Research
Selected Journal Papers
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Yang, Y., Beecham, R., Heppenstall, A., Turner, A., & Comber, A. (2022). Understanding the impacts of public transit disruptions on bikeshare schemes and cycling behaviours using spatiotemporal and graph-based analysis: A case study of four London Tube strikes. Journal of Transport Geography, 98, 103255.[Open Access]
Yang, Y., Heppenstall, A., Turner, A., & Comber, A. (2020). Using graph structural information about flows to enhance short-term demand prediction in bike-sharing systems. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 83, 101521.
[Open Access]
Yang, Y., Heppenstall, A., Turner, A., & Comber, A. (2019). A spatiotemporal and graph-based analysis of dockless bike sharing patterns to understand urban flows over the last mile. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 77, 101361.[Open Access]
Yang, Y., Heppenstall, A., Turner, A., & Comber, A. (2019). Who, where, why and when? Using smart card and social media data to understand urban mobility. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8(6), 271. [Open Access]
Lovelace, R., Beecham, R., Heinen, E., Tortosa, E. V., Yang, Y., Slade, C., & Roberts, A. (2020). Is the London Cycle Hire Scheme becoming more inclusive? An evaluation of the shifting spatial distribution of uptake based on 70 million trips. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 140, 1-15.
Selected Conference Papers
Yang, Y., Heppenstall, A., Turner, A., & Comber, A. (2018). Examining the impact of new metro services on dockless bike sharing mobility patterns. AGILE 2018: Lund, Sweden. [Travel Grant]
Yang, Y., Comber, A., Heppenstall, A., & Turner, A. (2017). Exploring spatiotemporal features of station-free bike sharing trips: case study of Shenzhen. In Proceedings of the GeoComputation (Vol. 17), Leeds, UK. [Best Presentation award]
Yang, Y., Comber, A., & Heppenstall, A. (2016). Understanding spatiotemporal mobility patterns using smart card data: a case study in Shenzhen. GISRUK 2016: Manchester, UK.
Yang, Y., & Yan, Z. (2015). Monitoring and Analyzing of Poyang Lake Wetland Land Use Change Based on RS and GIS. In Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem (pp. 213-221). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Research Projects
RAIM - Responsible Automation for Inclusive Mobility
Role: Researcher
With Ed Manley, Susan Grant-Muller, Jens Kandt, Babak Mehran, Michelle Porter
KARMA - New data forms for transport policies
Role: Researcher
With Susan Grant-Muller, Frances Hodgson
TRACK - Transport Risk Assessment for COVID Knowledge
Role: Researcher
With Susan Grant-Muller, Andrew Tomlison, Simon Shepherd
Older people in England: the geography of challenges and opportunities
Role: Researcher
With Frances Darlington-Pollock, Les Dolega, Alex Lord and Rich Dunning
Understanding urban dynamics using graph-based analysis of public bike-sharing schemes
Role: PhD student
With Lex Comber, Alison Heppenstall and Andy Turner