Welcome to the start-of-year update from TransportLab at the University of Sydney.

We’re looking forward to meeting people face-to-face again, but in the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Events

The TransportLab Seminar started up again in the second half of 2020. In addition to student presentations, the virtual format allowed us to host several academic and industry speakers, including:

• Meead Saberi (UNSW) on Strategic Modelling for Walking Infrastructure

• Jonathan Busch (SCT Consulting) on a practitioner’s perspective on transport innovation

  

• Emilie Gunaratnam and Matthew Jones (TfNSW) on Cost-Benefit Analysis at TfNSW

• Sue McNeil (University of Delaware) on using real-time time data to provide situational awareness to first responders in emergencies. 

• Gabriel Metcalfe (Committee for Sydney) on Advocacy for Change in Mobility Systems

  

TransportLab participated in the annual Transport Research Association for NSW (TraNSW) Symposium on 17-19 November. Six TransportLab students presented their work, and Linji Chen (fourth from left) received an award for Best Research Demonstration.

Together with the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of Sydney organised a virtual symposium on Big Data and Neighborhood Change. Somwrita Sarkar was a project lead on the event.

People

Teck Kean Chin has started his PhD on Smart City Applications in Land Use and Transport

Yang Gao will start a PhD in early 2021.

Mengyuan (Derek) Zhu has started his MPhil on Optimising Space-time Matching in Ridesharing through Predictive Modelling

Former post-doc Mengying Cui started as an Associate Professor at Chang-An University

Jing Chen and Louise Aoustin finished as a visiting scholars with TransportLab at Sydney. 

• Louise graduated from EPFL and is currently working at Keolis Downer in Sydney. 

• Jing Chen will finish her PhD at Southeast University in Nanjing, China

Awards, Accolades and Memberships

Jennifer Kent’s book "Planning Australia's Healthy Built Environments" was awarded a Commendation Award for Planning Excellence in the category of Cutting Edge Research and Teaching by the Planning Institute of Australia, NSW.

The University of Sydney has the most influential academics of any university in Australia. This includes David Levinson who is in the top 2% of citations.

Emily Moylan received the 2020 Dean’s (Faculty) Award for Teaching Innovation in 2019 for her work incorporating informatics into the transport curriculum.

Mohsen Ramezani was promoted to Senior Lecturer.

Mohsen Ramezani has received an ARC DECRA on Market Design of Next Generation of Shared and Automated Transport Services

PhD student Linji Chen won the Best Research Demonstration Award at the TraNSW 2020 Symposium for his presentation on Decentralised Cooperative Cruising of Autonomous Fleet.

Honours student April Alcock is the 2020 University of Sydney winner of the ITE-ANZ Trafficworks Student Award.

Articles, books and chapters

Davis, Blake, Ji, Ang,  Liu, Bichen, and Levinson, D. (2020) Moving Array Traffic Probes. Frontiers in Future Transportation. doi: 10.3389/ffutr.2020.602356 [doi]

Ji, Ang and Levinson, D. (2020) Injury severity prediction from two-vehicle crash mechanisms with machine learning and ensemble models. IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. [doi]

Ji, Ang and Levinson, D. (2020) An energy loss-based vehicular injury severity model. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 146 October 2020, 105730. [doi]

Kamal, M. A. S., Ramezani, M., Wu, G., Roncoli, C., Rios-Torres, J., & Orfila, O. (2020). Partially Connected and Automated Traffic Operations in Road Transportation. Journal of Advanced Transportation. [doi]

Kent, J.L. (2020). The role of car-sharing in sustainable transport. In Curtis, C. (Ed.) Handbook for Sustainable Transport. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

Kent, J.L. and Thompson, S. (2020) Healthy Cities. In Rogers, D., Keane, A., Nelson, J. and Alizadeh, T. (Eds.) Introduction to Urbanism: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Palgrave McMillan, Camden

Kent, J.L. (2020) Transport, access and health. In Mulley, C. (Ed.) Urban Form and Accessibility. Elsevier, London

Levinson, D. (2020) Logistic Curve Models of CO2 Accumulation. Transport Findings. [doi]

Levinson, D. (2020) A Timeline of Future Transport in Sydney as Revealed in Tablet Form. In Derrible, S. & Chester, M. (Ed.) Urban Infrastructure: Reflections For 2100: An Edited Volume Imagining Infrastructure Transitions And Goals At End-Of-Century. Independently published.

