rciti annual report 2013

Never Stand Still Faculty of Engineering School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)Annual Report 2013

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rCITI ANNUAL REPORT 2013 PAGE <3>

Contents Q Director’s Report ........................................ 4

Q Overview .................................................... 5

Overview 2013 ..................................................5

Appointments .....................................................5

Expansion of the rCITI core team........................6

Collaborative workshops ...................................7

Visit from Purdue University (USA) - Study Abroad Program .......................................7

Visiting Academic and Guest Speakers ..............7

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops .............7

Q The Centre .................................................. 9

Core Centre Staff – 2013 ...................................10

rCITI Steering Committee .................................11

Research Interests ............................................12

S. Travis Waller ...................................................12

Vinayak Dixit .......................................................12

Upali Vandebona .................................................12

Lavy Libman .......................................................12

Lauren Gardner ...................................................13

Taha Hossein Rashidi ..........................................13

David Rey ............................................................13

Zhitao Xiong .......................................................13

Saeed Bastani .....................................................13

Publications ......................................................14

Book Chapter ......................................................14

Journal – Refereed & Scholarly Articles ..............14

Conference papers – full paper referred ..............14

Reports ...............................................................15

Visitors, Seminars And Workshops ...................16

Visitor Seminars/Talks ........................................16

Workshops .........................................................16

Q Selected Centre Highlights & Research Projects ...................................................... 17

Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grants ......................................................17

Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grants ....................................................17

UNSW Engineering Faculty Research Grant / Early Career Researcher Grants Program ............18

Students & Supervision ......................... 19

PhD ....................................................................19

Masters ...............................................................20

Honours ..............................................................20

Taste of Research (ToR) ......................................20

Practicum ...........................................................20

Q Grant Income / Research Funding .............. 21

Q Statement of Financial Performance ........... 22


Q Director’s Report

I am delighted

to report that the

Research Centre for

Integrated Transport

Innovation (rCITI) has

performed exception-

ally well throughout

2013. As Centre

Director, I am proud

of the significant

accomplishments we

realized in central

areas this year towards our centre goals.

Of particular note are our funding success and oppor-

tunities for collaboration: We have been awarded two

Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects and

established a substantial partnership with Transport for

NSW (TfNSW) for funding over three years. In addition,

we continued and further expanded our relationships and

collaboration with key partners including Evans & Peck,

NICTA, inter-disciplinary researchers across Campus as

well as with researchers, Government and industry, both

nationally and internationally. We are grateful for the con-

tinued support we receive and for the research opportuni-

ties, allowing us to explore and act on the identified scope

for contribution to transportation research.

Our ongoing research work includes projects such as

the “Identification and Evaluation of Transformative and

Environmental Applications and Strategies”, a major

initiative of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

of the United States Department of Transportation (US

DOT). rCITI is leading the network modelling component

of this research and will develop novel network evaluation

methodologies for active traffic management where envi-

ronmental impact is the primary issue.

The full deployment of the Travel Choice Simulation

Laboratory (TRACSLab) is also underway. This proposal

was awarded an ARC LIEF grant and will be a world-first

facility to observe collective travel choice in a realistic lab

environment. It is unique due to the focus on travel choice,

networked interaction and strong teaming (including our

partners at the University of Sydney and iCinema). The

findings of the lab will support a new generation of trans-

port analysis techniques for emerging issues such as

sustainability, reliability, and intelligent transport systems

(ITS).

Another essential achievement is the introduction of

transport curriculum initiatives for next year. Two new

courses and a Masters Specialization in Transport will be

on offer from 2014. This augments another stepping stone

for rCITI and the Centre’s contribution to transportation

research at the University. On behalf of the rCITI team,

I thank the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering

and the Faculty of Engineering for their support with this

crucial task.

We were also able again to conduct and disseminate

important novel research, for example at major conferenc-

es such as TRB Transportation Research Board Annual

Meeting, Washington, USA), HICSS (Hawaii International

Conference on System Sciences), the International

Conference of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation

Studies (HKSTS) and the NSW Transport Infrastructure

Summit in Sydney.

At this occasion, I am extending 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.

rCITI’s achievements also reflect the need and opportuni-

ty for further collaboration and research in future, in order

to be able to transition core research into usable tools and

solutions. 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 de-

velopment. Our overarching aim is to be a major contrib-

utor 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 realization of

substantial contributions. This has been a major year for

rCITI and I sincerely thank all supporters and the centre’s

dedicated and excellent staff. I am looking forward to

2014 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)


Q Overview

Overview 2013In 2013 the Research Centre for Integrated Transport

Innovation (rCITI) continued to expand and strengthen its

collaborative network with other schools across the UNSW

campus, with relevant government and industry groups.

The core Academic team supervised and supported

13 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 3 Masters by Course

work and 1 Masters by Research, 1 Taste of Research

and 16 Honours students. In addition, rCITI hosted two

Practicum Exchange Program students from University

of Connecticut, USA and Harbin Institute of Technology,

China.

The School of Civil & Environmental Engineering curric-

ulum reviews were attended by Professor Waller and the

Transport group. They were charged with the developing

and implementing new transport courses and program

initiatives, so that two new transport courses and one new

Masters Transport Specialization stream could be offered

to students from 2014.

Significant achievements for 2013 include:-

Q On the 28 June 2013 it was announced that UNSW

Australia was awarded $13.2 million in Linkage Project

grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC).

This was highest level of funding in the state and the

second highest in the country. rCITI was successful

in winning funding for two of the thirty-five UNSW

projects proposals. rCITI’s winning projects will focus

on the optimisation of urban transport.

