Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)
Annual Report 2014 Never Stand Still
Faculty of Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Š 2015 Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) School of Civil and Environmental Engineering UNSW Australia UNSW Sydney NSW 2052 Australia CRICOS Provider Code 00098G Address Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (H20) UNSW Australia Level 1, Room 110 UNSW Sydney NSW 2052 Australia Enquiries T +61 (0)2 9385 5721 E rciti@unsw.edu.au W http://www.rciti.unsw.edu.au Project Coordination Maria Lee With grateful thanks to providers of text, stories and images. Design The Imagination Agency Pty Ltd helena@theimaginationagency.com.au Photography Professional Photography: Susan Trent; Emeritus Professor Mike Gal Grateful thanks also to: Maria Lee, Hanna Grzybowska and Warassamon Kate Bishop.
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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ď Ž The Centre MISSION To become a world-leading organisation in integrated interdisciplinary transport research and development. Towards this mission, rCITI will investigate sustainable approaches to transport infrastructure and operations, with extensive liaison with industry and government. The Centre pursues these activities building on five core research pillars including 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 diverse range of transport elements (eg. travellers, vehicles, signal controls, bridges, roads, ramps and system operators).
Infrastructure: To develop new materials, techniques and mathematical engineering tools which permit the enhancement of infrastructure construction, maintenance, management and rehabilitation.
Energy/Fuel: To develop new transformative technologies and techniques to deliver, alter and utilize energy/ fuel more efficiently in the transport system.
Computational Sustainability:
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To develop computational tools for the quantified assessment of sustainable approaches to transport management and operations that simultaneously consider technical, social, environmental and economic aspects.
Director’s Report With 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 opportunities ahead of us. During the year, some particularly noteworthy items include our funding successes and collaborative 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 monumental achievement fully attributed to the excellent research staff within our centre and with our collaborators. In addition, we conducted a new practical research study for the Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) on the topic of ramp metering evaluation. Such studies keep rCITI firmly in the practicing domain of transport engineering and help us to deliver 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 evaluation 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 finalists 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 including 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 academia 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), provided 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 complements 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 organization 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 continuous 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.
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S. Travis Waller Evans & Peck Professor of Transport Innovation and Director, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)
Overview OVERVIEW - 2014 2014 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 ongoing 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 organisations: (1) an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Grant where rCITI is the administering 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.
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The core rCITI staffing grew to 14 professionals. This was comprised of 4 continuing academics, 4 contract/adjunct/conjoint academics, 5 researchers 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 including 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 2014 The Australian government is committed to building 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:- QQ 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] QQ 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 awarded 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 making. [Australian Research Council, Discovery Project – DP150103299, $677,800] QQ 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]
EXPANSION OF THE RCITI CORE TEAM
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
The group welcomed Dr Hanna Grzybowska (February 2014), Mr Mojtaba Maghrebi (April 2014) and Dr Emily Moylan (August 2014) to the core team.
rCITI hosted a number of workshops during the year at which experts from around the world presented, these include:-
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 completed 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 management, city logistics, real-time and dynamic vehicle routing problems and simulation. Mr Mojtaba Maghrebi was appointed as a Research Associate in April after the completion 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 techniques in mixed integer programming, supervised and ensemble learnings and intelligent decision support systems. Dr Emily Moylan was appointed in August as a Research Associate, after the completion 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 reliability into transportation policy decisions.
QQ 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 conference in Australia. It is a forum for young transport, logistic and transport infrastructures researchers. 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).
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L-R: Upali Vandebona, Vinayak Dixit, Nima Amini
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L-R: Back: S. Travis Waller, Abolfazl Mohammadin, Yoram Shiftan, Harry Timmermans. Front: John Bowman, Chandra Bhat, Soura Rasouli, Taha Hossein Rashidi
The International Symposium on Activity -Based Modelling rCITI hosted an International Symposium on Activity Based Modelling at the AGMS building, UNSW Australia on the 10 March 2014.
QQ Prof. Abolfazl Mohammadian, University of Illinois-Chicago
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..
QQ Prof. Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University
Conference speakers included government planners, 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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QQ Prof. Chandra Bhat, University of Texas-Austin
QQ Prof. Harry Timmermans, Eindhoven University of Technology QQ Prof. Yoram Shiftan, Technion Israel Institute of Technology QQ Dr. John Bowman, Bowman Research and Consulting QQ Dr. Taha Hossein Rashidi, UNSW Australia QQ Dr. Soura Rasouli, Eindhoven University of Technology This Symposium was kindly sponsored by rCITI and the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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 workshop focused on the type of choices made with respect to safety, evacuation, travel time uncertainty and institutional decisions.
