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Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)Annual Report 2014
© 2015 Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)
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Contents
The Centre ...............................................................................4
Director’s Report ....................................................................5
Overview ...................................................................................6
Publications ............................................................................. 18
Visitor's Seminars and Workshops ................................20
Selected Centre Research Projects .................................23
Students & Supervision ......................................................26
Grant Income and Resesearch Funding .......................29
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The Centre
MISSION To become a world-leading organisation in integrated interdisciplinary transport research and development.
Towards this mission, rCITI will investigate sus-
tainable approaches to transport infrastructure
and operations, with extensive liaison with indus-
try and government. The Centre pursues these
activities building on five core research pillars in-
cluding Transport Planning, ITS Communications,
Computational Sustainability, Infrastructure and
Energy / Fuel.
Transport planning: To reshape the nature
of integrated transport
policy, planning, optimization, financing, delivery
and real-time management.
ITS Communications: To improve the safety,
efficiency and reliability
of the transport system via the introduction of
novel communication methods and technologies
to enhance cooperative ITS by connecting the di-
verse range of transport elements (eg. travellers,
vehicles, signal controls, bridges, roads, ramps
and system operators).
Infrastructure: To develop new mate-
rials, techniques and
mathematical engineering tools which permit
the enhancement of infrastructure construction,
maintenance, management and rehabilitation.
Energy/Fuel: To develop new trans-
formative technologies
and techniques to deliver, alter and utilize energy/
fuel more efficiently in the transport system.
Computational Sustainability: To develop computational
tools for the quantified assessment of sustaina-
ble approaches to transport management and
operations that simultaneously consider technical,
social, environmental and economic
aspects.
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The Centre Director’s ReportWith the close of 2014, the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) has achieved an exciting critical mass
of excellent staffing, research contributions, student involvement and professional outcomes. This represents our third year of operation (having been founded late 2011). Over this relatively short amount of time we have come an exceptionally long way with many more challenges and oppor-tunities ahead of us.
During the year, some particularly noteworthy
items include our funding successes and collab-
orative opportunities: we have been awarded two
Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery
grants and one National Health and Medical
Research Council project grant. ARC Discovery
grants and NHMRC project grants represent the
most prestigious and competitive basic research
programs in Australia. The award of three grants
in our third year of operation represents a monu-
mental achievement fully attributed to the excel-
lent research staff within our centre and with our
collaborators.
In addition, we conducted a new practical re-
search study for the Roads and Maritime Services
(RMS) on the topic of ramp metering evaluation.
Such studies keep rCITI firmly in the practicing do-
main of transport engineering and help us to deliv-
er meaningful impacts to the field. Other ongoing
research work includes two ARC Linkage projects
with our industrial partners TSS and GoGet as well
as our long-term partnership with Transport for
New South Wales. Further, our research project
with the U.S. Federal Highway Administration
(FHWA) titled “Identification and Evaluation of
Transformative and Environmental Applications
and Strategies” was successfully concluded.
rCITI led the network modelling component of this
research and developed novel network evalua-
tion methodologies for active traffic management
where environmental impact is the primary issue.
In total, since launch in 2011, rCITI has attracted
over $5M in external research funding.
It is also important to note that rCITI staff were fi-
nalists in two categories at the Sydney Engineering
Excellence Awards. Specifically, the award
categories were Research and Development
and Welfare, Health and Safety for the project
"Instrumented Vehicle Technology to Promote Safer
and Fuel Efficient Driving Behaviour". The work was
conducted in collaboration with GoGet carshare
and will help to enhance fuel efficiency, safety and
traveller mobility.
The centre also played an active role in outreach in
2014. We hosted three international events includ-
ing the International Symposium on Activity-Based
Modelling (10 March 2014) and an international
workshop on Risk in Transport Systems (20-21
March 2014). Both brought together distinguished
international and local speakers from academ-
ia and industry in activity based modelling and
transportation risk. The third conference, the 32nd
Conference of Australian Institutes of Transport
Research (CAITR) (17-18 February 2014), provid-
ed a discussion forum for young transportation
researchers from over 14 different universities,
institutes and research groups.
I would like to take the opportunity to extend a warm
welcome to our new staff members who have joined
us this year. rCITI has expanded its core team with
international researchers whose expertise comple-
ments our interdisciplinary efforts in transportation
research. They will help us to achieve our vision and
meet the opportunities ahead of us.
As we look forward, I would like to re-emphasize
rCITI’s mission of becoming a world-leading or-
ganization in integrated interdisciplinary transport
research and development. Our overarching aim is
to be a major contributor and facilitator to shaping
the global research field of integrated transport
systems and ultimately attaining safe, efficient and
sustainable transport for society.
Relevant interdisciplinary research and continu-
ous liaison with government and industry, all on a
global level, form the foundation for rCITI’s mission
and the realisation of substantial contributions.
This hasbeen a major year for rCITI, and I sincerely
thank all supporters and the centre’s dedicated
and excellent staff. I am looking forward to 2015
and the real opportunities lying ahead of us.
S. Travis Waller
Evans & Peck Professor of Transport Innovation and Director, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)
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Overview
OVERVIEW - 20142014 has been a stellar year for the centre.
The Research Centre for Integrated Transport
Innovation’s (rCITI) intake of research funding,
students and staff has again increased, which
made 2014 a busy and successful year. Staff and
students participated in numerous new and ongo-
ing research projects, seminars and conferences
held on the UNSW campus and externally during
the year.
Significant achievements occurring during 2014
include the award of three new grants from
Australia’s most prestigious scientific organisa-
tions: (1) an Australian Research Council (ARC)
Discovery Project Grant where rCITI is the admin-
istering organisation, (2) an Australian Research
Council (ARC) a Discovery Project grant jointly with
the University of Sydney, and (3) NHMRC Project
grant jointly with UNSW School of Public Health
and Community Medicine. These new grants
augment rCITI’s current research portfolio which
already included an ARC LIEF grant for major
infrastructure, two ARC Linkage grants (which
include industrial support) as well as substantial
research contracts with Transport for New South
Wales (TfNSW), Roads & Maritime Services (RMS),
and the US. Department of Transportation as part
of a consortium with Booz Allen Hamilton. In total,
since being launched in November 2011, rCITI has
attracted over $5M in external research support.
The core rCITI staffing grew to 14 professionals.
This was comprised of 4 continuing academics, 4
contract/adjunct/conjoint academics, 5 research-
ers and one centre administrator. In addition, 7
additional visiting researchers helped augment the
centre’s capabilities. The rCITI group published
53 research papers in journals and proceedings
in 2014. Throughout 2014, the core academic
staff supervised and supported 25 PhD students,
3 Masters by Research and 9 Honours students.
In addition, rCITI hosted four visiting students in-
cluding two Practicum Exchange Program student
from Harbin Institute of Technology (China) and
the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay
(India) and two visiting students from the University
of Texas at Austin (USA) and the University of
Connecticut (USA).
GRANTS AWARDED
Grants awarded in 2014The Australian government is committed to build-
ing an education and research sector that is world
class by providing funding towards grants that is
applied to excellent basic and applied research.
rCITI successfully won three competitive Research
Grants in 2014:-
Prof S. Travis Waller (rCITI, UNSW) was
awarded a 2015 ARC Discovery Research
Grant funding the project "Adaptive Stochastic
Dynamic Traffic Assignment", which will
address the limitations of dynamic transport
network modelling in the planning process,
focusing on traffic uncertainty, driver adaptivity
and information-provision. [Australian Research
Council, Discovery Project – DP150104687,
$275,200]
Prof Michiel Bliemer (USyd), Prof S. Travis
Waller (rCITI, UNSW), Prof David Hensher
(USyd), Dr Vinayak Dixit (rCITI, UNSW),
Prof Elisabeth Rutstrom (Georgia State), Prof
Stephane Hess (Uni Leeds) and Prof Hans
Van Lint (TUDelft Netherlands) were award-
ed a 2015 ARC Discovery Research Grant
funding the project "Investigating travel choice
behaviour: a new approach using interactive
experiments with driving simulators", which
involves research on how to improve practical
behaviour models in order to better predict
the impact of major infrastructure investments
and improve transport-policy decision mak-
ing. [Australian Research Council, Discovery
Project – DP150103299, $677,800]
Professor Raina MacIntyre (Public Health and
Community Medicine, UNSW), Dr Lauren
Gardner (rCITI, UNSW) and Dr Anita Heywood
(Public Health and Community Medicine,
UNSW) was awarded a 2015 NHMRC Project
grant funding the project "Real time models
to inform prevention and control of emerging
infectious diseases", where the research will
focus on the development of optimization
based network models for predicting outbreak
behaviour, and developing control measures.