1. The first ARC Linkage Grant was won by inves-

tigators from rCITI at UNSW Australia, ITLS at

the University of Sydney and industry partner

Transport Simulation Systems (TSS) Australia

(one of the main transport software vendors glob-

ally), to conduct research on the “Methodologies

for the Incorporation of Congestion Propagation

and System Reliability into Transport Network

Models for Consistent Multi-Scale Planning”. The

project will look to improving the capabilities of

transport planning techniques. Specifically, new

methods are to be introduced which improve the

realism of regional congestion modelling as well

as the mathematical representation of traveller

decision-making, thereby permitting an improved

long-term transport plan.

Government organisations have expressed interest

in this particular project and are involved in project

meetings to discuss potential collaboration.

2. The second Linkage Grant was won by investi-

gators from rCITI at UNSW Australia and industry

partner GoGet Carshare to conduct research on

the “Integrating Network Modelling with Observed

Choice Data for Multi-Criteria Optimization of

Complex Carshare Systems: Cost, Mobility and

Transit Usage”. The aim of this research is to

develop methods to determine an efficient car-

share system, which includes optimal location,

one-way carsharing, and how carshare influences

the broader transport system. By adopting such

new comprehensive methods, the overall transport

system will benefit through potential improvements

in public transit usage.

Q The signing of a three year partnership with Transport

for NSW (TfNSW) with a budget $1.5 million.

After ongoing meetings and scoping of potential collab-

oration, Professor Waller was notified by Mr Les Wielinga,

Director General of Transport for NSW (TfNSW), that

TfNSW agreed to enter into a three-year collaboration with

funding to rCITI of $500,000 per year. This project will

involve close ongoing interaction between researchers

and students from rRCITI at UNSW and TfNSW to con-

duct research on the topic “Develop and Deploy Novel

Integrated Network Techniques to Enhance the NSW

Transport System”.


AppointmentsrCITI and its staff received a number of new external

appointments in 2013, these include:-

Q The appointment of rCITI to the Transport Modelling

Service Panel of Transport for NSW jointly with Evans

& Peck, after undergoing a competitive tender submis-

sion and selection process.

Q Professor Waller was appointed :-

� As Associate Director of the iCinema Centre for

Interactive Cinema Research, an interdisciplinary

arts, engineering, science and social science

Centre at UNSW Australia.

� As a member of the Steering Committee for the

City Futures Research Centre, UNSW’s leading

urban policy research centre within the Faculty of

the Built Environment, focusing on key research

areas such as urban planning, housing, design,

development and social policy.

Expansion of the rCITI core teamThroughout the year, Professor Waller further expanded

the rCITI’s core team, securing Dr David Rey, Mr Zhitao

Xiong and Dr Saeed Bastani in Post-Doctoral positions

and Ms Maria Lee as Centre Manager. Their respective

expertise complements the Centre’s efforts in key areas.

Dr David Rey joined rCITI in February from the French

Institute of Science and Technology for Transport,

Development and Networks (IFSTTAR) in France. His core

interest is in Operations Research, which allows him to

contribute to essential rCITI projects and further expand

the Centre’s cross-campus collaboration into areas such

as aviation and air traffic flow.

Mr Zhitao Xiong joined rCITI in June after submitting his

PhD thesis in Transport Studies at the University of Leeds,

Great Britain and will deploy his expertise in Driving

Simulation and Driving Behaviour to focus on rCITI’s

TRACsLab (ARC LIEF grant).

Dr Saeed Bastani joined UNSW in September after

the completion of his PhD at the University of Sydney,

he worked with Dr Libman at the School of Computer

Science and Engineering on the project "Distributed

Protocols for Dense and Dynamic Wireless Systems with

Application to Vehicular Traffic Control", studying the

impact of wireless beaconing policies on the accuracy

of traffic estimation and designing novel mechanisms for

"blending" of information gathered from wireless position

beacons into road traffic models for purposes such as

incident detection and real-time travel time estimation.

Ms Maria Lee joined rCITI in December as Centre

Manager. She is a highly experienced administrator with

expertise in office, finance, committee and event man-

agement. Prior to joining rCITI, she spent over 15 years at

the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in her

roles as Membership Officer and Manager of Accounts.

She holds a BTax and BScience from UNSW.


rCITI co-organized two collaborative workshops with

researchers, academics and staff from NICTA (1

November 2013) and the School of Computer Science

and Engineering (22 November 2013). This further

strengthened existing ties and explored additional areas

for potential mutual research and projects. Both of these

workshops were well received and we look forward to the

possibility of hosting similar events in the future.

Visit from Purdue University (USA) - Study Abroad ProgramrCITI hosted a study abroad program from the School

of Civil Engineering, Purdue University (USA), 7-12 May

2013. Associate Professor Satish Ukkusuri (Faculty),

Cindy Lawley (co-instructor), Kathy Heath (Program

Coordinator) and 26 students enjoyed their visit to the

Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation

(rCITI). Activities included a tour around the UNSW cam-

pus; attending presentations from UNSW International

discussing global educational opportunities at UNSW;

and attending a mini-talk series on Sustainability and

Infrastructure, from the following speakers:- Dr Vinayak

Dixit, Dr Lauren Gardner, Dr Taha Hossein Rashidi,

Associate Professor Tommy Wiedmann, Professor Ashish

Sharma and Associate Professor Jinling Wang.

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. This year’s visitors included

Professor Mark Hickman (University of Queensland),

Mr Andrew Saul (Genovation Cars), Assistant Professor

Nick Lownes, (University of Connecticut) and Professor

Laurent Denant-Boemont (University of Rennes).

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops Professor Waller and other rCITI staff attended and were

invited to present at a variety of conferences, seminars

and workshops during the year. These include:-

Q 10th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society

for Transportation Studies (EASTS), Taipei, Taiwan.

9-12 September 2013.

