**About the Editors**

#### **Mengqiu Cao**

Mengqiu Cao is a Senior Lecturer in Transport, Logistics, and Urban Planning at the School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster. He was awarded his Ph.D. at University College London (UCL). He works in both academia and industry, specializing in an interdisciplinary research field, which is primarily a mixture of transport analysis and urban studies. In addition, he has also worked with public authorities and international funding organizations. He has served as the UK Ambassador for the Association of European Transport.

#### **Claire Papaix**

Claire Papaix is an economist specializing in urban mobility and well-being appraisal. She joined Montpellier Business School in 2020, within the Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Technology, Innovation, and Management Department, whereby she leads and teaches CSR and sustainability management, societal marketing, and research methods modules for bachelor and masters students. Working at the University of Greenwich in London for the previous 5 years, she was a program leader and Senior Lecturer in Transport and Business Logistics and went on a research sabbatical in between jobs to acquire new knowledge in geo-spatial analysis and deepen her expertise in well-being appraisal in urban mobility, in collaboration with English and French Universities.

#### **Tianren Yang**

Tianren Yang serves as an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Hong Kong. His interest lies in the development and application of urban analytics and predictive modeling techniques. He aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how cities evolve, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic influences of urban technology, planning policy, and human behavior. His efforts in predictive modeling and knowledge transfer were acknowledged by the Forbes 30 Under 30 China list for Science and Healthcare and Geo-spatial World 50 Rising Stars.

#### **Benjamin B ¨uttner**

Benjamin Buttner is the deputy chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning and is the ¨ head of the Research Group on Accessibility Planning at TUM. He received his Ph.D. in transport engineering after having completed a German Diploma in geography. Currently works in the fields of accessibility planning and decision and policy making. Urban transitions, tactical urbanism, and street experiments are the foci of his professional skills. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Transport Geography and the Journal of Sustainable Futures. Since 2019, he has been the head of the EIT Urban Mobility "Doctoral Training Network", which includes 90 interdisciplinary Ph.D. students from all over Europe. Since 2020, he has been the founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Urban Mobility.