QQ Professor Andre de Palma (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France)
The following distinguished international guest speakers from Australia, USA, and Europe presented:-
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.
QQ Professor Elisabet Rutstrom (CEAR, Georgia State University, USA)
QQ Professor Mogens Fosgerau (DTU. Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) QQ Professor John Rose (University of South Australia, Australia) QQ Dr Vinayak Dixit (rCITI, UNSW, Australia) QQ Professor Thomas Rutherford (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)
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L-R: S. Travis Waller, Vinayak Dixit, Zhitao Xiong.
Finalists at the Sydney
Visiting Academic and Guest
Engineering Excellence Awards 2014
Speakers
Researchers at rCITI were finalists at the Sydney Engineering Excellence Awards 2014: "Instrumented Vehicle Technology to Promote Safer and Fuel Efficient Driving Behaviourâ&#x20AC;? for the project in the following two categories: (a) Research and Development and (b) Welfare, Health and Safety.
rCITI continued to attract a variety of visiting academics and guest speakers to the School for relevant research collaboration and seminars. 2014â&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.
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.
QQ 18 July 2014, ‘Urban living’, Bringing together the French business community in Australia at the Franco-Australian Chamber of Commerce, Sydney.
QQ 12-16 January 2014, Transportation Research Board. Washington, D.C. USA.
QQ 28-31 July 2014. Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management (AITPM) National Conference - 2014, Adelaide.
QQ 3-6 Feb 2014, 2014 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC). IEEE, Honolulu, USA. QQ 17-18 February 2014, CAITR 2014 at UNSW, Sydney. QQ 10 March 2014, Activity Based Modelling Symposium at UNSW, Sydney.
QQ 24 September 2014, Potential Air Conflicts Minimization Through Speed Control at School of Aviation, Faculty of Science, UNSW, Sydney. QQ 08-11 October 2014, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). Qingdao, China.
QQ 20-21 March 2014, Risk in Transport Systems Workshop at UNSW, Sydney.
QQ 17-18 October 2014 International Conference on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure 2014. Hyderabad, India.
QQ 19 - 22 May 2014, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on Optimization (OP14). San Diego, USA.
QQ 30 October 2014, Driverless Cars: New Engineering Responsibilities for Policy Makers at IEEE Sydney Chapter, Sydney.
QQ 23 May 2014, Equilibrium Traffic Modelling Seminar at Google Sydney.
QQ 10-11 November 2014, Volvo Sustainable Freight Symposium, Dunmore Lang College, Macquarie University, Sydney.
QQ 28-31 May 2014, CSCE 2014 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering General Conference. Halifax, Canada. QQ 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. QQ 17-19 June 2014, 5th International Symposium on Dynamic Traffic Assignment. Salerno, Italy. QQ 23-25 June 2014, ASCE - Computing in Civil and Building Engineering. Orlando, USA. QQ 30 June - 02 July 2014, 3rd INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop. Chicago, USA. QQ 9-11 July 2014, 31st International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and Mining (ISARC). Sydney.
