Research capability profile

RMIT University is a world leader in Art and Design; Architecture; Education; Engineering; Development; Computer Science and Information Systems; Business and Management; and Communication and Media Studies.

RMIT builds partnerships to have a positive impact in the world. It forms multi-disciplinary teams with government, community, industry, and researchers to deliver innovative solutions. Whether you are a small business or interested in collaborating on a national or international program, RMIT problem solves with you.

Transport @ RMIT Network

Transport@RMIT brings to bear a broad range of research capacity informing how policy, industry, data, and technology can shape transport that improves our cities, economies, and lives. This multidisciplinary expertise focuses on productive, sustainable, and inclusive transport systems for growing and complex large cities.

This centre’s research is policy- and industry-relevant, based on conceptually rigorous approaches and data driven analysis. This collaborative research with policymakers, industry, and practitioners, helps to maximise the relevance of the research, but also importantly, disseminate findings.

Research generated by Transport@RMIT contributes to the strategic understanding of the pressing challenges in our growing cities; informing evidence-based policy and industry decision-making; directing the use of data and technology to identify issues and understand behaviour; and helping to exploit opportunities of emerging technology and manage innovation risk.

RMIT’s Urban Futures Enabling Capability Platform (ECP) harnesses expertise from across the university to solve critical urban problems. Its activity enables new research collaborations between RMIT policy makers, industry, practitioners and other city stakeholders. Transport@RMIT is a key part of the ECP and leads multidisciplinary responses to the pressing urban challenges of transport in a complex and growing urban environment.

Urban Futures Enabling Capability Platform

Research that informs how cities can be more equitable, sustainable and accountable by providing integrated planning and design solutions for rapid population growth and urbanisation.

Given rapid urbanisation and population growth, work from this group will assist the public and private sectors to transform how cities are planned, built, and governed to achieve healthy sustainable urban development.

ECP will focus on understanding the policy world that is the subject of the attempts to influence, through co-designing research with policymakers and practitioners, and disseminating our findings through public, private, and non-government partners.

Working with external stakeholders is key to creating impact in this area. ECP believes that working with outside partners will build in relevance, whether working on research with local governments or with international organisations, such as the World Health Organisation.

The research skills and competencies within this ECP can be applied to any sector or organisation, regardless of size or stage of development.

Information and Systems (engineering) Enabling Capability Platform

Responding to new information technologies and data collection methods that are disrupting society by engaging our experts across multiple disciplines.

It informs researchers and the wider community about how to exploit disruptions caused by the steep increase in data, communications, and sensors; deep advances in automation; new energy production; and, the challenges of cybersecurity.

Work here covers four key areas:

1. Data and sensors focuses on the capture, communication, collation, and analysis of data;
2. Automation and intelligence concentrates on the understanding and exploitation of data; energy production, and systems examines energy systems;
3. User behaviour and integrated predictive control of networks; and,
4. Cybersecurity examines how we can better protect the profusion of computational systems in our society.