Q 18th International Conference of Hong Kong Society

for Transportation Studies (HKSTS) 2013, Hong Kong.

14-16 December 2013.

Q 36th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF)

Annual Conference, Brisbane, QLD. 2-4 October 2013.

Q 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

System Sciences, HICSS 2013, Grand Wailea, Maui,

Hawaii, USA. 7-10 January 2013.

Q Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional

Economics (BITRE) Toll Road Patronage Forecasting

Seminar, Sydney NSW Australia. 26 March 2013.

Q Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional

Economics (BITRE) toll road patronage forecasting,

Steering Group Workshop, Sydney NSW Australia. 23

April 2013.

Q Creative Construction Conference 2013, Budapest,

Hungary. 6-9 July 2013.

Q European Transport Conference, Frankfurt, Germany.

30 September 2013.

Q IEEE 38th Conference on Local Computer Networks

(LCN), Sydney NSW Australia. 21-24 October 2013.

Q IEEE 7th European Modelling Symposium (EMS) 2013.

Manchester, UK. 20-22 November 2013.

Q EEE, 2013 11th International Symposium on Modeling

and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc and Wireless

Networks (WiOpt), Tsukuba, Japan. 13-17 May 2013.

Collaborative workshops

Visiting Students and Staff from Purdue University (USA), members of the rCITI team and Speakers from the mini-talk series on Sustainability and Infrastructure.


Q Mathematics of Transportation Networks workshop as

part of the celebrations for the International Year for the

Mathematics of Planet Earth, Australian Mathematical

Sciences Institute (AMSI) Monash University, Clayton

Australia. 19-21 June 2013.

Q NSW Transport Infrastructure Summit, Sydney

Australia, 7-8 August 2013.

Q OPTIMUM 2013 International symposium on recent

advances in transport modelling, Gold Coast, QLD

Australia. 21-23 April 2013.

Q Road Safety and Simulation - International Conference

RSS2013, Rome, Italy. 23-25 October 2013.

Q Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting,

Washington DC USA. 13-17 January 2013.

Q World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Rio

de Janeiro, Brazil. 15-18 July 2013.

rCITI is proud of the staff’s accomplishments during 2013

from obtaining substantial funding to the starting of new

research, to the steadily expanding PhD program and

teaching curriculum. These activities further strengthen

the Centre’s relationships with academia, industry and

government, from across the UNSW campus, nationally

and internationally, while building a world-class Centre.


Q The Centre

Mission StatementTo become a world-leading organization 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 relia-

bility 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 sys-

tem operators).

Infrastructure: To develop new

materials, techniques and math-

ematical 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: 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.


Core Centre Staff – 2013

CENTRE MANAGER

Ms Sylvia Brohl

Ms Maria Lee (from December 2013)

VISITING ACADEMICS

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

Visiting Professorial Fellow

Professor Laurent Denant-Boemont, Department of

Economics, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Dr Ken Doust, Director, Windana Research, Sydney,

Australia

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

RESEARCHERS

Dr David Rey, Research Associate (from February 2013)

Mr Zhitao Xiong, Post doctoral Researcher (from June

2013)

Mr Saeed Bastani, Post doctoral Researcher, UNSW

School of Computer Science and Engineering (from

September 2013)

L-R: Maria Lee, Zhitao Xiong, Taha Hossein Rashidi, Lauren Gardner, David Rey, Vinayak Dixit and S. Travis Waller.


L-R: Graham Davies, Ian McIntyre, Stephen Foster, Rob Fitzpatrick, S. Travis Waller, Glenn Geers, Nasser Khalili and 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)

rCITI Steering Committee

Associate Professor Maurice Pagnucco

Head of School, Computer Science and Engineering

Mr Ian McIntyre

Principal, Evans & Peck

Mr Rob Fitzpatrick

Director, Infrastructure Transport & Logistics, NICTA

Dr Glenn Geers

Technology Director, Infrastructure Transport & Logistics,

NICTA


S. Travis WallerEvans & Peck Professor of Transport Innovation and Director, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)BSc, Ohio State University, USA. MSc and PhD, Northwestern University, USA.

Research Interests:

Transportation network modelling, particularly systems

characterized by dynamics, uncertainty and information;

large-scale integrated transport optimization and plan-

ning. 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

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.


Transportation Modelling and Simulation

Transportation Management and Control

Traffic Flow Theory

Traffic 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 sim-

ulation and animation models for light rail train systems

and bus services. Facility Location: Environmental con-

siderations related to transport facility location: Demand

Modelling: Analysis of public awareness and attitudes

related to transport systems: Air Transport: Intelligent

Transport Systems: Signage systems.


Transport systems and operations design

Traffic engineering

Transport planning, transport infrastructure development,

transport economics and environmental assessments

Highway Engineering

Lavy LibmanSenior LecturerBSc, MSC and PhD Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.

Research Interests:

Cross-layer performance optimization of wireless net-

works: Cooperative and opportunistic retransmission and

routing strategies; Error control and failure recovery meth-

ods; Wireless network coding; Protocols for devices with

limited energy, memory, and computational power resourc-

es; 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 distribut-

ed 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

Research Interests


Lauren GardnerLecturerBS 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 elec-

tricity systems: developing network-based optimization

models to predict the role of global transport systems in

the spread of contagious disease.


Computational Sustainability

Urban Transportation Planning

Congestion 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


Applied Econometrics and Statistics in Transport

Modelling

Travel 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 XiongPostdoctoral ResearcherBE 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.

Saeed BastaniPostdoctoral ResearcherPhD University of Sydney, Australia.

Research Interests:

Cooperative medium access control in 802.11 based wire-

less networks and high efficiency wireless design.


