2016 Successful Linkage Projects granted
On the 6 May 2016 The Minister for Education and Training, Senator the Hon. Simon Birmingham, has announced 231 new research grants were awarded under the Linkage Projects commencing in 2016 (LP16).
A total of $81.2 million has been awarded in this round.
Our centre was successfully awarded 2 projects:-
Dr Taha Hossein Rashidi, Dr Vinayak Dixit and Dr James Cook were awarded funding of $162,252.00 for their LP160100450 project with Veitch Lister Consulting Pty Ltd. This project aims to develop a policy appraisal tool that shows the consequences of land use decisions. The proposed integrated multi-level modelling framework—linked to models that monitor demographics evolution, travel demand, energy, labour, economy, housing and household dynamics—can assess sustainability, equity and economy. This framework is expected to help people make better decisions about housing, maintain system level properties such as price equilibrium, show the impact of land use in the transport system, and improve policy appraisal for city planning.
Dr Vinayak Dixit, Prof S. Travis Waller, Prof Michiel Bliemer, Dr Steven Most, Prof Andry Rakotonirainy, Prof Michael Regan, Mr Benjamin Barnes, Ms Victoria Pyta, and Mr Carl Liersch were awarded funding of $458,000.00 for their LP160101021 with ARRB Group Ltd, Transport For NSW, Robert Bosch (Australia) Proprietary Limited, Road Safety Commission, Goget Carshare; Suncorp Group Limited, VICroads Design, Transport Accident Commission and Liberty Mutual Research Institute. This project aims to explore three human factor issues critical to the successful deployment of automated vehicles: factors influencing driver choice of automated vehicle control; interactions between automated and manually controlled vehicles; and driver detection, recognition, and reaction to automated vehicle system failures. Automated vehicles are predicted to be transformative, but their ultimate success and expected societal benefits will depend on drivers’ trust in them and on how people choose to use and interact with them. Insights from this research should prepare our society for more automated vehicles on the roadways.
Congratulations to our wonderful researchers - Dr Vinayak Dixit, Dr Taha Hossein Rashidi, Prof S. Travis Waller and Dr Steven Most for your success.
