Dr Milad Haghani

Dr Milad Haghani

Senior Lecturer
  • PhD in Transport Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • MSc in Transport Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
  • BSc in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Senior Lecturer at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr Haghani is a Senior Lecturer and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of UNSW Sydney. He is a PhD alumnus of The University of Melbourne and has previously held Fellowship positions at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) of the University of Sydney Business School as well as the Centre for Spatial Data and Land Administration (CSDILA) of the University of Melbourne. Milad's research and teaching is at the intersect of transport and safety research with a particular focus on human factors. He has undertaken an extensive amount of experimental and theoretical research in the areas of crowd safety, mass emergencies, public safety, public security perception, evacuation planning, pedestrian modelling and simulation, road safety and transport psychology. He is also an expert in the domain of econometric modelling and choice analysis as well as science of science and meta-research.

Location
Civil Engineering Building (H20)
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Haghani M; Yazdani M, 2025, 'How behavioural changes in social groups affect evacuation efficiency of crowds', Safety Science, 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106679
    Journal articles | 2024
    Dunlop T; Khojasteh D; Cohen-Shacham E; Glamore W; Haghani M; van den Bosch M; Rizzi D; Greve P; Felder S, 2024, 'The evolution and future of research on Nature-based Solutions to address societal challenges', Communications Earth and Environment, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01308-8
    Journal articles | 2024
    Fazeli S; Haghani M; Mojtahedi M; Rashidi TH, 2024, 'The role of individual preparedness and behavioural training in natural hazards: A scoping review', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104379
    Journal articles | 2024
    Feliciani C; Corbetta A; Haghani M; Nishinari K, 2024, 'How crowd accidents are reported in the news media: Lexical and sentiment analysis', Safety Science, 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106423
    Journal articles | 2024
    Haghani M; Ghaderi H; Hensher D, 2024, 'Hidden effects and externalities of electric vehicles', Energy Policy, 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114335
    Journal articles | 2024
    Haghani M; Lovreglio R; Button ML; Ronchi E; Kuligowski E, 2024, 'Human behaviour in fire: Knowledge foundation and temporal evolution', Fire Safety Journal, 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2023.104085
    Journal articles | 2024
    Haghani M; Merkert R; Behnood A; De Gruyter C; Kazemzadeh K; Ghaderi H; Shahhoseini Z; Thai V; Irannezhad E; Fahimnia B; Waller ST; Hensher DA, 2024, 'How COVID-19 transformed the landscape of transportation research: an integrative scoping review and roadmap for future research', Transportation Letters, 16, pp. 43 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2022.2160294
    Journal articles | 2024
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2024, 'Crowd model calibration at strategic, tactical, and operational levels: Full-spectrum sensitivity analyses show bottleneck parameters are most critical, followed by exit-choice-changing parameters', Transportation Letters, 16, pp. 354 - 381, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2023.2195729
    Journal articles | 2024
    Haghani M; Yazdani M, 2024, 'How simple behavioural modifications can influence evacuation efficiency of crowds: Part 1. Decision making of individuals', Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2024.104763
    Journal articles | 2024
    Haghani M; Yazdani M, 2024, 'How simple behavioural modifications can influence evacuation efficiency of crowds: Part 2. Physical movement of individuals', Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2024.104762
    Journal articles | 2024
    Haghani M, 2024, 'Facing the storm: the increasing effect of severe weather on mass gathering events', Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 39, pp. 75 - 78
    Journal articles | 2024
    Haghani M, 2024, 'Hajj pilgrims suffer from climate extremes', Science (New York, N.Y.), 385, pp. 1426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adr2696
    Journal articles | 2024
    Haghani M, 2024, 'Safeguarding crowded spaces against terrorism', Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 39, pp. 60 - 62
    Journal articles | 2024
    Haslam N; Baes N; Haghani M, 2024, 'The structure and evolution of social psychology: a co-citation network analysis', Journal of Social Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2363354
    Journal articles | 2024
    Khojasteh D; Haghani M; Shamsipour A; Zwack CC; Glamore W; Nicholls RJ; England MH, 2024, 'Climate change science is evolving toward adaptation and mitigation solutions', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.884