Book ChapterDixit, V., & Wolshon, B. P. (2013). Planning and management of transportation systems for evacuation. In A. B. Badiru & L. Racz (Eds.), Handbook of Emergency Response: A Human Factors and Systems Engineering Approach (Vol. B . Badiru and LeeAnn Racz, pp. 175-200): CRC Press.

Hossein Rashidi, T., & Kanaroglou, P. (2013). The Next Generation of Transportation Demand Models, Toward an Interdisciplinary Science 13th Conference of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), Toronto ON, July 15-20, 2012. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto.

Kezunovic, M., & Waller, S. T. (2013). PHEVs and BEVs in Coupled Power and Transportation Systems. In M. Ehsani, F. Y. Wang & G. L. Brosch (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (pp. 851-869): Springer, New York.

Journal – Refereed & Scholarly ArticlesDixit, V. V. (2013). Behavioural founda-tions of two-fluid model for urban traffic. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 35(C), 115-126. doi: 10.1016/j.trc.2013.06.009

Dixit, V. V., Wilmot, C., & Wolshon, B. (2013). Modeling risk attitudes in evacu-ation departure choices. Transportation Research Record, 2312(1 December 2012), 159-163. doi: 10.3141/2312-17

Fajardo, D., & Gardner, L. M. (2013). Inferring Contagion Patterns in Social Contact Networks with Limited Infection Data. Networks and Spatial Economics, 13(4), 399-426. doi: 10.1007/s11067-013-9186-6

Gardner, L., & Sarkar, S. (2013). A Global Airport-Based Risk Model for the Spread of Dengue Infection via the Air Transport Network. PLoS ONE, 8(8), e72129-e72129. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072129

Gardner, L. M., Bar-Gera, H., & Boyles, S. D. (2013). Development and com-parison of choice models and tolling schemes for high-occupancy/toll (HOT) facilities. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 55(C), 142-153. doi: 10.1016/j.trb.2013.06.006

Gardner, L. M., Duell, M., & Waller, S. T. (2013). A framework for evaluating the role of electric vehicles in transportation network infrastructure under travel demand variability. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 49(C), 76-90. doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2013.01.031

Gayah, V. V., & Dixit, V. V. (2013). Using Mobile Probe Data and the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram to Estimate Network Densities. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2390(-1), 76-86. doi: 10.3141/2390-09

Gayah, V. V., Dixit, V. V., & Guler, S. I. (2013). Relationship between mean and day-to-day variation in travel time in urban networks. EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics. doi: 10.1007/s13676-013-0032-2

Hsia, H. C., Yeh, K. Y., Tsukaguchi, H., & Vandebona, U. (2013). The Study of Relationships among Psychological Factors, Acceptable Walking Distance, and Reported Walking Distance for Shopping Trips. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 10, 1475-1488. doi: 10.11175/easts.10.1475

Jiang, N., Xie, C., Duthie, J. C., & Waller, S. T. (2013). A network equilibrium analysis on destination, route and parking choices with mixed gasoline and electric vehicular flows. EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics. doi: 10.1007/s13676-013-0021-5

Maghrebi, M., Ebrahiminejad, M., & Shakeri, E. (2013). A Study Of The Concept Of Dynamic Equipment In The Earthmoving Process By A Consideration Of Time, Cost And Emissions. Journal of Green Building, 8(3), 156-165. doi: 10.3992/jgb.8.3.156

Maghrebi, M., Waller, S. T., & Sammut, C. (2013). Reconstruction of an Expert’s Decision Making Expertise in Concrete Dispatching by Machine Learning. Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 7(12), 1540-1547.

Mehmood, T., Libman, L., Dehkordi, H. R., & Jha, S. K. (2013). Optimal opportunistic routing and network coding for bidirec-tional wireless flows. Computer Networks, 57(18), 4030-4046. doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2013.10.004

Montz, T., Dixit, V., Wilmot, C., & Wolshon, B. (2013). Assessing the Effectiveness of Flexible Response in Evacuations. Natural Hazards Review, 14(3), 200-210. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000101

Rashidi, T. H., Auld, J., & Mohammadian, A. K. (2013). Effectiveness of Bayesian Updating Attributes in Data Transferability Applications. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2344(-1), 1-9. doi: 10.3141/2344-01

Tajima, Y., Tsukaguchi, H., Vandebona, U., & Hsia, H. C. (2013). Relationships among Lifestyle Attributes and Attitudes toward Pedestrian Facilities. Journal of the Eastern

Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 10, 1458-1474. doi: 10.11175/easts.10.1458

Tsukaguchi, H., Vandebona, U., & Tajima, Y. (2013). Analysis of Changes in Pedestrian Route Choice Priorities with Progress of Stage of Life. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 10, 1396-1412. doi: 10.11175/easts.10.1396

Vandebona, U., & Tsukaguchi, H. (2013). Impact of urbanization on user ex-pectations related to public transport accessibility. International Journal of Urban Sciences, 17(2), 199-211. doi: 10.1080/12265934.2013.776293

Waller, S. T., Fajardo, D., Duell, M., & Dixit, V. (2013). Linear Programming Formulation for Strategic Dynamic Traffic Assignment. Networks and Spatial Economics, 13(4), 427-443. doi: 10.1007/s11067-013-9187-5

Wolshon, B., Dixit, V., & Renne, J. (2013). Special Issue on Interdisciplinary and Multimodal Nature of Evacuations: Nexus of Research and Practice. Natural Hazards Review, 14(3), 149-150. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000115

Conference papers – full paper referredArbis,D., Hossein Rashidi, T., Dixit, V., & Vandebona, U., (2013). Analysis and Planning of Bicycle Parking for Transport Interchanges. 36th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) Annual Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia. 2-4 October 2013.

