The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 98th Annual Meeting will be held January 13–17, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C.

Two PhD students(Wenhua Jiang and Chunliang Wu) and Three Masters students(Yan Xia, Huamei Zhu and Ning Xu) presented their research outcomes at TRB. Very well done, especially those from Joint Masters Program.

The latest subject rankings released through the the Centre of World University Rankings (for 2017) puts Monash in first place in the transportation field:
https://cwur.org/2017/subjects.php#Transportation

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1. Parallel computing for user equilibrium problem in a cluster with integrated computing resources by Xinyuan Chen, Zhiyuan Liu and Inhi Kim
2. Exploring Human Mobility Pattern Using Complex Network Theory and Spatial Econometric Model by  Chunliang Wu, Inhi Kim and Zhiyuan Liu

I am very glad that Tianqi Gu has been passed the mid-review. His research topic is “Inter Relationship between Shared Bike System and Mass Transit considering Traffic Condition” supervised by Prof. Graham Currie, and me. The chair (Prof. Geoff Rose) and the pannels (Dr. Nan Zheng and Dr. Ye Lu) were served for this event. Congratulation Tianqi and keep it up!!

Monash ITS welcomes Prof. Bart van Arem from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands giving a speech to transport lovers at State Library in Melbourne.

Lecture Topic

Driverless vehicles and the future of urban transport: Beyond the Hype

Abstract

Melbourne faces a considerable challenge to maintain its much celebrated livability in the face of population growth. Transport is critical and smart solutions are needed. Autonomous or driverless vehicles are regularly promoted as the ‘solution’ to a wide range of urban transport challenges. Will we sleep walk into an urban mobility future defined for us by the driverless vehicle industry or make conscious choices about the role that advanced technology should play in creating a transport system to support the type of city we want Melbourne to become?  This year’s Ogden Transport Lecture looks beyond the hype and draws insight from international research to put driverless vehicles and the future of urban mobility under the microscope.

Speaker Biography

Professor Bart van Arem has an international reputation for research that focuses on analysing and modelling the implications of intelligent vehicles. Bart is Director of the TU Delft Transport Institute and a Professor in the Department Transport & Planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.  He has held previous appointments at the University of Twente and in TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research.

I am very glad that Wenhua has been confirmed PhD. Her research topic is “Short-term passenger demand prediction and crowd management for special events” supervised by Dr. Nan Zheng, Dr. Paul Reichl, and me. The chair (Prof. Hai Vu) and the pannels (Dr. Kun An and Dr. Ha Bui) were served for this event. Congratulation Wenhua and keep it up!!

A big congrats for Xinyuan on passing the final review. Prof. Graham Currie as a chair, Dr. Nan Zheng and Dr. Qianbing Zhang as panel members are served for this milestone. Good luck for your PhD thesis and job hunting!!

Well done TUPA on TRB 2019. 5 papers accepted this round. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 98th Annual Meeting will be held January 13–17, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C. The information-packed program is expected to attract more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world.

• Chunliang Wu, Exploring the relationship between built environment and public sharing bike flow in Suzhou, China using geographically weighted regression model
• Wenhua Jiang, Imputation of missing transfer passenger flow with self-measuring multi-task gaussian process
• Meina Zheng, An analysis of short-term available parking space forecasting method based on LSTM neural network
• Duy Nguyen-Phuoc, Turn signal use among car drivers and motorcyclists at intersections: a case study of Danang, Vietnam
• Khaled Sabban, Inhi Kim, User Satisfaction of the Road Network: A Structural Equation Model