Quasi-pseudo-metrization of topological preordered spaces

We establish that every second countable completely regularly preordered space (E,T,<) is quasi-pseudo-metrizable, in the sense that there is a quasi-pseudo-metric p on E for which the pseudo-metric p∨p^−1 induces T and the graph of < is exactly the set {(x,y): p(x,y)=0}. In the ordered case it is proved that these spaces can be characterized as being order homeomorphic to subspaces of the ordered Hilbert cube. The connection with quasi-pseudo-metrization results obtained in bitopology is clarified. In particular, strictly quasi-pseudo-metrizable ordered spaces are characterized as being order homeomorphic to order subspaces of the ordered Hilbert cube.