Efficient and optimised transportation networks based on end-user demands and requirements positioned around a 'customer service paradigm' is essential for economic prosperity.
Balance economic and social impacts with engineering solutions
In NSW and globally, efficient and optimised transportation networks based on end-user demands and requirements positioned around a 'customer service paradigm' is essential for economic prosperity. This program captures research that falls within the disciplines of Transport Economics and Transport Planning which focus on user responses to changes in the Level of Service (LOS) offered by road and public transport networks for both passengers and freight.
Program 5 proactively considers concepts of business data analytics as applied to transportation engineering and some of these principles interact with Program 2 in terms of the mathematical concepts adopted. Moreover, the fundamental principles of business development, client relations, demographical influences and socio-economics applied to transport Infrastructure feasibility, asset management and maintenance will be incorporated in various aspects of service engineering considered in this Program.
Given that transport use is a derived 'demand', research within this theme is carried out within 'Customer Service Paradigm' and focus on research and industry challenges associated with:
- Understanding the wider economic and social implications of novel transport engineering technologies,
- Investigating the changes to patterns of land-use, economic agglomeration and industrial productivity levels in cities and regions, to optimise transport planning for greater economic prosperity.
- Design and evaluate research approaches, frameworks and assessment methods for the appraisal of transport engineering solutions to ensure end-user values and customer needs are aligned with proposed engineering solutions to meet transportation requirements of the future.