Mobility Network Post Doc Spotlight: Chunjiang Li

I am currently involved in the ‘iCity 2.0’ project, specifically working on studies of accessibility, travel behavior, and ICT use. One of my current works explored joint relationships between grocery store accessibility, travel modes for in-store grocery shopping, and online grocery shopping in Scarborough, Toronto. We found that the accessibility positively associates with online grocery shopping, and the association is mediated by the reduction of using car for grocery shopping. Additionally, my work covers societal and health-related aspects of travel behavior. Using data from four Canadian metropolitan areas, my colleagues and I identified three grocery shopping patterns, examined nuanced gender gaps in multiple attributes within these patterns, and studied how these patterns associate with diet quality and health. Personally, my research interests include digitalization of everyday life, time-geography, and the 15-min City. I’ve published a time-geographic conceptual framework and notation system to understand the increasingly hybridization of daily activities due to the development of digital technologies. The framework allows to analyze the interwoven physical-virtual hybrid activities and their relationships with the built environment, and furtherly to guide the sustainable transition of urban planning (e.g., 15-min City Planning) by integrating digital technologies.