Rate My Professor Li Meng

Dr Li Meng is a Lecturer in transport, logistics, and supply chain management within the College of Engineering and Information Technology, School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at Adelaide University. Holding a PhD in Transport Engineering from 2013 and a Graduate Diploma in Business Management, her career spans significant industry and academic roles. She accumulated five years in automotive engineering and five years in supply chain management at ZF Chassis Company across China and Australia. In 2006, her proficiency in Web Electronic Data Exchange and supply chain management earned her a special skill immigration visa sponsorship to Australia, after which she pursued part-time studies for her Graduate Diploma while employed.

In 2009, Meng commenced her full-time PhD, employing discrete choice models to analyze consumer travel behaviour and demand, completing it in 2013. Subsequently, from 2013 to 2018, she served as Research Fellow, balancing motherhood with two children and obtaining funding for projects on sea-level rise effects on urban planning, children's active travel, integrated transport and land use modelling, and elderly mobility influenced by built environments. From 2018, as full-time Research Fellow, she contributed to shared mobility, economic dynamic models, forestry resource management, bicycle modelling, smart campus design, and food supply chains. Appointed Lecturer in 2020, she pursues interests in food supply chains, extending to bush tucker, tourism, culture, and reconciliation, partnering with Aboriginal Elders.

Her research focuses on transport systems and behaviour modelling, discrete choice and land-use travel demand modelling, bicycle analysis, transit-oriented development, sustainable development, climate challenges, low-carbon behaviour, waste management, sustainable supply chains for food, biomass, forestry, and engineering optimization. Meng has won grants like the Australian Aid Fund for rapid transit systems (2014), NIFPI fire suppression project (2019–2021), state and local government funds, and university seed funds. Key publications include “Does culture really matter? A cross-cultural study of demand for B&B sustainable facilities” (2025, Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality), “Emissions offset incentives, carbon storage and profit optimization for Australian timber plantations” (2024, Forest Policy and Economics), “A theoretical framework for improved fire suppression by linking management models with smart early fire detection and suppression technologies” (2024, Journal of Forestry Research), “Political economy and cycling infrastructure investment” (2022, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives), and “Policy implementation of multi-modal (shared) mobility: review of a supply-demand value proposition canvas” (2020, Transport Reviews).