[National Health & Medical Research Council,
Project Grant APP1082524, $532,796]
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Overview EXPANSION OF THE RCITI CORE TEAMThe group welcomed Dr Hanna Grzybowska (February 2014), Mr Mojtaba Maghrebi (April 2014) and Dr Emily Moylan (August 2014) to the core team.
Dr Hanna Grzybowska was appointed as
a Research Associate in February. Prior to
joining UNSW, she was a member of the
Intelligent Fleet Logistics (IFL) business team
at NICTA, Australia’s largest organization
dedicated to ICT research. Hanna complet-
ed her PhD in Operational Research at the
Department of Statistics and Operational
Research of the Technical University of
Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. Her key
research interests include: vehicle fleet man-
agement, city logistics, real-time and dynamic
vehicle routing problems and simulation.
Mr Mojtaba Maghrebi was appointed as a
Research Associate in April after the comple-
tion of his PhD at UNSW. His PhD focused on
solving large scale dispatching problem with
machine learning approach. His key research
interests include innovative branching tech-
niques in mixed integer programming, super-
vised and ensemble learnings and intelligent
decision support systems.
Dr Emily Moylan was appointed in August
as a Research Associate, after the comple-
tion of her Master of Science in Transport
Engineering and a Master of City Planning
from the University of California, Berkeley,
USA. She holds a PhD from the Research
School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the
Australian National University. Her research
interests include stochastic treatment of travel
time and the incorporation of travel time relia-
bility into transportation policy decisions.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPSrCITI hosted a number of workshops during the year at which experts from around the world presented, these include:-
32nd Conference of Australian Institutes of
Transport Research (CAITR)
The 32nd Conference of Australian Institutes
of Transport Research (CAITR) was held at the
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
UNSW Australia on the 17-18 February 2014.
CAITR is the longest running transport confer-
ence in Australia. It is a forum for young transport,
logistic and transport infrastructures research-
ers. Attendees represented ARRB, ENS de Lyon,
Griffith University, ITLS (University of Sydney),
Queensland University of Technology, rCITI
(UNSW), Sidra Solutions, TCPA (Vic), TfNSW,
University of Melbourne, University of SA, UTS
and UWA.
Aaron Hargraves, was awarded the Robert L
Pretty Memorial Prize for best undergraduate
student paper, on ‘A Feasibility Study into the use
of String Transport Systems for Passenger Rail in
New South Wales’, this prize was kindly sponsored
by Sidra Solutions.
L-R: Aaron Hargreaves, Rahmi Akcelik, Sevim Akcelik
Nima Amini, was awarded the Rodney Vaughan
Memorial Prize for the best postgraduate student
paper, on ‘Associations between Health and Active
Transportation’, this prize was kindly sponsored
by The Urban Transport Institute (TUTI).
L-R: Upali Vandebona, Vinayak Dixit, Nima Amini
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The International Symposium on Activity -Based Modelling
Prof. Abolfazl Mohammadian, University of
Illinois-Chicago
Prof. Chandra Bhat, University of Texas-Austin
Prof. Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University
Prof. Harry Timmermans, Eindhoven University
of Technology
Prof. Yoram Shiftan, Technion Israel Institute of
Technology
Dr. John Bowman, Bowman Research and
Consulting
Dr. Taha Hossein Rashidi, UNSW Australia
Dr. Soura Rasouli, Eindhoven University of
Technology
This Symposium was kindly sponsored by rCITI
and the School of Civil and Environmental
Engineering.
L-R: Back: S. Travis Waller, Abolfazl Mohammadin, Yoram Shiftan, Harry Timmermans. Front: John Bowman, Chandra Bhat, Soura Rasouli, Taha Hossein Rashidi
rCITI hosted an International Symposium on
Activity Based Modelling at the AGMS building,
UNSW Australia on the 10 March 2014.
The symposium brought together leading experts
from academia and industry who are interested in
developing cutting edge activity-based modelling
frameworks. There was opportunity to discuss
challenging issues regarding the activity-based
modelling paradigm and emerging ideas..
Conference speakers included government plan-
ners, academics and industry representatives.
New and innovative activity-based models were
discussed, specially models currently been used
in the United States and Israel.
The following distinguished international guest
speakers from academia and industry travelled as
far away as the USA, Europe and Asia spoke at the
symposium:-
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L-R: Glenn Harrison, Thomas Rutherford, Jordan Louviere, Elisabet Rutstrom, visiting researcher, Nathalie Picard, Mogens Fosgerau, Andre de Palma, John Rose, Vinayak Dixit.
CEAR / rCITI Workshop – Risk in Transport Systems
The Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk
(CEAR) and rCITI hosted a Risk in Transport
Systems workshop at the AGSM, UNSW Australia
on the 20-21 March 2014. This workshop brought
together transportation engineers, transportation
economists and experimental economists that
were interested in transportation risk. The work-
shop focused on the type of choices made with
respect to safety, evacuation, travel time uncertain-
ty and institutional decisions.
The following distinguished international guest
speakers from Australia, USA, and Europe
presented:-
Professor Elisabet Rutstrom (CEAR, Georgia
State University, USA)
Professor Andre de Palma (Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Cachan, France)
Professor Mogens Fosgerau (DTU. Technical
University of Denmark, Denmark)
Professor John Rose (University of South
Australia, Australia)
Dr Vinayak Dixit (rCITI, UNSW, Australia)
Professor Thomas Rutherford (University of
Wisconsin Madison, USA)
This workshop was kindly sponsored by the
Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR)
at Georgia State University, USA, rCITI and the
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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Visiting Academic and Guest
Speakers rCITI continued to attract a variety of visiting
academics and guest speakers to the School for
relevant research collaboration and seminars.
2014’s visitors included Associate Professor Hillel
Bar-Gera (Ben-Gurion University of the Negeva,
Israel), Dr Jean-Luc Ygnace (French National
Institute for Transportation Research,(INRETS),
France), Dr Ken Doust, (Windana Research,
Sydney) , Assistant Professor Amir Samimi
(Sharif University of Technology, Iran), Mr Alireza
Ermgaun (Sharif University of Technology, Iran), Dr
Nick Mattei (NICTA, Sydney), Assistant Professor
Aleksandar Stevanovic (Florida Atlantic University,
USA), Professor Guoqiang Mao, (University of
Technology, Sydney), Professor Chi Xie (Shanghai
Jiaotong University) and Emeritus Professor
Graham R Hellestrand (Embedded Systems
Technology, USA). See pages 20-21 for information
on their contributed seminars.
L-R: S. Travis Waller, Vinayak Dixit, Zhitao Xiong.
Finalists at the Sydney
Engineering Excellence Awards 2014
Researchers at rCITI were finalists at the
Sydney Engineering Excellence Awards 2014:
"Instrumented Vehicle Technology to Promote Safer
and Fuel Efficient Driving Behaviour” for the project
in the following two categories: (a) Research and
Development and (b) Welfare, Health and Safety.
We congratulate Prof. S. Travis Waller, Dr Vinayak
Dixit, Dr Zhitao Xionga and their GoGet Carshare
partners for their cutting edge work.
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Conferences, Seminars and
Workshops
rCITI staff and students attended/presented at the
following conferences, seminars and workshops
during 2014, some of which led to publications of
conference papers or journal publications.
12-16 January 2014, Transportation Research
Board. Washington, D.C. USA.
3-6 Feb 2014, 2014 International
Conference on Computing, Networking and
Communications (ICNC). IEEE, Honolulu, USA.
17-18 February 2014, CAITR 2014 at UNSW,
Sydney.
