TransportLab Newsletter: January 2022

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 is currently virtual on 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:

Dominque Winn and Julie Gee from Transport for New South Wales

Stewart Worrall from Australian Centre for Field Robotics

Neema Nassir from University of Melbourne

Fang Chan from UTS

Nima Amini from Transport for New South Wales

Glenn Geers, Adjunct Professor at ITLS

People

• Changle Song has started his PhD with Emily Moylan and David Levinson on emergency logistics

• Hao Wu Graduated

• Amir Hosein Valadkhani was awarded his MPhil entitled Dynamic Control and Modelling of Ride-Sourcing Systems in Large Urban Cities.

• Dr. Amir Samimi (previously a Research Fellow at TransportLab) started at TfNSW as a Strategic Model Developer.

Awards, Accolades and Memberships

Jennifer Kent's paper "The inevitability of automobility: how private car use is perpetuated in a greenfield housing estate", presented at the World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2021, 9-13 August 2021 was awarded the David Levinson Best Paper Award Honorable Mention.

Jennifer Kent was elected to the Executive Committee of the Australasian Transportation Research Forum.

Somwrita Sarkar has joined the editorial board of Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.

Hamish Turner has won the ITEANZ-Trafficworks Student Award for the University of Sydney.

Tingsen (Tim) Xian and Changle Song have been awarded iMOVE Top-up Scholarships for their PhD projects on Bus Performance Assessment using GTFS data and Emergency Facilities and Logistics respectively

Articles, books and chapters

Books

Applications of Access   released  https://transportist.org/books-2/books/applications-of-access/

Book chapters

• Borowski, Elisa, Ermagun, Alireza and Levinson, D. (2021) Disparity of Access: Variations in Transit Service by Race, Ethnicity, Income, and Auto Availability. Chapter 4 in Applications of Access (ed. D. Levinson and A. Ermagun) p. 69-86 [doi]

• Ermagun, Alireza and Levinson, D. (2021) An Introduction to Applications of Access. Chapter 1 in Applications of Access (ed. D. Levinson and A. Ermagun) p. 15-22 [doi]

• Ermagun, Alireza and Levinson, D. (2021) Access and Transit System Performance. Chapter 14 in Applications of Access (ed. D. Levinson and A. Ermagun) p. 261-276 [doi]

• Huang, Arthur and Levinson, D. (2021) Non-work Vehicle Trip Generation from Multi- week In-vehicle GPS Data. Chapter 12 in Applications of Access (ed. D. Levinson and A. Ermagun) p. 217-238 [doi]

• Iacono, Michael, Cao, Jason, Cui, Mengying, and Levinson, D. (2021) Intraurban Access and Agglomeration. Chapter 15 in Applications of Access (ed. D. Levinson and A. Ermagun) p. 277-290 [doi]

• Murphy, Brendan, Owen, Andrew, and Levinson, D. (2021) Access and Centrality-Based Estimation of Urban Pedestrian Activity. Chapter 7 in Applications of Access (ed. D. Levinson and A. Ermagun) p. 117-132 [doi]

• Palmateer, Chelsey, and Levinson, D. (2021) Justice, Exclusion, and Equity: An Analysis of 48 US Metropolitan Areas. Chapter 3 in Applications of Access (ed. D. Levinson and A. Ermagun) p. 45-68 [doi]

• Palmateer, Chelsey, Ermagun, Alireza, Owen, Andrew, and Levinson, D. (2021) The Role of Transit Service Area Definition for Access-based Evaluation. Chapter 18 in Applications of Access (ed. D. Levinson and A. Ermagun) p. 327-346 [doi]

• Schoner, Jessica and Levinson, D. (2021) Which Station? Access Trips and Bikeshare Route and Station Choice. Chapter 8 in Applications of Access (ed. D. Levinson and A. Ermagun) p. 133-148 [doi]

Articles

• Allen, Jeff, Farber, Steven, Greaves, Stephen, Clifton, Geoffrey, Wu, Hao, Sarkar, Hao, and Levinson, D. (2021) Immigrant Settlement Patterns, Transit Accessibility, and Transit Use. Journal of Transport Geography. 96 103187 [doi]

• Aston, Laura and Levinson, D. (2021) Accessibility-Oriented Planning: Why and How to Make the Switch. ITE Journal (August) 25-29.

• Chen, L., Valadkhani, A., & Ramezani, M. (2021). Decentralised cooperative cruising of autonomous ride-sourcing fleets. Transportation Research Part C, 131.

• El-Geneidy, Ahmed and Levinson, D. (2021) Making Accessibility Work in Practice Transport Reviews (online first) [doi]

• Gao, Yang, and Levinson, D. (2021) “COVID-19, Travel Time Reliability, and the Emergence of a Double-Humped Peak Period.” Findings, August. [doi].