    Journal articles | 2024
    Li X; Li J; Haghani M, 2024, 'Application of Remote Sensing Technology in Wildfire Research: Bibliometric Perspective', Fire Technology, 60, pp. 579 - 616, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10694-023-01531-3
    Journal articles | 2024
    Xu J; Jayakumar Nair D; Haghani M, 2024, 'Relief network design problem (RNDP): A scoping review, challenges, and opportunities', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 104, pp. 104364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104364
    Journal articles | 2024
    Yazdani M; Haghani M, 2024, 'A conceptual framework for integrating volunteers in emergency response planning and optimization assisted by decision support systems', Progress in Disaster Science, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2024.100361
    Journal articles | 2024
    Yazdani M; Haghani M, 2024, 'Enhancing community resilience to urban heat waves: A simulation-based approach for volunteer management and shelter selection', Progress in Disaster Science, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2024.100331
    Journal articles | 2024
    Yazdani M; Haghani M, 2024, 'Exploring the evolution of machine scheduling through a computational approach', Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.108572
    Journal articles | 2024
    Yazdani M; Kabirifar K; Haghani M, 2024, 'Optimising post-disaster waste collection by a deep learning-enhanced differential evolution approach', Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2024.107932
    Journal articles | 2024
    Yazdani M; Loosemore M; Mojtahedi M; Sanderson D; Haghani M, 2024, 'Progress and landscape of disaster science: Insights from computational analyses', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104536
    Journal articles | 2024
    Zwack CC; Haghani M; de Bekker-Grob EW, 2024, 'Research trends in contemporary health economics: a scientometric analysis on collective content of specialty journals', Health Economics Review, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13561-023-00471-6
    Journal articles | 2023
    Feliciani C; Corbetta A; Haghani M; Nishinari K, 2023, 'Trends in crowd accidents based on an analysis of press reports', Safety Science, 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106174
    Journal articles | 2023
    Haghani M; Bliemer MCJ, 2023, 'Emerging trends and influential outsiders of transportation science', Transportation Letters, 15, pp. 386 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2022.2057397
    Journal articles | 2023
    Haghani M; Coughlan M; Crabb B; Dierickx A; Feliciani C; van Gelder R; Geoerg P; Hocaoglu N; Laws S; Lovreglio R; Miles Z; Nicolas A; O'Toole WJ; Schaap S; Semmens T; Shahhoseini Z; Spaaij R; Tatrai A; Webster J; Wilson A, 2023, 'A roadmap for the future of crowd safety research and practice: Introducing the Swiss Cheese Model of Crowd Safety and the imperative of a Vision Zero target', Safety Science, 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106292
    Journal articles | 2023
    Haghani M; Sabri S; De Gruyter C; Ardeshiri A; Shahhoseini Z; Sanchez TW; Acuto M, 2023, 'The landscape and evolution of urban planning science', Cities, 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104261
    Journal articles | 2023
    Haghani M; Sprei F; Kazemzadeh K; Shahhoseini Z; Aghaei J, 2023, 'Trends in electric vehicles research', Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103881
    Journal articles | 2023
    Haghani M, 2023, 'The notion of validity in experimental crowd dynamics', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103750
    Journal articles | 2023
    Haghani M, 2023, 'What makes an informative and publication-worthy scientometric analysis of literature: A guide for authors, reviewers and editors', Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2023.100956
    Journal articles | 2023
    Kazemzadeh K; Haghani M; Sprei F, 2023, 'Electric scooter safety: An integrative review of evidence from transport and medical research domains', Sustainable Cities and Society, 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.104313
    Journal articles | 2023
    Khojasteh D; Haghani M; Nicholls RJ; Moftakhari H; Sadat-Noori M; Mach KJ; Fagherazzi S; Vafeidis AT; Barbier E; Shamsipour A; Glamore W, 2023, 'The evolving landscape of sea-level rise science from 1990 to 2021', Communications Earth and Environment, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00920-4
    Journal articles | 2023
    Khojasteh D; Shamsipour A; Huang L; Tavakoli S; Haghani M; Flocard F; Farzadkhoo M; Iglesias G; Hemer M; Lewis M; Neill S; Bernitsas MM; Glamore W, 2023, 'A large-scale review of wave and tidal energy research over the last 20 years', Ocean Engineering, 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.114995
    Journal articles | 2023
    Oviedo-Trespalacios O; Peden AE; Cole-Hunter T; Costantini A; Haghani M; Rod JE; Kelly S; Torkamaan H; Tariq A; David Albert Newton J; Gallagher T; Steinert S; Filtness AJ; Reniers G, 2023, 'The risks of using ChatGPT to obtain common safety-related information and advice', Safety Science, 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106244
