QUT | Staff Profiles | Ashish Bhaskar

Name

Associate Professor Ashish Bhaskar

Position(s)

Associate Professor in Civil Engineering
Science and Engineering Faculty,
Civil & Environmental

Discipline *

Civil Engineering

Phone

+61 7 3138 9985

Fax

+61 7 3138 1170

Email

ashish.bhaskar@qut.edu.au

Location

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Identifiers and profiles

Qualifications

PhD (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Master of Engineering (University of Tokyo)

Professional memberships and associations

Editorial board member, International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research
Editorial board member, Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation
Editorial Board Member, The Open Transportation Journal
Scientific committee member, World Conference of Transport Research Society (WCTRS)
Chair, WCTRS Special Interest Group (SIG) on Intelligent Transport Systems
Lead Guest Editor for a special issue in the Journal of Advanced Transportation
Member, WCTRS SIG on Traffic management in developing countries
Member, Standing Committee on Transit Management and Performance, Transport Research Board (TRB)
Member, Travel time, speed and reliability sub-committee, TRB
Member, Swiss Association of Road and Transport Experts
Member, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS)
Member, QUT College of Mentoring Supervisors

Keywords

Integrated Traveller Information, Public Transport, Bluetooth and Wifi as a complementary transport data, Modelling and Simulation, Traffic Management and Control, Traffic Noise Modelling, Macroscopic fundamental diagram, Data fusion, Big Data

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Research interests

Transport data analytics
Predictive modelling (traffic state estimation and prediction)
Traffic flow theory (emerging connected and automated vehicles; non-lane/quasi lane discipline)
Multimodal demand modelling (exploting advance traffic and transit data)
Real time multimodal (car and transit) operations and control
Traffic simulation
Benchmarking

Ongoing research projects

Interactive big data visualization for decision making: A prototype for mobility data (2019-2020)
Empirical modelling of traffic assignment (2019-2022)
Exploiting Bluetooth data for travel demand (origin destination matrix) estimation (2017- 2020)
Heterogeneous traffic data fusion for an integrated traveller information (2017-2020)
Macroscopic model based urban network signal optimization (2016-2019)
Traffic flow modelling for non-lane and quasi lane disciplined traffic behavior (2016-2018)

Completed research projects (since 2013)

Incorporating Bluetooth vehicle trajectories for OD estimation (completed 2019)
Emergency Vehicle Preemption: Empirical analysis using STREAMS data and visualization (completed 2019)
Automated Vehicle Trajectory Planning for Motorway On-Ramp Merging (completed 2019)
Fail safe algorithm for ramp signaling (completed 2018)
Coordinated ramp signaling testing in STREAMS (completed 2018)
Comparative overview of Addinsight and Intelematics data (completed 2017)
Predictive modelling of disturbances in public transit network (completed 2018)
Review of Traffic Management Systems (completed 2017)
Transit benchmarking: Modelling the productivity, effectiveness and efficiency of transit routes (completed 2017)
An insight on the comparison of Waze and SIMS (STREAMS Incident Management System) records (completed 2017)
Incident duration modelling and system optimal traffic re-routing (completed 2017)
Utilising big transit data for transfer coordination (completed 2015)
Exploring properties of macroscopic fundamental diagram (completed 2014)
Multimodal and multiobjective trip planner (completed 2014)
Motorway and arterial travel time estimation (completed 2014)
Accuracy and reliability of the travel time estimates from Bluetooth MAC scanners (completed 2013)
Crowd monitoring using Bluetooth and Wifi scanners (completed 2013)

Academic Qualifications

Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (GCAP) from the Queensland University of Technology, 2016
PhD (Transportation Engineering) from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, 2009
Master of Engineering (in Transportation Engineering) from the University of Tokyo, Japan, 2004
Bachelor of Technology (in Civil Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 2002

This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Ashish Bhaskar.