10 March 2014, Activity Based Modelling
Symposium at UNSW, Sydney.
20-21 March 2014, Risk in Transport Systems
Workshop at UNSW, Sydney.
19 - 22 May 2014, Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics Conference on
Optimization (OP14). San Diego, USA.
23 May 2014, Equilibrium Traffic Modelling
Seminar at Google Sydney.
28-31 May 2014, CSCE 2014 Canadian Society
for Civil Engineering General Conference.
Halifax, Canada.
16-19 June 2014, Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) International
Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and
Multimedia Networks 2014. Sydney.
17-19 June 2014, 5th International Symposium
on Dynamic Traffic Assignment. Salerno, Italy.
23-25 June 2014, ASCE - Computing in Civil
and Building Engineering. Orlando, USA.
30 June - 02 July 2014, 3rd INFORMS
Transportation Science and Logistics Society
Workshop. Chicago, USA.
9-11 July 2014, 31st International Symposium
on Automation and Robotics in Construction
and Mining (ISARC). Sydney.
18 July 2014, ‘Urban living’, Bringing together
the French business community in Australia at
the Franco-Australian Chamber of Commerce,
Sydney.
28-31 July 2014. Australian Institute of Traffic
Planning and Management (AITPM) National
Conference - 2014, Adelaide.
24 September 2014, Potential Air Conflicts
Minimization Through Speed Control at School
of Aviation, Faculty of Science, UNSW, Sydney.
08-11 October 2014, 17th International
Conference on Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITSC). Qingdao, China.
17-18 October 2014 International Conference
on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure 2014.
Hyderabad, India.
30 October 2014, Driverless Cars: New
Engineering Responsibilities for Policy Makers
at IEEE Sydney Chapter, Sydney.
10-11 November 2014, Volvo Sustainable
Freight Symposium, Dunmore Lang College,
Macquarie University, Sydney.
19 November 2014, Intelligent Transport
Systems at FRANS Forum 2014, UNSW,
Sydney.
24 November 2014, rCITI/NICTA workshop at
UNSW, Sydney.
26 November 2014, Aimsun Users' Meeting
Australia, Sydney.
11 December 2014, DTA – Texas Experience
at Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS),
Sydney.
13-15 December 2014, 19th International
Conference of Hong Kong Society for
Transportation Studies, HKSTS 2014 -
Transportation and Infrastructure, Hong Kong,
2014
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L-R: Ashish Sharma, Md Kamurl Islam,Vinayak Dixit
GRADUATES Our centre warmly congratulates Dr Md Kamurl
Islam on the award of his PhD at the UNSW
Graduation ceremony held at the Sir Clancy
Auditorium on 13 November 2014 for his
thesis “Stochastic Modelling for Evaluation of
Impacts of Headway Variability on Public Transit
Performance.”
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VISITING STUDENT RESEARCHERS
Rounaq Basu - Indian Institute of Technology,
Mumbai, India. (12 May – 15 July 2015) During
Ron’s visit as a practicum exchange student, he
worked collaboratively with students and research-
ers on the design of a web-based survey [out-
come – assisted in developing a more efficient and
organised method for data collection]. He enjoyed
the collegiality of rCITI making many friends with
students and resarchers. He has many wonderful
memories with the LG9 group where they worked
and partied as team. eg. attending the Game of
Thrones exhibition, eating home cooked Indian
food brought by another student, weekly Friday
ping-pong sessions, playing tennis, eating out, and
a trip to Manly.
Haiyang Liu - Harbin Institute of Technology,
Harbin, China (1 September 2013 - 31 August
2014) During Haiyang’s visit as a practicum
exchange student he worked collaboratively with
students and researchers on travel time prediction.
[Outcome: Assistance on the ARIMA model for the
TfNSW project and a research paper was written
and presented at the 2014 IEEE 17th International
Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITSC) held in Qingdao, China. 08-11 Oct 2014
by Xiong, Z., Rey, D., Mao, T., Liu, H., Dixit, V. V., &
Waller, S. T. (2014). 'A Three-Stage Framework for
Motorway Travel Time Prediction.’, as well as the
publication of a paper in the 2015 IEEE Intelligent
Transportation Systems Journal –by Liu, H., Wang,
J., Wijayaratna, K., Dixit, V.V., Waller, S.T., (2015),
‘Integrating the Bus Vehicle Class Into the Cell
Transmission Model.’]
rCITI hosted 2 visiting student researchers and 2
Practicum Exchange Program students
Michael Levin - University of Texas at Austin, USA.
(7-22 March 2014) As a visiting student researcher
Michael worked collaboratively with students and
researchers on 3 different projects:-
A System-optimal dynamic lane problem
[outcome – A research paper was written
and will be presented at the 2015 IEEE,
18th International Conference on Intelligent
Transportation Systems by Duell, M., Levin, M.,
Boyles, S., Waller, S.T., ‘System optimal dynam-
ic lane reversal for autonomous vehicles’.]
Assisting in the calibration of the VISTA dynam-
ic traffic assignment simulator for the Sydney
network [Outcome – Providing instruction to
others on the basics of how to use VISTA to
solve dynamic traffic assignment and analyse
results]
Development of a simple forward simulation
model that would admit optimization by CPLEX
[Outcome – presented research at at INFORMS
in 2014: "Equitable Sector and Airport Capacity
Management using Speed Control."]
Kelly Bertolaccini - University of Connecticut,
USA. (28 July – 1 September 2014) During Kelly’s
trip as a visiting student researcher she worked
collaboratively with students and researchers on
UConn’s T-HUB project, with an emphasis on how
the t-HUB could be adjusted and expanded to
meet the needs of the Sydney metropolitan region.
[Outcome – Expanding Transit Opportunity Index
(TOI) to accommodate multiple modes]
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CENTRE MANAGEMENT
VISITING ACADEMICS
Visiting Professorial Fellow
Professor Chi Xie, School of Naval Architecture,
Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong
University, Shanghai, China
Senior Visiting Fellow
Professor Sahotra Sarkar, University of Texas
at Austin, Department of Philosophy, Section of
Integrative Biology
Visiting Fellow
Dr Hironobu Hasegawa, Akita National College of
Technology, Japan
Dr Peter Hidas, Transport for New South Wales,
Bureau of Transport Statistics (BTS), Sydney,
Australia
Mr Alireza Ermagun, Researcher, Sharif
University of Technology, Iran.
Dr Jean-Luc Ygnace, Research Engineer, French
National Institute for Transportation Research
(INRETS), France
Associate Professor Hillel Bar-Gera, Department
of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-
Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
DIRECTOR
Professor S. Travis Waller, Evans & Peck Professor
of Transport Innovation
DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Dr Vinayak Dixit, Senior Lecturer
ACADEMICS
Dr Upali Vandebona, Senior Lecturer
Dr Lavy Libman, Senior Lecturer, UNSW School of
Computer Science and Engineering
Dr Lauren Gardner, Lecturer
Dr Taha Hossein Rashidi, Lecturer
Dr Ken Doust, Adjuct Senior Lecturer
Dr Chen Cai, Conjoint Lecturer
RESEARCHERS
Dr Hanna Grzybowska, Research Associate (from
Feb 2014)
Dr Mojtaba Maghrebi, Research Associate (from
Apr 2014)
Dr Emily Moylan, Research Associate (From Aug
2014)
Dr David Rey, Research Associate
Dr Zhitao Xiong, Research Associate
CENTRE MANAGER
Ms Maria Lee
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L-R: Back: Andrew Allen, Stephen Foster, Rob Fitzpatrick Vinayak Dixit, Chris Raine, Maria Lee.Front: Graham Davies, S. Travis Waller, Glenn Geers, Maurice Pagnucco.
Professor Graham Davies
Dean, Faculty of Engineering
Professor Nasser Khalili
Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of
Engineering
Professor Stephen Foster
Head of School, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Professor S. Travis Waller
Evans & Peck Professor of Transport Innovation
and Director, Research Centre for Integrated
Transport Innovation (rCITI)
Associate Professor Maurice Pagnucco
Head of School, Computer Science and
Engineering
Mr Ian McIntyre
Principal, Evans & Peck
rCITI STEERING COMMITTEE
Mr Rob Fitzpatrick
Director, Infrastructure Transport & Logistics,
NICTA
Dr Glenn Geers
Technology Director, Infrastructure Transport &
Logistics, NICTA
Mr Chris Raine
External Consultant
Ms Maria Lee
Centre Manager, Research Centre for Integrated
Transport Innovation (rCITI)
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Lavy LibmanSenior LecturerBSc, MSC and PhD Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.
