His main research area is transport economics which covers issues such as competition policy and government regulation, efficiency benchmarking, transport demand modelling and industrial organization. He is on the editorial boards of three journals including Transportation Research - Part B, Part E, and is an editor of the journal of Transport Policy, associate editor of the book series "Advances in Airlines Economics". Dr. Fu is the Vice President (Research) of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), Vice President (Research) of the Institute for Aviation (UK), founding chair of the Maritime Economy and Policy stream of the World Transport Convention.