Paine, G., Thompson, S., Prior, J., Connon, I., & Kent, J. L. (2020). Bringing History Forward: Learning from Historical Context when Translating Contemporary Health Evidence into Planning Practice. Journal of Planning History. [doi]

Sarkar S., Farid R. (2020) Data, Science and Cities. In: Rogers D., Keane A., Alizadeh T., Nelson J. (eds) Understanding Urbanism. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. [doi]

Reports and Projects

Liverpool Sustainable Urban Mobility Study. iMOVE CRC/Liverpool City Council

The Transport Access Manual was published by the Committee for the Transport Access Manual, chaired by David Levinson 

Opportunities to build capability in traffic management for Austroads. Dissemination webinar is on the 21st January.

New housing supply, population growth, and access to social infrastructure for Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)

Journals

Transport Findings has been renamed Findings, and a new section Urban Findings, will launch in 2021

Mohsen Ramezani is editing a special issue of Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics on Advanced Modeling and Control for AI-enabled Multimodal and Automated Transport Systems.

Mohsen Ramezani is editing a special issue of Frontiers in Future Transportation on Integration of Real-Time Information in Transport Planning and Operations.

Appearances

Jennifer Kent presented at the Sydney Environment Institute's Critical Companion Series on Sustainable Urban Mobility

David Levinson keynoted at IARAI  Traffic4cast 2020 Special Session: The End of Traffic and Future of Access

David Levinson guest lectured at UBC: The New, New Normal

David Levinson presented at Australia Build Week: 30-Minute City

David Levinson presented at Festival of Urbanism: The New New Normal: Mobility and Activity in the After Times. The article was originally published in The Fifth Estate, November 2, 2020.

David Levinson was a panelist at Transport Australia Society webinar: The Role of Walking in the Movement and Place Framework

David Levinson was quoted by the Daily Telegraph: Outer Sydney Orbital: M9 to be Built Next to Airport Metro, Freight Line

David Levinson was quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald: “Sydney’s bike network stuck in the slow lane“.

Emily Moylan was an invited speaker at the CSIRO Symposium Future of Meetings

Emily Moylan spoke at the Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference about civil engineering students coding to learn.

Mohsen Ramezani was invited to be a speaker in the full-day online workshop “Emerging Control of Vehicular Traffic for Improving Sustainability and Energy Efficiency” for SICE Annual Conference 2020

Welcome to the mid-year update from TransportLab at the University of Sydney.

The world has been in flux since our last newsletter, which has led to far less mobility than we would have liked (on a personal level). So while we won’t be seeing most of you this year, we hope to remain in touch online. You can follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn.

We hope to host a TransportCamp later in 2020, and should see many New South Welshmen there.

Seminars

Before the shutdown, we were pleased to have a presentation at the TransportLab Professional Seminar from Paul Anderson of Texas A&M on bus bunching. Paul was previously an undergraduate student working for David at the University of Minnesota, and a Master’s Student at EPFL working with Mohsen.

We plan some additional seminars in second semester, which were deferred from the first, as the university and society reboot.

People

• Linji Chen started in March 2020 as a PhD student. Thesis topic: Traffic state estimation and congestion control with connected and automated vehicles

• Jaime Soza Parra is hoping to join us as a postdoc. He was supposed to start 18 May, but can't until the travel ban is lifted. 

• Jing Chen and Louise Aoustin started as a visiting scholars

Current Projects

• FAST Corridor Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan. iMOVE CRC/Liverpool City Council

• University of Toronto Partnership Collaboration Awards

• Access Across New Zealand: 2019

• Opportunities to Build Capability in Traffic Management. Austroads

• New housing supply, population growth, and access to social infrastructure.

