Professor Michael Taylor
Professor Mike Taylor is the Professor of Transport Planning and
Director of the Transport Systems Centre at the University of South
Australia. His principal research and teaching interests lie in
traffic systems engineering and transport planning. He has strong
interests in transport network analysis, transport and logistics
systems modelling, transport network reliability, transport
technology, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), and environmental
impacts of road traffic (especially air pollution emissions). He has
published extensively in all of the above areas, with over 350
papers, book chapters and articles, 16 books (authored or edited),
and six software packages to his credit. He is internationally
acknowledged as an expert on traffic flow theory, travel behaviour
and traffic data collection, travel demand modelling, traffic
simulation public transport evaluation, the environmental impacts of
road traffic, and the applications of information technology in
transport and logistics planning.
Professor Taylor has worked in industry, with the Country Roads
Board of Victoria, and most recently as an expert consultant to the
transport industry at large. His previous position was Reader in
Transport Engineering at Monash University. He spent eight years
with the CSIRO Division of Building Research, and two years with the
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.
Professor Taylor is a member of the prestigious International
Advisory Committee for the International Symposia on Transportation
and Traffic Theory, the Scientific Committee of the International
Association for Travel Behaviour Research; the International
Advisory Committee for the International Symposia on Transportation
Network Reliability and the International Scientific Committee of
the World Conference on Transport Research. In addition he is a
member of the Board of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation
Studies. He has been a guest editor of the journals Transport
Reviews and Transportation Research C, and is the editor of the
journal Transport Engineering in Australia. He is the author of the
pioneering TrafikPlan software package for local area traffic
planning.
Professor Taylor is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers,
Australia, the UK Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics and
the US Institute of Transportation Engineers, and is proud of his
registration as a Chartered Professional Engineer.