amid Pandemics: Lessons Learned From COVID-19, Chapter 28, Elsevier.
    • Junyi Zhang, Yoshitsugu Hayashi (2022) Collective thoughts about the COVID-19 pandemic and transport from a worldwide expert survey. In: Junyi Zhang and Yoshitsugu Hayashi (eds.), Transportation Amid Pandemics: Lessons Learned From COVID-19, Chapter 29, Elsevier.
    • Fuyo Jenny Yamamoto, Madan B. Regmi, Junyi Zhang (2022) From crisis management to sustainable and inclusive transport: Leveraging COVID-19 to improve public transport services in Asia. In: Junyi Zhang and Yoshitsugu Hayashi (eds.), Transportation Amid Pandemics: Lessons Learned From COVID-19, Chapter 30, Elsevier.
    • Junyi Zhang (2022) Governance for post-COVID-19 carbon reduction: A case study of the transport sector. In: Junyi Zhang and Yoshitsugu Hayashi (eds.), Transportation Amid Pandemics: Lessons Learned From COVID-19, Chapter 34, Elsevier.
    • Junyi Zhang, Yoshitsugu Hayashi (2022) Policy recommendations and future challenges. In: Junyi Zhang and Yoshitsugu Hayashi (eds.), Transportation Amid Pandemics: Lessons Learned From COVID-19, Chapter 36, Elsevier.
  4. Zhang, J., Hayashi, Y., Seetha Ram, K.E., Bhatt, A., Wee, V.E.H. (2021) Key Messages (Part I: Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport and Logistics). In: Hayashi, Y, Rothengatter, W. and Seetha Ram, K.E. (eds.), Frontiers in High-Speed Rail Development. pp. 9-16, ADB Institute Press, Tokyo, Japan.
  5. Zhang, J., Hayashi, Y., Rothengatter, W., Seetha Ram, K.E. (2021) The COVID-19 Pandemic and Transport Policy: State of the Art and State of the Practice. In: Hayashi, Y, Rothengatter, W. and Seetha Ram, K.E. (eds.), Frontiers in High-Speed Rail Development. pp.17-72, ADB Institute Press, Tokyo, Japan.

Presentations and working papers

  1. Zhang, J. (2021) DIRECT Approach and its Application to Governance of Post-pandemic Carbon Reduction in the Transport Sector. Invited speech at The 7th International Conference on Integrated Land Use Transport Modeling. Xi’an, China, June 18-19.
  2. Zhang, J. (2021) Post-pandemic Policies and Strategies for Smart and Low-Carbon Development of Comprehensive Transportation in Urban Agglomerations: Discussion Based on the DIRECT Approach. Invited speech at 交通强国-新时期城市群综合交通智慧低碳发展高端论坛. Beijing, China. April 27
  3. Junyi ZHANG, Hiroki YOSHIDA, Saori KASHIMA, Yoshitsugu HAYASHI, Hiroyuki TAKESHITA, Shuangjin LI, Shuang MA: Association of transport accessibility with the spread of COVID-19 in Japan: An analysis of the period of January to September 2020.
  4. Zhang, J.*, Hayashi, Y. (2020) What can be learned from experts’ open opinions on COVID-19 and Transport? Findings from a World-wide Expert Survey [working paper]
  5. Ding, H., Zhang, J.*, Kashima, S., Zhang, R.: The role of risk communication in mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in Japan: An analysis by building a dynamic Scobit model, ICPT2020
  6. Ding, H., Zhang, J.*: Examining the effects of PASS-based and LASTING-based COVID-19 policy measures on changes in intercity and intracity behavioral choices in Japan by building a dynamic structural equation model with panel data , ICPT2020
  7. Hiroki Yoshida, H., Zhang, J.*, Kashima, S., Hayashi, Y., Zhang, R.: Human mobility, transport accessibility, and the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study in Japan, ICPT2020
  8. Zhang, J.*, Alhakim, B., Ding, H.: Capturing early-stage responses of Japanese people to the COVID-19 pandemic based on a life-oriented retrospective panel survey, ICPT2020
  9. Ma, S., Li, S., Zhang, J.*: Policy optimization for pandemic response using system dynamics in highly tourism-dependent developing countries: A case study on COVID-19 in Cambodia, ICPT2020
  10. Linghan Zhang, Rui Liu, Junyi Zhang, Fengzhi Sun: Tourism policy responses to COVID-19 and tourism recovery: An overview of China , ICPT2020
  11. Zhang, J.*, Ding, H., Dinglasa, MGA, Do, CX, Namgung, H., Nguyen, HTA, Nugroho, S., Renita, RV, Virakvichetra, L., Yoshida, H., Hayashi, Y.: Comparisons of PASS-based transport policy measures for addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in Asian countries , ICPT2020
  12. Zhang, R., Zhang, J.: Long-term pathways to deep decarbonization of transport sector in the post-COVID’s new normal , ICPT2020
  13. [invited speech] Junyi Zhang (2020) RESPONSES OF GENERAL PUBLIC AND RAILWAY OPERATORS TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AT ITS EARLY STAGES IN JAPAN. Invited speech at the 7th International Symposium on Railway Operations Research, Beijing, China, November 14-15.
  14. [invited speech]Hayashi Y., Zhang J, Takeshita H. (2020) The impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in transport and land use: Interpreting the results of WCTRS expert survey. Applied Urban Modelling (AUM) 2020, The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, October 22, 2020.
  15. [invited speech]Zhang J. (2020) A new policymaking framework for addressing the impacts of COVID-19 and future pandemics: PASS approach and its applications. Invited speech at ADBI-Chubu University Conference on Transport Infrastructure Development, Spillover Effects and Quality of Life [online], October 12, 2020.
  16. Zhang J. (2020) Chairing the roundtable Session “Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport, co-organized with WCTRS COVID-19 Task Force, at ADBI-Chubu University Conference on Transport Infrastructure Development, Spillover Effects and Quality of Life [online], October 12, 2020.
  17. Zhang J., Alhakim B. (2020) Voluntary behavioral changes caused by COVID-19 at its early stages in Japan and LAST approach against the spread [感染拡大初期段階における自発的な行動変化の調査分析とLASTアプローチによる対策の提案]. Presented at the Online Seminar on COVID-19 organized by Committee of Infrastructure Planning and Management, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, August 8, 2020.
  18. Zhang J, Yoshida H., Alhakim B. (2020) 交通運輸部門におけるCOVID-19政策立案方法「PASSアプローチ」の提案とアジア・中東の都市を対象とする事例分析 [A PASS Approach for Policymaking Against COVID-19 in the Transport Sector: Proposal and Case Studies on Asian Cities], Presented at the Online Seminar on COVID-19 organized by Committee of Infrastructure Planning and Management, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, August 8, 2020. [in Japanese]
  19. Li S., Ma S., Zhang J. (2020) The city-level spread of COVID-19 at its initial stages in China: An analysis of its associations with the built environment factors by reflecting spatial heterogeneity, Presented at the Online Seminar on COVID-19 organized by Committee of Infrastructure Planning and Management, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, August 8, 2020.
  20. others: forthcoming

