Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Keynote speaker at WUTLS2010 - Mr. Kee Yeon Hwang - President of the Korea Transport Institute


Mr. Kee Yeon Hwang - President of the Korea Transport Institute
About the Speaker :
Kee Yeon Hwang is currently the president of the Korea Transport Institute, which is a central government research arm in land transport, aviation, and logistics. He is on leave for three years from Hongik University located in Seoul, where he used to teach transportation planning and urban spatial policy. Before joining the university, he was a senior research fellow and the Director of the Research Center for Cheonggye stream restoration at Seoul Development Institute (SDI), the think-tank organization for Seoul Metropolitan Government. He was in charge of developing the masterplan of Cheonggye stream restoration and CBD redevelopment. During his stay at SDI for 13 years, he had been involved in introducing transportation demand management schemes and making better public transportation system in Seoul. He was at the forefront to implement the Seoul's first congestion pricing scheme at Namsan tunnel located inside the downtown Seoul in 1996, and proposed the basic design of bus rapid transit system now under implementation since 2005, and Han river renaissance project now under construction. He received his B.A. in public policy from Yonsei University in Seoul, Master of Science in Planning from University of Oregon and Ph.D. in urban and transportation planning from University of Southern California in the US. He is the author of 130 professional journal articles, and wrote 5 books concerning Transportation Demand Management.
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