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ISST - TS acting director

Rocco Zito is a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Director of the ISST - Transport Systems. His research interests include the use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) in transportation applications (PhD Thesis, awarded May 2002). This research work has mainly involved real time applications with direct links into a Geographical Information Systems (GIS). In this way positional data obtained by GPS can be displayed and analysed in real time. During the course of the work many research projects and consultancies have been undertaken in a wide variety of applications these include:

• Use of GPS and GIS in Intelligent Transport Systems
• Use of GPS in trip and travel time surveys
• Demand responsive public transport
• GPS in the derivation of traffic congestion parameters
• Real time integration of GPS and GIS
• Use of GPS and GIS in mining and heavy earth moving
• GPS and GIS as a tool for law enforcement

Some of Rocco’s more recent work has involved the assessment and investigation of the environmental impacts of various transport policy initiatives, some of these projects include :

• Modelling Responses of Urban Freight Pattern to Greenhouse Gas Abatement Measures (Bureau of Transport Economics – Australian Greenhouse Office)

• Biodiesel Verification Trial In MAN NL202 Diesel Buses (Transport SA and SA Passenger Transport Board)

• Development of emission models for vehicles(TSC Research Project)

• Assessment of the full impacts of speeds(Transport SA (Safety Strategy))

• Study of Intelligent Transport Systems impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and air quality (Department of Transport and Regional Services)

• Emissions from freight vehicles (Department of Transport and Regional Services)

• On-Road emission concentration and sound level measurements of vehicles at steady speed (Transport SA (Environment Strategy))

• Development of a Greenhouse Gas Model for Mobile Sources in Metropolitan Adelaide (Transport SA (Environment Strategy) – TSC – SENRAC)

• Assessment of the environmental impacts of speed limit changes (Transport SA (Environment Strategy))

• Derivation of urban drive cycles for analysis of air quality and greenhouse gas emissions from road traffic (Transport SA (Environment Strategy) – TSC – ARC SPIRT)

• Review of the Diesel NEPM for South Australia (Transport SA - EPA)

• Performance of Compressed Natural Gas Buses and Energy Implications of Bus Priority in Public Transport (TSC – Passenger Transport Board – Transport SA – SENRAC)

In 1999 Rocco was awarded the Young Transport Professional of the Year, by the Chartered Institute of Transport in Australia, South Australian Section. This award was  for the work performed in GPS and GIS applications and environmental modelling.

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