Li Meng

Teaching Strengths

Industry-integrated case-based pedagogy
Research teaching nexus implementation
Systems-focused engineering education design
Authentic assessment and viva innovation
Digital tools integration in learning design

Dr Li Meng

Lecturer

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Dr Li Meng is a Lecturer in transport, logistics and Supply Chain Management. Li has previously worked in automotive engineering for 5 years and Supply Chain Management for 5 years both in China and Australia for ZF Chassis Company. In 2006, Li’s employer applied for a special skill immigration visa for Li because of her knowledge in Web Electronic Data Exchange and Supply Chain Management. After coming to Australia, Li obtained her Graduate Diploma in Business Management studying part time while working. In 2009, Li started her PhD full time in Transport Engineering (by utilising discrete choice models to investigate consumer travel behaviour and demand) which she completed in 2013.
From 2013-2018, Li worked as a Research Fellow (during this time Li had two babies) and has successfully applied for research funding for different projects. She worked on projects regarding the impact of a rising sea-level on urban planning, children active travel, integrated transport and land use modelling and the impact of the built environment on the mobility of older people. In 2018, Li worked as a full-time research fellow on shared mobility, economic dynamic models, forestry supressed resource management, bicycle modelling, smart campus design and reconciliation and food supply chain supply chain projects. From 2020, Li become a Lecturer in transport, logistics and supply chain. Li maintains her search aspriation in food supply chain and extends to bush tucker, tourism, culture and reconciliation from supply chain perspective. Li is currently working with Aboriginal Elders for reconciliation project.

My expertise spans transport systems modelling, including transport behaviour modelling, discrete choice modelling, land use and travel demand modelling, bicycle systems analysis, and transit-oriented development (TOD). My research also focuses on sustainable development and climate-related challenges, including behaviour change for low-carbon living, residential waste management, and integrated social–economic–environmental assessment. In addition, I work on sustainable supply chain management for food, biomass, and forestry systems, as well as engineering systems design and enterprise resource optimisation.

Year Citation
2025 Li, R. Y. M., Chen, S., Meng, L., Song, L., Yao, Q., & Beecham, S. (2025). Does culture really matter? A cross-cultural study of demand for B&B sustainable facilities. Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality, 29(3), 328-343.
DOI Scopus1
2024 Luo, L., Gao, Y., Regan, C. M., Summers, D. M., Connor, J. D., O'Hehir, J., . . . Chow, C. W. K. (2024). Emissions offset incentives, carbon storage and profit optimization for Australian timber plantations. Forest Policy and Economics, 159(139814), 1-12.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2024 Meng, L., O'Hehir, J., Gao, J., Peters, S., & Hay, A. (2024). A theoretical framework for improved fire suppression by linking management models with smart early fire detection and suppression technologies. Journal of Forestry Research, 35(1, article no. 86), 1-13.
DOI Scopus8 WoS4
2023 Luo, L., Meng, L., Yan, Z., Millcock, S., Li, R. Y. M., & Chow, C. (2023). Enhancing accessibility, functionality and meditation design in a suburban activity centre: a case study at Mawson Lakes Campus. Journal of Health Management, online, 1-15.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2022 Meng, L. (2022). Political economy and cycling infrastructure investment. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 14(100618), 1-7.
DOI Scopus10 WoS9
2022 Wambrauw, M. Y. B., Somenahalli, S., Meng, L., Scrafton, D., & Huynh, E. (2022). Measuring travel behaviour changed of travellers using latent class model for discrete choice analysis. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 14, 761-778.
DOI
2021 Meng, L. (2021). Using IoT in supply chain risk management, to enable collaboration between business, community, and government. Smart Cities, 4(3), 995-1003.
DOI Scopus17 WoS8
2021 Luo, L., O'Hehir, J., Regan, C. M., Meng, L., Connor, J. D., & Chow, C. W. K. (2021). An integrated strategic and tactical optimization model for forest supply chain planning. Forest Policy and Economics, 131(102571), 1-12.
DOI Scopus19 WoS16
2021 Meng, L., Li, R. Y. M., Taylor, M. A. P., & Scrafton, D. (2021). Residents' choices and preferences regarding transit-oriented housing. Australian Planner, 57(2), 85-99.
DOI Scopus9 WoS7
2020 Amini Behbahani, P., Meng, L., & Gu, N. (2020). Walking distances from services and destinations for residential aged-care centres in Australian cities. Journal of Transport Geography, 85(102707), 1-8.
DOI Scopus10 WoS7
2020 Meng, L., Somenahalli, S., & Berry, S. (2020). Policy implementation of multi-modal (shared) mobility: review of a supply-demand value proposition canvas. Transport Reviews, 40(5), 670-684.
DOI Scopus58 WoS49
2017 Somenahalli, S., Meng, L., & Sleep, C. (2017). Age and gender analysis of transport and mobility issues of ageing Australians: case study in Adelaide. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 12, 2252-2267.
DOI
2016 Meng, L., Taylor, M. A. P., & Scrafton, D. (2016). Combining latent class models and GIS models for integrated transport and land use planning: a case study application. Urban Policy and Research, 34(4), 305-329.
DOI Scopus8 WoS6