Chen, N., Duell, M., Waller, S. T., & Gardner, L. (2013). Evaluating the impact of electric vehicle charging infrastruc-ture design alternatives on transport network performance. 36th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) Annual Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia. 2-4 October 2013.

Dixit, V., Harb, R., Martinez, J., & Rutstrom, E. (2013) Eliciting risk attitudes from route choices over simulated driving choices. Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC USA. 13-17 January 2013.

Dixit, V., & Hossein Rashidi, T (2013) Modelling Likelihood of At-Fault and Not-At-Fault Carshare Users. Road Safety and Simulation - International Conference RSS2013, Rome, Italy. 23-25 October 2013.

Dixit, V., & Zhang, Z. (2013) Integration Of Cell Transmission Model And Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram: Network Aggregation For Dynamic Traffic Models. 18th International Conference of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies:

Publications


Transportation and Infrastructure, Hong Kong. 14-16 December 2013.

Dixit, V. V., Gardner, L. M., & Waller, S. T. (2013). Strategic User Equilibrium Assignment Under Trip Variability. Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA. 13-17 January 2013.

Duell, M., Dixit, V., & Waller, T. (2013) Strategic System Reliable Formulation for Traffic Assignment. OPTIMUM 2013 International symposium on recent advanc-es in transport modelling, Gold Coast, QLD Australia. 21-23 April 2013.

Duell, M., Gardner, L., Dixit, V., & Waller, S. T. (2013). Strategic road pricing schemes accounting for demand uncertainty. 36th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) Annual Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia. 2-4 October 2013.

Duell, M., Gardner, L. M., & Waller, S. T. (2013). Multiobjective Traffic Network Design Accounting for Plug-in Electric Vehicle Energy Consumption. Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA. 13-17 January 2013.

Duell, M., Wen, T., & Waller, S. T. (2013). A linear program network design model incorporating system optimal strategic dy-namic traffic assignment behaviour. 18th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS) 2013, Hong Kong. 14-16 December 2013.

Edwards, L., Ly, N., Kemp, J., Tran, M., & Dixit, V. (2013/04/15/). Framework to Evaluate Policy for Promotion of Electric Vehicles. Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC USA. 13-17 January 2013.

Gardner, L. M., Bar-Gera, H. and Boyles, S.D (2013). An Evaluation Framework for High-Occupancy/Toll (HOT) Lanes. 92nd Annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC USA.

13-17 January 2013.

Gardner, L. M., Duell, M., Waller, S. T., & MacGill, I. F. (2013). The system impact of travel demand variability in the context of electric vehicles. 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2013, Grand Wailea, Maui, Hawaii, USA. 7-10 January 2013.

Hossein Rashidi, T., Toop, E., Liu, X., & Kanaroglou, P., (2013). Emissions And Built Form - An Analysis Of Six Canadian Cities. Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC USA. 13-17 January 2013.

Hossein Rashidi, T., & Hironobu, Hasegawa. (2013/10/02/). A simultaneous

system of models for disaggregate trip generation, mode choice and destination. European Transport Conference, Frankfurt, Germany. 30 September 2013.

Libman, L., Paschos, G., Georgiadis, L., & Zhao, X. (2013). Throughput Regions and Optimal Policies in Wireless Networks with Opportunistic Routing. IEEE, 2013 11th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Tsukuba, Japan. 13-17 May 2013.

Maghrebi, M., Waller, S. T., & Sammut, C. A. (2013). Integrated Building Information Modelling (BIM) With Supply Chain and Feed-Forward Control. Creative Construction Conference 2013, Budapest, Hungary. 6-9 July 2013.

Maghrebi, M., Waller, T. S., & Sammut, C. (2013) Scheduling Concrete Delivery Problems by a Robust Meta Heuristic Method. IEEE 7th European Modelling Symposium (EMS) 2013. Manchester, UK. 20-22 November 2013.

Mehran, F., Hossein Rashidi, T., & Abolfazl, M/., (2013). Investigating the Transferability of Individual Trip Rates: A Decision Tree Approach. Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC USA. 13-17 January 2013.

Rambha, T., Boyles, S. D., & Waller, S. T. (2013). Adaptive Transit Routing in Stochastic Time-Dependent Networks. Paper presented at the Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA. 13-17 January 2013.

Sen, B., Libman, L., Zhao, X., & Jha, S. (2013). An end-to-end delay metric for multi-rate wireless mesh networks with cooperative retransmission. IEEE 38th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sydney NSW Australia. 21-24 October 2013.

Vandebona, U., Hsia, H. C., Yeh, K. Y., & Tsukaguchi, H. (2013/09/09/). The Study of Relationships among Psychological Factors, Acceptable Walking Distance, and ReportedWalking Distance for Shopping Trips. 10th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), Taipei, Taiwan. 9-12 September 2013.

Vandebona, U., Tajima, Y., Tsukaguchi, H., & Hsia, H. C. (2013/12//). Relationships among Lifestyle Attributes and Attitudes toward Pedestrian Facilities. 10th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), Taipei, Taiwan. 9-12 September 2013.

Vandebona, U., Tsukaguchi, H., & Mukai, H. (2013/07/15/). Study Of Sign System Improvement In A Historical Park Based

On Before And After Comparisons. World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 15-18 July 2013.

Wang, S., Gardner, L. M., & Waller, S. T. (2013). Global Optimization Method for Robust Pricing of Transportation Networks Under Uncertain Demand. Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA. 13-17 January 2013.

Wijayaratna, K. P., Duell, M., & Waller, S. T. (2013). Predicting disrupted network be-haviour incorporating user equilibrium with recourse. 18th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS) 2013, Hong Kong. 14-16 December 2013.