Research Interests:Cross-layer performance optimization of wireless networks: Cooperative and opportunistic retransmission and routing strategies; Error control and failure recovery methods; Wireless network coding; Protocols for devices with limited energy, memory, and computational power resources; Protocols for networks with highly dynamic topologies (e.g. vehicular networks)
Applications of game theory to networks and distributed systems: Pricing and market-based schemes for distributed resource allocation and optimization; Analysis, design and optimization of autonomous networks; Distributed detection of network equilibria and violations thereof (e.g. incident detection in transportation networks)
Teaching Area/Interests: Wireless Communication Intelligent transportation systems
S. Travis WallerEvans & Peck Professor of Transport Innovation & Director, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)BSc, Ohio State University, USA. MSc & PhD, Northwestern University, USA.
Research Interests:Transportation network modelling, particularly systems characterized by dynamics, uncertainty and informa-tion; large-scale integrated transport optimization and planning. Specific applications or problem domains include Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA), routing algorithm develop-ment, network equilibrium, stochastic optimization, integrated demand/supply modelling, network design, adaptive equilibrium, system anal-ysis of public-private partnerships, and bi-level optimization of transport networks.
Teaching Areas/Interests:Transport Network ModellingIntegrated System AnalysisOptimizationSimulationIntelligent Transportation Systems
Vinayak DixitSenior LecturerDeputy Director, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)Integrated M Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India PhD, University of Central Florida, USA.
Research Interests:
Behaviour under Risk and Uncertainty in Transportation Systems: Transportation Modelling and Simulation: Traffic Flow Theory: Traffic Safety: Workzone Management Strategies: Experimental Economics.
Teaching Areas/Interests:Transportation Modelling & SimulationTransportation Management & ControlTraffic Flow TheoryTraffic Engineering
Upali VandebonaSenior Lecturer BSc,University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; MEng, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand; PhD, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Research Interests:Modelling of Transport Systems: Development of simulation and animation models for light rail train systems and bus services. Facility Location: Environmental consider-ations related to transport facility location: Demand Modelling: Analysis of public awareness and attitudes related to transport systems: Air Transport: Intelligent Transport Systems: Signage systems.
Teaching Areas/Interests:Transport systems and operations designTraffic engineeringTransport planning, transport infrastructure development, trans-port economics and environmental assessmentsHighway Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Lauren GardnerLecturerBS ArchE, MSE and PhD, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Research Interests:Network modelling for multi-domain integrated systems: congestion pric-ing models accounting for uncertain-ty, the role of real-time information and adaptive pricing: Sustainability models integrating transportation and electricity systems: developing network-based optimization models to predict the role of global transport systems in the spread of contagious disease.
Teaching Areas/Interests:Computational SustainabilityUrban Transportation PlanningCongestion Pricing and Economics
Taha Hossein RashidiLecturerBSc, MSc (CVEN) Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran;PhD University of Illinois Chicago, USA.
Research Interests:Travel Behavior Analysis; Transportation Planning; Activity-Based Travel Demand Modeling; Housing Search and Land Use Modelling; Integrated Land-Use and Transportation Models; Goods Movement Modelling; Microsimulation Modeling Methods for Urban Activities
Teaching Areas/Interests:Applied Econometrics and Statistics in Transport ModellingTravel Demand and Land Use Modelling Planning Sustainable Infrastructure
David ReyResearch AssociateBSc, MSc EE & IT University of Montpellier, France;MSc Maths PUC Rio, Brazil; PhD IFSTTAR Lyon, France.
Research Interests:Resource Allocation, Network Design, Dynamic Routing, Conflict Detection and Resolution, Pattern Inference, Incentives Schemes, Combinatorial Algorithms, Mathematical Programming, Global and Fair Optimization
Zhitao XiongResearch AssociateBE and ME Beijing Institute of Technology, China; PhD University of Leeds, UK.
Research Interests:
Scenario Orchestration in Driving Simulation; Driving Behaviour/Driver Model; Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV); Ontology Engineering; Automated Action Planning & Scheduling; Multi-agent System.
Hanna GrzybowskaResearch Associate Master of Science Engineer Poznan University of Technology, Poland.; PhD Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Research Interests: Vehicle fleet management City logisticsReal-time and dynamic vehicle rout-ing problemsDecision support systemsSimulation.
Mojtaba Maghrebi Research Associate Masters of Science, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran.PhD, University of NSW Australia, Australia.
Research Interests:Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning (Supervised Learning, Ensemble Algorithms)Dispatch PlanningOptimization (Integer Programming, Mixed Integer Programming)Robust Meta-Heuristics Parallel ComputingSimulation (Discrete Event )Intelligent Decision-Support Systems
Emily MoylanResearch AssociateBA Physics (hons) Middlebury College,United States; PhD Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Australia; Masters of Science in Transport Engineering
and Masters of City Planning, University of California Berkeley, United States.
Research Interests:
Travel time distributionsTravel time reliability
Researcn Associates:
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Publications
JOURNAL – REFEREED & SCHOLARLY ARTICLES1. Dixit, V., & Rashidi, T. H. (2014).
'Modelling crash propensity of carshare members.' Accident Analysis & Prevention, 70, 140-147. doi:10.1016/j.aap.2014.03.005
2. Dixit, V., & Wolshon, B. (2014). 'Evacuation traffic dynamics'. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 49, 114-125. doi:10.1016/j.trc.2014.10.014
3. Dixit, V. V., & Denant-Boemont, L. (2014). 'Is equilibrium in transport pure Nash, mixed or Stochastic?.' Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 48, 301-310. doi:10.1016/j.trc.2014.09.002
4. Duell, M., Gardner, L. M., Dixit, V., & Waller, S. T. (2014). 'Evaluation of a Strategic Road Pricing Scheme Accounting for Day-to-Day and Long-Term Demand Uncertainty.' Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2467(-1), 12-20. doi:10.3141/2467-02
5. Ermagun, A., Hossein Rashidi, T., & Samimi, A. (2014). 'A joint model for mode choice and escort decisions of school trips.' Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 1-20. doi:10.1080/23249935.2014.968654
6. Gardner, L. M., Boyles, S. D., Bar-Gera, H., & Tang, K. (2014). 'Robust Tolling Schemes for High-Occupancy Toll Facilities Under Variable Demand.' Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2450(-1), 152-162. doi:10.3141/2450-19
7. `Gardner, L. M., Fajardo, D., & Travis Waller, S. (2014). 'Inferring Contagion Patterns in Social Contact Networks Using a Maximum Likelihood Approach.' Natural Hazards Review, 15(3), 04014004. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000135
8. Gardner, L. M., & MacIntyre, C. (2014). 'Unanswered questions about the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).'BMC Research Notes, 7(1), 358. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-7-358
9. Gardner, L. M., Rey, D., Heywood, A. E., Toms, R., Wood, J., Waller, S. T., MacIntyre, C. R. (2014). 'A Scenario-Based Evaluation of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and the Hajj.' Risk Analysis, 34(8), 1391-1400. doi:10.1111/risa.12253
10. Hossein Rashidi, T., Kanaroglou, P., Toop, E., Maoh, H., & Liu, X. (2014). 'Emissions and built form an analysis of six Canadian cities.' Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research,. doi:10.1179/1942787514Y.0000000036
11. Islam, M. K., Vandebona, U., Dixit, V. V., & Sharma, A. (2014). 'A Bulk Queue Model for the Evaluation of Impact of Headway Variations and Passenger Waiting Behavior on Public Transit Performance.' IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 15(6), 2432-2442. doi:10.1109/TITS.2014.2315998
12. Javali, C., Revadigar, G., Libman, L., & Jha, S. (2014). 'SeAK: Secure authentication and key generation protocol based on dual antennas for wireless body area networks.' Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8651, 74-89. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13066-8_5
13. Levin, M. W., Duell, M., & Waller, S. T. (2014). 'Effect of Road Grade on Networkwide Vehicle Energy Consumption and Ecorouting'. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2427(-1), 26-33. doi:10.3141/2427-03
14. Levin, M. W., Pool, M., Owens, T., Juri, N. R., & Waller, S. T. (2014). 'Improving the Convergence of Simulation-based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Methodologies.' Networks and Spatial Economics. doi:10.1007/s11067-014-9242-x
15. Lu, W., Vandebona, U., & Kiyota, M. (2014). 'Analysis of experience with formalizing handicapped parking system.' Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 26, 62-71. doi:10.1016/j.trf.2014.06.011
16. Maghrebi, M., Sammut, C., & Waller, T. S. (2014). 'Predicting the Duration of Concrete Operations Via Artificial Neural Network and by Focusing on Supply Chain Parameters.' Building Research Journal, 61(1), 1-14. doi:10.2478/brj-2014-0001
17. Maghrebi, M., Travis Waller, S., & Sammut, C. (2014). 'Assessing the accuracy of expert-based decisions in dispatching ready mixed concrete.' Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 140(6). doi:10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000853
18. Maghrebi, M., Travis Waller, S., & Sammut, C. (2014). 'Sequential Meta-Heuristic Approach for Solving Large-Scale Ready-Mixed Concrete–Dispatching Problems.' Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 04014117. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000453
19. Maghrebi, M., Waller, T., & Sammut, C. (2013). 'Integrated building information modelling (bim) with supply chain and feed-forward control.' YBL Journal of Built Environment, 1(2). doi:10.2478/jbe-2013-0009
20. Rashidi, T. H. (2014). 'Dynamic Housing Search Model Incorporating Income Changes, Housing Prices, and Life-Cycle Events.' Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 04014041. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000257
21. Rey, D., Almi'ani, K., Viglas, A., Libman, L., & Waller, S. T. (2014). 'Transit Route Design Solved with Wireless Data Collection Algorithms.' Transportation Research Record.
