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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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Interdependencies of Residential and Workplace Relocation Timing Decisions using a Copula-based Bayesian Survival Approach: Findings from Australia and US

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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Open Data Validation of the Performance of a Smart City Application in Transport: The PTIPS Transport Signal Priority Request System

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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An empirical analysis of a drone ecosystem in logistics: A fourth-party logistics (4PL) framework for warehouse operations and last mile delivery

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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Integrated optimisation of electric bus scheduling and top-up charging at bus stops with fast chargers

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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Time is running out – How do airlines engage with the 'sustainability' generation while closing the technological gap?

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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Evaluating the vulnerability of urban railway network infrastructure by analysing railway accident reports

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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