Zhang, T., Boyles, S. D., & Waller, S. T. (2013). Modeling Combined Travel Choices of Electric Vehicle Drivers with a Variational Inequality Network Formulation. Paper presented at the Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA. 13-17 January 2013.

Zhang, T., Xie, C., & Waller, S. T. (2013). Network Flows of Plug-In Electric Vehicles: Impacts of Electricity-Charging Price. Paper presented at the Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA. 13-17 January 2013.

ReportsDuthie, J.C., Nezamuddin, N., Juri, N.R., Rambha, T., Melson, C., Pool, C.M., Boyles, S., Waller, S.T., and Kumar, R. (2013). Investigating Regional Dynamic Traffic Assignment Modeling for Improved Bottleneck Analysis: Final Report (Vol. FHWA/TX-13/0-6657-1).

Hadi, M., Pendyala, R., Bhat, C., & Waller, S.T. (2013). Partnership to Develop an Integrated, Advanced Travel Demand Model and a Fine-Grained Time-Sensitive Network (Vol. SHRP 2 Capacity Project C10A).


Visitors, Seminars And Workshops

Visitor Seminars/TalksDate 2013 Host/Organizer Guest Speaker Title/Position Affiliation Seminar Topic26 March rCITI Prof. Mark

Hickman

ASTRA Chair

and Professor

of Transport

Engineering and

Director, Director

of the Centre for

Transport Strategy

School of Civil

Engineering,

University of

Queensland

Analysing and Modelling

Passenger Behaviour

in Public Transport

Networks

16 April rCITI & MME Mr Andrew

Saul

Founder & CEO Genovation Cars

– The Green Car

Company

Batteries are Included:

Transport in the 21st

Century3 June rCITI A/Prof. Nick

Lownes

Director, Center for

Transportation and

Livable Systems

School of Civil

& Environmental

Engineering,

University of

Connecticut

Leveraging big data for

equity and efficiency

in public transportation

systems

11 July rCITI Prof. Laurent

Denant-

Boemont

Professor of

Economics, Co-

Director Laboratory

for Experiments

in Economics and

Management

School of

Economics,

University of

Rennes 1

Transport Costs and

Location Choices in

Urban Areas: Evidence

from Laboratory

Experiments

WorkshopsDate 2013 Organizer Topic Speakers Additional Attendees1 Nov rCITI &

CSE

Collaborative

Workshop

Prof. S. Travis Waller, Dr Vinayak Dixit, Dr Upali

Vandebona, Dr David Rey, Dr Lavy Libman, Mr

Saeed Bastani

rCITI and CSE

Academics and

Research Students

22 Nov rCITI &

NICTA

Collaborative

Workshop on

Transport Studies

Prof. S. Travis Waller, Dr Lauren Gardner, Dr

Vinayak Dixit, Dr Lavy Libman, Prof. Fang Chen,

Hoang Nguyen, Dr Wei Liu, Dr Chen Cai

rCITI and NICTA

Staff, Academics and

Research Students


rCITI = Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)MME = School of Mechanical and Manufacturing EngineeringCSE = School of Computer Science & Engineering NICTA = National Information Communications Technology


Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) GrantsThe Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Scheme provides funding for research infrastructure, equipment and facilities to eligible organisations. The scheme enables higher education researchers to participate in cooperative initiatives so that infrastructure, equipment and facilities can be shared between higher education organisations as well as with industry. The scheme also fosters collaboration through its support of the coopera-tive use of international and national research facilities. The objective of the LIEF scheme is to a) encourage institutions to develop collaborative arrangements among themselves, across the higher education sector and with organisations outside the sector, in order to develop research infrastructure; b) support large-scale cooperative initiatives involving two or more institutions, thereby allowing expensive facilities to be shared; and c) enhance support for areas of research strength.

The rCITI research team were awarded an ARC grant for

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF)

starting in 2013 to fund the study of a TRAvel Choice

Simulation LABoratory (TRACSLab): A visualisation labo-

ratory to study travel behaviour and drivers’ interactions

This project will establish innovative new facilities that will

assist in the re-design of fundamental choice assump-

tions needed to support emerging transport issues such

as sustainability, reliability and ITS. The TRACSLab (net-

worked driving simulators combined with traffic modelling

and collective interaction) represents a unique world-first

facility for comprehensive analysis of travel choice. The

TRACSLab (i) focuses on collective travel choice (ii)

allows for group interaction through networking and (iii)

the involvement of researchers across multiple inter-dis-

ciplinary boundaries dedicated to the research of travel

choice, econometrics, experimental economics, visualiza-

tion and transport network analysis. Our partners include

ITLS at the University of Sydney and ICinema at UNSW.

Q Selected Centre Highlights & Research Projects

Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage GrantsARC Linkage Projects scheme works to benefit the broader Australian community by funding collaborative research projects between the University and industry, government or community organisations. The scheme is designed to support projects that are of strategic value to end-users and will help advance the development of innovative solutions to current problems.

Linkage Project 1 - “Methodologies for the Incorporation of Congestion Propagation and System Reliability into Transport Network Models for Consistent Multi-Scale Planning”:

This project will include researchers from rCITI at the

UNSW Australia, The Institute of Transport and Logistics

Studies (ITLS) at the University of Sydney and a leading

transport software company, TSS - Transport Simulation

Systems Australia which will develop the reseasrch to

improve the capabilities of transport planning techniques.

It will endeavour to use new methodologies such as:-

(i) the enhancement of macroscopic time-invariant re-

gional modelling to represent congestion effects more

realistically;

(ii) the review of new behavioural model accounting for

reliability and strategic traveller decision-making;

(iii) time-variant transport network model incorporating the

new behavioural approach; and

(iv) methodologies for obtaining consistency between the

models since professionals often use multiple mod-

els in cooperation for different aspects of transport

planning.

