Academic Staff

Brief Biosketch

Dr. Kun Wang is an Assistant Professor at Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before this, he was Associate Professor at University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing, China. He obtained PhD degree in Transport & Logistics from Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC). Dr. Wang received BBA (First Class Honours) and MPhil degree from Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies (LMS), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Dr. Wang has published more than 100 articles on journals including Transportation Research Part A/B/C/D/E, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Transport Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Energy Economics, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Air Transport Management. His work has been widely cited with 13 articles recognized as the ESI highly cited papers. He is also awarded the “World’s Top 2% Scientists” by Stanford University in 2023 and 2024.

Dr. Wang has been the principal investigator (PI) of several research grants, for example, NSFC and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China. He has also provided consultancy services for the organizations including State Council of China, Ministry of Transportation of China, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), Airport Authority of Hong Kong (AAHK), Beijing Municipal Government, Xiamen Airport, Manchester Airport Group, Umetrip, Variflight. His advisory reports have been endorsed by Vice Prime Minister of China, and Vice Minister of Transport of China.

Research Interests

• Aviation transport management
• International maritime shipping and logistics
• Intermodal competition and policy
• Green supply chain and logistics management

Editorship/Committees

Editorship

• Editor, Transport Policy (2021- ) (JCR Q1)
• Associate Editor (2025-), Journal of Air Transport Management (JCR Q2)
• Editorial Board Member, Transportation Research Part A (2023-) (JCR Q1)
• Editorial Board Member, Transportation Research Part D (2024-) (JCR Q1)
• Editorial Board Member, Research in Transportation Business & Management (SSCI, Q2)
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Transport Economics and Management
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology
• Guest editor, Transportation Research Part A (09.2022) (JCR Q1)
• Guest editor, Research in Transportation Economics (12.2022) (JCR Q2)
• Guest editor, Research in Transportation Business and Management (9.2024) (JCR Q2)
• Guest editor, Journal of Air Transport Management (04.2021) (JCR Q2)

Committee

• Steering Committee (STC), and Scientific Committee (SCC) Member of World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS)
• Chairman of Special Interest Group (SIG) B1 Supply Chain Management, World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS)
• Committee Member of the Maritime Economy and Policy stream of the World Transport Convention (WTC)
• Executive Secretary, Committee of Transport Management, Society of Management Science and Engineering of China
• Executive Secretary, Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) China Chapter
• Standing Committee Member of China Logistics Society

Awards/Prizes:

• JTTRI Best Paper Award, 27th Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) (2024)
• World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (sub-category: Logistics & Transportation) (2023)
• Best Paper Award, the 12th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, CTS, Harbin, China (2021)
• Best Paper Award, 2021 World Transport Convention (WTC), Xi'an, China (2021)
• Best Paper on Topic Area A, Transport Modes General of 15th WCTR conference, Mumbai, India (2019)
• Best Graduate Student Paper Award, the US Transportation Research Forum 58th Annual Meeting, Chicago, US (2017)

Selected Publications

Published more than 100 papers on transport and logistics management. The selected recent papers are:

1. Zheng, S., Zhang, A., Wang, K.,* Fu, X. (2025). Airport city and downtown store competition and regulation under incomplete information. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 192, 103131.

2. Wu, X., Wang, K.*, Fu, X., Dong, K., Sun, X., Oum, T. H. (2025). How does COVID-19 pandemic affect airline’s route choice and market contact?− Full-service carriers vs. low-cost carriers in China. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 191, 104291.

3. Zhou, R., Luo, M., Jiang, C., Yang, D., Wang, K.* (2025). How does emission allowance allocation affect shipowners’ selection of emission reduction technologies?. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 139, 104573.

4. Chen, R., Yang, H., Wang, K., Jiang, C.* (2024). Impacts of a sustainable aviation fuel mandate on airline competition—Full-service carrier vs. low-cost carrier. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 190, 103098.

5. Zheng, S., Wang, K., Jiang, C*. (2024). Converting passenger aircraft into cargo planes under volatile market demand. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 181, 104013.

6. Zheng, S., Jiang, C.*, Wang, K. (2024). Climate change adaptation projects of transport facilities: is a demonstrator necessary? Annals of Operations Research,1-30.

7. Tan, Z., Shao, S., Xu, M.*, Wang, K. (2024). Regulating the emissions of a bi-modal freight corridor considering non-cooperative authorities. International Journal of Production Economics, 109493.