• Kent, J. L. and Corinne Mulley (2021). Mobile Mutts –Transport and the Health Benefits of Pet Dog Ownership. Journal of Transport & Health, 22, 101147. [doi]

• Kent, J. L. (2021). The use of practice theory in transport research, Transport Reviews, [doi]

• Kumarage, S., Yildirimoglu, M., Ramezani, M., & Zheng, Z. (2021). Schedule-constrained demand management in two-region urban networks. Transportation Science, 55(4), 857-882.

• Lahoorpoor, B., Rayaprolu, H., Wu, H., and Levinson, D. (In press) Access-oriented design? Disentangling the effect of land use and transport network on accessibility. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 

• Li, Manman, Cui, Mengying, and Levinson, D. (2021) Job and Worker Density and Transit Network Dynamics. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. [doi]

• Moylan, E. K., Bliemer, M. C., & Hossein Rashidi, T. (2021). Travellers’ perceptions of travel time reliability in the presence of rare events. Transportation, 1-25. [doi]

• Noaeen, M., Mohajerpoor, R., Far, B., & Ramezani, M. (2021). Real-time decentralized traffic signal control for congested urban networks considering queue spillbacks. Transportation Research Part C, 133.

• Wang, Yadi and Levinson, D. (In press) Time savings vs Access-based benefit assessment of New York’s Second Avenue Subway. Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis. 

• Wu, Hao and Levinson, D. (2021) Optimum Stop Spacing for Accessibility. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research. 21(2) 1-18. [doi]

• Wu, Hao, Paolo Avner, Genevieve Boisjoly, Carlos K. V. Braga, Ahmed El-Geneidy, Jie Huang, Tamara Kerzhner, Brendan Murphy, Michał A. Niedzielski, Rafael H. M. Pereira, John P. Pritchard, Anson Stewart, Jiaoe Wang, and David Levinson (2021) Urban access across the globe: an international comparison of different transport modes. NPJ Urban Sustainability 1(16) [doi]

• Wu, Hao, and Levinson, D. (2021) The Ensemble Approach to Forecasting: A Review and Synthesis. Transportation Research part C. Volume 132, 103357 [doi]

• Yildirimoglu, M., Ramezani, M., & Amirgholy, M. (2021). Staggered work schedules for congestion mitigation: A morning commute problem. Transportation Research Part C, 132.

Reports and Projects

• Reducing pedestrian crashes through better intersection design and Strategic scheduling and deployment of random breath and drug testing operations for the Road Safety Innovation Fund are underway.

• Professor David Levinson, Professor Michael Bell, Dr Mohsen Ramezani, Professor Dr Kay Axhausen, and Professor Dr Hai Yang were awarded ARC DP220100882 on Design of micro-decisions in automated transport.

• Together with John Nelson (University of Sydney Business School) and Sotoris Vardoulakis (Australian National University, as well as contributions from Transport for NSW, Jennifer Kent was part of a successful bid to the Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects scheme which awarded $1.03 million in case and in kind contributions to study "Promoting active travel and public transport for a post-pandemic world". The study will commence in April 2022.

• Efficacy and Value In ExpeDited out of hospital arrEst care ANd ECMO CPR (ECPR) The EVIDENCE Study, funded through NSW Health/Translational Research Grants Scheme (Dennis M, Burns B, Keech A, Moylan E) is underway.

Journals

• Transport Findings has been renamed Findings, and a new section Urban Findings, launched in June 2021. Somwrita Sarkar is the editor.

Appearances

David Levinson appeared on ABC Radio Sydney on 31 December 2021 to discuss the Cahill Expressway

David Levinson testified to Parliament’s Road Safety Joint Select Committee

Andrew Taylor of the Sydney Morning Herald quoted David in Sydney’s motorists are still suffering breakdowns despite the lockdown

David presented at AUGUST WEBINAR: Accessibility-oriented planning Why and how to make the switch

Jennifer Kent appeared in the following media:

• 2 November 2021, ABC regional breakfast on street network design and walkability.

• 10 November, 2021, The Guardian on car sharing

• 29 December, 2021, The Drum, ABC TV, pets on public transport

• 7 December 2021, Radio National Life Matters, discussing pets on public transport.

• 15 January 2022, The Guardian quoted her on car sharing

TransportLab presented at WSTLUR 

Jeff Allen, Steven Farber, Stephen Greaves, Geoffrey Clifton, Hao Wu, Somwrita Sarkar and David M Levinson (2021) Immigrant settlement patterns, transit accessibility, and transit use. World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2021, Portland, Oregon, USA, 9-13 August 2021

Kent, J. L. (2021). The inevitability of automobility: how private car use is perpetuated in a greenfield housing estate. World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2021, Portland, Oregon, USA, 9-13 August 2021. This paper was awarded a the David Levinson Best Paper Award Honorable Mention.