22. Wang, S., Gardner, L., & Waller, S. T. (2014). 'Global Optimization Method for Robust Pricing of Transportation Networks under Uncertain Demand.' International Journal of Transportation, 2(2), 33-48. doi:10.14257/ijt.2014.2.2.03
23. Yu, J., Pande, A., Nezamuddin, N., Dixit, V., & Edwards, F. (2014). 'Routing Strategies for Emergency Management Decision Support Systems During Evacuation.' Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, 6(3), 257-273. doi:10.1080/19439962.2013.863258
CONFERENCE PAPERS – FULL PAPER REFERRED1. Ahmadian Fard Fini, A., Akbarne-
zhad, A., Hossein Rashidi, T., & Waller, S. T. (2014). ‘Importance of Planning for the Transport Stage in Procurement of Construction Materials.’ In ISARC 2014 Pro-ceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining (pp. 466-473). Sydney, Australia. 9-11 July 2014.
2. Alqahtani, B., Libman, L., & Kanhere, S. (2014). ‘A distributed mechanism for dynamic resource trading in cooperative mobile video streaming.’ In Proceeding of Institute of Electrical and Elec-tronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) Inter-national Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014, Sydney, Australia. 16-19 June 2014 doi:10.1109/WoWMoM.2014.6918996.
3. Antoniou, J., Papadopoulou-Lesta, V., Libman, L., Pitsillides, A., & Dehkordi, H. R. (2014). ‘Coop-eration among access points for enhanced quality of service in dense wireless environments.’ In Proceeding of Institute of Elec-trical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) International Sym-posium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014, Sydney, Australia. 16-19 June 2014. doi:10.1109/WoW-MoM.2014.6918953
4. Bastani, S., Libman, L., & Waller, S. T. (2014). ‘Impact of beaconing policies on traffic density estima-tion accuracy in traffic information systems.’ In Proceeding of Insti-tute of Electrical and Electronics
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Engineers Inc. (IEEE) Interna-tional Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014, Sydney, Australia. 16-19 June 2014. doi:10.1109/WoWMoM.2014.6918963
5. Chand, S., Chandra, S., & Dhamaniya, A. (2014). ‘Capacity Drop of Urban Arterial due to a Curbside Bus Stop.’ In Internation-al Conference on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure 2014. Hyderabad, India. 17-18 Oct 2014
6. Chen, N., Gardner, L., Duell, M., & Waller, S. T. (2014). ‘Evaluating Location Alternatives for Electric Vehicle Re-charging Infrastructure Using a Distance Constrained Equilibrium Assignment Model.’ In TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Com-pendium of Papers. Washington, DC USA. 12-16 Jan 2014.
7. Dixit, V., Trieu, J., Jian, S., and Li, X. (2014) 'Value of travel time sav-ings for carshare users in Sydney.' Proceedings of Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Manage-ment (AITPM) National Confer-ence, 2014, Adelaide, Australia. 28-31 Jul 2014.
8. Duell, M., Gardner, L. M., Dixit, V., & Waller, S. T. (2014). ‘Evaluation of a strategic road pricing scheme accounting for day-to-day and long term demand uncertainty.’ In Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Washington DC USA. 12-16 Jan 2014.
9. Duell, M., Levin, M., & Waller, S. (2014). ‘The effect of road eleva-tion on network wide vehicle ener-gy consumption and eco-routing.’ In Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Washington DC USA. 12-16 Jan 2014.
10. Duell, M., Levin, M,. Waller, S. T. (2014) 'On Estimating Vehicle Energy Consumption Using Dy-namic Traffic Assignment Vehicle Trajectories.' 5th International Symposium on Dynamic Traffic Assignment. Salerno, Italy. 17-19 Jun 2014
11. Duell, M., Levin, M,. Waller, S. T. (2014) 'Urban Vehicle Energy Con-sumption For Policy Evaluation: Impact Of Electric Vehicles.' In Proceedings of the 19th Interna-tional Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, HKSTS 2014 - Transportation and Infrastructure. Hong Kong, 13-15 Dec 2014.
12. Hammad, A., Rey, D., & Akbar Ne-zhad, A. (2014). ‘A mixed-integer nonlinear programming model for minimising construction site noise levels through site layout optimiza-tion.’ In ISARC 2014 Proceedings of the 31st International Sympo-sium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining (pp. 722-729). Sydney, Australia. 9-11 July 2014.
13. Jian, S., Suwito, D., and Dixit, V. (2014). ‘Advertising on transpor-tation networks.’ Proceedings of the 19th Hong Kong Society of Transportation Studies Annual
Conference. Hong Kong, 13-15 Dec 2014
14. Li, X., Jian, S., Rey, D., & Dixit, V. V. (2014). 'Optimal Spatial Allocation Of Budget To Promote Uptake Of New Vehicle Technology.' Pro-ceedings of the 19th Hong Kong Society of Transportation Studies Annual Conference. Hong Kong, 13-15 Dec 2014.
15. Libman, L., Bastiani, S., Waller, S.T. (2014) 'Real-Time Traffic Monitor-ing using Wireless Beacons with the Cell Transmission Model.' 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Qingdao, China. 08-11 Oct 2014.
16. Maghrebi, M., Periaraj, V., Waller, S. T., & Sammut, C. (2014). ‘Solving Ready-Mixed Concrete Delivery Problems: Evolutionary Compari-son between Column Generation and Robust Genetic Algorithm.’ In R. Issa (Ed.), ASCE - Computing in Civil and Building Engineering. Orlando, USA, 23-25 Jun 2014. doi:10.1061/9780784413616.176
17. Maghrebi, M., Periaraj, V., Waller, S. T., & Sammut, C. (2014). ‘Using Benders Decomposition for Solving Ready Mixed Concrete Dispatching Problems.’ In ISARC 2014 Proceedings of the 31st In-ternational Symposium on Automa-tion and Robotics in Construction and Mining, (pp672-681). Sydney, Australia. 9-11 July 2014.