8. Shang, W. L., Zhang, J.*, Wang, K., Yang, H., Ochieng, W. (2024). Can financial subsidy increase electric vehicle (EV) penetration-evidence from a quasi-natural experiment. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 190, 114021.

9. Zhao, C., Yin, Y., Dong, K., Yang, C., Wang, K.* (2024). How does port alliance survive extreme weather? Analysis using stochastic evolutionary game. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 133, 104294.

10. Wu, X., Wang, K., Fu, X., Jiang, C.*, Zheng, S. (2024). How would co-opetition with dry ports affect seaports’ adaptation to disasters?. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 130, 104194.

11. Shang, T., Wu, H., Wang, K.*, Yang, D., Jiang, C., & Yang, H. (2024). Would the shipping alliance promote or discourage green shipping investment?. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 128, 104102.

12. Chen, S., Wu, L.*, Ng, K. K., Liu, W., Wang, K. (2024). How airports enhance the environmental sustainability of operations: A critical review from the perspective of Operations Research. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 183, 103440.

13. Yu, K., Wu, J., Wang, K.*, Zhang, A., Zheng, S., Wang, Y., Li, H.* (2023). Restructuring Chinese railways from a cost-efficient perspective—A hedonic cost function analysis. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 177, 103839.

14. Zheng, S., Jia, R.*, Shang, W. L.*, Fu, X., Wang, K. (2023). Promote transport facility Resilience: Persuasion or Subsidy?. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 176, 103822.

15. Ma, W., Wang, K., Wang, Q., Yang, H.* (2023). Do domestic mergers improve airlines’ international competitiveness?---Theoretical and empirical evidence from China. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review,176, 103211.

16. Zhang, Y., Zhang, A.*, Wang, K., Zheng, S., Yang, H., Hong, J. (2023). Impact of CR Express and intermodal freight transport competition on China-Europe Route: Emission and welfare implications. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 171, 103642.

17. Chen, Y., Hou, M., Wang, K., Yang, H.* (2023). Government interventions in regional airline markets based on aircraft size—Welfare and environmental implications. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 169, 103593.

18. Ren, X., Zeng, G., Dong, K.*, Wang, K. (2023). How does high-speed rail affect tourism development? The case of the Sichuan-Chongqing Economic Circle. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 169, 103588.

19. Zhao, C., Dong, K., Zheng, S., Fu, X., Wang, K.* (2023). Can China’s aviation network development alleviate carbon lock-in. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 115, 103578.

20. Jiang, C., Wang, K., Wang, Q., Yang, H.* (2022). The Impact of High-Speed Rail Competition on Airline On-Time Performance. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 161, 109-127.

21. Zheng, S., Wang, K., Fu, X.*, Zhang, A., Ge, Y. E. (2022). The effects of information publicity and government subsidy on port climate change adaptation: Strategy and social welfare analysis. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 166, 284-312.

22. Zheng, S., Wang, K.*, Chan, F. T., Fu, X., Li, Z. C. (2022). Subsidy on transport adaptation investment-modeling decisions under incomplete information and ambiguity. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 162, 103-129.

23. Liu, Q., Li, H., Shang, W. L.*, Wang, K. (2022). Spatio-temporal distribution of Chinese cities’ air quality and the impact of high-speed rail. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 170, 112970.

24. Zheng, S., Chen, X., Dong, K.*, Wang, K., Fu, X*. (2022). Joint Investment on Resilience of Cross-country Transport Infrastructure. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 166, 406-423. 

25. Zheng, S., Wang, K.*, Li, Z., Fu, X., Chan, F. (2021). Subsidy or minimum requirement? Regulation of port adaptation investment under disaster ambiguity. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 150, 457-481.

26. Zheng, S., Fu, X., Wang, K.*, Li, H. (2021). Seaport adaptation to climate change disasters: Subsidy policy vs. adaptation sharing under minimum requirement. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 155, 102488.

27. Hou, M., Wang, K., Yang, H., Zhang, A.* (2022). Airport-airline relationship, competition and welfare in a multi-airport system – the case of new Beijing Daxing airport. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (JTEP) 56(2), 156-189.

28. Jin, H., Liu, S.*, So, K.G., Wang, K. (2022). Dynamic incentive schemes for managing dockless bike-sharing systems. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 136, 103527.

