TransportLab Newsletter: January 2023
Welcome to the start-of-year update from TransportLab at the University of Sydney.
We would love to meet you face-to-face, or you can follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter or Mastodon.
Events
TransportLab will be at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington DC in January 2023. You can find us at the following sessions as well as the Australia @ TRB reception at Busboys and Poets (450 K St NW) at 6:30pm Monday:
Mon 1/9/2023
8:00 AM- 9:45 AM ET
TRBAM-23-00604 - A Bifurcation of The Peak: New Patterns of Traffic Peaking During the Covid-19 Era
Research in Statewide and National Transportation Data and Information Systems
Hall A, Convention Center
8:00 AM- 9:45 AM ET
TRBAM-23-02512 - Intersection Design, Pedestrians, and Safety
Roundabouts, Intersections, and Diverging Diamond Interchanges
Hall A, Convention Center
Mon 1/9/2023
8:00 AM-9:45 AM ET
TRBAM-23-00751 - Where Is the Best Place for Vacant Vehicles to Find a Passenger in E-Hailing Systems?: An Integrated Approach Considering Real-Time Priority and Long-Run Benefits
Recent Advances in Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics
Salon C, Convention Center
Mon 1/9/2023
8:00 AM-9:45 AM ET
TRBAM-23-00619 - Dynamic Pricing and Fleet Management of Mixed Ridesourcing Fleets Based on Model Predictive Control
Emerging Topics in Congestion Pricing
151B, Convention Center
Mon 1/9/2023
8:00 AM-9:45 AM ET
TRBAM-23-01338 - Suppliers' Ride Acceptance Behavior in On-Demand Mobility Services: Personalized Menu Assortment Optimization
Transportation Service Models, Networks and Scheduling
Hall A, Convention Center
Mon 1/9/2023
10:15 AM- 12:00 PM ET
TRBAM-23-00591. - An Empirical Model of Land use and Railway Co-development in Sydney
Economic Development and Land Use Committee
Archives (M4), Marriott Marquis
10:15 AM- 12:00 PM ET
TRBAM-23-00780 - Route Choice Set Generation on High Resolution Networks
Travel Forecasting Methodological Advances and Insights
Hall A, Convention Center
10:15 AM- 12:00 PM ET
TRBAM-23-02625 - Competition and Cooperation in the On-Demand Ridesourcing Market
Traffic Flow Theory, Part 1: Network Modeling and On-Demand Mobility
Hall A, Convention Center
1:30 PM- 3:15 PM ET
TRBAM-23-04253 - Optimizing Random Breath Test Scheduling in Networks
Impairment in Transportation Poster Session
Hall A, Convention Center
1:30 PM- 5:30 PM ET
TRBAM-23-00778 - Streetcars Across America: An Analysis of the Growth of Electric Urban Railways in the United States from Directory Data
Light Rail Transit Committee
Mint (M4), Marriott Marquis
You can subscribe to be invited to future TRB receptions here:
Tue 1/10/2023
8:00 AM- 9:45 AM ET
TRBAM-23-00598 - An Agent-based Simulation Model for the Growth of Sydney Trains
Innovative Methodologies for Transit Planning and Analysis
Hall A, Convention Center
8:00 AM- 9:45 AM ET
TRBAM-23-04761 Generating Historic GTFS files for Sydney to Measure Access
Innovative Methodologies for Transit Planning and Analysis
Hall A, Convention Center
10:15 AM- 12:00 PM ET
TRBAM-23-00623 Dynamic Discounts to Promote Ridesharing in E-hailing Markets
Transportation Demand Management, Parking, and Congestion Pricing Showcase
Hall A, Convention Center
10:15 AM- 12:00 PM ET
TRBAM-23-00624 Quasi-Revenue Neutral Congestion Pricing in Urban Networks
Transportation Demand Management, Parking, and Congestion Pricing Showcase
Hall A, Convention Center
1:30 PM- 3:15 PM ET
TRBAM-23-02662 - A Rendezvous Strategy for Emergency Healthcare Logistics
Freight Planning and Health Care Logistics During COVID-19 Pandemic
144C, Convention Center
1:30 PM- 3:15 PM ET
TRBAM-23-01068 - The Overlooked Transport Project Planning Process - What Happens before Selecting the Locally Preferred Alternative?
Public Transportation Planning Methods and Considerations
147B, Convention Center
Seminar
The TransportLab Seminar is now hybrid. You can join in person or on Zoom Friday afternoons during semester. Please contact us if you’d like to join the mailing list. In addition to student presentations, the virtual format allowed us to host several academic and industry speakers, including:
Lara Mottee, John Grill Institute for Project Leadership
Kurt Iveson, University of Sydney
Chen Cai, EY
Angus Macdonald, Compass IoT
Rebecca Clements, School of Architecture Design and Planning
Doina Olaru, UWA
People
Dr Andrés Fielbaum will be joining TransportLab in early 2023.
Dr. Hongjun Yu, Dr. Seyedehsan Seyedabrishami and Dr Bahman Lahoorpoor have joined TransportLab as a Research Associates.
Emily Moylan was promoted to senior lecturer.
Abebe Dress Beza has started his PhD with Mohsen Ramezani and David Levinson on ARC DP220100882 project on the Design of micro-decisions in automated transport.
Alireza Soltani has started his PhD with Mohsen Ramezani and David Levinson on ARC DP220100882 project on the Design of micro-decisions in automated transport.
Elnaz Emami has started her PhD with Mohsen Ramezani on modeling and managing of shared e-micromobility systems.
