Welcome Prof. Russell Thompson and Dr. Xiao Li to become our collaborators!
Russell is a Professor in Transport Engineering in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne. His main research areas are City Logistics, Physical Internet (PI), resilient transport systems and Intelligent Transport Systems. Russell has over 25 years of experience in freight research.
He has led numerous local and international studies relating to urban freight, including the European Union’s Best Urban Freight Solutions (BESTUFS) project and the OECD report on urban distribution. Russell was a founding Director and has been the Vice President of the Institute for City Logistics based in Kyoto since 1999. He is also a Team Leader of the Volvo Research and Education Foundation’s Global Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (VREF CoE-SUFS).
Xiao’s primary research interests are in the development of geocomputational algorithms, applications, and tools to enhance transport safety, accessibility, and sustainability by integrating emerging geospatial data sources, theories, and computing technologies.
From the applied science perspective, his research explores the value of various emerging geographic data sources (e.g. smartphone data, connected vehicle data, street view images) in transport and urban research and generates innovative crowdsourcing solutions based on these data to solve different transport challenges.
From the social science perspective, his research interests include exploring the relationships between humans and transport systems and estimating the impacts of disruptive technologies (e.g. CAV) on socially different population groups and communities.