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Overview

Becky P.Y. Loo is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily focuses on multiple areas within social sciences and engineering, emphasizing transportation and urban studies.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Engineering

Within these, notable subfields of study encompass:

  • Transportation
  • Building and Construction
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Automotive Engineering

The central topics of their work are:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics

Frequent publication venues where their research has appeared include:

  • Cities
  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Travel Behaviour and Society

Noteworthy recent papers authored by Becky P.Y. Loo include:

  • "Urban visual intelligence: Uncovering hidden city profiles with street view images" (2023) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Urban resilience from the lens of social media data: Responses to urban flooding in Nanjing, China" (2020) in Cities
  • "Travel behaviour changes under Work-from-home (WFH) arrangements during COVID-19" (2022) in Travel Behaviour and Society
  • "Becoming Smarter through Smart City Pilot Projects: Experiences and Lessons from China since 2013" (2021) in Journal of Urban Technology
  • "Spatio-temporal variations of traffic congestion under work from home (WFH) arrangements: Lessons learned from COVID-19" (2022) in Cities

The scientist regularly collaborates with several coauthors, of whom the most frequent include:

  • Ka Ho Tsoi
  • Zhuangyuan Fan
  • Zhiran Huang
  • Bo Wang
  • Ting Lian

Best Publications

  • Rail-based transit-oriented development: Lessons from New York City and Hong Kong

    Becky P.Y. Loo;Cynthia Chen;Eric T.H. Chan

  • Pedestrian environment and route choice: evidence from New York City and Hong Kong

    Zhan Guo;Becky P.Y. Loo

  • High-speed rail networks, economic integration and regional specialisation in China and Europe

    Yuk Shing Cheng;Becky P.Y. Loo;Roger Vickerman

  • Passengers’ airport choice within multi-airport regions (MARs): some insights from a stated preference survey at Hong Kong International Airport

    Becky P.Y. Loo

  • Carbon dioxide emissions from passenger transport in China since 1949: Implications for developing sustainable transport

    Becky P.Y. Loo;Linna Li

  • Validating Crash Locations for Quantitative Spatial Analysis: A GIS-Based Approach

    Becky P.Y. Loo

  • Urban visual intelligence: Uncovering hidden city profiles with street view images

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  • Jobs-housing balance in an era of population decentralization: An analytical framework and a case study

    Becky P.Y. Loo;Alice S.Y. Chow

  • An international review of the frequency of single-bicycle crashes (SBCs) and their relation to bicycle modal share

    Paul Schepers;Niels Agerholm;Emmanuelle Amoros;Rob Benington

  • Telecommunications reforms in China: Towards an analytical framework

    Becky P.Y. Loo

  • Travel behaviour changes under Work-from-home (WFH) arrangements during COVID-19

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  • Urban resilience from the lens of social media data: Responses to urban flooding in Nanjing, China

    Bo Wang;Becky P.Y. Loo;Feng Zhen;Guangliang Xi

  • Geographic Accessibility around Health Care Facilities for Elderly Residents in Hong Kong: A Microscale Walkability Assessment:

    Becky P Y Loo;Winnie Wing Yee Lam

  • Decoupling transport from economic growth: Extending the debate to include environmental and social externalities

    Becky P.Y. Loo;David Banister

  • Association between setting quantified road safety targets and road fatality reduction

    Sze Chun Wong;Nangngai Sze;H.F. Yip;Becky P.Y. Loo

  • How Is the Neighborhood Environment Related to the Health of Seniors Living in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo? Some Insights for Promoting Aging in Place

    Becky P. Y. Loo;Winnie W. Y. Lam;Rathi Mahendran;Keiko Katagiri

  • Factors associated with home-based e-working and e-shopping in Nanjing, China

    Becky P. Y. Loo;Bo Wang

  • Spatio-temporal variations of traffic congestion under work from home (WFH) arrangements: Lessons learned from COVID-19

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  • Developing mobile telecommunications to narrow digital divide in developing countries? Some lessons from China

    Becky P. Y. Loo;Y. L. Ngan

  • Cordon-based congestion pricing in a continuum traffic equilibrium system

    Herbert Ho;Sze Chun Wong;Hai Yang;Becky Pui Ying Loo

  • Transit-oriented development in future cities: towards a two-level sustainable mobility strategy

    Becky P. Y. Loo;Frederic du Verle

  • Factors affecting the likelihood of reporting road crashes resulting in medical treatment to the police.

    Becky P. Y. Loo;K. L. Tsui

  • Bicycle crash casualties in a highly motorized city.

    Becky P.Y. Loo;K.L. Tsui

  • Combined distribution and assignment model for a continuum traffic equilibrium problem with multiple user classes

    H.W. Ho;S.C. Wong;Becky P.Y. Loo

Frequent Co-Authors

David Banister
David Banister University of Oxford
Jianping Wu
Jianping Wu East China Normal University
Roger W. Vickerman
Roger W. Vickerman University of Kent
Frank Witlox
Frank Witlox Ghent University
Victor O. K. Li
Victor O. K. Li University of Hong Kong
Christopher D. F. Rogers
Christopher D. F. Rogers University of Birmingham
Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson Newcastle University
Bailang Yu
Bailang Yu East China Normal University

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