Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)
(located within University of NSW)
Professor Vinayak Dixit – Director
Summary
Core capabilities
Home to some of Australia’s and the world’s leading academics in their fields, our researchers have expertise in:
- Behaviour under risk and uncertainty
- Blockchain and digitalisation of freight transport
- Econometrics
- Environmental Engineering Modelling Transport Planning
- Epidemiology
- Experimental economics
- Housing markets, land use & environmental planning
- Human factors
- Integrated transport optimisation and planning
- Logistics and supply chain modelling
- Network modelling
- Pedestrian crowd modelling
- Role of global transport systems in the spread of contagious diseases
- Traffic Flow Theory
- Traffic safety
- Transportation & freight services
- Work-zone management
Based on work by Professor Meead Saberi
Projects
Below is a selection of projects in which rCITI has been involved. It includes project overviews, project outcomes, and PhD projects.
See all of iMOVE’s projects at the List of iMOVE projects page.
Safer cycling and street design: A guide for policymakers
The study will investigate how to integrate cycling facilities into urban and suburban environments in ways that address the concerns of the 48% of people who are “interested” in cycling, but “concerned” about safety. This group is known as the elusive “interested but concerned” cohort.
A collaboration with City Futures at UNSW School of Built Environment and the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) at UNSW School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Optimising signal control in CAV and VRU mixed environments
The aim of this PhD project is to explore how traffic controls can be optimised to accommodate both human-driven vehicles and autonomous vehicles, while considering vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians and cyclists, at intersections.
Real-time data for better informed transport and parking choices
This project will use Willoughby City Council’s (WCC) Chatswood central business district as a living laboratory promoting the effective use of data to improve visitor experience. The initial focus will be on parking with the intention to aggregate fragmented datasets managed by government, industry, and community data custodians, making them accessible to Council’s stakeholders including residents, businesses, workers, and visitors.
Modelling traffic congestion as a contagion
In this PhD research the aim is to understand the spatio-temporal characteristics of congestion described by a contagion process. The proposed model enables observation, forecast and control of traffic congestion in a network over time.
VRU and CAV interactions
The overall aim of this PhD research program is to prepare Queensland for a safe integration of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) into mixed urban traffic environment by observing and predicting CAVs and other road user interactions.
Insurance research for autonomous vehicles
With the advent of Highly Automated or Autonomous Vehicles (AV) on our roads in just a few years’ time, the insurance industry needs to have a thorough understanding of the technologies involved, and their impact on mobility and insurance business models into the future. As a first step, by building up an autonomous driving prototype based on an everyday car, a deeper insight into the architecture, peculiarities and risks of Autonomous Vehicles will be gained.
Key research staff
Professor Vinayak Dixit
- IAG Chair of Risk in Smart Cities
- Director of rCITI (Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation)
- Director of MORTY (MObility Research and TechnologY) Laboratory at the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UNSW
- Integrated Masters of Tech, Indian Institute of Tech, Delhi, India
- PhD, Uni of Central Florida, USA
Associate Professor Taha Hossein Rashidi
- Deputy Director Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)
- BSc, MSc (CVEN) Sharif Uni Tech, Iran
- PhD, Uni Illinois, USA
Associate Professor Meead Saberi
- BS Ferdowsi Uni Mashhad, Iran
- MS Portland State Uni, USA
- PhD, Northwestern Uni, USA
Dr Milad Haghani – Senior Lecturer
- BSc, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
- MSc, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
- PhD, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Elnaz Irannezhad – Senior Lecturer
- MSc ,BSc (CVEN), Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
- PhD (CVEN), University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Divya Nair – Lecturer
- M.Tech National Institute of Technology, India
- PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia
Julius Secadiningrat – TRACSLab Manager
- BEng (Civil), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- MSc (Transport), Imperial College London, United Kingdom
iMOVE interviews and articles
Below is a selection of interviews we’ve conducted with UNSW staff, as well as articles it has written for/provided us. For the complete list of UNSW content on the iMOVE website visit the University of NSW tag page.
National Freight Data Hub to increase efficiency and productivity
The University of NSW was one of several institutions to work on this important national project.
Flora Salim: Data hunter and gatherer
At the time of this interview Flora was at RMIT University, but she has since moved north to take up the CISCO Chair of Digital Transport, School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of NSW. The interview covers her academic background, her research interests, details of projects she’s led/worked on, her thoughts on connectivity, privacy, the future of transport, and more.