The desired outcome of this research is to develop re-

search that will discover new derived techniques, formula-

tions and solution algorithms for the noted problems.


Linkage Project 2 - “Integrating Network Modelling with Observed Choice Data for Multi-Criteria Optimization of Complex Carshare Systems: Cost, Mobility and Transit Usage”:

This project will include researchers from rCITI at UNSW

Australia and GoGet Carshare. The aim is to promote

the research of novel integrated network models incor-

porating observed choice and stated preference data to

develop a multi-criteria optimization of complex carshare

systems considering broad system impacts (e.g., public

transit usage). Providing opportunity’s to enable the

rigorously addressing of carshare operational design with

the goal of achieving both organizational as well as sys-

tem-wide societal benefits. (e.g., Fuel efficiency, cheaper

insurance, improved safety)

The desired outcomes from this research is the develop-

ment of new methodologies obtained from the incorpo-

ration of complete carshare data with formal transport

planning models and data benefiting the community and

the broader transport system


Other Research Project(s):

“Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Energy Consumption Patterns and of Electric Vehicles in Regional Transport Networks.”

Principal Investigator: Dr Lauren Gardner

Granting Organisation: UNSW Engineering Faculty Research Grant / Early Career Researcher Grants Program

Project Summary: Future potential plug-in electric

vehicle (PEV) usage requires that long-term transport

planning models expand to explicitly account for relevant

system impacts from this alternative vehicle technology.

The integration of PEVs into the transport system will

impact not only the transport system, but also regional

energy providers who will need to incorporate mobile

energy use into their traditional stationary demand mod-

els. Vehicle level energy consumption patterns must be

modelled in order to accurately predict the spatiotemporal

demand levels, as well as sustainability metrics, such as

environmental impact. However, the uncertain nature of

PEV adoption as well as their cross-cutting characteristics

will require new techniques for modelling PEV traveller

behaviour, which is necessary to compute the mobile

energy consumption. This project addresses these items

through the development and implementation of novel

traffic assignment modelling tools.

Furthermore, an evaluation framework to examine multiple

performance measures (e.g., travel time, energy con-

sumption) under a range of future scenarios regarding

the integration of PEVs into the transport system is

established.

Project Outcome: The project resulted in two journal

papers and four international conferences proceedings

at which related research was presented. The confer-

ences include the 46th Hawaii International Conference

on System Sciences (HICSS 2013, the 92nd and 93rd

Annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board,

Washington, D.C, and the 36th ATRF Conference in

Brisbane, QLD, 2013. Additional related research topics

have evolved and are still ongoing.


Q Students & Supervision

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Alireza Ahmadian Fard Fini – Predicting delay and minimizing its impact in con-struction context. (Supervisors: A Akbar Nezhad, T Hossein Rashidi, ST Waller)

Abdulmajeed Sulaiman M Alsultan – Urban traffic network design. (Supervisors: V Dixit, ST Waller)

Nima Amini – Solution Methods for Incorporation and Evaluation of Real Time Ramp Metering Strategies Using Dynamic Traffic Assignment on Regional Networks. Supervisors: L Gardner, ST Waller)

David Arbis – Modelling the dynamics of subjective risk perception of drivers. (Supervisors: V Dixit, T Hossein Rashidi)

Melissa Duell – Strategic traffic assign-ment: methods of modelling day-to-day flow volatility. (Supervisors: L Gardner, ST Waller)

Milad Ghasrikhouzani – Disaggregate behavioural land use modelling: Integration of housing search, job search and households’ dynamics. (Supervisors: T Hossein Rashidi, ST Waller)

Asif Hassan – - Mobile Phone Distraction and Traffic Safety. (Supervisors: V Dixit, ST Waller)

Md Kamrul Islam – Stochastic modelling for evaluation of impacts of headway variability on public transit performance. (Supervisor: U Vandebona, Co-supervisor: V Dixit)

Sisi Jian – The Modelling of Balanced Vehicle Distribution in One-Way Car-sharing systems.( Supervisors: V Dixit, ST Waller)

Mojtaba Maghrebi –sing machine learning to automatically plan concrete delivery dispatching. (Supervisors: ST Waller, C Sammut)

Bipul Sen (CSE) – Exploiting MAC-layer Cooperative Retransmission in Wireless Mesh Networks. (Supervisors: S Jha, L Libman)

Tao Wen – Methodologies for Origin-Destination Travel Demand Estimation within a Strategic Traffic Assignment Model. (Supervisors: L Gardner, ST Waller)

Kasun Wijayaratna – Modelling Disrupted Transport Network Behaviour. (Supervisors: V Dixit, ST Waller)

Masters by CourseworkAsif Hassan – Evaluating Risk Attitudes and Subjective

Beliefs of Taxi Drivers from a Field Experiment.

[Specialisation. Completed 2013, S1] (Supervisor: V

Dixit)

Xun Li - Revenue Neutral Congestion

Pricing: A Mechanism to Fund Public

Transit and Control Urban Traffic

(Supervisors: Dixit, ST Waller)

Tuo Mao - Transit Signal Priority and

Eco-Transit Signal Priority on a corri-

dor bus route. (Supervisors: V Dixit, L

Gardner)


Masters by ResearchAlex Karki – Parking Optimization.

(Supervisors: V Dixit, T Hossein Rashidi

and Co-Supervisor D Rey)

Honours StudentsRichard Banzon - Ridership Analysis of the CBD and

South East Light Rail Project. (Supervisor: T Hossein

Rashidi, Co-supervisor: ST Waller) Nan Chen - The Optimal Locations for Charging

Stations for Electric Vehicles in a Network. (Supervisors:

ST Waller, L Gardner) George Dunstan - Scenario Based Algorithm in

Stochastic Time Dependent Networks. (Supervisor: V

Dixit) Edwin Gunawan - The Relationship Between

Transportation, Build environment, and General Health.