18. Maghrebi, M., Rey, D., Waller, S. T., & Sammut, C. (2014). ‘Reducing the Number of Decision Variables in Ready Mixed Concrete for Op-timally Solving Small Instances in a Practical Time.’ In Proceedings CSCE 2014 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering General Confer-ence. Halifax: Canada. 28-31 May 2014
19. Maghrebi, M., Waller, S. T., & Sammut, C. A. (2014). ‘Scheduling Concrete Delivery Problems by a Robust Meta Heuristic Method.’ In 7th European Modelling Sympo-sium on Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation IEEE. (pp. 375-380). Manchester, UK: 20 - 22 Nov 2013, doi:10.1109/EMS.2013.64
20. Maghrebi, M. (2014) 'Optimizing Large Scale Concrete Delivery Problems.' Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Confer-ence on Optimization (OP14), San Diego, USA, 19 - 22 May 2014
21. Reisi Dehkordi, H., & Libman, L. (2014). ‘Optimal Routing for Bidirectional Flows with Network Coding in Asymmetric Wireless Networks.’ In 2014 Internation-al Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), IEEE. (pp. 439-444). Honolulu, USA: 3-6 Feb 2014 doi:10.1109/ICCNC.2014.6785375
22. Rey, D., Dixit, V. V., & Waller, S. T. (2014). ‘Stochastic Sce-nario-based Time-Dependent Shortest Path.’ In 3rd INFORMS Transportation Science and Logis-tics Society Workshop., Chicago, USA, 30 Jun - 02 Jul 2014
23 Rey, D., Duell, M., Dixit, V. V., & Waller, ST. (2014). ‘A Path Enu-meration Algorithm for Strategic System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment.’ In DTA 2014 5th International Symposium on Dy-namic Traffic Assignment. Salerno, Italy. 17-19 Jun 2014.
25. Rey D, Maghrebi M, Waller ST.' A Single Depot Concrete Delivery with Time Windows Model Using Integer and Assignment Variables.' In Proceedings of the 19th Inter-national Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, HKSTS 2014 - Transportation and Infrastructure. Hong Kong, 13-15 Dec 2014.
26. Wen, T., Chen, C., Gardner, L., Dixit, V. V., & Waller, S. T. (2014). ‘A Least Squares Method For Or-igin-Destination Estimation Incor-porating Variability Of Day-To-Day Travel Demand.’ In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Trans-portation Studies, HKSTS 2014 - Transportation and Infrastructure. Hong Kong, 13-15 Dec 2014.
27. Wen, T., Gardner, L., Dixit, V., Duell, M., & Waller, S. (2014). ‘A Strategic User Equilibrium Model Incorporating Both Demand and Capacity Uncertainty.’ In TRB 2014 Compendium of Papers DVD. Washington, DC. 12-16 Jan 2014
28. Wijayaratna, K. P., Labutis, L. N., & Waller, S. T. (2014). ‘Dynamic User Optimal Traffic Assignment with Recourse.’ In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transporta-tion Studies, HKSTS 2014 - Trans-portation and Infrastructure. Hong Kong, 13-15 Dec 2014.
29. Xiong, Z., Carsten, O., Jamson, H., & Cohn, A. G. (2014). 'Task-Driven Framework for Driving Simula-tion: Scenario Orchestration with Autonomous Simulated Vehicles.' In Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board.. Washington DC, USA. 12-16 Jan 2014.
30. Xiong, Z., Rey, D., Mao, T., Liu, H., Dixit, V. V., & Waller, S. T. (2014). 'A Three-Stage Framework for Motorway Travel Time Prediction.' In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 17th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 816-821). Qingdao, China. 08-11 Oct 2014.
31. Xiong, Z., Rey, D., Dixit, V. V., & Waller, S. T. (2014). 'An Algorithmic Framework for the Scheduling of Construction Projects based on Ant Colony Optimization and Ex-pert Knowledge.' In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 17th International Conference on Intelligent Trans-portation Systems (pp. 2446-2452). Qingdao, China. 08-11 Oct 2014.
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VISITORS, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPSVisitor Seminars/TalksDate Host/
OrganizerGuest Speaker Title/Position Affiliation Seminar Topic
22 May 2014
rCITI Aleksandar Stevanovic Ph.D., P.E.
Assistant Professor
Civil, Environmental and Geomatics EngineeringFlorida Atlantic University, USA
Adaptive Traffic Control Systems - Current Trends and Future Developments
30 May 2014
rCITI and CSE
Graham R. HellestrandPhD, MBA and CPEng
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Embedded Systems Technology, Inc., San Carlos, California, USA
Engineering Safe Mobile Systems: Optimized Architectures - Specification - Design
3 June 2014
rCITI and CSE
Guoqiang MaoBac (HUT), Mas (SEU), PhD (ECU)
DirectorCentre for Real-Time Information Networks (CRIN),
University of Technology Sydney
Responsive Navigation and Traffic Control Systems: The Next Generation inIntelligent Transport System Design
10 June 2014
rCITI Chi Xie B. Eng, M. Eng, MS, PhD
Professor School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil EngineeringShanghai Jiaotong University
Stochastic Network Equilibriumwith Inertial Behaviors
13 June 2014
rCITI Nick MatteiB.S., M.S., PhD
Researcher Optimisation Group at NICTAAdjunct lecturer at UNSW Australia
A Study of Proxiesfor Shapley Allocationsof Transport Costs
27June 2014
rCITI Kasun WijayaratnaB.Eng (Hons), B.Comm
PhD Candidate
rCITI Modelling Disrupted Transport Network Behaviour
27June 2014
rCITI Alireza ErmgaunMSc
Researcher Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Mode Choice and Escort Decisions in School Trips
11 July 2014
rCITI Amir Samimi BSc, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering DepartmentSharif University of Technology, Iran
A Behavioral Mode Choice Microsimulation Model for Freight Transportation
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VISITORS, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPSVisitor Seminars/Talks
Date Host/Organizer
Guest Speaker Title/Position Affiliation Seminar Topic
25 July 2014
rCITI Hanna GrzybowskaMSc, PhD
Research Associate
rCITI A Decision Support System for Real-Time Field Service Engineer Scheduling Problem with Emergencies and Collaborations
22 August 2014
rCITI Ken DoustBE, ME, PhD
Director Windana Research City Sustainability – a Transport Perspective a Journey Continues
5 Sep-tember 2014
rCITI Jean-Luc YgnanceBSc, PhD
Research Engineer
French National Institute for Transportation Research (INRETS)
Gamification and Incentives to Improve Travel Behavior
19 Sep-tember 2015
rCITI David ReyBSc, MSc, PhD
Research Associate
rCITI Scenario-based Stochastic Time-Dependent Shortest Path
30 Sep-tember and 10 Oct-ober 2014
rCITI Hillel Bar-GeraBS, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Traffic assignment by paired alternative segments (TAPAS)
3 Oct-ober 2014
rCITI Sisi JianMSc
PhD Candidate
rCITI Optimal supply and demand allocations under round-trip and one-way carsharing paradigm
3 Oct-ober 2014
rCITI Zhitao XiongBE, ME, PhD
Research Associate
rCITI An Algorithmic Framework for the Scheduling of Construction Projects based on Ant Colony Optimization
17 Oct-ober 2014
rCITI Emily MoylanBA, PhD, MS
Research Associate
rCITI Travel time distributions, loop detector data and the 2013 BART Strike
11 Dec-ember 2014
rCITI Stephen BoylesBS, MSE, PhD
Associate Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental EngineeringThe University of Texas at Austin
Network Models for Urban Parking Search
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DATE ORGANIZER TOPIC SPEAKERS
17-18
February
2014
rCITI CAITR Researchers and Postgraduate students
from -
ARRB, ENS de Lyon, Griffith University,
ITLS (University of Sydney),
Queensland University of Technology,
rCITI (UNSW),
Sidra Solutions, TCPA (Vic),
TfNSW, University of Melbourne,
University of SA, UTS and UWA.
