2021 SYMPOSIUM
PRESENTATIONS LIST
​Day 1
Session 1: Travel demand and behaviour
Chair and co-chair: Eric Heller (EY) and Associate Professor Taha Rashidi (UNSW)
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Graph Neural Network for Robust Public Transit Demand Prediction
Can Li (UNSW)
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Empirical evidence of habits and patterns in public transport use
Durba Kundu (USYD)
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Mobility Response to Crisis – Heterogeneous Travel Pattern Analysis under COVID-19
Tianyang Qu (UOW)
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Maryam Bostanara (UNSW)
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Session 2: Public transport planning
Chair and co-chair: Jennifer Adam (TfNSW) and Professor John Nelson (USYD)
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Should we manufacture rolling stock onshore?
Christopher Day (USYD)
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The Bounds of Improvements Towards Real-Time Forecast of Multi-Scenario Train Delays
Jianqing Wu (UOW)
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Urban Design Around Public Transport Hubs
Anoulack Chanthivong (USYD)
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Teck Kean Chin (USYD)
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Effect of Bus Lanes on Bus Operational Performance
Tingsen (Tim) Xian (USYD)
Session 3: Automated vehicles
Chair and co-chair: Evan Walker (TfNSW) and Professor John Rose (UTS)
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Socially efficient interactions among autonomous vehicles
Ang Ji (USYD)
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Time-dependent optimal deployment of autonomous vehicles in congested mixed autonomy networks
Mohammadhadi Mansourianfar (UNSW)
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A bifurcation of the peak: New patterns of traffic peaking during the COVID-19 era
Yang Gao (USYD)
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Automated vehicles and active travel: A quantitative Dutch-Australian comparison
Tony Arnold (USYD)
Session 4: Future city logistics
Chair and co-chair: Michael Stokoe (TfNSW) and Professor Vinayak Dixit (UNSW)
A Vehicle-drone Delivery Routing Problem for E-grocery Home Delivery
Hamidreza Ensafian (USYD)
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Mujtaba Hussain (USYD)
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Ghost Kitchens - A supply chain network design model for 'Ghost Kitchens' and meal delivery
Dat Tien Le (USYD)
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Autonomous Mobile Lockers (AMLs) for City Logistics.
Jun (Elsa) Li (USYD)
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Day 2
Session 1: Sustainable transport
Chair and co-chair: Julie Morgan (TfNSW) and Dr Michelle Zeibots (UTS)
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Application of tyre derived aggregates in ballasted and ballastless (slab) tracks
Mohammad Adnan Farooq (UTS)
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Optimal parking space and charging station provision for electric ride-souring vehicles
Bangyang Wei (UNSW)
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Hao Hu (UOW)
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An artificial intelligence-enabled life cycle assessment to identify the environmental impacts of e-waste transportation
Abd Moh’d (USYD)
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David Li (USYD)
Session 2: Point-to-point transport
Chair and co-chair: Simon Young (CISCO) and Dr Milad Haghani (UNSW)
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Geo-fencing in point-to-point ridesharing
Mengyuan Zhu (USYD)
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Addressing supply and demand heterogeneity: Trip order menus in point-to-point transport platforms
Yue Yang (USYD)
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Economic analysis of ridesourcing market considering driver's order cancellation behaviour
Kai Xu (UNSW)
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Modelling and Managing Ride-sourcing Operations of Mixed Human-driven and Autonomous Fleets
Linji Chen (USYD)
Session 3: Novel transport modelling techniques
Chair and co-chair: Simon Kinnear (TMA) and Professor Michiel Bliemer (USYD)
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Ensemble Model of Route Choice
Haotian Wang (USYD)
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Extended node model with lane choice equilibrium
Xiaolin Gong (USYD)
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Ensemble Forecasting - an application in hedonic models
Hao Wu (UNSW)
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A Dynamic Sensitivity Model for Unidirectional Pedestrian Flow with Overtaking Behaviour and its Application on Social Distancing's Impact during COVID-19
Cheng Zhang (UOW)
Session 4: Transport network analysis
Chair and co-chair: Matt Faber (Niobe Consulting) and Professor David Levinson (USYD)
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Empirical model of land use and public transit co-developments in Sydney
Bahman Lahoorpoor (USYD)
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Co-evolution of Sydney's Transit Network and Demand
Hema Rayaprolu (USYD)
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An investigation into the development of transport solutions in New South Wales
Gavin Cavanagh (UTS)
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Transportation Resilience Optimisation from an Economic Perspective
Tingting Zhang (UNSW)
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Resilient Road Network Investment Strategy with Uncertainty Quantification
Chence Niu (UNSW)
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Day 3
Session 1: Safety and disruption
Chair and co-chair: Simon Kinnear (TMA) and Professor Pascal Perez (UOW)
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Wei-Ting Hong (USYD)
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Traffic incident duration modelling using Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Artur Grigorev (UTS)
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Prediction of the mechanical response of a railway track
Piyush Punetha (UTS)
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Multi-modal Public Transport Modelling under Large Scale Disruptions
Dong Zhao (UTS)
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Intelligent Agents in Transport
Kevin Malysiak (UOW)
Session 2: Mobility-as-a-Service and on-demand transport
Chair and co-chair: Lewis Clark (TfNSW) and Professor David Hensher (USYD)
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The social impact of flexible transport in rural areas, a case study in regional NSW
Miguel Loyola (USYD)
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Building Trust and Collaboration among stakeholders in Mobility as a Service Ecosystems
Thiranjaya Kandanaarachchi (USYD)
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MaaS and Sustainability: How MaaS may deliver social goals?
Aitan Militao (USYD)
Session 3: Congestion management and pricing
Chair and co-chair: Mathew Jones (TfNSW) and Dr Divya Jayakumar Nair (UNSW)
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Optimal real-time pricing in Cities: Crediting Drivers to Avoid CBDs
Ye Li (USYD)
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Modelling Congestion Propagation as a Spreading Phenomenon
Mudabber Ashfaq (UNSW)
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Mitigating Negative Externalities of Ridesourcing: Dynamic Discount Pricing of Shared Rides
Guipeng Jiao (USYD)
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A path-based pricing and incentives method to alleviate traffic congestion
Mingye Luan (UNSW)
Session 4: Innovations in freight transport and logistics
Chair and co-chair: Darren Mcnamara (TfNSW) and Dr Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya (USYD)
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Logistics for Emergency Medical Services
Changle Song (USYD)
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Unstructured big data analytics for logistics planning
Arda Gezdur (USYD)
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A life cycle analysis using big data on modern slavery in the transportation sector
Rebecca Nguyen (USYD)
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Adding value through innovation in a logistics service provider firm
Sonali Tripathi (USYD)
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Urban co-modality with endogenous passenger and freight demands and levels of services
Mingyou Ma (UNSW)
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