Personal details
- Name
- Dr Marc Miska
- Position(s)
- Senior Lecturer in the Civil Engineering Discipline
Science and Engineering Faculty,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering - Discipline *
- Civil Engineering
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 2992
- marc.miska@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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Doctor of Philosophy (Delft University of Technology)
- Keywords
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Intelligent Transport Systems, Model-Free Transport Network Representations, Real-Time Decision Support, Scale-Free Mobility Simulation, Simulation, Smart Transport Solutions, Sustainable Data Management, Visualisation
Biography
Marc Miska is a Senior Lecturer with interest in developing evidence-based decision support tools for industry and government. His current projects focus around:
- Routing for physically and visually challenged travellers
- Connectivity impacts of large developments in urban areas
- Cooperative Intelligent Vehicles field test evaluation
Marc has studied Applied Informatics in Civil Engineering at the Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany and worked in hydraulics, off-shore technology and container transhipment before moving to the field of Transportation and Planning for his PhD at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. During his candidature, he developed a modular online traffic simulation model that enabled road authorities to compare traffic control strategies effectiveness in current conditions before implementation.
After his PhD, Marc moved to the University of Tokyo in Japan for his postdoctoral research on traffic data collection and standardization. He continued as a project based lecturer, leading data standardization efforts among researchers in the US, Europe and Japan. The project, initiated by the Japanese Government, the US Department of Transport and European Commission has provided a common evaluation framework to analyze the effects of intelligent transport systems (ITS) on Greenhouse gas emission from transport.
In 2010, Marc came to QUT as Program Director for Simulation, Visualization and Modeling at the then newly established Smart Transport Research Centre. In his role he worked closely with industry and government to establish a series of data standards and applications, supporting traffic engineers in their day-to-day duties. His work unearthed a fundamental issue present in transport engineering and planning – lack of accessible and accurate data. Challenging the issue, Marc started at the roots of the problem: Asset Management. Given that road authorities have built the infrastructure they are aiming to operate, all base data should be readily available and consistent. As this is not the case, Marc has worked together with the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads to overhaul their Asset Maintenance Management System to better understand the disconnect between transport assets and their operation.
Becoming a Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment in February 2018, Marc moved to QUT’s Transport Research Group (TRG) and an emerging new research group on Data Analytics in the Built Environment (DABE). His focus now is the design and development of a data-centric platform for multi-disciplinary data analytics with applications in:
- transport,
- disaster management, and
- construction.
Teaching
I am coordinating/teaching the following units:
- EGB382 – Construction Methodologies
- EGB482 – Contracting and Construction Regulations
I also regularly provide guest lectures for:
- IAB230 – Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
and am open to any requests in this regard.
Experience
2018 – current: Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment – QUT Working field:
- Data-centric analysis platform for multi-disciplinary data analytics
- Mapping Solutions for physically and visually challenged
2010 – 2018: Simulation, Visualisation and Modelling project leader – Smart Transport Research Centre – QUT Working field:
- Design and development of an online simulation model of Brisbane Metropolitan are
- Design and development of a decision support system for traffic management in Brisbane Metropolitan area based on online simulation
2009 – 2010: Project Lecturer – University of Tokyo, Japan Working field:
- Development of an OpenSource platform (X-roads) as a stable, modular framework for traffic and pedestrian simulation
- OpenTrafficSim – Collaborative ITS Research on C02 reduction based on 3D Internet Technology
- Continuation of Data warehousing and data management for the International Traffic Database (ITDb) part of the NEDO project
2007 – 2009: Postdoctoral Research Fellow – University of Tokyo, Japan Working field:
- Data warehousing and data management for the International Traffic Database (ITDb) part of the NEDO project.
- Travel time estimation and prediction on urban networks based on probe vehicle data.
- Demand analysis on the Metropolitan Expressway based on ETC OD data.
2006 – 2007: Research Fellow – University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Working field:
- Improvements on the FrOnT platform to integrate various independent modules for traffic management into a coherent package.
09.12.2004: Guest Researcher – Royal Netherlands Embassy, Tokyo, Japan Working field:
- Investigation of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) implementations and developments in Japan for the Transport Ministry of the Netherlands.
2002 – 2006: Research Fellow, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Working field:
- Design and implementation of a microscopic online simulator (MiOS) for real-time traffic management.
- Evaluation of city-scale online simulation models as a decision support system for traffic operations
- Feasibility study of extracting meaningful traffic information from cell phone tracking records.
2001 – 2002: Research Engineer – University of Hannover, Germany Working field:
- Design and implementation of a workflow management system for inland terminals (Container transhipment).
Publications
- Larue G, Miska M, Qian G, Wullems C, Rodwell D, Chung E, Rakotonirainy A, (2020) Can road user delays at urban railway level crossings be reduced? Evaluation of potential treatments through traffic simulation, Case Studies on Transport Policy p860-869
- Sarkar N, Bhaskar A, Zheng Z, Miska M, (2020) Microscopic modelling of area-based heterogeneous traffic flow: Area selection and vehicle movement, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies p373-396
- Moohialdin A, Lamari F, Miska M, Trigunarsyah B, (2019) Construction worker productivity in hot and humid weather conditions: A review of measurement methods at task, crew and project levels, Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management p83-108
- Guo H, Bhaskar A, Casey B, Miska M, Chung E, (2017) An innovative framework for customised intermodal and multiobjective trip planner, International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research p117-125
- 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
- Abedi N, Bhaskar A, Chung E, Miska M, (2015) Assessment of antenna characteristic effects on pedestrian and cyclists travel-time estimation based on Bluetooth and WiFi MAC addresses, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies p124-141
- Bhaskar A, Kieu L, Qu M, Nantes A, Miska M, Chung E, (2015) Is bus overrepresented in Bluetooth MAC Scanner data? Is MAC-ID really unique?, International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research p119-130
- Nantes A, Ngoduy D, Miska M, Chung E, (2015) Probabilistic travel time progression and its application to automatic vehicle identification data, Transportation Research, Series B: Methodological p131-145
- Prendinger H, Miska M, Gajananan K, Nantes A, (2014) A cyber-physical system simulator for risk-free transport studies, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering p480-495
- Nantes A, Miska M, Bhaskar A, Chung E, (2014) Noisy Bluetooth traffic data?, Road and Transport Research p33-43
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Developing an Analytical Model for Assessing Sustainability Practices in Logistics Sector
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Duzgun Agdas - Assessing the impact of natural disasters on transport infrastructure using travel demand modelling
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Duzgun Agdas - Risk Governance Analysis of Informal Floating Food Supply System of Metropolitan Dhaka
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Karen Vella - Improving Bus Rapid Transit Station Performance by Modelling the Complex System of Platform Operation
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Jonathan Bunker, Associate Professor Ashish Bhaskar - Cloud-based Cooperative Multi-Vehicle Dynamic Routing Using Co-evolutionary Computation
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Maolin Tang, Professor Glen Tian
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Microscopic Modelling of the Area-Based Traffic Flow (2019)
- Adaptive Driving-Speed Control at Signalised Intersection Using Reinforcement Learning (2018)
- Acceptability of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) to Commuters in Dhaka (2015)
- Enlarged Stopping Distance to Improve Vehicle Discharge at Urban Signalised Intersections (2013)
- The Development of a Naturalistic Car Following Model for Assessing Managed Motorway Systems' Safety Effects (2013)