Tony Sze

Tony is an associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained the BEng (Civil Engineering) and PhD degrees both from the University of Hong Kong. Before joining PolyU, Tony had worked at University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He specializes in traffic safety, injury prevention, driver behaviour, transport policy, statistical models and data analytics. Tony has over 100 journal publications including prestigious transportation & safety journals like Analytic Methods in Accident Research and Accident Analysis & Prevention.

Tony is the associate editors of Accident Analysis and Prevention, Travel Behaviour and Society, Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, and International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences Research. He is also the editorial board members of Analytic Methods in Accident Research, Safety Science, Journal of Safety Research, and International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. Currently, Tony is the committee members of The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation – Hong Kong Region (CIHT-HKR) and Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS). He also serves on the Road Safety Research Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government since 2019. Tony got the Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2021, Outstanding Health Promotion Project Award from Food and Health Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2015, and numerous paper awards in the international conferences.

Professional qualifications

• Member, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (2020)
• Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council (2020)
• Member, The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (2018)
• Member, Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (2018)