Editorial Boards

• Mohsen Ramezani was named Review Editor in Transportation Systems Modeling (specialty section of Frontiers in Future Transportation)

Committees

• Emily Moylan joined AED20 the TRB Committee on Urban Data

Articles

• Beauvoir, V., & Moylan, E. (2020). Unreliability of Delay Caused by Bike Unavailability in Bike Share Systems. Transportation Research Record. [doi]

• Cui, Mengying, and Levinson, D. (2020) Shortest paths, travel costs, and traffic. Presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January 2020. Environment and Planning B. (accepted and in press)

• Cui, Mengying, and Levinson, D. (2020) The Internal and External Costs of Motor Vehicle Pollution. Transportation Research Record (accepted and in press)

• Cui, Mengying, and Levinson, D. (2020) Multi-Activity Access: How Activity Choice Affects Opportunity. Transportation Research part D. (accepted and in press)

• Cui, Mengying and Levinson, D. (2019) Primal and Dual Access. Geographical Analysis.  [doi] [code]

• Han, Y., Ramezani, M., Hegyi, A., Yuan, Y., & Hoogendoorn, S. (2020). Hierarchical ramp metering in freeways: an aggregated modeling and control approach. Transportation Research part C: Emerging Technologies, 110, 1-19. [doi]

• Ji, Ang and Levinson, D. (2020) A Review of Game Theory Models of Lane Changing. Transportmetrica A. 16(3), 1628–1647. [doi]

• Ji, Ang and Levinson, D. (2020) Estimating the Social Gap with a Game Theory Model of Lane Changing.  IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Transactions. [doi]

• Lahoorpoor, Bahman and Levinson, D. (2020) Catchment if you can: The effect of station entrance and exit locations on accessibility. Journal of Transport Geography. 82, 102556. [doi] [full report]

• Levinson, D. and Wu, Hao (2020) Towards a General Theory of Access. Journal of Transport and Land Use. 13(1) 129-158. [doi]

• Sarkar, Somwrita, Wu, Hao and Levinson, D. (2019) Measuring polycentricity via network flows, spatial interaction, and percolation. Urban Studies. [doi]

• Sarkar, Somwrita, Elsa Arcaute, Erez Hatna, Tooran Alizadeh, Glen Searle and Michael Batty (2020) Evidence for localization and urbanization economies in urban scaling. Royal Society Open Science. [doi]

• Walsh, Lexie, Xian, Tingsen, and Levinson, D. (2020) Walking and Talking: The Effect of Smartphone Use and Group Conversation on Pedestrian Speed.TeMA – Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment. 12(3), 283-294. [doi]

• Wu, Hao (2020) Effects of Timetable Change on Job Accessibility. Transport Findings. [doi]

• Wu, Hao, Owen, Andrew,  and Levinson, D. (2020) Commute Mode Share and Access to Jobs across US Metropolitan Areas. Environment and Planning B. [doi]

• Wu, Hao and Levinson, D. (2020) Unifying Access. Transportation Research part D. Volume 83, June 2020, 102355 [doi]

• Yildirimoglu, M., & Ramezani, M. (2020). Demand management with limited cooperation among travellers: A doubly dynamic approach. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 132, 267-284. [doi]

Reports

• Travel Time Reliability Measurement Research Report: Establishing Empirical Evidence (Feb 2020) Moylan, Wijayaratna, Jian, Saberi, Waller. Commissioned report for TfNSW

• Designing a Dynamic Matching Method for Ride- Sourcing Systems (2020)  Amir Hosein Valadkhani and Mohsen Ramezani.  Working Paper ITLS-WP-20-01 

Welcome to the inaugural issue of TransportLab News. This is the periodic newsletter describing what the University of Sydney’s TransportLab group has been up to. You can follow us at Twitter or LinkedIn, or on our Website.

Who are we

TransportLab is a group of transport researchers in the Faculties of Engineering and of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney.