    Journal articles | 2023
    Tavakoli S; Khojasteh D; Haghani M; Hirdaris S, 2023, 'A review on the progress and research directions of ocean engineering', Ocean Engineering, 272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.113617
    Journal articles | 2023
    Yazdani M; Haghani M, 2023, 'A dynamic emergency planning system for relocating vulnerable people to safe shelters in response to heat waves', Expert Systems with Applications, 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.120224
    Journal articles | 2023
    Yazdani M; Haghani M, 2023, 'Elderly people evacuation planning in response to extreme flood events using optimisation-based decision-making systems: A case study in western Sydney, Australia', Knowledge-Based Systems, 274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2023.110629
    Journal articles | 2023
    Yazdani M; Haghani M, 2023, 'Hospital evacuation in large-scale disasters using limited aerial transport resources', Safety Science, 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106171
    Journal articles | 2023
    Yazdani M; Haghani M, 2023, 'Logistics of patient evacuation in response to disease Outbreaks: Critical considerations for transportation planning', Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2023.100975
    Journal articles | 2023
    Yazdani M; Haghani M, 2023, 'Optimisation-based integrated decision model for ambulance routing in response to pandemic outbreaks', Progress in Disaster Science, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2023.100288
    Journal articles | 2023
    Yazdani M; Loosemore M; Mojtahedi M; Sanderson D; Haghani M, 2023, 'An integration of operations research and design science research methodology: With an application in hospital disaster management', Progress in Disaster Science, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2023.100300
    Journal articles | 2023
    Zwack CC; Haghani M; Hollings M; Zhang L; Gauci S; Gallagher R; Redfern J, 2023, 'The evolution of digital health technologies in cardiovascular disease research', npj Digital Medicine, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00734-2
    Journal articles | 2022
    Behnood A; Haghani M; Golafshani EM, 2022, 'Determinants of purchase likelihood for partially and fully automated vehicles: Insights from mixed logit model with heterogeneity in means and variances', Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 159, pp. 119 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2022.03.017
    Journal articles | 2022
    Haghani M; Abbasi A; Zwack CC; Shahhoseini Z; Haslam N, 2022, 'Trends of research productivity across author gender and research fields: A multidisciplinary and multi-country observational study', PLoS ONE, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271998
    Journal articles | 2022
    Haghani M; Behnood A; Dixit V; Oviedo-Trespalacios O, 2022, 'Road safety research in the context of low- and middle-income countries: Macro-scale literature analyses, trends, knowledge gaps and challenges', Safety Science, 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105513
    Journal articles | 2022
    Haghani M; Bliemer MCJ; de Bekker-Grob EW, 2022, 'Applications of discrete choice experiments in COVID-19 research: Disparity in survey qualities between health and transport fields', Journal of Choice Modelling, 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocm.2022.100371
    Journal articles | 2022
    Haghani M; Kuligowski E; Rajabifard A; Kolden CA, 2022, 'The state of wildfire and bushfire science: Temporal trends, research divisions and knowledge gaps', Safety Science, 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2022.105797
    Journal articles | 2022
    Haghani M; Kuligowski E; Rajabifard A; Lentini P, 2022, 'Fifty years of scholarly research on terrorism: Intellectual progression, structural composition, trends and knowledge gaps of the field', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102714
    Journal articles | 2022
    Haghani M; Lovreglio R, 2022, 'Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes', Science, 378, pp. 1060, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adf5949
    Journal articles | 2022
    Haghani M, 2022, 'Crowd dynamics research in the era of Covid-19 pandemic: Challenges and opportunities', Safety Science, 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2022.105818
    Journal articles | 2022
    Khojasteh D; Davani E; Shamsipour A; Haghani M; Glamore W, 2022, 'Climate change and COVID-19: Interdisciplinary perspectives from two global crises', Science of the Total Environment, 844, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157142
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lovreglio R; Dillies E; Kuligowski E; Rahouti A; Haghani M, 2022, 'Exit choice in built environment evacuation combining immersive virtual reality and discrete choice modelling', Automation in Construction, 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104452
