TransportLab Newsletter: January 2024
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 2024. You can find us at the following sessions:
Emergency Responder Safety, Travel Demand, and Routing. TRBAM-24-02692. Convention Center, Hall A Monday, Jan 08, 2024 8:00AM - 9:45AM Poster-board Location Number: B523.
On the Joint Effects of Supply and Demand Multi-Homing in the E-Hailing Market. TRBAM-24-01641. Monday, Jan 08, 2024 10:15AM - 12:00PM
Access-Based Cost-Benefit Analysis of Sydney's South West Metro Link TRBAM-24-00606. Convention Center, Hall A. Monday, Jan 08, 2024 3:45PM - 5:30PM. Poster-board Location Number: A272.
Racializing Roads: Are Police Traffic Stops Racially Biased? TRBAM-24-01578 2198 Examining the Equity Impact of Transportation Policies and Practices Mon 8/1/2024 3:45 PM- 5:30 PM ET , Convention Center.
A Dynamic-Confidence 3D Multi-Object Tracking Method Based on Spatio-Temporal Association. TRBAM-24-05999. Tuesday, January 09 1:30 PM- 3:15 PM
Winning the Intraday Competition in Duopoly Ridehailing Markets: Joint Pricing and Matching Optimization. TRBAM-24-05856. Tuesday, January 09 3:45 PM- 5:30 PM
Bus Priority Lanes Improve Stop-to-Stop Marginal Performance: Evidence from General Transit Feed Specification Realtime. TRBAM-24-01482. Wednesday, Jan 10, 2024 8:00AM - 9:45AM
Access-Based Hedonic Model of Land Value in Sydney TRBAM-24-00604 4054 Emerging Economic and Finance Approaches: Global Findings 151B, Convention Center. Wednesday, January 10 10:15 AM-12:00 PM
Seminar
The TransportLab Seminar is now hybrid. You can join in person or on Zoom (external speakers only) Friday afternoons during semester. Please contact us if you’d like to join the mailing list. The virtual format allowed us to host several academic and industry speakers, including:
Alex Veen, University of Sydney
Cristian Cortes, Universidad de Chile
Margaret Thomas, University of Sydney
Prof Kay Axhausen, ETH Zürich, "E-Bike City: Verifying a Vision"
People
Mohsen Ramezani has been promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dr. Yadi Wang for “satisfying the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney.”
Thesis Title: "A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Benefit-Cost Analysis”
Lead Supervisor: Professor David Levinson.
Bingyu Wu has been visiting from Beijing Jiatong University
Publications
Chen, Jing and Cui, M. and Levinson, D. (2023) The Cost of Working: Measuring Physical and Virtual Access to Jobs. International Journal of Urban Sciences. [doi]
Correa, J., Cristi, A., Fielbaum, A., Weinberg, M., & Pollner, T (2023). Optimal item pricing in online combinatorial auctions. Math. Programming (2023). DOI
Delbosc, A. and J. Kent (2023). "Employee intentions and employer expectations: a mixed-methods systematic review of “post-COVID” intentions to work from home." Transport Reviews: 1-24.
Gao, Yang and Levinson, D. (2023) Lane changing and congestion are mutually reinforcing. Communications in Transportation Research, Volume 3 Number 100101 [doi]
Kent, J. L. (2023) How are practices of care sometimes not fair? The case of parenting and private car use, Australian Geographer, DOI
Kent, J. L. (2023). "Weight centrism in research on children's active transport to school." Journal of Transport & Health 32: 101677.
Kronmüller, M., Fielbaum, A. & Alonso-Mora, J. (2023) Online flash delivery from multiple depots, Transportation Letters, DOI
Kruit N, Song C, Tian D, Moylan E, Dennis M. ECPR Survivor Estimates: A Simulation-Based Approach to Comparing ECPR Delivery Strategies. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2024;28(1):147-153. doi. Epub 2023 Jul 12. PMID: 37364040.
Lahoorpoor, B., Sarkar, S. and Levinson, D. (2023) Evaluating the Vulnerability of the Sydney Train Network by Comparing Access-Based and Network Centrality Metrics. Findings, November [doi].
Lahoorpoor, B., Turner, H. and Levinson, D. (2023) Creating a dataset of historic roads in Sydney from scanned maps. Scientific Data. [doi]
Thompson, S. M., & Kent, J. L. (2023). Human Health and a Sustainable Built Environment. In: Abraham, M.A. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies (pp. 71–80). Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-387-89469-0 (Print) 978-1-4419-0851-3 (Online) DOI
Turner, H, Lahoorpoor, B, and Levinson, D. (2023) Creating a dataset of historic roads in Sydney from scanned maps. Scientific Data 10, 683 [doi]
Wang, Y. and Levinson, D. (2023) The Accuracy of Benefit-Cost Analysis for Transport Projects supported by the Asian Development Bank . Asian Transport Studies. 9, 2023, 100104 [doi]
Wang, Y. and Levinson, D. (2023) Overlooked Transport Project Planning Process – What Happens before Selecting the Locally Preferred Alternative? Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Volume 19, May 2023, 100809 [doi]
Wang, Yingshuo, Lahoorpoor, B. and Levinson, D. (2023) The Spatio-temporal Evolution of Sydney’s Tram Network Using Network Econometrics. Geographical Analysis. Volume55, Issue3 July 2023 Pages 367-383 [doi]
Wu, Hao, Levinson, D. (2023) The Node-Place Model, Accessibility, and Station Level Transit Ridership. Journal of Transport Geography. Volume 113, December 2023, 103739 [doi]
Accolades, Prizes and Positions
Tingsen (Tim) Xian was awarded a prize for best oral presentation in his stream at the Transport Research Association of NSW (TraNSW) Student Symposium
Francisco Vilches, co-authoring with Cristian Cortes and Andres Fielbaum won an award for the "Best paper presented by a young researcher" in the Chilean Conference of Transport Engineering for their work on Ridesharing systems with hierarchical pick up and drop off points.