Academic Staff

• David Levinson (Director)

• Somwrita Sarkar (Deputy Director)

• Mohsen Ramezani

• Emily Moylan

• Jennifer Kent

• Mengying Cui

Students

• Amir Valadkhani

• Hao Wu

• Ye Li

• Bahman Lahoorpoor

• Ang Ji

• Hema Sharanya

• Sabal Sharma

• Yadi Wang

Long-term Visitors (2019)

• Valentin Beauvoir

• Manman Li

• Masaki Yuya

• Xia Zhao

Long-term Visitors (2020)

• Louise Aoustin

• Jing Chen

• …

TRB 2020

Several TransportLab members (Levinson, Moylan, Cui, Wu, Ji) will attend the Transportation Research Board Conference in Washington, DC. You may catch us at the following:

• Australia Reception (6:30-9:30pm at Vapiano H St on Monday 13th). It’s for Australians working anywhere in transport, anyone working in Australia on transport, and anyone working with either of those groups. 

Monday 01:30 PM-05:30 PM Marriott Marquis, Independence Salon C (M4)

Wu, Hao, El-Geneidy, Ahmed, Stewart, Anson, Murphy, Brendan, Boisjoly, Genevieve, Niedzielski, Michał , Pereira, Rafael H.M., and Levinson, D. (2020) Access Across the Globe: Towards an International Comparison of Cumulative Opportunities	

International Cooperation Committee A0010	

Tuesday 08:00 AM-09:45 AM Marriott Marquis, Pentagon (M4)	

David Levinson, University of Sydney, presiding
Public Transportation, Planning and Forecasting	Transport Accessibility Manual Working Group AP050	

Tuesday 08:00 AM-09:45 AM Convention Center, 147B	

Lahoorpoor, Bahman and Levinson, D. (2020) Catchment if you can: The effect of station entrance and exit locations on accessibility. Journal of Transport Geography. 82, 102556 

Event 1397 Designed to Attract: Transit Access and Inclusion AP045

Tuesday 08:00 AM-09:45 AM Convention Center, Hall A Poster-board Location Number: A106	

Davis, Blake, Ji, Ang,  Liu, Bichen, and Levinson, D. (2020) Moving Array Traffic Probes.	

Event 1408 Advances in Traffic Monitoring ABJ35

Tuesday 01:30 PM- 03:15 PM Convention Center, 146B	

Cui, Mengying and Levinson, D. (2019) Primal and Dual Access. Geographical Analysis.  

Event 1519 Transportation Accessibility Planning ADB50

Tuesday 06:00 PM- 07:30 PM Convention Center, Hall A Poster-board Location Number: A111, A112, A113

Wu, Hao, Somwrita Sarkar, and Levinson, D. (2019) How Transit Scaling Shapes Cities. Nature Sustainability doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0427-7

Cui, Mengying and Levinson, D. (2019) Measuring Full Cost Accessibility by Auto. Journal of Transport and Land Use. 12(1) 649-672.

Rayaprolu, Hema and Levinson, D. (2020) What’s Access Worth? A Hedonic Pricing Approach to Valuing Cities.

Event 1653
Poster Session on Transportation and Land Development ADD30

Tuesday 06:00 PM-07:30 PM Convention Center, Hall APoster-board Location Number: B344	

Ji, Ang and Levinson, D. (2020) A Review of Game Theory Models of Lane Changing.	

Event 1656 Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics, Part 3 (Part 1, Session 1654; Part 2, Session 1655; Part 4, Session 1760; Part 5, Session 1761) AHB45

Wednesday 08:00 AM-09:45 AM Convention Center, Hall A Poster-board Location Number: A138	

Cui, Mengying, and Levinson, D. (2020) Shortest paths, travel costs, and traffic.	

