faculty

Ming Zhang

Assistant Professor

zhangm@mail.utexas.edu

SUT 3.124A | office
+1 512 471 0139 | phone

The University of Texas at Austin
School of Architecture
1 University Station B7500
Austin, TX 78712

Education

B.E. (Arch.), Tsinghua University, 1985 M.E. (C.P.&U.D.), Tsinghua University, 1988 M.R.P., State University of New York at Albany, 1995 M.S.T., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002

areas of interest

Urban transportation planning; urban form and travel behavior; GIS applications in planning; international planning
Dr. Zhang is Assistant Professor in the Community and Regional Planning Program in the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UT Austin, Dr. Zhang held several academic and professional positions, including tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, Research Scientist at the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, New York, and Lecturer and licensed Planner/Architect at the Huazhong (Central China) University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China. Dr. Zhang’s research and teaching interests include urban transportation planning, transportation impacts on land use, urban form and travel behavior, GIS applications in urban and transportation planning, and land use/transportation issues in developing countries. His recent research has focused on the influence of the built environment on travel mode choice for work and nonwork purposes, development of metrics of urban form, mobility performance measures, and strategy for integrated land use/transportation development in Chinese cities. Dr. Zhang has published (in both English and Chinese) over 20 journal articles and book chapters. His recent publications include “The role of land use in travel mode choice: Evidence from Boston and Hong Kong” in Journal of American Planning Association (2004) and “Exploring the relationship between the built environment and non-work travel through time-use analysis” in Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning (2004).