Professional activities

Details of professional activities from previous years may be found in the ITLS Annual Reports.

Media contributions

  • Professor Peter Stopher was interviewed for Sydney Morning Herald article ‘Stuck in traffic? Get used to it, Sydney’ by Linton Besser, June 2008
  • Dr John Rose was interviewed for ABC 2 Stateline in relation to congestion charging.
  • Director of ITLS quoted in Sydney Morning Herald article on congestion and variable user charging
  • Sydney Morning Herald reports on seminar given at ITLS on fare setting in train travel

Invited presentations, seminars, workshops and industry engagements

2009

  • Professor David Hensher is the Executive Chair of the International Conference Series on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport and will give a keynote address at the 11th conference to be held in Delft, Holland in September 2009.
  • Professor Corinne Mulley gives keynote address at BITRE's 2009 Colloquium Infrastructure for the nation's future, June 2009.
  • Professor David Hensher attends Ryuichi Kitamura Memorial Symposium, University of California at Davis, USA, June 2009.
  • Professor Corinne Mulley invited to be a member of a group hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Transport to investigate what lessons for policy can be learnt from our historical past, May 2009.
  • Professor David Hensher gave invited present paper on attribute processing and choice analysis at first International Conference on Choice Modelling, Harrogate, UK. Also gave seminars at Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds and Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford, March-April 2009.
  • Professor John Stanley gives keynote address at the South African Bus Operators Association Annual Conference on Demerit points: What Merit and Contracts and Achieving Community Value from Bus Services, February 2009.

2008

  • Associate Professor Stephen Greaves gives invited paper on A Strategic-Level Approach for Evaluating Air Quality Mitigation Policies for Urban Road Freight Transport in Sydney the Green Transport & Logistics Conference organised by Lloyd’s List DCN, Melbourne, December 2008.
  • Professor David Hensher gives Eminent Speaker presentation for Engineers Australia Brisbane, November 2008
  • Professor David Hensher attended second meeting of the Singapore Land Transport Authority International Advisory Panel (chaired by the Minister of Transport).
  • Professor David Hensher gives plenary address on Hypothetical Bias, Stated Choice Studies and Willingness to Pay to European Transport Conference Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, October 2008
  • Professor Peter Stopher gave seminars on New Methods in Transport Surveys and Recent Developments in Travel Demand Models at the Department of Logistics, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa – October 2008.
  • Professor Peter Stopher gave a seminar on Using Personal GPS Devices to Measure Travel Behaviour at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA – October 2008.
  • Professor David Hensher and Dr John Rose deliver course on Discrete Choice Analysis at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2008
  • Professor David Hensher gives Eminent Speaker presentation on Road Pricing and Road Funding for Engineers Australia, Melbourne, August 2008
  • Professor John Stanley gave keynote address at the Bus and Coach Association of New Zealand Annual Conference, on Climate Change Implications for Land Transport, July 2008
  • Professor Peter Stopher gave seminars on Australian Progress in GPS  Measurement of Urban Travel Behaviour at: the Centre for Transport Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK; GRIMES, University of Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA; Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa; Institute for Transport Studies, Universitat fur Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria – June to July 2008.
  • Professor David Hensher visits the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, to launch ITLS-Africa and to give lectures at the University, February 2008

Editorial Positions

Professor David Hensher

  • Series and Volume Editor: (with Professor Kenneth Button) Elsevier Handbooks in Transport
  • Area Editor: Transport Reviews, Taylor and Francis Ltd., London
  • Guest Editor: Special Issue of Transportation Research B on Behavioural Insights into Freight Distribution (2006-07);Special Issue of Transportation Research A on Public Transport Reform (2007-08); Special Issue of Transportation on Global Public Transport Reform (2007-08); and Journal of Transport Geography on Planning and Patronage (2007-08)
  • Editorial Advisory Board: Transportation, Elsevier Publishers; Journal of Asian and Pacific Transport; Transportation Research, Pergamon Press; International Journal of Transport Economics; Journal of Choice Modelling; and Journal of Transport and Land Use
  • Editorial Board: Journal of Transport Economics and Policy; Journal of Transport Planning and Technology; Cooperative Transportation Dynamics; Transportation Research Part E, Universities of British Columbia and California at Berkeley; Transport Policy, Butterworths; Journal of Retailing and Consumer Behaviour; Journal of Transport and Statistics, US Department of Transportation and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics; and Perspectives on Transport: The Journal of the World Conference of Transport Research Society Member: USA National Academy of Sciences, Transportation Research Board Committee on Traveller Behaviour and Values; and USA National Academy of Sciences, Transportation Research Board Committee on Travel Forecasting

Associate Professor Peter Lok

  • Editor: Journal of Global Business and Technology

Professor Corinne Mulley

  • Editorial Board: Journal of Transport History

Dr John Rose

  • Editor in Chief: Journal of Choice Modeling

Professor Peter Stopher

  • Editorial Board: Transport Reviews; Transport Policy; Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research; Journal of Transportation and Statistics; and Journal of Transportation and Land Use

Professor David Walters

  • Guest Editor: International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, an Emerald journal

Professional Committees and Associations

Associate Professor Stephen Greaves

  • Member: Committees on New Technologies in Travel Surveys and Air Quality, Transportation Research Board, National Academies of Science and Engineering, USA; Institute of Transportation Engineers, USA; and Sustainable Management of Organisations Group (SMOG), Faculty of Economics and Business, the University of Sydney.

