Zhong-Ren Peng, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, USA

Dr. Zhong-Ren Peng is Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Center for Advanced Spatial Information Research at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA . His major research interests are in the areas of urban transportation planning, public transportation planning and operation management, geographic information systems (GIS) and its applications in transportation (GIS-T), Internet GIS, urban infromation techbology, land use and transportation interactions, and urban growth management. Dr. Peng is the principle author of the book "Internet GIS: Distributed geographic information services for the Internet and wireless networks", which was published in March 2003 by John Wiley & Sons. Dr. Peng is serving on several professional organizations' Board of Directors, such as the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) and the International Association of China Planning (IACP). He is an editorial board member of the Journal of American Planning Association.