Event 1688 Travel Behavior Mega Poster Session ADB10

Wednesday
08:00 AM-09:45 AM Convention Center, Hall A Poster-board Location Number: B390	

Zhao, Xia, Cui, Mengying, and Levinson, D. (2020) Temporal Variations in Daily Activity Networks Using Smartcard Data	

Event 1694 Public Transportation Demand: Explorations of Traveler Response and Traveler Characteristics AP025

Wednesday 10:15 AM- 12:00 PM Convention Center, Hall A	

Valentin Beauvoir, Emily Moylan (2020) Bike Share System Reliability: The Distribution of Delay Caused by Bike Unavailability 20-05298	

Event 1736 Micromobility Poster Session: Planning, Policy, and User Behavior for Shared Bikes and Scooters

Wednesday 02:30 PM- 04:00 PM Convention Center, 150B	

Lahoorpoor, Bahman and Levinson, D. (2020) Trains, trams, and terraces: population growth and network expansion in Sydney: 1861-1931.	

Event 1740 Research in Urban Transportation History: From Sydney Trams to Los Angeles Ballot Box Planning to Canadian Street Cars ABG50

Wednesday 02:30 PM- 04:00 PM Convention Center, Hall A Poster-board Location Number: A114

Lahoorpoor, Bahman and Levinson, D.  (2020) The Transit Travel Time Machine: Comparing Three Different Tools for Travel Time Estimation.	

Event 1740 Road Scholars: New Research in Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability Data

Teach

In 2020 we launch the new, interdisciplinary Master of Transport, co-taught with ITLS in the Business School, Architecture, Design, and Planning, and Civil Engineering.

• Master of Transport

The Civil Engineering group also delivers the

• Undergraduate Transport Engineering Major

We supervise PhD students as well.

Engage

Co-Sponsored Events

• TransportCamp Sydney 2019 (22 Feb 2019) hosted at University of Sydney. Look for the next TransportCamp in late July 2020.

• TRANSW (Transport Research Association of New South Wales) (with ITLS, UNSW, UTS) December 2019

• Australian Research Summit on Connected and Automated Vehicles (With UNSW). November 2019. Sponsor: The Office of the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer

• The Transit Transformation Australia Needs. November 2019. with Prosper Australia

Popular Publications

We have published several articles in The Conversation this past year:

• Levinson Why Australian road rules should be rewritten to put walking first

• Sarkar, Levinson, and Wu How close is Sydney to the vision of creating three 30-minute cities?

• Kent Working the system: 3 ways planners can defy the odds to promote good health for all of us

• Kent Three changes in how we live could derail the dream of the 30-minute city

• Levinson Why Australian road rules should be rewritten to put walking first

• Levinson and Lahoorpoor How to increase train use by up to 35% with one simple trick

• Levinson and Wu Access across Australia: mapping 30-minute cities, how do our capitals compare?

and in Foreground:

• Levinson and Wu New infrastructure performance measures for Australian cities questioned

• Levinson and King It’s the (political) economy, stupid: when it comes to urban transport, we’re doing it wrong

Journals

TransportLab sponsors the peer-reviewed, open access journal Transport Findings. The journal is unique in that it aims to publish short-form research

• Transport Findings

Seminars

TransportLab sponsors the Transport Practice Seminar at the University of Sydney for our staff and students.

• Stephen Greaves, ITLS

• Rachel Kohan, Arup

• Graham McCabe, Urbis

• Tom Van Vuren, Mott MacDonald

• Kasun Wijayaratna, UTS

Discover

Books

• Levinson, David M. and David A. King (2019) The 30-Minute City: Designing for Access. Network Design Lab

• Kent, Jennifer L. and Susan Thompson (2019) Planning Australia’s Healthy Built Environments. CRC Press

• Levinson, David M. and David A. King (2019) A Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, and Institutions. Network Design Lab

Papers

• Alizadeh, T., Sarkar, S., Burgoyne, S. (2019). Capturing citizen voice online: Enabling smart participatory local government. Cities, 95, 1-10. [doi]

• Carlson, Kristin, Murphy, Brendan, Owen, Andrew, Ermagun, Alireza, and Levinson, D. (2019) Safety in Numbers for Bicyclists at Urban IntersectionsTransportation Research Record. 2673(6) 677–684. [doi]

• Carrion, Carlos and David Levinson (2019) Overestimation and underestimation of travel time on commute trips: GPS vs. self- reporting. Urban Science. 3(3), 70. [doi]