Tingsen (Tim) Xian was awarded the David Willis Prize at ATRF for his paper on The Role of Right Turns in Bus Operation (coauthored by John Nelson and Emily Moylan). The David Willis prize, established in 1998, is for the best paper and presentation by a young researcher at the conference
Mohsen Ramezani has joined the editorial board of npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport Journal.
Two groups from TransportLab won prizes at the 2023 SCATS TfNSW iMove Student Traffic Data Innovation Challenge.
Projects
Mohsen Ramezani with a team from RMIT (Prof Mahdi Jalili; Prof Lewi Stone; Dr Mohsen Ramezani; Dr Homayoun Hamedmoghadam Rafati) were awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP240100963) to study Congestion control in complex networks with higher-order interactions.
Mohsen Ramezani with Profs Mostafa Ameli and Mahdi Zargayouna at Université Gustave Eiffel Paris were awarded a PhD scholarship as part of Clear-Doc (https://clear-doc.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/) partially supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020.
Mohsen Ramezani in a team led by RMIT, with 3 other Australian universities, 3 Australian industry partners and 15 international universities, were awarded an International Clean Innovation Researcher Networks (ICIRN) grant from the Australian government. The project is on the integration of clean energy and electric vehicles within the grid (ICN4CEEV).
Changle Song’s PhD work has been pivotal in securing a clinical trial of a new mode of treating cardiac arrest in New South Wales.
Appearances
Yang Gao, Jack Wang and Andres Fielbaum attended WCTR in Montreal 17-21 July
Jennifer Kent presented in a panel for Sydney Ideas, including links between land use planning, distribution of uses and convivial connections (27 July)
TransportLab co-organised TransportCamp Sydney sponsored by University of Sydney on 28 July
On 16 August, Emily Moylan presented at the ITLS Sustainable Transportation Futures Symposium at University of Sydney
On 28 August 2023, Mohsen Ramezani delivered a seminar at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW on ‘Modelling and Control of On-demand Mobility Markets in Cities’
Jennifer Kent presented in a panel at Palour LAB 21 on loneliness and the Built Environment, including the ways transport facilitates opportunities for connection (18 Sept)
Jennifer Kent chaired a panel on private car attachments and contested street spaces at the Festval of Urbanism (21 Sept)
Emily Moylan spoke at the METRANS seminar at University of Southern California on 21 September
Emily Moylan spoke at the ITS seminar at University of California, Berkeley on 22 September
On 5 October, Andres Fielbaum spoke at Monash University on Transforming Public Transport: The Role of On-Demand Mobility in Network Design
The monthly bulletin of the Chilean Society of Transport Engineers (SOCHITRAN) featured two pieces of work by Andres Fielbaum (spanish language links)
David Levinson presented at a City of Sydney event on Strategic modelling - helpful or harmful? on 24 October
Jennifer Kent was invited to present on access, loneliness and built environments at the Royal Society of NSW and Learned Academies Forum (2 November)
The TransportLab PhD students presented at the 2023 Transport Research Association of New South Wales (TraNSW) Symposium on 9 November
David Levinson spoke at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw in November
David Levinson gave a seminar at Jagiellonian University, Krakow in November
David Levinson gave a seminar at IIT Bombay in November
Elnaz Emami, Tim Xian, Haotian Wang, Andres Fielbaum, Jennifer Kent, Mohsen Ramezani and David Levinson attended the 44th Australasian Transport Research Forum Conference 29 Nov - 1 Dec
Jennifer Kent, Durba Kundu and Laya Hossein Rashidi attended the State of Australian Cities conference in Wellington
On 8 December 2023, Mohsen Ramezani presented a talk at Hong Kong Polytechnique University
Tim Xian, Changle Song, Yue Yang, Haotian Wang, Guipeng Jiao, Yang Gao, Emily Moylan and Mohsen Ramezani attended the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies Conference in Hong Kong 11-12 December
Tim Xian, Changle Song, Durba Kundu, Haotian Wang, Yang Gao, and Emily Moylan attended the 9th International Symposium for Transport Network Resilience (INSTR) in Hong Kong 13-14 December
We will be at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting January 7-11, 2024— see above for where to find us.
Media
Jennifer Kent was interviewed by
ABC Radio Sydney on contested street spaces,12 September
American Public Television Network, Green Open Space and Health, 16 November,
The Guardian Australia, Street Trees in Regional Australia, 28 November
David Levinson contributed to various articles:
I used to be a fast walker - then came my toddler - The Sydney Morning Herald
Buses replace trains: is Sydney doomed to endure the curse of weekend trackwork forever?.
Better Intersections website gathers data on long pedestrian wait times in Sydney and then spoke live on ABC News midday Monday Sept 25,
David Levinson was interviewed for radio
ABC Radio Sydney with James Valentine.
Interview @Eastside897fm with @emfarrelly at 6:00 pm Thursday April 10 (Australia East Coast Time) talking about things like walking. Link here.
Mohsen Ramezani had an interview with The Agenda, Dubai Eye 103.8 FM on 15/9/2023 about traffic congestion in cities.