QQ 19 November 2014, Intelligent Transport Systems at FRANS Forum 2014, UNSW, Sydney. QQ 24 November 2014, rCITI/NICTA workshop at UNSW, Sydney. QQ 26 November 2014, Aimsun Users' Meeting Australia, Sydney. QQ 11 December 2014, DTA – Texas Experience at Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Sydney. QQ 13-15 December 2014, 19th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, HKSTS 2014 Transportation and Infrastructure, Hong Kong, 2014 rCITI ANNUAL REPORT 2014 PAGE <11>
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 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:QQ 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 dynamic lane reversal for autonomous vehicles’.] QQ Assisting in the calibration of the VISTA dynamic 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] QQ 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]
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 researchers on the design of a web-based survey [outcome – 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 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 PAGE <13>
CENTRE MANAGEMENT
DIRECTOR
VISITING ACADEMICS
Professor S. Travis Waller, Evans & Peck Professor of Transport Innovation
Visiting Professorial Fellow
DEPUTY DIRECTOR Dr Vinayak Dixit, Senior Lecturer
ACADEMICS Dr Upali Vandebona, Senior Lecturer
Dr Lauren Gardner, Lecturer
Dr Hironobu Hasegawa, Akita National College of Technology, Japan
Dr Chen Cai, Conjoint Lecturer
RESEARCHERS Dr Hanna Grzybowska, Research Associate (from Feb 2014) Dr Mojtaba Maghrebi, Research Associate (from Apr 2014)
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Professor Sahotra Sarkar, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Philosophy, Section of Integrative Biology Visiting Fellow
Dr Ken Doust, Adjuct Senior Lecturer
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Senior Visiting Fellow
Dr Lavy Libman, Senior Lecturer, UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering Dr Taha Hossein Rashidi, Lecturer
rCITI
Professor Chi Xie, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
Dr Emily Moylan, Research Associate (From Aug 2014) Dr David Rey, Research Associate Dr Zhitao Xiong, Research Associate
CENTRE MANAGER Ms Maria Lee
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, BenGurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
rCITI STEERING COMMITTEE
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)
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)
Associate Professor Maurice Pagnucco Head of School, Computer Science and Engineering Mr Ian McIntyre Principal, Evans & Peck
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RESEARCH INTERESTS S. Travis Waller Evans & 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 information; large-scale integrated transport optimization and planning. Specific applications or problem domains include Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA), routing algorithm development, network equilibrium, stochastic optimization, integrated demand/ supply modelling, network design, adaptive equilibrium, system analysis of public-private partnerships, and bi-level optimization of transport networks.
Teaching Areas/Interests: Transport Network Modelling Integrated System Analysis Optimization Simulation Intelligent Transportation Systems
Lavy Libman
Vinayak Dixit Senior Lecturer Deputy 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 & Simulation Transportation Management & Control Traffic Flow Theory Traffic Engineering
Upali Vandebona Senior 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 considerations 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:
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Transport systems and operations design Traffic engineering Transport planning, transport infrastructure development, transport economics and environmental assessments Highway Engineering
Senior Lecturer BSc, 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
Researcn Associates:
Lauren Gardner
David Rey
Lecturer BS ArchE, MSE and PhD, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Research Interests: Network modelling for multi-domain integrated systems: congestion pricing models accounting for uncertainty, 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 Sustainability Urban Transportation Planning Congestion Pricing and Economics
Mojtaba Maghrebi Research Associate BSc, 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 Xiong Research Associate BE and ME Beijing Institute of Technology, China; PhD University of Leeds, UK.
Taha Hossein Rashidi Lecturer BSc, MSc (CVEN) Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran; PhD University of Illinois Chicago, USA.
Research Interests: Travel Behavior Analysis; Transportation Planning; ActivityBased 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 Modelling Travel Demand and Land Use Modelling Planning Sustainable Infrastructure
Research Interests: Scenario Orchestration in Driving Simulation; Driving Behaviour/ Driver Model; Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV); Ontology Engineering; Automated Action Planning & Scheduling; Multi-agent System.
Research Associate Masters of Science, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran. PhD, University of NSW Australia, Australia.
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (Supervised Learning, Ensemble Algorithms) Dispatch Planning Optimization (Integer Programming, Mixed Integer Programming) Robust Meta-Heuristics Parallel Computing Simulation (Discrete Event ) Intelligent Decision-Support Systems
Emily Moylan Research Associate BA 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 distributions Travel time reliability
Hanna Grzybowska Research Associate Master of Science Engineer Poznan University of Technology, Poland.; PhD Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Research Interests: Vehicle fleet management City logistics Real-time and dynamic vehicle routing problems Decision support systems Simulation.
