Teaching Staff
The following academic staff members teach transportation engineering courses within the department:
Name |
Specialist Areas of Teaching/Research |
| (Programme Director) | Road accident analysis, reduction and prevention Evaluation of transportation projects Reliability of transportation networks Probabilistic methods for transportation systems analysis Traffic management schemes and traffic control measures |
| Pavement design, evaluation and rehabilitation Advanced dynamic material characterisation Pavement modeling by finite elements method Vehicle-Pavement interaction modeling Laboratory testing of soils and bituminous materials | |
| Planning/design for cycling and walking Road safety models/auditing Rural highway geometric design and simulation modelling Sustainable transportation policies Traffic engineering and traffic management | |
| Infrastructure management/optimisation Transport logistics and scheduling Public transportation planning Statistical analysis of transportation systems |
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Dr Andre Dantas (Travel demand modelling, Public transportation planning, Sustainable energy transport systems, GIS) has recently left the Department. |
The Department is also ably assisted by Adjunct Senior Fellows from the industry; Dr Bryan Pidwerbesky (Fulton Hogan) and Dr Shane Turner (Beca).
There is some teaching teamwork with the transportation engineering staff at the University of Auckland, assisting with teaching in each other's courses.
Canterbury University is fortunate to be able to invite many respected overseas academics to visit here, many courtesy of the Erskine Programme. In recent years, the transportation programme has included teaching by:
- Assoc. Prof Susan Tighe (Univ of Waterloo, Canada) - Pavement design and road asset maintenance and management
- Professor Essam Radwan (Univ of Centrla Florida, Orlando) - Highway geometric design, driving simulation
- Professor Bhagwant Persaud (Ryerson University, Toronto) - Road safety, Statistical methods, Highway design
- Professor Michael Taylor (Univ of South Australia) - Traffic engineering, Intelligent Transport Systems, Simulation modeling
- Assoc. Prof Shalom Hakkert (Technion Institute, Israel) - Accident analysis, road safety systems, Treatment of hazardous locations
- Professor David Boyce (Univ of Illinois, Chicago) - Urban and regional transportation planning; Dynamic transportation system models for planning intelligent transportation systems
- Professor Martin Snaith (Univ of Birmingham) - Pavement design and road asset maintenance and management
- Professor Nick Garber (Univ of Virginia) - Traffic operations and highway safety, Speed management
- Professor Michael Bell (Imperial College, London) - Transport network reliability, Intelligent Transport Systems
A number of local industry experts also assist with the teaching in the programme. We are grateful for their time and assistance.