On behalf of Emanuele, Chai, Poh and myself, I am very happy to announce that in 2018 we will launch a co-supervised PhD program between the Clayton and Sunway sites of Monash Engineering.

The objectives of this co-supervised PhD program are twofold:

a) to provide an opportunity for PhD students to have a genuine international PhD experience by spending time on both sites (in the spirit of the Monash-IITB Academy program), and
b) to foster greater research links between researchers on the two Engineering campuses

The PhD students will be enrolled in Sunway and will nominally spend 2yrs at Sunway and 1yr at Clayton. The preference is for the 2nd yr of candidature to be spent at Clayton (after the students have passed confirmation of candidature) but this is flexible depending on the project needs. The program will be marketed in Malaysia as a premium package and the PhD stipend will be higher than the normal rate during the time in Sunway. During the year in Australia, the candidates will receive the Clayton stipend of 26-27k AUD p/a. The objective is to attract the very best students from Malaysia and abroad to participate. The students must be supervised by at least one supervisor from each site.

The plan is to advertise in Malaysia around mid-2018 with the first intake anticipated to be between Aug-Oct 2018. Five scholarships have been planned in the first instance. The timing has been set in line with the academic year in Malaysia to maximise the chances of recruiting the top students.

Congratulations Kai!!

Kai joined the research team last November 2017 and today successfully completed his phd confirmation. From now on, he can be called a Monash PhD student!!!

Kai has made a good progress on his research on free-floating car sharing. Good luck with his rest of research journey!!

Papers submitted to TRB 2018 are accepted. The list is following:

1. Optimal Sitting and Sizing of the Remote Park-and-Ride Scheme in the Multimodal Transport Network” by TRB’s Standing Committee on Transportation Network Modeling (ADB30). – Xinyuan Chen (PhD student)
2. More are coming

I am delighted to announce that Shelley finally is conferred DOCTOR!!! A big congratulation on her great achievement.
Sincere thanks to Xiaoying(Shelley) achieving this wonderful result.

The 17th COTA conference International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP2017) will be held during July 7-9, 2017, in Shanghai, China, jointly organized by Tongji University and Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA).  Thank you, my students for attending the conference to make wonderful presentations. I hope to see some of you in Beijing next year again!!!

From left Tian-Qi(PhD), Inhi, Bo, Catherine, Lilian, Xinyuan, Ray and Kai

An interesting layout to discuss among participants.

Perspectives of opening a gated community and its effect by  Tian-Qi Gu(PhD)

Analysis of Public Bicycle Sharing Network based on Complex Network Theory by Chunliang Wu (2015)

Kai (PhD)

Social media application for illegal parking problem by Bo Wang(2015)

• Understanding road rage Insights from a synthesis of research by Xiaohui Xu  (2015)
• Modelling asymmetric and non-additive P&R schemes by Xiyuan Chen(2013, Phd) also made good contributions

Our good friend, Terry also makes a presentation regarding big data and its applications

An exclusive reception organised by DiDi

Prof. Keechoo Chio from Ajoo University, South Korea delivers a presentation regarding cutting edge technique in transportation  on behalf of Korea Transport Society

I thank to Michelle Bao, a Vice-president of CCDI for having a wonderful time with my students, a cohort of 2016. Michelle is one of our Monash associates who supports in many various ways. Giving a lecture is one of annual events. This year, Michelle discussed with the students what industry expects from students. The students have a lot of questions in particularly hiring process in CCDI.

Our research group is invited by Suzhou Urban Planning Ministry to the Shared Bike Program in Suzhou. Dr. Kim made an opening speech on the Suzhou Shared Bike project that will be conducted with Suzhou Urban Planning Ministry, CCDI and Yongan.

Mr. Gu helps Dr. Kim interpret the opening speech.

The CEO of Youngan which operates the Suzhou shared bikes docked with more than 2000 stations across Suzhou. He introduced a new designed bike to public. This bike has been rolled out recently in Suzhou.

Yongan also introduces new Apps for uses to use in a more convenient way. A new bike path was also released to public so that tourists and citizen can enjoy a beautiful Suzhou scenery using the shared bike.

The one in purple is the most frequent bike users in Suzhou in 2016. This is one of the ways Suzhou gov. encourages people to use more active transportation.

Recently released shared bikes in Suzhou.

A research team who will make the Suzhou shared bike program better.

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.