Year Citation
2021 Meng, L., Li, R. Y. M., Beecham, S., & Kuan, T. K. (2021). Sustainable wastewater management in South Australia. In J. Charytonowicz, A. Maciejko, & C. S. Falcao (Eds.), Source details - Title: Advances in Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Architecture, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure, July 25-29, 2021, USA (Vol. 272, pp. 66-73). Switzerland: Springer.
DOI
2018 Li, R. Y. M., Meng, L., Leung, T. H., Zuo, J., Tang, B., & Wang, Y. (2018). Unmaking waste in construction in the EU and the Asian circular economy: A formal institutional approach. In R. Crocker, C. Saint, G. Chen, & Y. Tong (Eds.), Unmaking Waste in Production and Consumption: Towards The Circular Economy (pp. 225-240). online: Emerald Publishing Limited.
DOI Scopus7 WoS7
2017 Meng, L., Allan, A., & Somenahalli, S. (2017). Investigating theoretical development for integrated transport and land use modelling systems. In S. Geertman (Ed.), Event/exhibition information: CUPUM 2017: 15th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Adelaide, Australia, 11/07/2017-14/07/2017
Source details - Title: Planning support science for smarter urban futures (pp. 263-278). Switzerland: Springer.
DOI Scopus1
2016 Li, R. Y. M., Chau, K. W., Leung, T. H., & Meng, L. (2016). Applied econometric models in international housing markets: theories and applications. In Source details - Title: Econometric analyses of international housing markets (pp. 8-38). UK: Routledge.
DOI

