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Careers in Transport Systems Engineering
There are a multitude of facets to the area called transport and hence there
are many career options for men and women with the necessary skills whether
they possess a broad set of skills or a specialist set. Transport is a heavy
user of all three economic resources (land, capital and labour) and often
requires employees to have a balance of technical and social skills.
Some of the career areas in transport where professionals with the
appropriate training can excel are the planning, design, control,
performance and economic analysis of transport systems, surveys of user
requirements, environmental impacts analysis, road safety analysis, policy
formulation and logistics.
The Transport Systems Centre is primarily involved in five key areas of
research with the expertise of staff available to students through programs
of study and through personal communication. The five areas are:
- Sustainable urban transport land use, transport and environment
interactions; alternative personal transport services and technologies;
travel demand management modelling; environmental and energy impacts;
urban transport policy integration; the operation and performance of the
taxi and hire car industries; modelling the network effects of road
pricing and road tolls; and energy and emissions monitoring technology.
- Intelligent transport systems automatic vehicle location and
congestion monitoring; passenger information systems; integration of GIS
and GPS; use of advanced information technology and methodology in
transport planning and traffic management; incident detection on urban
arterial roads; and intelligent speed adaptation.
- Integrated logistics internodal transport systems for international
trade; IT innovations in freight transport; city logistics models;
supply chain analysis.
- Transport in developing countries impact of rapid motorisation and
urban transport infrastructure development; strategic road network
planning; transferability of Western technology to transport management
in developing countries; traffic flow, control and management with mixed
motorised and non-motorised traffic; modelling of chaotic,
bi-directional, mixed-user road traffic systems.
- Road safety analysis and appraisal of road safety black spots; road
safety audit and its applications; evaluation of young driver training
and driver licensing methods; issues surrounding older drivers;
evaluations and impacts of changes in speed limits and speeding
countermeasures; red light running and traffic signal performance;
predictive models for accident occurrence at intersections; the use of
GIS as a tool for visualisation and analysis of road safety performance.
As many transport systems become more complex especially those utilising the
ever-growing capabilities of the computing and telecommunications industries
employers are seeking people with high levels of communication, analytical,
management and technical skills.
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