The transport engineering research group at UNSW aims to build knowledge to make transportation systems efficient, reliable, affordable and sustainable. Our multidisciplinary approach to research means we collaborate with other faculties at UNSW and research centres in Australia and overseas.

Our team of experts are internationally recognised for their high-impact research in areas such as network planning and modelling, safety, public transport analysis and environmental modelling.

Research themes

Our researchers are focused on:

  • Network modelling
  • Demand modelling traffic flow theory
  • Integrated transport optimisation and planning
  • Traffic flow theory
  • Traffic safety
  • Human factors
  • Transport planning and transportation & freight services
  • Pedestrian crowd modelling
  • Work-zone management
  • Behaviour under risk & uncertainty
  • Econometrics
  • Environmental engineering modelling
  • Epidemiology
  • Experimental economics
  • Housing markets
  • Land use & environmental planning

Our people

Professor Taha Hossein Rashidi
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Senior Lecturer Divya Jayakumar Nair
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Professor Vinayak Dixit
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Associate Professor Meead Saberi Kalaee
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Senior Lecturer Elnaz Irannezhad
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Senior Lecturer Milad Haghani
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Research Associate Ali Najmi
Research Associate
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Mostafa Rahimi, Research Associate, rCITI
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2024-08-30_Badal Pokharel
Research Associate
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2024-08-26-Julius Secadiningrat
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Maria Lee profile portrait
Manager

Contact details:
(+61 2) 9385 5721
maria.lee@unsw.edu.au

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Senior Project Officer

Contact details:
christina.chiu@unsw.edu.au

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Project Officer

Contact details:
p.khorgade@unsw.edu.au

Alireza Raei  rCITI Full Stack Web Developer
Full Stack Web Developer

Contact details:
a.raei@unsw.edu.au

2024-08-30_JohnBlack
Emeritus Professor of Transport Engineering

Contact details:
j.black@unsw.edu.au

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Sue McNeil, Emeritus Professor
Visiting Professional Fellow
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Adjunct Research Fellow
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SeyedHossein Hosseini, Researcher
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2024-08_SisiJian
Visiting Fellow
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer Wei Liu
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
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Adjunct Research Fellow David Rey
Adjunct Research Fellow
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Honorary Professor S Travis Waller
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2024-08-26-SunhyungYoo

Researcher    

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Xiang Zhang, rCITI adjunct Lecturer
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2024-08-26- Lachlan Eshman

Research Assistant

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2024-08-26-JasperChin

Research Assistant

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Research Assistant

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