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Publications JOURNAL – REFEREED & SCHOLARLY ARTICLES 1. 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, 114125. 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, 301310. 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:10.1080/232499 35.2014.968654 6. Gardner, L. M., Boyles, S. D., Bar-Gera, H., & Tang, K. (2014). 'Robust Tolling Schemes for HighOccupancy 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 (MERSCoV).'BMC Research Notes, 7(1), 358. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-7-358
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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:10.1 179/1942787514Y.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, 6271. 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 ReadyMixed Concrete–Dispatching Problems.' Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 04014117. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)CP.19435487.0000453 19. Maghrebi, M., Waller, T., & Sammut, C. (2013). 'Integrated building information modelling (bim) with supply chain and feedforward 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.19435444.0000257 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), 3348. 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:10.108 0/19439962.2013.863258
CONFERENCE PAPERS – FULL PAPER REFERRED 1. Ahmadian Fard Fini, A., Akbarnezhad, A., Hossein Rashidi, T., & Waller, S. T. (2014). ‘Importance of Planning for the Transport Stage in Procurement of Construction Materials.’ In ISARC 2014 Proceedings 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 Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) International 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). ‘Cooperation among access points for enhanced quality of service in dense wireless environments.’ In Proceeding of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014, Sydney, Australia. 16-19 June 2014. doi:10.1109/WoWMoM.2014.6918953 4. Bastani, S., Libman, L., & Waller, S. T. (2014). ‘Impact of beaconing policies on traffic density estimation accuracy in traffic information systems.’ In Proceeding of Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers Inc. (IEEE) International 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 International 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 Compendium of Papers. Washington, DC USA. 12-16 Jan 2014. 7. Dixit, V., Trieu, J., Jian, S., and Li, X. (2014) 'Value of travel time savings for carshare users in Sydney.' Proceedings of Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management (AITPM) National Conference, 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 elevation on network wide vehicle energy 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 Dynamic 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 Consumption For Policy Evaluation: Impact Of Electric Vehicles.' In Proceedings of the 19th International 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 Nezhad, A. (2014). ‘A mixed-integer nonlinear programming model for minimising construction site noise levels through site layout optimization.’ In ISARC 2014 Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium 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 transportation 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.' Proceedings 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 Monitoring 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 Comparison 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 International Symposium on Automation 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 Optimally Solving Small Instances in a Practical Time.’ In Proceedings CSCE 2014 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering General Conference. 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 Symposium 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 Conference 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 International 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 Scenario-based Time-Dependent Shortest Path.’ In 3rd INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop., Chicago, USA, 30 Jun - 02 Jul 2014
23 Rey, D., Duell, M., Dixit, V. V., & Waller, ST. (2014). ‘A Path Enumeration Algorithm for Strategic System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment.’ In DTA 2014 5th International Symposium on Dynamic 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 International 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 Origin-Destination Estimation Incorporating Variability Of Day-To-Day Travel Demand.’ In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation 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 Transportation Studies, HKSTS 2014 - Transportation and Infrastructure. Hong Kong, 13-15 Dec 2014. 29. Xiong, Z., Carsten, O., Jamson, H., & Cohn, A. G. (2014). 'Task-Driven Framework for Driving Simulation: 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 Expert Knowledge.' In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 17th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (pp. 24462452). Qingdao, China. 08-11 Oct 2014.
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VISITORS, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS Visitor Seminars/Talks Date
Host/ Organizer 22 May rCITI 2014
Guest Speaker
Title/Position
Affiliation
Seminar Topic
Aleksandar Stevanovic Ph.D., P.E.
Assistant Professor
Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering Florida Atlantic University, USA
Adaptive Traffic Control Systems - Current Trends and Future Developments
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Embedded Systems Technology, Inc., San Carlos, California, USA
Engineering Safe Mobile Systems: Optimized Architectures Specification - Design
Director Centre for Real-Time Information Networks (CRIN),
University of Technology Sydney
Responsive Navigation and Traffic Control Systems: The Next Generation inIntelligent Transport System Design
30 May rCITI and Graham R. Hellestrand 2014 CSE PhD, MBA and CPEng
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3 June 2014
rCITI and Guoqiang Mao Bac (HUT), Mas CSE (SEU), PhD (ECU)
10 June 2014
rCITI
Chi Xie Professor B. Eng, M. Eng, MS, PhD
School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering Shanghai Jiaotong University
Stochastic Network Equilibrium with Inertial Behaviors
13 June 2014
rCITI