(Supervisor: L Gardner) Sunny Gunawan - Development of an Instrumented

Vehicle. (Supervisor: V Dixit, Co-supervisor: Z Xiong) Jiyang Guo - Understanding traffic flow characteristics

of bicycle facilities. (Supervisor: V Dixit) Aaron Hargraves - A Feasibility Study into the use of

String Transport Systems for Passenger Rail in New

South Wales. (Supervisor: U Vandebona) Trevor Hyland - The Correlation Between Public

Transport and Health. (Supervisor: L Gardner) Christopher Mavromoustakos - Traffic Investigation

of the Metroroad 5 of Sydney: Dynamic Lane

Management Modelling in PTV VISSIM. (Supervisors: V

Dixit, ST Waller) Aleksandar Minic - Traditional and Flexible Car-

sharing Systems As Traffic Demand Management.

(Supervisor: V Dixit) Jeremy Smith - Preference Towards Public Transit for

UNSW Commuters. (Supervisor: V Dixit, Co-supervisor:

T Hossein Rashidi) Daniel Suwito - Optimisation Model for Roadside

Billboard Valuation Using User Equilibrium-Driven

Transport Network Data. (Supervisor: V Dixit) Rinie Tan - Optimising Design of Railway Platforms for

Time Efficiency.(Supervisor: U Vandebona) John Trieu - Use of GPS Data to Determine Value

of Travel Time Savings for Motorists in Sydney.

(Supervisor: V Dixit)

Buddhini Wagasooriya - Pricing Natural Disaster Risk.

(Supervisor: V Dixit)Norman Yuwono - A Network-Based Risk Assessment

Model to Evaluate the Risk Posed by International Air

Travel in Importing Dengue into Australia. (Supervisor:

L Gardner)

Taste of Research (ToR)Stanley He (Supervisor: ST Waller)

PracticumHaiyang Liu (Supervisor: ST Waller) on exchange from Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

Kelly Bertolaccini (Supervisor: ST Waller) on exchange from University of Connecticut, USA.


Senior Investigator(s) / Researcher(s)

Subject Area / Research Topic

Granting Organization / Industry Sponsor

Budget Duration

Prof. S. Travis Waller Identification & Evaluation

of Transformative

Environmental (AERIS)

Applications and Strategies

Project.

US Department

of Transportation

(USDOT),

Federal Highway

Administration

(FHWA); sub-con-

tract from Booz Allen

Hamilton Inc.

$275,000. 2012–2014

Prof. S. Travis Waller,

Dr. Vinayak Dixit,

Prof. Michiel Bliemer

(USyd) and

Prof. Dennis Del

Favero (icinema)

TRAvel Choice Simulation

LABoratory (TRACSLab): A

visualisation laboratory to

study travel behaviour and

drivers’ interactions

Australian Research

Council (ARC) LIEF

Grant

$680,000. 2013

Prof. S. Travis Waller Develop and Deploy

Novel Integrated Network

Techniques to Enhance the

NSW Transport System

Transport for NSW $1,500,000. 2013-2016


Dr. Vinayak Dixit,

Prof. Michiel Bliemer

(USyd), Prof. Michael

Bell (USyd),

Dr Alexandre Torday

(Industry Partner TSS)

Methodologies for the

Incorporation of Congestion

Propagation and System

Reliability into Transport

Network Models for

Consistent Multi-Scale

Planning

ARC Linkage Project $845,604. 2013-2016


Dr. Vinayak Dixit,

Dr. Lauren Gardner,

Dr. Taha Hossein

Rashidi,

Mr. Bruce Jeffreys

(Industry Partner

GoGet Carshare)

Integrating Network

Modelling with Observed

Choice Data for Multi-

Criteria Optimization of

Complex Carshare Systems:

Cost, Mobility and Transit

Usage

ARC Linkage Project $515,488. 2013-2016

Dr. Lauren Gardner Quantifying the

Spatiotemporal Energy

Consumption Patterns

and of Electric Vehicles

in Regional Transport

Networks

Faculty Research

Grant Program / Early

Career Researcher

Grants Program

$20,000. 2013

Q Grant Income / Research Funding 2013


Q Income 2013

Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation, rCITIStatement of Financial Performance

for the Year Ending 31 December 2013Notes $

Funds

External Research Funds 1** 1,038,200.00

Other Research Funds 190,000.00

Faculty Research Grants 20,034.00

UNSW Strategic Funds 2 395,344.00

Total Funds* 1,643,578.00

Costs

Personnel Costs 269,504.00

Materials and Maintenance 20,481.00

Travel incl. Visitors, Speakers, Students 66,085.00

Equipment 12,555.00

Other Non-People Cost 13,717.00

Internal Expense (incl. Overhead) 132,459.00

Total Costs* 514,801.00

Operating Result* 1,128,777.00

Opening Balance 0.00

Closing Balance* 1,128,777.00

Notes to the Statement of Financial Performance

1 rCITI was awarded External NICTA Research Funds of $209,354 for salary contributions S.T. Waller (CVEN), L. Gardner (CVEN) and L. Libman (CSE) as well as PhD Student Scholarship M. Duell.

Due to the UNSW structure these funds are reflected under Department IDs CVEN and CSE and appear on the respective School Financial Statement.

2 Salary Contributions L. Gardner and S.T. Waller; Centre Strategic Funds.

* CVEN School Salary Contributions are excluded from this statement as these appear on the School Financial Statement.

** Outstanding invoices are $137,500 as at 31 December 2013.

rciti annual report 2013

Documents

gaddress research centre

research interests

core centre staff

q overview

collaborative workshops

rciti core team

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