Jennifer Kent chaired the Special Session on Dogs and served as the moderator for the Cycling and Health Session

Bahman Lahoorpoor, Hema Rayaprolu, Hao Wu and David Levinson (2021) Access-oriented design? Disentangling the effect of land use and transport network on accessibility. World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2021, Portland, Oregon, USA, 9-13 August 2021

David Levinson and Hao Wu (2021) Towards a General Theory of Access. World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2021, Portland, Oregon, USA, 9-13 August 2021

Hema Rayaprolu and David Levinson (2021) Rent/price ratios and access to jobs by transit.World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2021, Portland, Oregon, USA, 9-13 August 2021

TransportLab presented at ATRF

Kent, J. L., & Mulley, C. (2021). Beyond prohibition: policy options for pets on public transport. Australasian Transport Research Forum, Brisbane, Australia, 8-10 December 2021.

April Alcock, Milad Ghasri, Nathan Urban, & Emily Moylan (2021). The influence of weather on bus ridership for different passenger types in Canberra, Australia Australasian Transport Research Forum, Brisbane, Australia, 8-10 December 2021.

TransportLab presented at State of Australian Cities Conference (SOAC)  

Kent, J. L. (2021). Weight Centrism in Research on Children’s Active Transport – Time for a Paradigm Shift. State of Australian Cities Conference (SOAC), Melbourne, December 2021.

Kent, J. L., Mason, M., Virgona, N., & Ryan, H. (2021). Parenting in proximity to others: the importance of transitions, temporalities and trajectories. State of Australian Cities Conference (SOAC), Melbourne, December 2021.

Jennifer was also invited to present her research agenda on Parents and Private Car Use at a SOAC Plenary Panel.

TransportLab presented at the International Conference on Transport and Health  

Kent, J.L. (2021) Mobile Mutts: the health benefits of companion animal ownership and transport. The International Conference on Transport and Health, 14-30 June, 2021.

TransportLab presented at Bridging Transport Conference

Kent J.L. (2021). Pets and Public Transport. Bridging Transport Research Conference, 4-6 August 2021.

TransportLab presented at AITPM  

Chin, T.K. Moylan, E. Marks, B. (2021) Open Data Validation of the Delay Reductions of a Smart City Application (PTIPS). AITPM Online Conference, 6 Sept - 14 Oct 2021

Daniel Yu Hung Lin, Sikun Liu, Qi Chang, Hao Wu & Emily Moylan (2021) ICUs and testing clinics: a re-examination of the 30 min city under COVID-19. AITPM Online Conference, 6 Sept - 14 Oct 2021

Recruitment

TransportLab is hiring. We’re looking for PhD students and postdocs. Local candidates are preferred.

Email emily.moylan@sydney.edu.au to register your interest.

TransportLab News: July 2021

Transport Engineering and Planning at the University of Sydney

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

While meeting people face-to-face is uncertain, you can follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Events

The TransportLab Seminar is currently virtual on 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:

• Dr Michelle Zeibots (UTS) on An introduction to the Responsive Passenger Information (RPI) System Research Program at UTS

• Dr Wei Liu (UNSW) on A game theoretical analysis of metro-integrated city logistics systems

• Prof Mark Hickman (University of Queensland) on How can we make public transport passengers more satisfied?

• Chris Loader from Charting Transport on What impact does paid car parking have on travel mode choice?

• Nicole Badstuber presented Mind the Gender Gap

• Prof John Nelson (ITLS) on Implications of MaaS for public transport business models.

People

• Yue Yang and Guipeng Jiao have started their PhDs with Mohsen Ramezani supported by an ARC DECRA project on Market Design of Next Generation of Shared and Automated Transport Services.

• Tingsen (Tim) Xian has started his PhD with Emily Moylan and John Nelson on the performance impacts of bus infrastructure design

• Durba Kundu has started her PhD with Emily Moylan and David Levinson on disruption and habit formation in transit ridership

• Yang Gao and Hao-Tian Wang started their PhDs with David Levinson

Awards, Accolades and Memberships

• Yadi Wang and David Levinson received Silver Prize for their paper at the International Conference on Integrated Land Use and Transport Modelling (ILUTM-7) in Xian, China in June 2021

• Wenbo Yan, Hudson Yao, Linji Chen and Hema Rayaprolu won the 2nd Annual Student Data Challenge on Urban Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability from the TRB subcommittee on Travel Time, Speed and Reliability.