• Carrion, Carlos and David Levinson (2019) Uncovering the influence of commuters’ perception on the reliability ratio. Transport Findings. 10.32866/8330. [doi]

• Carrion, Carlos and David Levinson (2019) Route choice dynamics after a link restoration. Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics. 7(1), 1155-1174. [doi]

• Chaloux, Nick,  Boisjoly, Genevieve,  Grise, Emily, El-Geneidy, Ahmed, and  Levinson,  D. (2019) I only get some satisfaction: Introducing satisfaction into measures of accessibility. Transportation Research part F. 62, 833-843. [doi]

• Cui, Boer, Boisjoly,  Genevieve, El-Geneidy, Ahmed, and  Levinson, D. (2019) Accessibility and the journey to work through the lens of equity. Journal of Transport Geography. 74, 269-277. [doi]

• Cui, Mengying, and Levinson, D. (2020) Shortest paths, travel costs, and traffic.To be presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January 2020. Environment and Planning B. (accepted and in press)

• Cui, Mengying and Levinson, D. (2019) Primal and Dual Access. Geographical Analysis.  [doi] [code]

• Cui, Mengying and Levinson, D. (2019) Measuring Full Cost Accessibility by Auto. Journal of Transport and Land Use. 12(1) 649-672. [doi]

• Ermagun, Alireza, and Levinson, D. (2019) Spatiotemporal Short-term Traffic Forecasting using the Network Weight Matrix and Systematic DetrendingTransportation Research part C.  104,  38-52. [doi]

• Ermagun, Alireza, and Levinson, D. (2019) Development and Application of the Network Weight Matrix to Predict Traffic Flow for Congested and Uncongested Conditions. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.
  46(9) 1684–1705 [doi]

• Hamedmoghadam, H., Ramezani, M., & Saberi, M. (2019). Revealing latent characteristics of mobility networks with coarse-graining. Scientific reports, 9(1), 7545. [doi]

• Han, Y., Ramezani, M., Hegyi, A., Yuan, Y., & Hoogendoorn, S. (2020). Hierarchical ramp metering in freeways: An aggregated modeling and control approach. Transportation Research Part C, 110, 1-19. [doi]

• Harris, Patrick, Jennifer Kent, Peter Sainsbury, Emily Riley, Nila Sharma, Elizabeth Harris, Healthy urban planning: an institutional policy analysis of strategic planning in Sydney, Australia, Health Promotion International, , daz056, [doi]  

• Huang, Jie, Levinson, D., Wang, Jiaoe, Jin, Haitao (2019) Job-worker spatial dynamics in Beijing: Insights from Smart Card Data. Cities 86, 89-93. [doi]

• Kent, Jennifer L., Corinne Mulley, Nick Stevens, (2019) Transport and wellbeing in a newly constructed greenfield estate: A quantitative exploration of the commuting experience. Journal of Transport & Health, 13 210-223. [doi]

• Lahoorpoor, Bahman and Levinson, D. (2020) Catchment if you can: The effect of station entrance and exit locations on accessibility. Journal of Transport Geography. 82, 102556 [doi] [full report]

• Mohajerpoor, R., & Ramezani, M. (2019). Mixed flow of autonomous and human-driven vehicles: Analytical headway modeling and optimal lane management. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 109, 194-210. [doi]

• Mohajerpoor, R., Saberi, M., & Ramezani, M. (2019). Analytical derivation of the optimal traffic signal timing: Minimizing delay variability and spillback probability for undersaturated intersections. Transportation Research Part B, 119, 45-68. [doi]

• Mohajerpoor, R., Saberi, M., Vu, H. L., Garoni, T. M., & Ramezani, M. (2019). H∞ robust perimeter flow control in urban networks with partial information feedback. Transportation Research Part B.  [doi]

• Moylan, Emily, and Somwrita Sarkar. 2019. “Defining Urban Centres Using Alternative Data Sets.” Transport Findings, May. https://doi.org/10.32866/8166.

