
Associate Professor Ashish Bhaskar
Faculty of Engineering,School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Personal details
- Name
- Associate Professor Ashish Bhaskar
- Position(s)
- Associate Professor in Civil Engineering
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering - Discipline *
- Civil Engineering
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 9985
- ashish.bhaskar@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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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)
- Co-Chair, WCTRS Special Interest Group (SIG) on Intelligent Transport Systems
- Co-Chair, Business and Engineering domain, Centre for data science, QUT
- 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
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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
Biography
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
- Data driven traffic assignment: Exploiting Bluetooth vehicle trajectory data (2020-2023)
- Field testing ramp signalling deployment in STREAMS (2019-2020)
- Cooperative and automated vehicles (CAVI) – Roadworks and signal use-cases (2019-2020)
- Network scale arterial traffic state prediction: Fusing multisensor traffic data (2017-2020)
- Evaluation of Motorway Vehicle Detectors (2020)
- 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)
Completed research projects (since 2013)
- Data Visualization: Intersection and route level performance measure (completed 2020)
- Macroscopic model based urban network signal optimization (completed 2019)
- Traffic flow modelling for non-lane and quasi lane disciplined traffic behavior (completed 2018)
- 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
Teaching
Current
- EGB489: Advanced Transport Modelling ( Coordinator & Lecturer ): 3rd-4th year EN01 elective
- ENB272: Traffic and Transport Engineering ( Coordinator & Lecturer ): 2nd year EN01 unit
Past unit
- UXB112: Introduction to Structures (Coordinator & Lecturer): 1st year 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
Experience
August 2019- Present:
- Associate Professor (Transport Domain), Queensland University of Technology;
August 2014- July 2019:
- 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.
Publications
- 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
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
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- An Extended Cell Transmission Model For Arterial Traffic and Its Application to Design a Robust Signal Plan (2020)
- Network-Scale Arterial Traffic State Prediction: Fusing Multisensor Traffic Data (2020)
- Origin-Destination Matrix Estimation Using Big Traffic Data: A Structural Perspective (2019)
- Performance Evaluation of Transit Routes (2019)
- Trajectory Planning Strategies of Connected Automated Vehicles for Cooperative On-Ramp Merging and Mainline Facilitating Maneuvers (2019)
- Multi-Criteria Capacity Assessment and Planning Models for Multi-Modal Transportation Systems (2018)
- Incident Duration Modelling and System Optimal Traffic Re-Routing (2017)
- Link Dependent Origin-Destination Matrix Estimation: Nonsmooth Convex Optimisation with Bluetooth-Inferred Trajectories (2017)
- Utilising Big Transit Data for Transfer Coordination (2015)
- Exploring the Properties of Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram: Analysing Brisbane Urban Network (2014)