Future Cities Lab

The Future Cities Lab is a joint research lab at
École Centrale Pékin, in collaboration with
Beihang University, CentraleSupélec and EM Normandie

The lab is concerned with the emerging topics in understanding, modeling and managing various urban systems such as transport, energy, water supply, waste and other areas.  


The future of cities is at the core of worldwide development strategies. Today, the economic growth brought by the development of urban areas is unparalleled. Total urban population is expected to increase by 66% by 2050, with more than six billion people living in cities. This presents many social, technical, and economic opportunities, but also poses significant challenges.      

Current and future technological developments in the areas of mobility technologies and digitalization present many opportunities for disruptive change of the current mobility system and, with it, the whole city. Within this context, the Future Cities Lab is developing research related to the future of urban transportaion, resouce managment and health-care systems. 

Team

Hai-Jun Huang - Chinese director of the Future Cities Lab

Hai-Jun Huang is the vice president of Beihang University. He is the Cheng Kong professor and has got the grant awarded for National Excellent Young Researchers in 1998. He is the chief scientist of several national major scientific research projects including 973 Program.

His research interests include road traffic flow models, transport network modeling, travel behavior analysis and congested road-use pricing.

Jakob Puchinger - French director of the Future Cities Lab

Jakob Puchinger is professor in Supply Chain Management and Logistics at  EM Normandie. He is also affiliate professor at the Laboratoire Génie Industriel at CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay and co-director of the Future Cities Lab with Centrale Pékin. 

His main research interests are in urban mobility and in the optimization of transport systems

Adam F. Abdin - Assistant Professor

Adam F. Abdin is Assistant Professor at the Laboratory of Industrial Engineering, CentraleSupélec.

Adam F. Abdin's research is focused on developing decision support models to plan, manage and operate complex infrastructure systems and their interactions, combining techno-economic modeling, data analytics approaches, robust optimization techniques and game-theory methods.

Former members

PostDoc Researcher:
Michele Tirico

Master Students and Interns:
Yang Xianyi, Etienne Liu Jinming, Tatiana Naomi Yamamoto Silva, Jie Tu, Hadrien Herubel

 Funding partners

Region Ile-de-France

City of Beijing

Academic partners

Contact us

Contact us at contact@futurecitieslab.city for more information