Professor David Hensher

  • Fellow: Academy of Social Sciences in Australia; Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management; and Chartered Institute of Transport, UK.
  • Founding Member: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
  • Member: Singapore's Land Transport Agency's International Advisory Panel; Advisory Committee of Transport Research Centre, Melbourne University; NSW Department of Transport Technical Advisory Committee; Standards Committee on Logistics, Australia; Board of Advice, ITLS-Africa, University of Johannesburg; International Association of Travel Behaviour (President 1993-7); World Conference of Transport Research Society (Scientific Chair 1995, Vice-Chair, 1996-2000); American Planning Association; American Transportation Research Forum; Australian Institution of Engineers (Engineers Australia); Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand; and Transportation Research Board, USA. 

Associate Professor Peter Lok

  • Member: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)

Professor Corinne Mulley

  • Fellow: Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, UK
  • Member: Commission for Integrated Transport (CfiT) Academic Framework; Regional Science Association; International Association of Transport, Technology and Mobility (T2M); Transport Economists Group; and World Conference on Transport Research.

Dr Ada Suk-Fung Ng

  • Member: National Committee of Transport, Australia and Sydney Transport Panel; Eastern Asia Society of Transport Studies; and Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences.

Dr John Rose

  • Member: Committee on Travel Survey Methods, Transportation Research Board, National Academies of Science and Engineering, USA

Professor Peter Stopher

  • Fellow: Institute of Engineers Australia, Civil College, Australia;
  • Emeritus Member: Committee on Survey Methods, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Science and Engineering, USA
  • Scientific Advisory Panel Member: African Centre of Excellence for Studies in Public and Non-Motorised Transport (ACET) 
  • Panel Member: Project TCRP Synthesis Topic SH-07, Transit Cooperative Research Program, National Academies of Science and Engineering, USA
  • Member: American Society of Civil Engineers, USA; American Statistical Association, USA; Committee on Traveller Behaviour and Values, Transportation Research Board, National Academies of Science and Engineering, USA; Committees on Planning and Economics and Environmental Issues, Transportation and Development Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, USA; and Institute of Transportation Engineers.

Conference Committees

Professor David Hensher

  • Executive Chair, 11th International Conference on Competition and Ownership of Land Passenger Transport, Delft, Holland, September 2009.
  • Member of Board of International Conference – The Capacity of Transport Systems: Arcs, nodes, services and technologies, Italy, 2009.

Dr John Rose

  • Innovative Methods in Transport Analysis, Planning and Appraisal Programme Committee, European Transport Conference

Professor Peter Stopher

  • Chair of Local Organising Committee, 9th International Conference on Travel Survey Methods, Australia, August 2011

Peer review

Associate Professor Stephen Greaves

  • Journals: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems Journal; Transportation Research Record; Journal of Transport Statistics; Transportation; Road and Transport Research; and Australasian Transport Research Forum.
  • Conferences: Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board and Thinking on Two Wheels Conference.
  • Grants: Large grant application for the Carnegie Trust in Scotland on transport and emissions.
  • Other: Reference Panellist for the Bicycle Federation of Australia fact-sheets on environmental and health issues associated with bicycle use.

Professor David Hensher

  • Journals: Transportation Research (A,B,E); Transportation; Journal of Transport Economics and Policy; Journal of Transportation and Statistics; Environment and Resource Economics; Review of Economics and Statistics; Environment and Planning A; Transport Reviews; Transportation Research Board Journal; Transport Policy, Regional and Urban Economics; Economic Record; and Journal of Transport Geography and Applied Economics. He is also a regular reviewer of chapters for books in the Elsevier Science

Associate Professor Peter Lok

  • Journals: Australian Journal of Management; Journal of Management Studies; Journal of Organizational Development; and Leadership and Organisation Development Journal.

Professor Corinne Mulley

  • Journals: Economic Journal; International Review of Law and Economics; Journal of Regional Studies; Journal of Transport History; Urban Studies; Transportation Research A; and International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications
  • Books: Institute of Civil Engineers’ publications.
  • Conferences: World Conference on Transport Research; Association of European Transport; and T2M International Conference and Logistics Research Network Conference (2006).

Dr Ada Suk-Fung Ng

  • Journals: Naval Research Logistics; IIE Transactions; Computers and Operations Research; International Journal of Service Operations and Informatics; International Journal of Production Economics; International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management; Academy of Management; and Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics.

Professor Peter Stopher

    • Journals: Transportation; Transportation Research A; Transportation Research Board; Transport Reviews; Transportation Research Forum; Australasian Transport Research Forum; Transport Policy; Journal of Transportation and Statistics; and Road and Transport Research.
    • Other: New Zealand Ministry of Transport: Research Project on Trip Chains and Trip Tours