10 March
2014
rCITI Activity-Based
Modelling Symposium:
Emerging Applications
and Theory of Travel
Demand Forecasting
Worldwide
Professor Abolfazl Mohammadian
Professor Chandra Bhat
Professor Ram Pendyala
Professor Harry Timmermans
Professor Yoram Shiftan
Dr. John Bowman
Dr. Taha Hossein Rashidi
Assistant Professor Soura Rasouli
20&21
March
2014
CEAR/rCITI Risk in Transport
Systems Workshop
Professor Elisabet Rutstrom
Professor Andre de Palma
Professor Mogens Fosgerau
Professor John Rose
Dr. Vinayak Dixit
Professor Thomas Rutherford
24
November
2014
rCITI rCITI / NICTA
Workshop
Dr Fang Chen
Dr Scott Scanner
Dr Aditya Menon
Dr Hoang Nguyen
Mr Tao Wen
Mr Kasun Wijayaratna
Dr Zhitao Xiong
Mr Milad Ghasrikhouzani
Dr Lavy Libman
Ms Sisi Jian
Dr Emily Moylan
Conference / workshops
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Selected Centre Research Projects
Dr Taha Hossein Rashidi
Incorporating Complex
Adaptive System Theory and
rule-Base Methods for Novel
Travel Activity-Based Models:
A Sydney Metropolitan Area
Demonstration
UNSW Engineering
Faculty, Research
Grant / Early Career
Researcher Grants
Program
$20,000 2014
PROJECT SUMMARY:
Modelling demand for transport is a fundamental
component of urban design and planning. It is
through demand estimation that the required
supply is determined. Demand for transport is
a derived demand meaning that a trip is made
because of the activity happening at the end
of the trip. Conventional travel demand models
aggregate trips of people into transport analysis
zones (TAZs). Then, planners attempt to develop
mathematically tractable models to forecast travel
attributes for all trips generated from and attracted
to a TAZ. As a major alternative to this traditional
approach, activities and decision makers of
those activities have been considered in recent
modelling research introducing another paradigm
called activity-based modelling. Discrete choice
modelling approaches have been the dominating
modelling scheme employed for activity-based
models. As many decisions for travel attributes
are polychotomous, discrete choice models
can provide a suitable modelling platform.
Nonetheless, due to the complexities involved in
the decision making process, the mathematical
complexity of the explored discrete choice models
rapidly grew over time. This resulted in equation-
based models which are computationally intensive
and do not necessarily reflect the behaviour of
the decision maker. Thus, numerous simplifying
assumptions are made to make these systems of
models operational.
Therefore, this research aimed to explore several
less computationally intensive methods that better
reflect the behaviour of decision makers and
can take into account the complexities resulted
by interactions between agents. Basic concepts
of learning-based methods and random graph
models have only been employed in activity-
based models in a limited manner while their
usefulness has not been sufficiently examined.
Further, this research explored the practicality of
complex adaptive system theory in travel demand
modelling, as applications of this theory in fields
other than transport are growing. This research
pioneered the utilization of complex adaptive
system theory methods for the purpose of travel
demand modelling.
PROJECT OUTCOME:
The project resulted in two journal papers and
three international conferences proceedings
in 94th Annual meeting of the Transportation
Research Board, Washington, D.C, and
the 33rd Conference of the Australian Institutes
of Transport Research (CAITR), Melbourne
Australia, February 2015
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Prof S. Travis Waller, Dr Vinayak Dixit, Dr Lauren Gardner, Dr Taha Hossein Rashidi and Mr Bruce Jeffreys
Integrating Network
Modelling with
Observed Choice
Data for Multi-Criteria
Optimization of
Complex Carshare
Systems: Cost, Mobility
and Transit Usage
LP130100983
Australian Research
Council - Linkage
Project/ GoGet
CarShare - ARC
Linkage Project
Industry Partner
Contribution.
$173,748 2014
Prof Raina MacIntyre, Dr Lauren Gardner and Dr Anita Heywood
Models to inform preven-
tion and control of emerg-
ing infectious diseases in
real time
UNSW Goldstar Award $40,000 2014
PROJECT SUMMARY:
Effective national response to emerging infectious
diseases (EID) relies on rapid implementation
of preparedness plans. SARS and pandemic
influenza demonstrated the substantial capacity
& flexibility required to respond to a changing
epidemic. Preparing for global EID emergencies
is a national priority, best addressed by mathe-
matical modelling. Our novel model can be used
as a flexible, real-time tool, providing insight into
epidemic behaviour & identify effective disease
control strategies.
PROJECT SUMMARY:
Urban carshare system, as an alternative to
private vehicle ownership, has spread worldwide
in recent years due to its positive impact on urban
mobility by reducing congestion, improving auto
utilization rate and limiting the environmental
impact of emissions release. To optimize complex
carshare systems, this research proposes novel
integrated network models incorporating observed
choice and stated preference data considering
broad system impacts (e.g., public transit usage)
and carshare technologies (remote data collec-
tion, electric vehicle options, etc). Since much of
carshare methodology has been proprietary, this
project represents a substantial opportunity for
rigorously addressing carshare operational design
with the goal of achieving both organizational as
well as system-wide societal benefits. Outcomes
include fundamentally new methodologies which
benefit from the uncommon linkage of complete
carshare data with formal transport planning
models and data. The new approaches will benefit
both the carshare operators as well as the broader
transport system.
PROJECT OUTCOME:
The project resulted in two international con-
ferences proceedings presented at the 94th
Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C., 11 - 15 January 2015 and
the Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and
Management (AITPM) National Conference,
Adelaide, Australia, 28 - 31 July 2014. Two journal
papers are currently under review. Additional relat-
ed research topics are still ongoing.
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Prof S. Travis Waller Identification & Evaluation of
Transformative Environmental
(AERIS) Applications and
Strategies Project.
United States
Department of
Transport con-
tract with Booz
Allen Hamilton
Inc
$275,000 2012
- 2014
PROJECT SUMMARY:
Ensuring sustainability within civil engineering
projects has been of paramount importance in
recent times. In particular, transportation net-
work infrastructure requires the input of signif-
icant non-renewable resources and even more
importantly the vehicles utilising the infrastruc-
ture are major contributors to greenhouse gas
emissions. Accordingly, as part of the Research
and Innovative Technology Administration
(RITA) of the U.S Department of Transportation
(USDOT), the Intelling Transportation Systems
(ITS) Joint Program Office (JPO) is conducting
the Applications for the Environment: Real-Time
Information Synthesis (AERIS) Program. The prima-
ry objective of developing the AERIS applications
is to reduce surface transportation’s impact on the
environment. This project is engaged in determin-
ing the benefits of implementing applications that
maximize environmental benefits. The benefits
have been assessed by modelling the applications
and evaluating them in a simulated connected
vehicle setting.
The AERIS applications have been categorised
into several transformative concepts. RCITI in col-
laboration with Booz Allen Hamiltion Inc completed
the work related to the Eco-Signal Operations
transformative concept, with a particular focus
on transit and freight signal prioritisation. The aim
of this concept was to use connected vehicle
technology in combination with novel signal timing
algorithms to decrease fuel consumption and air
pollutant emissions. This improvement could be
achieved by reducing idling time of vehicles, the
number of stops, unnecessary accelerations and
decelerations, as well as improving traffic flow at
signalised intersections.
The Eco-Transit Signal Priority (E-TSP) applica-
tion developed by RCITI, allows a transit vehicle
approaching a signalised intersection to request
signal priority. The novelty of the application lies
in the utilisation of a genetic algorithm and the
consideration of emissions in determining the
signal timings of each intersection. Scenario
testing was conducted to determine relationships
between communication distance, demand for
transit, schedule adherence and the frequency of
transit vehicles. The findings of study indicate that
E-TSP application developed results in 1% to 2%
energy savings for transit vehicles and a network
as whole, while also providing a benefit to mobility
measures.
PROJECT OUTCOME:
The project resulted in contribution to the technical
memorandum published by the U.S Department
of Transportation Research and Innovative
Technology Administration, “AERIS Applications for
the Environment: Real-Time Information Synthesis,
Identification and Evaluation of Transformative
Environmental Applications and Strategies Project,
Analysis Plan” (2014). Furthermore the research
was presented at the 36th ATRF Conference in
Brisbane, QLD, 2013.
