Lin Lin PhD

Senior Lecturer

Dr. Lin received her Ph.D. in urban design and planning from University of Washington. Before she joins XJTLU, she was an assistant professor at School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences at East China Normal University. Her research interests lie in conceptualizing and understanding the reciprocal relationship between the built environment‚ human behaviors‚ and public health‚ as she believes this relationship underpins the development of genuinely healthy sustainable communities.


  • PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - 2010
  • MPA, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - 2004
  • M.Plan , University of Washington, Seattle, WA - 2004


  • Senior Lecturer, Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University - 2017 to present
  • Lecturer, East China Normal University - 2011 to 2017
  • Post-doc, University of Washington - 2010 to 2011
  • Transportation Planner, Washington State Department of Transportation - 2004 to 2005


  • Built Environment, Active Transport, and Public Health
  • Land Use and Transportation
  • Quantitative Urban Form


  • Jiang, Hongwei, Lin Lin, Daniel Anthony Yonto, Tiengkham Pongvongsa, Sengchanh Kounnavong, and Kazuhiko Moji. 2021. “Association between Physical Activity and Activity Space in Different Farming Seasons among Rural Lao PDR Residents.” Tropical Medicine and Health 49 (1), 73. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-021-00364-6.
  • Lin, Lin, Xueming (Jimmy) Chen, and Anne Vernez Moudon. 2021. “Measuring the Urban Forms of Shanghai’s City Center and Its New Districts: A Neighborhood-Level Comparative Analysis.” Sustainability 13 (15): 8481. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158481.
  • Lin, Lin. 2018. “Leisure-Time Physical Activity, Objective Urban Neighborhood Built Environment, and Overweight and Obesity of Chinese School-Age Children.” Journal of Transport & Health 10 (September): 322–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2018.05.001.
  • He, Lingling, and Lin Lin. 2017. “The Impact of School Neighborhood Built Environment on School-age Children’s School Commuting: A Case Study of Shanghai.” Shanghai Urban Planning Review 134(3): 30-36 [in Chinese]
  • He, Lingling, and Lin Lin. 2016. “Zhongguo chengshi xueling ertong tili huodong bianhua qushi, The trends of Physical Actvity levels of Chinese Urban School Age Children.” Chinese Journal of School Health 37 (4): 636–40. DOI:10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2016.04.049. [in Chinese]
  • He, Lingling, Xiaoliu Wang, and Lin Lin. 2016. “Factors associated with physical activity of school age children in Chinese cities: a systematic review based on a social ecological model.” Urban Planning International 31 (4): 10–15. [in Chinese]
  • Lin, Lin, and Hongwei Jiang. 2016. “Healthy Environment and Healthy Living in Urban China: An Emerging Field in Research.” Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies 5 (1): 69–78. doi: 10.1080/24761028.2016.11869093.
  • Chen, Xueming, and Lin Lin. 2016. “Integration of Air and Rail Technologies at the Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transport Hub.” Journal of Urban Technology. doi:10.1080/10630732.2015.1102418.
  • Chen, Xueming, and Lin Lin. 2015. “The Node-place Analysis on the ‘hubtropolis’ Urban Form: The Case of Shanghai Hongqiao Air-rail Hub.” Habitat International 49 (October 2015): 445–53. doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.06.013.
  • Alfonzo, Mariela, Guo, Zhan, Lin, Lin & Day, Kristen 2014 'Walking, Obesity and Urban Design in Chinese Neighborhoods', Preventive Medicine, vol. 69, no. S, p. S79-S85
  • Lin, Lin, Liu, Min, Liu, Feixiong, Wang, Kai & Zhang, Qiuzhuo 2012 'Comment on 'The study of urban metabolism and its applications to urban planning and design' by', Environmental Pollution, vol. 167, no. , p. 184-185
  • Moudon, Anne Vernez, Lin, Lin, Jiao, Junfeng, Hurvitz, Philip & Reeves, Paula 2011 'The risk of pedestrian injury and fatality in collisions with motor vehicles, a social ecological study of state routes and city streets in King County, Washington', Accident Analysis & Prevention, vol. 43, no. 1, p. 11-24
  • Lin, Lin & Moudon, Anne Vernez 2010 'Objective versus subjective measures of the built environment, which are most effective in capturing associations with walking?', Health & Place, vol. 16, no. 2, p. 339-348
  • Moudon, Anne Vernez, Lin, Lin, Hurvitz, Philip & Reeves, Paula 2008 'Risk of Pedestrian Collision Occurrence: Case Control Study of Collision Locations on State Routes in King County and Seattle, Washington', Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, vol. 2073, no. , p. 25-38
  • Moudon, Anne Vernez, Lee, Chanam, Cheadle, Allen, Garvin, Cheza & Johnson, Donna 2006 'Operational Definitions of Walkable Neighborhood: Theoretical and Empirical Insights', Physical Activity and Health, vol. 3, no. S1, p. 99-117


  • Lin, Lin, and Sun-Young Kim. 2019. “How Could the Dockless Bike Share Programs Impact on Travel Behaviors of Urban Residents in China? (2nd Highest Scoring Researcher Abstract Award Sponsored by Mackie Research).” Journal of Transport & Health 14 (September): 100705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2019.100705.
  • Jiang, Hongwei, Tiengkham Pongvongsa, Daniel Yonto, Kazuhiko Moji, and Lin Lin. 2018. “Activity Space, Neighborhood Built Environment, and Physical Activity: A Pilot Study from a Rural Community in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.” Journal of Transport & Health 9 (June): S27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2018.05.085.
  • Lin, Lin, and Zhu Yue. 2017. “Does Active Commuting to School Improve Chinese School-Age Children’s Health-Related Quality of Life.” Journal of Transport & Health 5 (June): S43–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2017.05.332.
  • Lin, Lin, and Lingling He. 2016. “Overweight, Commuting to School, Urban Design in Chinese School Neighborhoods.” Journal of Transport & Health 3 (2): S19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2016.05.055.
  • Lin, Lin, Anne Vernez-Moudon, and Orion Steward. 2016. “Assessing the Safety Component of the Federal Safe Routes to School Program: A Quasi-Experimental Pilot Study in Urban Areas of Washington State.” Journal of Transport & Health 3 (2): S55–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2016.05.116.


  • Lin, Lin, and Lingling He. 2019. “Active Commuting to School by Chinese School-Age Children.” In Transportation and Children’s Well-Being. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814694-1.00018-X.


  • Co-PI. National Science Foundation of China, RMB ¥ 300, 000, (2019-2021)
  • Principal Investigator. Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University Research Development Fund, RMB ¥100,000, (2018-2021)
  • Co-PI. National Science Foundation of China, RMB ¥ 580, 000, (2018-2021)
  • Co-PI. Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University Research Development Fund, RMB ¥99,600, (2017-2020)
  • Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation of China, RMB ¥230,000, (2014–2016)


  • CDE 205 Planning Methodology
  • CDE 402 Sustainable Urban Planning Strategies
  • CDE 201 Environmental Sustainability
  • CDE 101 Issues and Practice of Planning in China I
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