    Journal articles | 2022
    Wang J; Sarvi M; Ma J; Haghani M; Alhawsawi A; Chen J; Lin P, 2022, 'A modified universal pedestrian motion model: Revisiting pedestrian simulation with bottlenecks', Building Simulation, 15, pp. 631 - 644, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12273-021-0841-4
    Journal articles | 2021
    Haghani M; Behnood A; Oviedo-Trespalacios O; Bliemer MCJ, 2021, 'Structural anatomy and temporal trends of road accident research: Full-scope analyses of the field', Journal of Safety Research, 79, pp. 173 - 198, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2021.09.002
    Journal articles | 2021
    Haghani M; Bliemer MCJ; Farooq B; Kim I; Li Z; Oh C; Shahhoseini Z; MacDougall H, 2021, 'Applications of brain imaging methods in driving behaviour research', Accident Analysis and Prevention, 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106093
    Journal articles | 2021
    Haghani M; Bliemer MCJ; Hensher DA, 2021, 'The landscape of econometric discrete choice modelling research', Journal of Choice Modelling, 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocm.2021.100303
    Journal articles | 2021
    Haghani M; Bliemer MCJ; Rose JM; Oppewal H; Lancsar E, 2021, 'Hypothetical bias in stated choice experiments: Part I. Macro-scale analysis of literature and integrative synthesis of empirical evidence from applied economics, experimental psychology and neuroimaging', Journal of Choice Modelling, 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocm.2021.100309
    Journal articles | 2021
    Haghani M; Bliemer MCJ; Rose JM; Oppewal H; Lancsar E, 2021, 'Hypothetical bias in stated choice experiments: Part II. Conceptualisation of external validity, sources and explanations of bias and effectiveness of mitigation methods', Journal of Choice Modelling, 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocm.2021.100322
    Journal articles | 2021
    Haghani M; Varamini P, 2021, 'Temporal evolution, most influential studies and sleeping beauties of the coronavirus literature', Scientometrics, 126, pp. 7005 - 7050, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04036-4
    Journal articles | 2021
    Haghani M, 2021, 'The knowledge domain of crowd dynamics: Anatomy of the field, pioneering studies, temporal trends, influential entities and outside-domain impact', Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 580, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2021.126145
    Journal articles | 2020
    Haghani M; Bliemer MCJ; Goerlandt F; Li J, 2020, 'The scientific literature on Coronaviruses, COVID-19 and its associated safety-related research dimensions: A scientometric analysis and scoping review', Safety Science, 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104806
    Journal articles | 2020
    Haghani M; Bliemer MCJ, 2020, 'Covid-19 pandemic and the unprecedented mobilisation of scholarly efforts prompted by a health crisis: Scientometric comparisons across SARS, MERS and 2019-nCoV literature', Scientometrics, 125, pp. 2695 - 2726, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03706-z
    Journal articles | 2020
    Haghani M; Sarvi M; Shahhoseini Z, 2020, 'Evacuation behaviour of crowds under high and low levels of urgency: Experiments of reaction time, exit choice and exit-choice adaptation', Safety Science, 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104679
    Journal articles | 2020
    Haghani M, 2020, 'Empirical methods in pedestrian, crowd and evacuation dynamics: Part I. Experimental methods and emerging topics', Safety Science, 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104743
    Journal articles | 2020
    Haghani M, 2020, 'Empirical methods in pedestrian, crowd and evacuation dynamics: Part II. Field methods and controversial topics', Safety Science, 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104760
    Journal articles | 2020
    Haghani M, 2020, 'Optimising crowd evacuations: Mathematical, architectural and behavioural approaches', Safety Science, 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104745
    Journal articles | 2020
    Li Y; Sarvi M; Khoshelham K; Haghani M, 2020, 'Multi-view crowd congestion monitoring system based on an ensemble of convolutional neural network classifiers', Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations, 24, pp. 437 - 448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15472450.2020.1746909
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Bode NWF; Boltes M; Corbetta A; Cristiani E, 2019, 'Empirical Research on Pedestrians' Behavior and Crowd Dynamics', Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3457370
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Cristiani E; Bode NWF; Boltes M; Corbetta A, 2019, 'Panic, Irrationality, and Herding: Three Ambiguous Terms in Crowd Dynamics Research', Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9267643
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Sarvi M; Scanlon L, 2019, 'Simulating pre-evacuation times using hazard-based duration models: Is waiting strategy more efficient than instant response?', Safety Science, 117, pp. 339 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2019.04.035
