Di Yao
Di Yao was born in December 1987 in Anshan, Liaoning Province. She holds a Ph.D. in Management and is an Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She is currently with the Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, where she serves as Deputy Director of the Department of Business Administration, Secretary of the Discipline of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Emergency Management and Intelligent Decision-making Research Team. She has presided over and participated in 8 research projects, including a Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China, projects funded by the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences, the Beijing Social Science Fund, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, and the Beijing “14th Five-Year Plan” Education Science Program. She has published more than 30 academic papers and authored one monograph.
I. Main Research Areas
(1) Low-carbon travel and transport resilience;
(2) Emergency management and intelligent decision-making;
(3) Logistics and supply chain management.
II. Awards and Honors
1. Demonstration Case of Education and Teaching Reform, Beijing Higher Education Society, 2025 (Second contributor), 2025.
2. First Prize for Excellent Teaching Achievements, Academic Forum of the Higher Education Management Branch of the China Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics, 2025 (Second contributor).
3. "Excellent Undergraduate Graduation Thesis Advisor", Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, 2025.
4. High-quality Undergraduate Course of Beijing Municipal Universities, 2024.
5. Outstanding Teaching Reform Case in Logistics-related Majors of Universities in China, 2023–2024 Academic Year, 2024.
6. First Prize for Excellent Teaching Achievements, Academic Forum of the Higher Education Management Branch of the China Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics, 2024.
7. First Prize of the Teaching Achievement Award in Petroleum Higher Education (Undergraduate), China Petroleum Education Society (Second contributor), 2024.
8. Excellent Teacher of Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology (Academic Years 2022–2024), 2024.
9. High-quality Undergraduate Course of Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, 2024.
10. High-quality Undergraduate Teaching Plan of Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, 2024.
11. First Prize of Teaching Achievement Award of Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology (Second contributor), 2024.
12. Second Prize in the First Teaching Innovation Competition for Teachers, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, 2024.
13. Second Prize in the 13th Young Teachers' Basic Teaching Skills Competition, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, 2023.
14. Excellent Undergraduate Graduation Thesis Advisor", Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, 2023.
15. Advanced Individual in Employment Work (Academic Year 2021–2022), Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, 2022.
III. Main Research Projects
1. Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund Project: "Research on the competition and cooperation mechanisms and regulatory strategies between public transport and shared transport" (No.: 22YJCZH218), Principal Investigator, June 2022-June 2025.
2. Beijing Social Science Fund Planning Project: "Impact mechanisms and optimization strategies of the resilience of the Beijing metro–bus system under the shocks of large passenger flows" (No.: 25BJ03189), Principal Investigator, December 2025-December 2027.
3. Beijing "14th Five-Year Plan" Education Science Project: "Impact mechanisms of generative artificial intelligence on college students' innovation capability" (No.: CDGB24256), Principal Investigator, December 2024-December 2027.
4. Beijing Digital Education Research Project: "Risk analysis and countermeasures for the 'negative energy' of generative artificial intelligence in the cultivation of college students' innovation capability" (No.: BDEC2024ZX039), Principal Investigator, July 2024-July 2027.
5. Beijing Higher Education Society General Project: "Construction and practice of a curriculum ideological-political map for cultivating management talents with '+ safety and emergency' characteristics empowered by generative AI" (No.: MS2025124), Principal Investigator, December 2025-December 2027.
6. Beijing Natural Science Foundation Youth Project: "Dynamic evolution and guidance strategies of public green travel behavior based on Beijing MaaS" (No.: 9244032), Major Participant, January 2024-December 2025.
7. Key Teaching Reform Project of Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology: "Student-centered teaching reform of the International Logistics course", Principal Investigator, September 2021-August 2024 (completed).
8. Interdisciplinary Research Exploratory Project of Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology: “Research on priority control methods for urban emergency vehicles based on Internet of Things technology” (No.: BIPTCSF-006), Major Participant, 2021-2022.
IV. Representative Academic Papers
1. Yao, D., Zhang, C., & Li, J. (2025). How does bike-sharing prompt the modal shift from cars to public transit? Transport Policy, 174, 103862.
2. Yao, D., Wang, J., Guo, Y., & Qiu, Y. (2024). Efficiency measurement and inefficiency analysis of low-carbon logistics in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, China. Heliyon, 10, e30137.
