Australia’s future economic growth and liveability will be highly dependent on adaptive, integrated reliable and optimised multi-modal transportation infrastructure networks that are cost-effective to manage.
Optimised for performace
This research theme focuses on integrating two key important areas in transport infrastructure management:
- Performance of the infrastructure itself
- Optimisation demands on infrastructure
This theme focuses on developing new strategies, technologies and engineering approaches which transport authorities can adopt to maintain and enhance a transport system with competing challenges and priorities.
Areas of focus
- Traffic optimisation and tactical planning component
- Developing intelligent tools to enable transport authorities to identify optimal combinations of travel demand management options
- Infrastructure alterations leading to a more sustainable, efficient and safe transport network
- New empirical analyses, mathematical modelling and simulation approaches to realistically model human-vehicle interactions in an integrated multi-modal transport system
- Associated safety, stability and health monitoring components for enhanced performance and functionality of transport infrastructure
- Innovative solutions utilising structural modelling, real-time structural monitoring, smart materials and physical model-based data analytics, cross-linking with Programs 1 & 2.