Keynote speeches and invited speeches

  1. Zhang, J. (2021) Transport Solutions to Planetary Health: A Methodological Perspective (星球健康的交通解决方案：方法论视角). Keynote speech at the Special Meeting of Modern Transportation Technology & Industry (现代交通工程技术与产业专题会), the International Forum on Innovation and Emerging Industries Development (创新与新兴产业发展国际会议). Shanghai, China, December 26.
  2. Zhang, J. (2021) Pandemics and Transport: Policy Responses and Challenges. Keynote speech, The 20th and 21st joint COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2020-21), Xi’an, China, Dec 17-20.
  3. Zhang, J. and Hongxiang Ding (2021) Changes in Activity-Travel Behavior and Social Contacts Under the Impacts of COVID-19. Invited speech at the session “Travel Behavior and Activities”, The 20th and 21st joint COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2020-21), Xi’an, China, Dec 17-20.
  4. Zhang, J. (2021) Process Management of Low-carbon Development of Urban Transport (城市交通低碳发展政策过程管理), Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport, China. Beijing, November 19.
  5. Zhang, J. (2021) Integrated Process Management of Carbon Reduction in the Transport Sector: A Methodological Perspective. Keynote speech at The 9th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis. Beijing, China, November 3 – 7.
  6. Zhang, J. (2021) DIRECT Approach and its Application to Governance of Post-pandemic Carbon Reduction in the Transport Sector. Invited speech at The 7th International Conference on Integrated Land Use Transport Modeling. Xi’an, China, June 18-19.
  7. Zhang, J. (2021) Post-pandemic Policies and Strategies for Smart and Low-Carbon Development of Comprehensive Transportation in Urban Agglomerations: Discussion Based on the DIRECT Approach. Invited speech at the Summit Forum of Smart and Low-carbon Development of Comprehensive Transportation in New-generation City Clusters under the Policy of China’s Strength in Transportation (交通强国-新时期城市群综合交通智慧低碳发展高端论坛). Beijing, China. April 27.
  8. Hayashi Y., Zhang J, Takeshita H. (2020) Transport in the aftermath of COVID-19: lessons learned and future directions: a case of Japan. Intergovernmental 13th Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia, 10-11 November 2020.
  9. Hayashi Y., Zhang J, Takeshita H. (2020) The impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in transport and land use: Interpreting the results of WCTRS expert survey. Applied Urban Modelling (AUM) 2020, The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, October 22, 2020.
  10. Zhang J. (2020) A new policymaking framework for addressing the impacts of COVID-19 and future pandemics: PASS approach and its applications. Invited speech at ADBI-Chubu University Conference on Transport Infrastructure Development, Spillover Effects and Quality of Life [online], October 12, 2020.
  11. Zhang J. (2020) Impacts of COVID-19 on the Transport Sector and Measures Against Public Health Threats: Policymaking Based on a PASS Approach. Invited speech at ADBI-WCTRS Webinar Series, June 12, 2020.
  12. Zhang J. (2020) The measures taken in the railway sector against COVID-19 in Japan. Invited speech at World Bank Sustaining Transport Services in the COVID-19 Pandemic-Railway Services Webinar, May 20, 2020.
  13. Hayashi Y., Zhang J. (2020) How to fundamentally reform transport and living-work systems considering pandemics? – Infection, Resilience, QOL and Mindset -. Invited speech at World Bank Sustaining Transport Services in the COVID-19 Pandemic-Railway Services Webinar, May 20, 2020.
  14. more invited speeches