• Honours student April Alcock is the 2020 overall winner of the ITE-ANZ Trafficworks Student Award. She is shown below receiving her prize (photo credit: https://www.ite.org.au/iteanz-awards/undergraduate-student-award/)

Articles, books and chapters

• Aoustin, Louise, and Levinson, D. (2021) Longing to Travel: Commute Appreciation during COVID-19. Findings, January. [doi]

• Aoustin, Louise, and Levinson, D. (2021) The Perception of Access in Sydney. Findings, March. [doi]

• Cui, Mengying, and Levinson, D. (2021) Shortest paths, travel costs, and traffic. Environment and Planning B. 48(4) 828-844. [doi]

• Kent, J. L., Mulley, C., Goh, L., & Stevens, N. 2021. Public Transport and Travel with Dogs. In C. Mulley, J.Nelson and S. Ison (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Public Transport. Routledge, London

• Kent, J. L. & Corinne Mulley (2021) Understanding perspectives on policy change: The case of dogs on public transport in Sydney, Australia, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2021.1919798

• Kumarage, S., Yildirimoglu, M., Ramezani, M., & Zheng, Z. (2021). Schedule-constrained demand management in two-region urban networks. Transportation Science. Forthcoming.

• Lehe, Lewis, and Levinson, D. (2021) The Economics of Findings. Findings, March. [doi]

• Li, Y., Mohajerpoor, R., & Ramezani, M. (2021). Perimeter control with real-time location-varying cordon. Transportation Research Part B, 150, 101-120.

• Li, Y., Yildirimoglu, M., & Ramezani, M. (2021). Robust perimeter control with cordon queues and heterogeneous transfer flows. Transportation Research Part C, 126.

• Moylan, E., Bliemer, M. & Rashidi, T. H. (2021) Travellers’ perceptions of travel time reliability in the presence of rare events. Transportation (Accepted)

• Sajedianfard, N., Hadian, E., Samadi, A. H., Shabani, Z. D., Sarkar, S., & Robinson, P. A. (2021). Quantitative analysis of trade networks: data and robustness. Applied Network Science, 6(1), 1-26.

• Wu, Hao and Levinson, D. (2021) Optimum Stop Spacing for Accessibility. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research. 21(2) 1-18. [doi]

• Wu, Hao, Paolo Avner, Genevieve Boisjoly, Carlos K. V. Braga, Ahmed El-Geneidy, Jie Huang, Tamara Kerzhner, Brendan Murphy, Michał A. Niedzielski, Rafael H. M. Pereira, John P. Pritchard, Anson Stewart, Jiaoe Wang, and David Levinson (2021) Urban access across the globe: an international comparison of different transport modes. NPJ Urban Sustainability 1(16) [doi]

• Yan, W., Yao, H., Chen, L., Rayaprolu, H., & Moylan, E. (2021). Impacts of School Reopening on Variations in Local Bus Performance in Sydney. Transportation Research Record, https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981211006723.

Reports and Projects

• New housing supply, population growth, and access to social infrastructure for Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Report released on 10 June 2021

• Reducing pedestrian crashes through better intersection design and Strategic scheduling and deployment of random breath and drug testing operations for the Road Safety Innovation Fund are kicking off.

Journals

• Transport Findings has been renamed Findings, and a new section Urban Findings, launched in June 2021. Somwrita Sarkar is the editor.

Appearances

• Jennifer Kent presented a public lecture on Dogs, Transport and Mental Health for the Matilda Centre

• Jennifer Kent presented a seminar on Weight Centrism in Research on Children’s Active Transport to School

• In February, Jennifer Kent appeared on ABC News TV to discuss infrastructure for electric vehicles in Australia.

• In May, Jennifer appeared on ABC News TV to discuss greenfield development and its transport implications.

• In May and June Jennifer was interviewed by ABC Drive Sydney, ABC Drive Adelaide, ABC Canberra Mornings and ABC National Radio as well as The Daily Telegraph Newspaper and Radio 2UE breakfast to discuss pets on public transport.

• In June David Levinson was interviewed by ABC Radio National, ABC Perth, and ABC Sydney to discuss the Towards the 30-Minute City and related transport topics, based on an article in the Conversation. Hao Wu was interviewed by 2SER and SBS Mandarin to discuss the same.

• Emily Moylan and Bahman Lahoorpoor spoke at the International Symposium on Transport Network Reliability (16-18 June 2021)

Recruitment

TransportLab is hiring. We’re looking for postdocs, a PhD student and an MPhil student. The topics include safer intersection designs for pedestrians, optimal testing strategies for DUI enforcement and modelling rare-event reliability. Local candidates are preferred.

Email emily.moylan@sydney.edu.au to register your interest.

TransportLab News: January 2021

Transport Engineering and Planning at the University of Sydney

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

TransportLab News: July 2020

Transport Engineering and Planning at the University of Sydney

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 

TransportLab News: January 2020

Transport Engineering and Planning Research at the University of Sydney

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

Note

Many of you are also subscribed to the Transportist Newsletter, which this replaces this month, as David only has so much time. They are two independent mailing lists, so subscribing (or unsubscribing) to one does not affect the other.