3. Li, J., Xu, L., Tang, F., & Yao, D.* (2024). The impact of public transport priority policy on private car ownership and use: A study on the moderating effects of bus satisfaction. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 106, 112–127.
4. Yao, D., Xu, L., Li, J., & Zhang, C. (2023). Sustainability assessment of bus low-fare policy considering three stakeholders—the public, bus enterprises and government: A case study of Shenzhen, China. Systems, 11, 568.
5. Yao, D., Xu, L., Zhang, C., & Li, J. (2021). Revisiting the interactions between bus service quality, car ownership and mode use: A case study in Changzhou, China. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 154, 329–344.
6. Yao, D., Xu, L., & Li, J. (2020). Does technical efficiency play an intermediary role between bus facility scale and ridership attraction? Evidence from bus practices in China. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 132, 77–96.
7. Li, J., Xu, L., Yao, D., & Mao, Y. (2019). Impacts of symbolic value and passenger satisfaction on bus use. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 72, 98–113.
8. Li, J., Huang, Y., Zhang, C., Yao, D., & Mao, Y. (2025). How does public transport development contribute to carbon emission reduction? Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 191, 104327.
9. Yao, D., Xu, L., & Li, J. (2020). Public transport service level, traffic demand management and bus attractiveness: A dual test based on revealed preferences and stated intentions. Journal of Systems & Management, 29(1), 31–40.
10. Yao, D., Xu, L., & Li, J. (2018). Attractiveness of public transport: A review and outlook. Journal of Systems & Management, 27(6), 1054–1064, 1073.
11. Zhang, L., Yao, D., & Wang, F., et al. (2022). Design of active control systems and models for urban road traffic. Journal of Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (Natural Science Edition), 14(3), 317–323.
12. Liu, Y., Yao, D., & Li, J. (2019). Road traffic toll compensation strategy based on delay function and subgradient heuristic. Application Research of Computers, 36(1), 110–114.
13. Liu, Y., Yao, D., & Li, J. (2018). Connotation, development goals and construction approaches of intelligent transportation in China. Modern Management Science, 2018(12), 118–120.
14. Zhang, H., Yao, D., & Wang, W. (2012). An optimization model for port–road scheduling based on real-time vehicle and cargo information. Journal of Southeast University (Natural Science Edition), 42(4), 779–783.
15. Zhang, L., Wang, X., Yao, D., et al. (2023). Macro- and micro-level evaluation indicators for road network traffic conditions based on floating car data. Journal of Nankai University (Natural Science Edition), 56(3), 27–33.
16. Li, J., Xu, L., & Yao, D. (2020). Measuring public transport efficiency and analyzing inefficiency. Journal of Systems & Management, 29(4), 684–697.
17. Li, J., Xu, L., & Yao, D. (2018). Impacts of public transport on the development of urban agglomerations: A review from the perspective of agglomeration economies. Shanghai Management Science, 40(1), 105–110.
18. Li, J., Xu, L., Tang, F., & Yao, D. (2021). Impacts of public transport facility scale on green economic efficiency. Journal of Systems & Management, 30(6), 1053–1066.
19. Zhang, L., Yu, P., Li, J., & Yao, D., et al. (2022). Active control method for priority passage of emergency rescue vehicles under traffic congestion. Laboratory Research and Exploration, 41(5), 104–107.
V. Invention Patents and Software Copyrights
1. Zhang, H., Wang, L.D., Wang, W., Zhang, C.G., & Yao, D. A motor vehicle traffic flow monitoring device and its detection method (Invention patent, People's Republic of China, No. ZL 2011 1 0268296.1, authorized on August 28, 2013).
2. Zhang, H., Wang, L.D., Wang, W., Zhang, C.G., & Yao, D. Motor vehicle traffic flow monitoring device (Design patent, People's Republic of China, No. ZL 2011 3 0316344.0, authorized on January 18, 2012).
VI. Published Works
Yao, D. (2023). Study on the attractiveness of urban bus services under the bus-priority strategy. Beijing: Beijing Jiaotong University Press.
VII. Recruitment Information
I mainly admit postgraduate students specializing in Business Administration (120200, academic degree) and Auditing (125700, professional degree, Safety Auditing track). I sincerely welcome diligent and innovative students majoring in Business Administration, Management Science and Engineering, Logistics and Supply Chain Management and related fields, who possess a solid foundation in mathematical modeling, strong computer application skills and a high level of English proficiency to join my research team.