Yingling Fan is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and the Director of the Global Transit Innovations program at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on novel land use and transportation solutions to improve human health and social equity. Fan is an internationally recognized expert on transit corridor planning, and her ongoing book project examines the truth and future of transit revival in the U.S. Fan is Co-Principal Investigator of a $12 million dollar award from the U.S. National Science Foundation that examines urban infrastructure solutions for environment sustainability and human health. With the award, Fan is pioneering a new smartphone app to measure emotional well-being and happiness of people in-the-moment as they experience the city. The smartphone app, named Daynamica, has been patented and was initially sponsored by the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Fan’s work has been recognized by a number of awards. Fan held the title McKnight Land-Grant Professor—a special award that honors the University of Minnesota’s most promising faculty. She received the President’s Community-Engaged Scholar Finalist Award from the University of Minnesota, the Pedestrian Committee Best Paper Award and the international Patricia F. Waller Award from the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC. She is an Editor of the SSCI-indexed Journal of Transport and Land Use, an editorial board member of the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation and Transportation Letters, and an elected board member at the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research. Fan has a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor’s degree in Transportation Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
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