• Nourinejad, M., & Ramezani, M. (2019). Ride-Sourcing modeling and pricing in non-equilibrium two-sided markets. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. [doi]

• Prior JH, Connon ILC, McIntyre E, Adams J, Capon A, Kent J, Rissel C, Thomas LE, Thompson SM, Westcott H. (2018) Built environment interventions for human and planetary health: integrating health in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Public Health Research and Practice. 28(4):e2841831. [doi]

• Ramezani, M., & Ye, E. (2019). Lane density optimization of automated vehicles for highway congestion control. Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics. [doi]

• Sarkar, S. (2019). Urban scaling and the geographic concentration of inequalities by city size. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, In Press. [doi]

• Sarkar, Somwrita, Wu, Hao and Levinson, D. (2019) Measuring polycentricity via network flows, spatial interaction, and percolation. Urban Studies. [doi]

• Sharma, Sabal and Levinson, D. (2019) Travel Cost and Dropout from Secondary Schools in Nepal. Transportation Research part A. 130,  385-397. [doi] [free until Nov 22, 2019]

• Siripanich, A., Rashidi, T. H., & Moylan, E. (2019). Interaction of Public Transport Accessibility and Residential Property Values Using Smart Card Data. Sustainability, 11(9), 2709. [doi]

• Walsh, Lexie, Xian, Tingsen, and Levinson, D. (2020) Walking and Talking: The Effect of Smartphone Use and Group Conversation on Pedestrian Speed.TeMA – Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment. (accepted and in press)

• Wu, Hao, Owen, Andrew,  and Levinson, D. (2020) Commute Mode Share and Access to Jobs across US Metropolitan Areas. Environment and Planning B. [doi]

• Wu, Hao, Somwrita Sarkar, and Levinson, D. (2019) How Transit Scaling Shapes Cities. Nature Sustainability doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0427-7 . [doi]

• Yildirimoglu, M., & Ramezani, M. (2019). Demand management with limited cooperation among travellers: A doubly dynamic approach. Transportation Research Part B. [doi]

• Yokoo, Toshi, and Levinson, D. (2019) Measures of Speeding from a GPS-based Travel Behavior Survey. Traffic Injury Prevention.  20(2), 158-163. [doi]

• Yokoo, Toshi, Marasteanu, Mihai, and Levinson, David (2019) Pavement condition and crashesTransport Findings. 10.32866/5771. [doi]

Reports

• Connon, I. L. C., Prior, J., Kent, J. L., Thompson, S., Rissel, C., McIntyre, E., ... Westcott, H. (2019). What evidence is available to translate into planning strategies for healthy higher density living? Sydney: Landcom.

• Wu and Levinson (2019) Access Across Australia: 2018

• Lahoorpoor and Levinson (2019) Catchment if you can: The effect of station entrance and exit locations on accessibility

Grants

• Kent, Parenting and the Private Car, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)

• Marks, Guillard, Moylan & Ramezani (2019) Cities of the Future: Augmented Reality City. Sponsored by University of Sydney Teaching Innovation Grant

• Moylan, Wijayaratna, Jian, Saberi and Waller (2019) Moving Towards Network-wide Travel Time Reliability Measurement. Sponsored by TfNSW.

• Moylan (2020) Reducing Hypothetical Bias in the Valuation of Reliability Associated with Rare Events. Sponsored by University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering

• Ramezani, Levinson, Bliemer. Opportunities to Build Capability in Traffic Management (with ARRB) Austroads

• Ramezani. NSW Premier's Innovation Initiative 2019 Sponsor: DATA61, CSIRO

• Sarkar, Levinson, Moylan et al (2019) New housing supply, population growth, and access to social infrastructure. Sponsored by AHURI

Attended Events

TransportLab Members and Students attended the following conferences in 2019

• TRB Jan 2019

• WCTR May 2019

• TRISTAN June 2019

• CICTP/COTA July 2019

• AITPM July 2019

• ICMC Aug 2019

• ATRF Oct 2019

• Transport Knowledge Conference, Wellington Nov 2019

• TRANSW Dec 2019

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