Amin Shaer has started his PhD with Mohsen Ramezani and David Levinson on the optimization of safety countermeasures in networks.
Ruihao Zeng has started his MPhil with Mohsen Ramezani on the use of LIDAR for traffic estimation.
Most of the members of TransportLab at the TRANSW Symposium. Photo Credit: M. Saberi
Publications
Gao, Yang and Levinson, D. (2022) A bifurcation of the peak: New patterns of traffic peaking during the COVID-19 era. Transportation. [doi]
Ji, Ang, Ramezani, M. and Levinson, D. (2022) Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Lateral Dynamics in Lane-changing Maneuvers. Transportmetrica B: Transportation Dynamics. DOI: 10.1080/21680566.2022.2154717 [doi]
Jiao, G., & Ramezani, M. (2022). Incentivizing shared rides in e-hailing markets: Dynamic discounting. Transportation Research Part C, 144.
Kent, J. (2022). Sustainable Family Transport: A Research Agenda. Urban Policy and Research, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2022.2108393
Kent, J. L. (2022). The use of practice theory in transport research. Transport Reviews, 42(2), 222-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2021.1961918
Kent, J.L. and Crane, M. (2022), "Impacts on Health", Attard, M. and Mulley, C. (Ed.) Transport and Pandemic Experiences (Transport and Sustainability, Vol. 17), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 303-322. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2044-994120220000017017
Kent, J. L., Harris, P., & Thompson, S. (2022). What gets measured does not always get done. The Lancet Global Health, 10(9), e1235. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00321-7
Kent, J. L., & Mulley, C. (2023). Travel with dogs: the need to accommodate “messy trips” in healthy and sustainable transport transitions. Journal of Transport & Health, 28, 101559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2022.101559
Kent, J. L., & Mulley, C. (2022). Understanding perspectives on policy change: The case of dogs on public transport in Sydney, Australia. International journal of sustainable transportation, 16(8), 744-753. https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2021.1919798
Lahoorpoor, B., Rayaprolu, H., Wu, H., and Levinson, D. (2022) Prioritizing Active Transport Network Investment using Locational Accessibility. TeMA – Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment. 15(2), 179-192. [doi]
Li, Manman, Cui, Mengying, and Levinson, D. (2022) Job and Worker Density and Transit Network Dynamics. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. 16 (11) p. 1013-1019 [doi]
Li, Y., & Ramezani, M. (2022). Quasi revenue-neutral congestion pricing in cities: Crediting drivers to avoid city centers. Transportation Research Part C, 145.
Mohajerpoor, R., Cai, C., & Ramezani, M. (2022). Optimal traffic signal control of isolated oversaturated intersections using predicted demand. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Paine, G., Thompson, S., Prior, J., Connon, I., & Kent, J. L. (2022). Bringing History Forward: Learning from Historical Context when Translating Contemporary Health Evidence into Planning Practice. Journal of Planning History, 21(2), 107–131. https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513220977456
Song, C., Dennis, M., Burns, B. et al. Improving access to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for out of hospital cardiac arrest: pre-hospital ECPR and alternate delivery strategies. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 30, 77 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-022-01064-8
Wang, Jiaoe, Huang, Jie, Yang, Haoran, and Levinson, D. (2022) Resilience and Recovery of Public Transport Use during COVID-19. npj Urban Sustainability 2(18) [doi]
Wang, Yadi and Levinson, David (2022) Forecast Accuracy of Recent Australian Passenger Rail Projects. Presented at Australasian Transport Research Forum.
Wang, Yingshuo, Lahoorpoor, B. and Levinson, D. (2022) The Spatio-temporal Evolution of Sydney’s Tram Network Using Network Econometrics. Geographical Analysis. [doi]
Wang, Yuning, Lu, D, and Levinson, D. (2022) Equilibrium or Imbalance? Rail Transit and Land Use Mix in Station Areas. Transportation. [doi]
Yang, Y., & Ramezani, M. (2022). A learning method for real-time repositioning in e-hailing services. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Rankings
The Ioannidis ranking of academics is out (Source data: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4).
“In the September 2022 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” by John Ioannidis (Stanford), career-long data are updated to end-of-2021 and single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2021.
The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. There are 19,216 scientists whose primary field is in "Logistics & Transportation".”
Transport academic rankings can be found here including University of Sydney academics.
#1 David Hensher
#19 Mike Bell
#24 David Levinson
#163 John Rose
#198 Corinne Mulley [emirita]
#223 Michiel Bliemer
Appearances
Mohsen Ramezani presented at ITS summit Australia 2022 on “Network-level traffic control in cities” and “Electrification of point-to-point fleets” (August, Brisbane).
Emily Moylan was at the Australasian Road Safety Conference in Christchurch in September.
Mohsen Ramezani had an invited talk at 40th Anniversary of the International Conference of the Korean Society of Transportation (September, Seoul).
Transport Lab presented at Australasian Transport Research Forum in Adelaide from September 28-30
Tim Xian, Durba Kundu and Emily Moylan attended the Conference for Advanced Systems in Public Transit and TransitData Conference in Tel Aviv 6-11 November.
TransportLab was at the iMOVE Conference 2022 from November 14-15.
Somwrita Sarkar and David Levinson presented at the Australian Net Zero Conference on 21 November.
The TransportLab PhD students presented at the 2022 Transport Research Association of New South Wales (TraNSW) Symposium on 23 November
David Levinson, Mohsen Ramezani and Laya Hossein Rashidi were at Micromobility Conference on November 25
TransportLab co-organised TransportCamp Sydney sponsored by University of Sydney on December 2
We will be at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting January 8-12, 2023— see above for where to find us.