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Students & Supervision
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHD)Alireza AHMADIAN FARD FINI - Predicting delay and minimizing its impact in construction context. [Supervisor(s): Akbar Nezhad , T Hossein Rashidi , ST Waller]
Raed ALSALHI - Traffic flows in urban networks [Supervisor(s): V Dixit , L Gardner]
Abdulmajeed ALSULTAN – Urban traffic network design. [Supervisor(s): V Dixit, ST Waller]
Nima AMINI – Transport modelling [Supervisor(s): L Gardner , ST Waller]
David ARBIS – Delay gratification in safety compliance amongst travellers [Supervisor(s): V Dixit, T Hossein Rashidi, Z Xiong(C)]
Mohana Naga Sai Chand CHAKKA - Macroscopic Modelling For Large Urban Networks [Supervisor(s): V Dixit, ST Waller]
Nan CHEN - Multilayer network approach to modelling transporta-tion networks [Supervisor(s): V Dixit, L Gardner]
Melissa DUELL - Strategic traffic
assignment: methods of modelling
day-to-day flow volatility.
[Supervisor(s): L Gardner, ST
Waller]
Milad GHASRIKHOUZANI - Disaggregate behavioural land use modelling: Integration of housing search, job search and households' dynamics [Supervisor(s): T Hossein Rashidi, ST Waller]
Ahmed HAMMAD - Multi-Objective Optimisation [Supervisor(s): A Akbar Nezhad, S Davis, D Rey (c)]
Asif HASSAN - Mobile Phone Distraction and Traffic Safety [Supervisor(s) V Dixit, ST Waller, Z Xiong(C)]
Mohammad Nurul HASSAN - Demand Estimation for Public Transportation [Supervisor(s): T Hossein Rashidi, ST Waller]
Divya Jayakumar NAIR - Logistics of surplus food rescue and distribution [Supervisor(s): V Dixit, T Hossein Rashidi , H Grzybowska(c)]
Sisi JIAN – The Modelling of Balanced Vehicle Distribution in One-Way Car-sharing systems. [Supervisor(s): V Dixit, ST Waller]
Seul Ki LEE - Estimation Of Microsimulation Models (Car Following) [Supervisor(s): V Dixit, ST Waller]
Chenyang LI - Carsharing and route choice. [Supervisor(s): V Dixit , T Hossein Rashidi(C)]
Xun LI - Equity in transportation system [Supervisor(s): V Dixit , ST Waller]
Tuo MAO - Transport network modelling and optimisation [Supervisor(s): V Dixit, L Gardner, Chen Chai (c)]
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Students & Supervision
Edward ROBSON - General equi-librium model to evaluate econom-ic impact of transport projects. [Supervisor(s): V Dixit, ST Waller]
Neeraj SAXENA - Transportation
network modelling
[Supervisor(s): V Dixit, ST Waller]
Tao WEN - Transport network
modelling
[Supervisor(s): L Gardner, ST
Waller, C Cai (c)]
Kasun Pradeepa WIJAYARATNA - Modelling Disrupted Transport Network Behaviour [Supervisor(s): V Dixit, ST Waller]
Xiang ZHANG - Transport mod-
elling
[Supervisor(s): D Rey, ST Waller]
MASTERS BY RESEARCHDavid Anthony CAREY - Shared
spaces and the relationship
between traffic and pedestrians
[Supervisor(s): T Hossein Rashidi,
ST Waller]
Alex KARKI – Parking
Optimization. [Supervisor(s): V
Dixit, T Hossein Rashidi, D Rey(c)]
Kiran SHAKEEL - Mode Choice
Behaviour Modelling With
Adaptive Data Collection Method
[Supervisor(s): T Hossein Rashidi,
ST Waller]
EXCHANGE STUDENTS MASTERS BY RESEARCH
Rico KRÜGER - Adoption of
Shared Autonomous Vehicle Ser-
vices – A Hybrid Choice Model-
ling Approach based on a Stated
Choice Survey
[Supervisor(s): T Hossein Rashidi]
L-R: Back: Alireza Ahmadian Fard Fini, Haiyang Liu, Basu Rounaq, Edward Robson, Abdulmajeed Alsultan, Kasun Wijayaratna, Chenyang Li, Xun Li, Raed Alsalhi, Neeraj Saxena , Xiang Zhang, Tao Wen, David Arbis, Asif HassanFront: Sisi Jian, Melissa Duell, Nima Amini
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HONOURS STUDENTSLukas LABUTIS - Dynamic User Equilibrium
with Recourse [Supervisor(s): ST Waller]
Thomas BLEASDALE – The Implementation
Of The Work-Zone Impacts And Strategies
Evaluation Tool On The Sydney Network
[Supervisor(s): V Dixit, Z Xiong(c)]
Richard CORNWELL - Modelling the Arrival of
Introduced Marine Pests via the Global Shipping
Network [Supervisor(s): R Cox, L Gardner]
Jarrah DUCKHS - Road Asset Management
[Supervisor(s): V Dixit]
Lukas GODBOUT - Understanding the Social
Contact Network Structure of the UNSW Student
Population [Supervisor(s): L Gardner]
Myles HARRIS-AYLING - Ant Colony Algorithm
Optimisation for Urban Rail Network Design
[Supervisor(s): U Vandebona]
Yanni HUANG - Maritime Transport Modelling
[Supervisor(s): L Gardner]
Jackie Guan-Chen LIANG - Modelling Risk
Aversion and Risk Perception in Microscopic and
Macroscopic Driving Behaviour [Supervisor(s):
V Dixit]
Bahman MEHRPOUR - Analysis of Delay and
Demand for Goods and Service Vehicle Parking
Facilities on the UNSW campus [Supervisor(s): T
Hossein Rashidi]
Kelly TANG - Social Network Analysis and SIR
Modelling: A Case Study of the University of
New South Wales [Supervisor(s): L Gardner]
Tien Thanh TRAN - Data Collection and
Analysis of Urban Goods Movement Within
Sydney [Supervisor(s): T Hossein Rashidi]
VISITING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTSKelly BERTOLACCINI - University of Connecticut, USA [Supervisor(s): ST Waller]Michael LEVIN – University of Texas at Austin,
USA [Supervisor(s): ST Waller]
PRACTICUM STUDENTSRonuaq BASU - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Haiyang LIU – Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
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Grant Income / Research Funding 2014
SENIOR INVESTIGATOR(S)
/ ADVISOR(S) /
RESEARCHER(S)
SUBJECT AREA / RESEARCH
TOPIC
GRANTING
ORGANIZATION(S) /
INDUSTRY SPONSOR(S)
VALUE PERIOD
Prof S. Travis Waller,
Dr Vinayak Dixit
Review of Managed
Motorway Control
Technology System.
RG141375
Roads and Maritime
Service
$200,000 2014-2015
Prof S. Travis Waller A Collaboration to
Develop and Deploy
Novel Integrated Network
Techniques to Enhance the
NSW Transport System.
RG134213
Transport for NSW
$1,500,000 2013-2016
Prof S. Travis Waller,
Prof Michiel Bliemer,
Dr Vinayak Dixit,
Prof Michael G Bell,
Dr Alexandre Torday
Methodologies for
the Incorporation of
Congestion Propagation
and System Reliability into
Transport Network Models
for Consistent Multi-Scale
Planning.
LP130101048 Australian
Research Council -
Linkage Project / TSS-
Transport Simulation
Systems Australia Pty
Ltd - ARC Linkage
Project Industry Partner
Contribution
$845,604 2013-2016
Prof S. Travis Waller,
Dr Vinayak Dixit,
Dr Lauren Gardner,
Dr Taha Hossein Rashidi,
Mr Bruce Jeffreys
Integrating Network
Modelling with Observed
Choice Data for Multi-
Criteria Optimization
of Complex Carshare
Systems: Cost, Mobility
and Transit Usage
LP130100983 Australian
Research Council -
Linkage Project/ GoGet
CarShare - ARC Linkage
Project Industry Partner
Contribution.
$515,488 2013-2016
Prof S. Travis Waller Identification & Evaluation
of Transformative
Environmental (AERIS)
Applications and Strategies
Project.
RG123613
United States
Department of Transport
contract with Booz Allen
Hamilton Inc
$275,000 2012-2014
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