Nick Mattei B.S., M.S., PhD
Researcher
Optimisation Group at NICTA Adjunct lecturer at UNSW Australia
A Study of Proxies for Shapley Allocations of Transport Costs
27June rCITI 2014
Kasun Wijayaratna B.Eng (Hons), B.Comm
PhD Candidate
rCITI
Modelling Disrupted Transport Network Behaviour
27June rCITI 2014
Alireza Ermgaun MSc
Researcher
Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Mode Choice and Escort Decisions in School Trips
11 July rCITI 2014
Amir Samimi BSc, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering Department Sharif University of Technology, Iran
A Behavioral Mode Choice Microsimulation Model for Freight Transportation
Date
Host/ Organizer 25 July rCITI 2014
Guest Speaker
Affiliation
Seminar Topic
Hanna Grzybowska Research Associate MSc, PhD
rCITI
A Decision Support System for Real-Time Field Service Engineer Scheduling Problem with Emergencies and Collaborations
rCITI 22 August 2014
Ken Doust BE, ME, PhD
Director
Windana Research
City Sustainability â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a Transport Perspective a Journey Continues
5 Sep- rCITI tember 2014
Jean-Luc Ygnance BSc, PhD
Research Engineer
French National Institute for Transportation Research (INRETS)
Gamification and Incentives to Improve Travel Behavior
19 rCITI September 2015
David Rey BSc, MSc, PhD
Research Associate
rCITI
Scenario-based Stochastic TimeDependent Shortest Path
rCITI 30 September and 10 October 2014
Hillel Bar-Gera BS, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
Traffic assignment by paired alternative segments (TAPAS)
3 October 2014
rCITI
Sisi Jian MSc
PhD Candidate
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. rCITI
3 October 2014
rCITI
Zhitao Xiong BE, ME, PhD
Research Associate
rCITI
An Algorithmic Framework for the Scheduling of Construction Projects based on Ant Colony Optimization
17 Oct- rCITI ober 2014
Emily Moylan BA, PhD, MS
Research Associate
rCITI
Travel time distributions, loop detector data and the 2013 BART Strike
11 December 2014
Stephen Boyles BS, MSE, PhD
Associate Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering The University of Texas at Austin
Network Models for Urban Parking Search
rCITI
Title/Position
Optimal supply and demand allocations under round-trip and one-way carsharing paradigm
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Conference / workshops
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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
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 equationbased 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 activitybased 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
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 collection, 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
Prof Raina MacIntyre, Dr Lauren Gardner and Dr Anita Heywood
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 conferences 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 related research topics are still ongoing.
Models to inform preven- UNSW Goldstar Award $40,000 tion and control of emerging infectious diseases in real time
2014
PROJECT SUMMARY:
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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 mathematical modelling. Our novel model can be used as a flexible, real-time tool, providing insight into epidemic behaviour & identify effective disease control strategies.
Prof S. Travis Waller
Identification & Evaluation of Transformative Environmental (AERIS) Applications and Strategies Project.
United States Department of Transport contract 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 network infrastructure requires the input of significant non-renewable resources and even more importantly the vehicles utilising the infrastructure 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 primary objective of developing the AERIS applications is to reduce surface transportation’s impact on the environment. This project is engaged in determining 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 collaboration 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) application 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 transportation 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] rCITI ANNUAL REPORT 2014 PAGE <26>
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 - MultiObjective 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)]
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 Hassan Front: Sisi Jian, Melissa Duell, Nima Amini
Edward ROBSON - General equilibrium model to evaluate economic 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 modelling [Supervisor(s): D Rey, ST Waller]
MASTERS BY RESEARCH David 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 Services – A Hybrid Choice Modelling Approach based on a Stated Choice Survey [Supervisor(s): T Hossein Rashidi]
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HONOURS STUDENTS Lukas 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]
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VISITING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS Kelly BERTOLACCINI - University of Connecticut, USA [Supervisor(s): ST Waller] Michael LEVIN – University of Texas at Austin, USA [Supervisor(s): ST Waller]
PRACTICUM STUDENTS Ronuaq BASU - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Haiyang LIU – Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
ď Ž 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
$200,000
2014-2015
$1,500,000
2013-2016
Roads and Maritime Service
Prof S. Travis Waller
RG134213 A Collaboration to Develop and Deploy Transport for NSW Novel Integrated Network Techniques to Enhance the NSW Transport System.
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 $845,604 Research Council Linkage Project / TSSTransport Simulation Systems Australia Pty Ltd - ARC Linkage Project Industry Partner Contribution
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 MultiCriteria Optimization of Complex Carshare Systems: Cost, Mobility and Transit Usage
LP130100983 Australian $515,488 Research Council Linkage Project/ GoGet CarShare - ARC Linkage Project Industry Partner Contribution.
2013-2016
Prof S. Travis Waller
Identification & Evaluation of Transformative Environmental (AERIS) Applications and Strategies Project.
RG123613
$275,000
2012-2014
United States Department of Transport contract with Booz Allen Hamilton Inc
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