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.