Year Citation
2024 Meng, L., Li, R. Y. M., Finocchiaro, W., & Alemu, A. (2024). Integrating Building Management Systems (BMS) and Building Information Model (BIM) to improve HVAC efficiency: a case study in Darwin. In EBIMCS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 6th International Conference on E-Business, Information Management and Computer Science (pp. 87-92). US: ACM.
DOI Scopus1
2019 Meng, L., Luo, L., Chen, Y., & Stazic, B. (2019). Planning for safer road facilities for bicycle users at junctions. In S. Geertman (Ed.), 16th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM): Computational Urban Planning and Management for Smart Cities (pp. 373-387). Switzerland: Springer.
DOI WoS2
2019 Li, R. Y. M., Chair, K. W., Lu, W., Ho, D. C. W., Shoaib, M., & Meng, L. (2019). Construction hazard awareness and construction safety knowledge sharing epistemology. In International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction 2019 Icsic 2019 Driving Data Informed Decision Making (pp. 283-290). ICE Publishing.
DOI Scopus14
2018 Meng, L. I., Berry, S., Somenahalli, S., & Allan, A. (2018). Identifying barriers in shared mobility implementation, a review. In Proceedings of the Australasian Transport Research Forum (pp. 1-8). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
2017 Meng, L., Taylor, M. A. P., & Scrafton, D. (2017). An empirical study of railway station access mode choice. In ATRF 2017 - Australasian Transport Research Forum 2017, Proceedings (pp. 1-25). New Zealand: ATRF - Australasian Transport Research Forum.
Scopus2
2016 Meng, L., Douglas, J., & Allan, A. (2016). Triple Bottom Line for systems analyses on integrated social, environmental and economic development in urban renewal. In P. Burton, & H. Shearer (Eds.), State of Australian Cities Conference 2015: Refereed Proceedings (pp. 1-20). Australia: Griffith University.
2015 Meng, L., Li, R., Huang, X., & Zuo, J. (2015). Sustainable housing in metropolitan Adelaide: a study on residents' perception. In Proceedings from the PRRES Conference - 2015 (pp. 1-29). Malaysia: Pacific Rim Real Estate Society.
2012 Meng, L., Taylor, M. A. P., & Holyoak, N. (2012). Discrete choice modelling for travel mode and residential location choices in an Adelaide rail corridor. In H. Mak, & H. K. Lo (Eds.), Transportation & logistics management : proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS) (pp. 523-530). Hong Kong: Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies.
2012 Meng, L., Taylor, M. A. P., & Holyoak, N. (2012). Stated preference survey experiment design for transit-oriented development modelling. In Proceedings of the 35th Australasian Transport Research Forum (pp. 1-26). Perth, Western Australia: WA Department of Transport.
2011 Meng, L., Holyoak, N., & Taylor, M. (2011). Increasing the patronage of Adelaide's Northern Rail Corridor. In Australian Transport Research Forum 2011 proceedings (pp. 1-15). Adelaide: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
Scopus3
National Competitive Grants
  1. Australian Aid Fund: The Potential Improvement in Developing Rapid Transit Systems: Case Studies in Pandang and Adelaide (2014)
  2. National Institute for Forest Products Innovation (NIFPI): Fire Detection and Resource Suppression Project (2019–2021)
State Government Grants
  1. A Department of Transport, Planning and Infrastructure: Children Active Travel to School (2014)
  2. Forestry SA: Fire Detection Camera Evaluation (2018)
Local Government Grants
  1. SA Government Metropolitan City Planning Project (2013)
  2. Scoping Paper into the Supply Chain Framework of the Bush Tucker Food Industry (Logistics, ICT Infrastructure, and Skills Development) (2022–2023)
University Grants
  1. University of South Australia Research Themes Investment Scheme 1 – Seed Fund: Railway Precinct Development: Transport and Land Use Modelling Approach (2015–2017)
  2. University of South Australia Research Themes Investment Scheme 1 – Seed Fund: Who Pays the Piper? Creating a Generic, Scalable Business Model to Eliminate Waste in SA (2017–2018)

Courses I teach

  • BUSI 6035 Enterprise Resource Planning (2026)
  • ENGI 5012 Engineering Economic Analysis (2026)
  • ENGI 6001 Engineering Systems Design Project (2026)
  • ENGG 5020 Masters Research Theory and Practice (2025)
  • MFET 5011 Engineering Economic Analysis (2025)
  • MFET 5043 Supply Chain Management (2025)
  • ENGG 5020 Masters Research Theory and Practice (2024)
  • MFET 5011 Engineering Economic Analysis (2024)
  • MFET 5043 Supply Chain Management (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Principal Supervisor From Policy to Plate: Optimizing Agrifood Supply Chains for Sustainability and Inclusive Development Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Xiaoni Wu
2025 Principal Supervisor From Policy to Plate: Optimizing Agrifood Supply Chains for Sustainability and Inclusive Development - Doctorate Full Time Ms Xiaoni Wu

Connect With Me

External Profiles

Other Links