Dr. Karen Lucas is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the Manchester Urban Institute and leads its Transport and Mobilities research group. She has 25+ years’ experience of delivering social research into practice in transport, employing a variety of mixed methods approaches to issues of mobility, accessibility, and social justice. She is also a world-leading expert on transport and social justice in the global North and South. She is currently working on developing transport poverty index for the UK Department of Transport and recently devised a new integrated methodology for the social assessment of road projects for National Highways. She previously undertook similar assessments of the A465 bypass project for the Welsh Government and of the Lower Thames Crossing project for the Department of Transport. She is director of the International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low Income Communities (INTALInC)., which is a global network of academics, policymakers, NGOs, and frontline agencies to promote transport justice in Global South cities. She is a member of the Editorial Boards for theJournal of Transport Geography,Springer’s Transportation, andUrban Book Series.

Dr. Xinyu (Jason) Cao is a professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the . He specializes in land use and transportation interaction and planning for quality of life. Professor Cao is internationally recognized for his research on residential self-selection in the relationship between the built environment and travel behaviour. He is currently pioneering the use of machine learning in land use and transportation studies, as well as advancing satisfaction research. According to the Stanford-Elsevier Top 2% Scientists list, he is among the 25 top-cited career-long scholars in the subfield of Transportation and Logistics and Transportation. Professor Cao also serves as the Editor-in-Chief ofTransportation Research Todayand as an associate editor forTransport PolicyandJournal of Planning Education and Research. He previously served as Co-Editor-in-Chief ofTransportation Research Part Dand Chair of International Association for China Planning (IACP). He holds degrees from the University of California, Davis and Tsinghua University.

Dr. Donggen Wang is currently Chair Professor at the Department of Geography and Director of the Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies, . His major research interests span the built environment and travel behavior, environment and transport, travel satisfaction and subjective wellbeing, daily activity and health. He is co-Editor-in-Chief ofTravel Behavior and Societyand Editorial Board member of several international journals includingAnnals of Transport Reviews,Journal of Transport GeographyandProfessional Geographer. He currently holds several research grants from Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC) and the National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He is fellow and board member of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies and was the Chairman of Hong Kong Geographical Association (2009-2013). His recent publications appear in several international journals includingTransportation Research Part A,Transportation Research Part D,Transportation Research Part E,Cities,Journal of Transport Geography,Social Science and Medicine,Health & Place, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, etc.

Dr. Mark Zuidgeest is a professor and the Head of Department of Civil Engineering at the . His major research interests span transport in developing countries, transport modelling, transport geography, choice modelling, public transport network design, walkability assessment, and the nexus between climate change, cities, and transport. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of theJournal of Transport Geography, Associate Editor of theJournal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), and Deputy Editor ofAfrican Transport Studies. He currently serves as the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) Chair of Transport Planning and Engineering. He is the board director of Health Bridge Foundation of Canada and a board member of the Mercy Ships South Africa. His recent work contributes to advancing understanding of sustainable urban transport, social inclusion in mobility systems, and infrastructure planning under climate challenges, especially in Africa context.

Dr. Jiaoe Wang is a full-time professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), (CAS). She is also the executive deputy director of Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling CAS, the director of Economic Geography and Regional Development Department at IGSNRR-CAS, and a professor in University of . Her main research interests are transport geography and regional development, big data and urban transportation, high-speed rail, air transportation, and infrastructure development in the Belt and Road Initiative. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, 8 books and one atlas. Representative articles were published inPNAS, npj Urban Sustainability, Transportation Research Part A, Journal of Transport Geography,andCities.She has led eight projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and received the Beijing Natural Science Award and the China Communication and Transportation Association Science and Technology Award. She also serves as Associate Editor ofJournal of Transport Geographyand several Chinese journals, and as Vice Chair of multiple Commissions of the Geographical Society of China (GSC) and the Regional Studies Association (RSA) China Division.