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Sarvi M; Shahhoseini Z; Boltes M, 2019, 'Dynamics of social groups’ decision-making in evacuations', Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 104, pp. 135 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.04.029
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Sarvi M; Shahhoseini Z, 2019, 'When ‘push’ does not come to ‘shove’: Revisiting ‘faster is slower’ in collective egress of human crowds', Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 122, pp. 51 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2019.02.007
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2019, ''Rationality' in Collective Escape Behaviour: Identifying Reference Points of Measurement at Micro and Macro Levels', Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2380348
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2019, 'Heterogeneity of decision strategy in collective escape of human crowds: On identifying the optimum composition', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101064
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2019, 'Imitative (herd) behaviour in direction decision-making hinders efficiency of crowd evacuation processes', Safety Science, 114, pp. 49 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2018.12.026
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2019, 'Laboratory experimentation and simulation of discrete direction choices: Investigating hypothetical bias, decision-rule effect and external validity based on aggregate prediction measures', Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 130, pp. 134 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2019.09.040
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2019, 'Simulating dynamics of adaptive exit-choice changing in crowd evacuations: Model implementation and behavioural interpretations', Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 103, pp. 56 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.04.009
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2019, 'Simulating pedestrian flow through narrow exits', Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, 383, pp. 110 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2018.10.029
    Journal articles | 2019
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2019, '‘Herding’ in direction choice-making during collective escape of crowds: How likely is it and what moderates it?', Safety Science, 115, pp. 362 - 375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2019.02.034
    Journal articles | 2019
    Li Y; Khoshelham K; Sarvi M; Haghani M, 2019, 'Direct generation of level of service maps from images using convolutional and long short-term memory networks', Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations, 23, pp. 300 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15472450.2018.1563865
    Journal articles | 2019
    Seriani S; Fernandez R; Luangboriboon N; Fujiyama T; Haghani M, 2019, 'Exploring the Effect of Boarding and Alighting Ratio on Passengers' Behaviour at Metro Stations by Laboratory Experiments', Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6530897
    Journal articles | 2019
    Sparnaaij M; Duives DC; Knoop VL; Hoogendoorn SP; Haghani M, 2019, 'Multiobjective Calibration Framework for Pedestrian Simulation Models: A study on the Effect of Movement Base Cases, Metrics, and Density Levels', Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5874085
    Journal articles | 2018
    Haghani M; Sarvi M; Rajabifard A, 2018, 'Simulating indoor evacuation of pedestrians: The sensitivity of predictions to directional-choice calibration parameters', Transportation Research Record, 2672, pp. 171 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198118796351
    Journal articles | 2018
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2018, 'Crowd behaviour and motion: Empirical methods', Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 107, pp. 253 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2017.06.017
    Journal articles | 2018
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2018, 'Hypothetical bias and decision-rule effect in modelling discrete directional choices', Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 116, pp. 361 - 388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.06.012
    Journal articles | 2017
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2017, 'Following the crowd or avoiding it? Empirical investigation of imitative behaviour in emergency escape of human crowds', Animal Behaviour, 124, pp. 47 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.11.024
    Journal articles | 2017
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2017, 'How perception of peer behaviour influences escape decision making: The role of individual differences', Journal of Environmental Psychology, 51, pp. 141 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.03.013
    Journal articles | 2017
