Xueming Chen is a professor at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. He received his B.Sc. and his M.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning at Nanjing University, China in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California in 1991. He taught in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at California State University, Northridge from 1993 to 2007, and in the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine from 2006 to 2007. While at Northridge, he received the Outstanding Professor Award three times from the department and the Urban Studies and Planning Association of Students. In addition, he served as a committee member of the Transportation Research Board for the National Research Council from 2002 to 2006. He joined VCU as an associate professor in 2007 and received his tenure in 2011. Effective from 1 July 2021, he was promoted to professor with tenure in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Public Affairs. His interests include transportation policy and planning, travel demand forecasting models, GIS applications, and international urban planning.

Suwei Feng is a professor at the School of Public Economics and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China. She received her Ph.D. at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University in 1998. She was awarded the Outstanding Director of “China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling” in the Shanghai Division in 2000 and received a Nomination for “Research Model Award” of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in 2007. Her teaching disciplines include Public Regulation, Urban Transportation Management, Urban Management, Public Management, Public Project Evaluation, Economic Modeling: Theories and Methodology, Quantitative Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, and Economic Mathematics and Calculus.