Research capability profile

The Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) at UNSW is based in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and represents a strategic effort that unites and extends the wide range of transport research across the university campus. It is keenly supported by both government and industry.

The centre now has around 50 staff and students (full & part-time), including 20 researchers and more than 30 postgraduate students. The research partnerships formed over the past 10 years come from within the public and private sectors and which have developed and grown to be stronger than ever before.

rCITI’s vision is to be a world-leading organization in integrated interdisciplinary transport research, development and education. They are well on their way to achieving the Centre’s goals by providing critical expertise and experience in Mobility planning, Analytics, Operations and Technology. With a core objective to drive Efficiency, Equality and Emerging technologies (3Es) in mobility systems.

rCITI aims to pursues globally-leading interdisciplinary solutions for transport planning and management that integrate three critical aspects for societal impact:

1. Emerging mobility technology
2. Human behavior & choice
3. Institutional / market landscape

rCITI has 2 facilities available:

• A data visualisation lab (City X Lab) – Our research focuses on improving scientific understanding of smart cities through development and application of data-model driven methods to better plan, manage and operate urban transport systems
• MObility Research and TechnologY (MORTY) lab – The MORTY lab is mobility research and technology lab developing state-of-the art technology to optimize transportation and mobility systems, as well as use of multi-modal virtual reality technology to explore safer mobility systems.

The centre’s research thrives on the availability of robust interdisciplinary groups available at UNSW that span Civil, Environmental, Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, and Photovoltaic & Renewable Energy Engineering as well as with the schools of Aviation, Built Environment, Business, Law, Psychology, and Population Health with additional collaborations continuing to develop.

rCITI continues to build new relationships with industry partners that allows core research to be developed into usable tools and solutions that make a real difference to the industry. rCITI has identified substantial scope for contribution locally, nationally, and internationally, with several opportunities for integrated transport analysis already underway.