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2017, 'Social dynamics in emergency evacuations: Disentangling crowd's attraction and repulsion effects', Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 475, pp. 24 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2017.02.010
    Journal articles | 2017
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2017, 'Stated and revealed exit choices of pedestrian crowd evacuees', Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 95, pp. 238 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2016.10.019
    Journal articles | 2017
    Shahhoseini Z; Sarvi M; Saberi M; Haghani M, 2017, 'Pedestrian crowd dynamics observed at merging sections: Impact of designs on movement efficiency', Transportation Research Record, 2622, pp. 48 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2622-05
    Journal articles | 2016
    Do T; Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2016, 'Group and single pedestrian behavior in crowd dynamics', Transportation Research Record, 2540, pp. 13 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2540-02
    Journal articles | 2016
    Haghani M; Sarvi M; Shahhoseini Z; Boltes M, 2016, 'How simple hypothetical-choice experiments can be utilized to learn humans' navigational escape decisions in emergencies', PLoS ONE, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166908
    Journal articles | 2016
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2016, 'Human exit choice in crowded built environments: Investigating underlying behavioural differences between normal egress and emergency evacuations', Fire Safety Journal, 85, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2016.07.003
    Journal articles | 2016
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2016, 'Identifying latent classes of pedestrian crowd evacuees', Transportation Research Record, 2560, pp. 67 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2560-08
    Journal articles | 2016
    Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2016, 'Pedestrian crowd tactical-level decision making during emergency evacuations', Journal of Advanced Transportation, 50, pp. 1870 - 1895, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/atr.1434
    Journal articles | 2016
    Haghani M; Shahhoseini Z; Sarvi M, 2016, 'Path sets size, model specification, or model estimation: Which one matters most in predicting stochastic user equilibrium traffic flow?', Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition), 3, pp. 181 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtte.2015.09.007
    Journal articles | 2016
    Haghani M; Shahhoseini Z; Sarvi M, 2016, 'Quantifying benefits of traveler information systems to performance of transport networks prior to implementation: A double-class structured-parameter stochastic trip assignment approach', Transportation Letters, 8, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1942787515Y.0000000013
    Journal articles | 2015
    Haghani M; Sarvi M; Ejtemai O; Burd M; Sobhani A, 2015, 'Modeling pedestrian crowd exit choice through combining sources of stated preference data', Transportation Research Record, 2490, pp. 84 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2490-10
    Journal articles | 2015
    Haghani M; Sarvi M; Shahhoseini Z, 2015, 'Accommodating taste heterogeneity and desired substitution pattern in exit choices of pedestrian crowd evacuees using a mixed nested logit model', Journal of Choice Modelling, 16, pp. 58 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocm.2015.09.006
    Journal articles | 2015
    Shahhoseini Z; Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2015, 'Estimation and application of a multi-class multi-criteria mixed paired combinatorial logit model for transport networks analysis', Transportmetrica B, 3, pp. 59 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21680566.2014.955148
  • Conference Papers | 2020
    Yanagisawa D; Haghani M; Sarvi M, 2020, 'Exit-Choice Behavior in Evacuation Through an L-Shaped Corridor', in Springer Proceedings in Physics, pp. 283 - 289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55973-1_35
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Haghani M; Ejtemai O; Sarvi M; Sobhani A; Burd M; Aghabayk K, 2014, 'Random utility models of pedestrian crowd exit selection based on SP-off-RP experiments', in Transportation Research Procedia, pp. 524 - 532, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2014.09.070

Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award DE210100440 (2021-2024): A novel Approach in crowd evacuation planning: Behavioural intervention

  • Behavioural modelling and human factors
  • Econometric, choice modelling, survey and experiment design
  • Traffic psychology, driving behaviour and road safety
  • Crowd dynamics, evacuation modelling and pedestrian simulation
  • Emergency planning, mass emergencies and disaster mitigation
  • Transport demand and network analysis
  • Meta-science, advanced research synthesis and science of science

My Teaching

Human Factors in Civil and Transport Engineering CVEN4405