Current

EGB489: Advanced Transport Modelling ( Coordinator & Lecturer ): 3rd-4th year EN01 elective
ENB272: Traffic and Transport Engineering ( Coordinator & Lecturer ): 2nd year EN01 unit
UXB112: Introduction to Structures ( Coordinator): 1st year unit

Past unit

EBB382: Estimating in Engineering Construction ( Coordinator ): 4th year EN40 unit
ENB379: Transport Engineering and Planning Applications ( Lecturer ): 4th year EN40 unit
ENB110: Engineering Statics and Materials ( Lecturer ): 1st year EN40 unit
UDN579: Transport Infrastructure ( Lecturer ): 3rd year elective
ENN589: Intelligent Transport Systems ( Coordinator & Lecturer ): Master’s unit
ENB376: Transport Engineering ( Lecturer ): 3rd year EN40 unit
UXB112: Introduction to Structures ( Lecturer ): 1st year unit
UXB212: Designing Structures ( Lecturer ): 2nd year unit
EGB384: Bidding, Estimating and Cost Management ( Coordinator ): 4th year EN01 unit

This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Ashish Bhaskar.

July 2014- Present:

Senior Lecturer (Transport Domain), Queensland University of Technology;

Jan 2011 – July 2014:

Lecturer (Transport Domain), Queensland University of Technology;
Domain Leader for Integrated Traveller Information, Smart Transport Research Centre, QUT

June 2009 – Dec 2010:

Scientific collaborator, LAVOC, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

August 2006 – May 2009:

Research Assistant and PhD candidate, LAVOC, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Jan 2005 – July 2006:

Research Assistant, LAVOC, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Contributions to European Projects

[June 2007-Dec 2011] Optimized ITS-based Tools for Intelligent transport urban mobility (OPTIMUM)

This project is EU Marie Curie Action, FP7-PEOPLE-2010, for International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (between EU and Australia)

[June 2007-December 2010]
NEARCTIS: Network of Excellence for Advanced Road Cooperative Traffic management in Information Society

Member of the Steering Committee of the project.
Acting president of the NEARCTIS PhD research committee.
Leading the task on Young Researcher Mobility and Training program.

[June 2008-December 2010]
COST-TU0702: Real-time Monitoring, Surveillance and Control of Road Networks under Adverse Weather Conditions

Member of the Management Committee of the above COST Action.
Leading the Swiss part of the project tilted Network vulnerability and traffic management strategies under adverse weather conditions.

Software development DRONE: area-wide Dynamic ROad traffic NoisE (DRONE) simulator. This software tool integrates traffic simulation and noise estimation models for detailed noise contour maps. Other professional activities
[2012-2018]: Dy Subject Area Coordinator: Civil, QUT
[2010]: NEARCTIS-COST0702 Summer Training School, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Coordinator for the summer training school.

Workshop on “Towards new research area in co-operative traffic management”, Lausanne, Switzerland 11thJune 2010

Organiser for the above workshop.

[September 2006]
International Symposium on Traffic Simulation 2006 (ISTS06), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Member of the core group to organize the ISTS06 symposium.

Workshop on Emerging Technologies, Lausanne, Switzerland

Member of the core group to organize the workshop.

This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Ashish Bhaskar.

Nantes A, Ngoduy D, Bhaskar A, Miska M, Chung E, (2016) Real-time traffic state estimation in urban corridors from heterogeneous data, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies p99-118
Kieu L, Bhaskar A, Chung E, (2015) A modified Density-Based Scanning Algorithm with Noise for spatial travel pattern analysis from Smart Card AFC data, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies p193-207
Bhaskar A, Tsubota T, Kieu L, Chung E, (2014) Urban traffic state estimation: Fusing point and zone based data, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies p120-142
Bhaskar A, Chung E, (2013) Fundamental understanding on the use of Bluetooth scanner as a complementary transport data, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies p42-72
Bhaskar A, Chung E, Dumont A, (2011) Fusing loop detector and probe vehicle data to estimate travel time statistics on signalized urban networks, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering p433-450

For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Awards and recognition

Type: Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
Reference year: 2018
Details: Editorial board member for the Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation

Type: Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
Reference year: 2017
Details: Member, Standing Committee on Transit Management and Performance, Transport Research Board (TRB)

Type: Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
Reference year: 2017
Details: Lead Guest Editor Special Issue on Modelling Opportunities and Challenges with the Emerging Tra«c and Transit Data Journal of Advanced Transportation http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/jat/moch/

Type: Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
Reference year: 2015
Details: Editorial board member for the International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research

Associate Professor Ashish Bhaskar

Awards and recognition

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)

Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)