29. Wang, K., Jiang, C.*, Ng, A. K., Zhu, Z. (2020). Air and rail connectivity patterns of major city clusters in China. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 139, 35-53.

30. Wang, K., Fu, X.*, Czerny, A. I., Hua, G., Lei, Z. (2020). Modeling the potential for aviation liberalization in Central Asia–Market analysis and implications for the Belt and Road Initiative. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 134, 184-210.

31. Xia, W., Jiang, C., Wang, K*., Zhang, A. (2019). Air-rail revenue sharing in a multi-airport system: Effects on traffic and social welfare. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 121, 304-319.

32. Yan, J., Fu., X.*, Oum, T., Wang, K. (2019). Airline horizontal mergers and productivity: empirical evidence from a natural experiment in China. International Journal of Industrial Organization 62, 358-376.

33. Wang, K.*, Zhang, A. (2018). Disaster adaptation investment with inter- and intra-port competition and cooperation. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 117, 158-189.

34. Wang, K., Xia, W., Zhang, A.*, Zhang, Q. (2018). Effects of train speed on airline demand and price: Theoretical analysis and empirical evidence from a natural experiment. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 114, 99-130.

35. Dai, W.L., Fu, X., Yip, TL, Hu, H., Wang, K.* (2018). Emission charge and liner shipping network configuration – an economic investigation of the Asia-Europe route. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 110, 291-305.

36. Wang, K., Xia, W., Zhang, A.* (2017). Should China further expand its high-speed rail network? Consider the low-cost carrier factor. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 100, 105-120. (ESI highly cited paper)

37. Wang, K., Fu, X., Luo, M.* (2015). Modeling the impacts of emission trading scheme on international shipping. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 77, 35-49.

38. Fu, X., Lei, Z., Wang, K.*, Yan, J. (2015). Low-cost carrier in China: Spring Airlines’ effect on market competition and its entry pattern. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 79, 3-16.

39. Choi, J. H.*, Wang, K., Xia, W., Zhang, A. (2019). Determining factors of air passengers’ transfer airport choice in the Southeast Asia–North America market: Managerial and policy implications. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 124, 203-216.

40. Li, H., Yu, K., Wang, K., Zhang, A*. (2018). Market power and its determinants in the Chinese railway industry. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 120, 261-276.

41. Zhang, Y., Wang, K.*, Fu, X. (2017). Air transport services in regional Australia: Demand pattern, frequency choice and airport entry. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 103, 472-489.

42. Zhang, Y., Zhang, A.*, Zhu, Z., Wang, K. (2017). Connectivity at Chinese airports: the evolution and drivers. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 103, 490-508.

Book chapters

1. Wu, X., Fu, X., Wang, K.* (2024). Competition between full-service carrier and low-cost carrier and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from China, ed. Patrick McCarthy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, United Kingdom.

2. Wang, K., Xia, W., Zhang, A (2022). China’s recent railway developments and policy reforms (Market Development and Policy for One Belt and One Road), ed. Xiaowen Fu, Paul Lee, Elsevier, Chapter 3.

3. Randrianarisoa, L., Wang, K., Zhang, A. (2020). Insights from recent economic modeling on port adaptation to climate change (Maritime Transport and Regional Sustainability), ed. Adolf Ng, Jason Monios & Changmin Jiang, Elsevier, Chapter 4.

4. Xia, W., Wang, K., Zhang, A. (2018). Air transport and high-speed rail in interactions in China: review on impacts of low-cost carriers, rail speed and modal integration (Advances in Airline Economics, Volume 7), ed. Xiaowen Fu & James H. Peoples, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, United Kingdom, pp. 103-122.

5. Czerny, A., Fu, X., Hua, G., Lei, Z., Wang, K. (2018). Market development and aviation liberalization in Central Asia. In Airline Economics in Asia (Advances in Airline Economics, Volume 7), ed. Xiaowen Fu & James H. Peoples, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, United Kingdom, pp. 61-77.

6. Yan, J., Fu, X., Oum, TH., Wang, K. (2016). The Effects of mergers on airline performance and social welfare. In Airline Efficiency (Advances in Airline Economics, Volume 5), ed. John D. Bitzan, James H. Peoples & Wesley W. Wilson, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, United Kingdom, pp. 131-59.