I am very thrilled to arrange that our two professors make great research presentations to public in Suzhou. The venue is organized by the Suzhou highway association and the event is cohosted by CCDI.

This year, more than 100 people from industry, government and universities participated in this event and shared their knowledge and ideas to solve many traffic problems locally and internationally.

This is 2^nd Monash public speech organized following Graham’s speech last year. This event promotes our Monash Suzhou program’s reputation in China.

I as a director of the China program  thank again two professors, hosts and guests today for making this even successful.

In addition, Monash ITS is happy to appoint our research partners to Monash associates. Three members are as following from left.

• Mr. Hanzhong Pan,  Deputy Director from Traffic Management Research Institute of Public Security Ministry of China.
• Ms. Yuanqiu Bao, Vice president from CCDI(SuZhou) Exploration & Design Consultant CO.,Ltd.
• Mr. Zuoming Yin , Deputy Director from Gusu Suzhou Public Security Bureau
• Prof. Geoff Rose, Director form Monash ITS

Monash academic staff, staff from Gusu police department and from Suzhou highway association and CCDI.

I am also so pleased that students from school of urban rail transportation, Soochow University and our students get along with each other.

I also presented what my research team has done last 3 years including safety anaysis, illegal parking app, and shared bike programs.

My phd student, Mr Gu plays a very important role in this event as an interpreter.

Dr. Zhang made a presentation about the projects CCDI has conducted.

Prof Geoff Rose makes a presentation about our transportation systems with a new horizon that is equivalent to biology.

Prof. Hai Vu makes a presentation about ITS deployed in Netherlands as his recent project.

Many constructive questions came out from the audience making this event more impressive.

I am very happy to host our ITS director Prof. Geoff Rose and Prof. Hai Vu to our Joint Graduate School in Suzhou. I also thank my students for hospitalizing them with warm welcome.

Through a meeting with students, we all get to know more each other and we collect some suggestions from the students to improve our China program.

Our research project on road rage funded by an external source, “Wuxi traffic management research institute of the ministry of public security” has been successfully completed with the final presentation.
This is the first ever project we granted in JGS and many brilliant students are involved in this to deliver a good outcome.
I deeply thank Catherine, Kevin, Philip and Kai for leading this project and making it a successful completion.
Since Monash ITS made a mutual relationship with this institute recently, I hope we collaborate on many interesting research topics in near future.

Prof. Terry Liu and his research team from SEU and Dr. Inhi Kim and his research team visited 2 transport and urban planning companies and one department of Suzhou urban planning. We seek a mutual collaboration in transport network development, big data, public transportation planning, and lots more. We thank them for having time with us sharing their ideas on transport problems.

13/04/2017

Prof. S.C. Wong from University of HongKong and Dr. Inhi Kim are invited by Prof. Keechoo Choi from Ajoo University in Korea. Prof. Wong gave a great insight of Big Data. The title was Golden Era of Big Data for Transportation Research” where he used HongKong taxi data of several years to analyse traffic speed and travel time in a urban context.

Prof. Wong and Choi are Editors in Chief at International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (Ranked 3 in Transportation). Also Prof. Choi play a critical role as a president of Korean Society of Transportation.