ARC 2022 Discovery Projects scheme recipient
We would like congratulate Australian Research Council (ARC) 2022 Discovery Projects scheme recipients awardees especially - Associate Professor Meead Saberi (rCITI, UNSW), Professor Majid Sarvi (Uni Melb), Dr Patricia Sauri Lavieri (Uni Melb), and Associate Professor Marta Gonzalez (UC Berkeley) received this award for their project - Rethinking walking infrastructure: AI-assisted footpath network modelling, 2022-2025: $405,000.
This project will help rethink walking infrastructure: AI-assisted footpath network modelling. The project aims to develop new macroscopic and network wide transport modelling and optimisation methodologies specific to walking suitable for large scale footpath network planning applications. The expected outcomes of this project are a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted tool for automated generation of footpath network attributes, and a set of equilibrium and non-equilibrium seeking walking route choice models driven by real-world individual walking trajectory data. This project will deliver a step-change in transport planning for walking infrastructure that will lead to increased active transport and improved urban infrastructure planning, thereby resulting in significant gains in population and environmental health.
‘The aim of the Discovery Projects scheme is to support excellent basic and applied research and research training; promote national and international research collaboration; and enhance the scale and focus of research in Australian Government priority areas. Professor Thomas said ‘Discovery Projects provide funding to support excellent basic and applied research projects to be undertaken by individual researchers or research teams,’ where ‘This investment will see expanded knowledge base and research capacity in Australia, and economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural returns for Australia.’
For more information about this project please contact
Associate Professor Meead Saberi
Email: meead.saberi@unsw.edu.au
