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Professor Alexander Paz is the Transport Main Roads Chair at the Queensland University of Technology. Before joining QUT, he was an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and the director of the Transportation Research Center at the University of Nevada. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer in Australia and a Professional Engineer Licensed in the State of Nevada. Professor Paz has a strong background in transport engineering, transport planning, and traffic safety. He has significant experience developing methods, algorithms and software tools for the management of highway infrastructure, the analysis and evaluation of transport systems, and the deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems. His work including data warehouses and software applications has been adopted by industry at an international scale. Two of his inventions are presently being used by industry; one presently patented, and the second is under review by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A third invention received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and was licensed for commercialization.

Professor Paz’ broad interests include the application of operations research, network modelling, statistics and econometric methods, informatics integrated into modelling, analysis, operations, safety and control of large-scale dynamic transport, and logistic systems. His research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Federal Highway Administration, the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, the City of Las Vegas, the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development, the FACE Foundation, the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety, Verizon, Parsons, the Nevada Department of Transportation, the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, iMOVE CRC, and the Brisbane City Council.

Research achievements:

Published more than 100 scholarly publications, including a book, book chapters and journal and conference papers.

Received more than $12 million in research funding from the public and the corporate sector organisations for undertaking over 50 research projects.

Supervised more than 18 doctoral and research Masters students.

Research areas:

Traffic Safety Congestion Management Infrastructure Management Intelligent Transportation Systems Travel Demand His research entails field investigations, modelling, simulation, statistics, and optimization.

Traffic Safety

Development of tools for crash data collection. Advanced analytics for crash estimation, network screening, and diagnosis as well as countermeasure selection. Development of visualization and GIS systems. Development and field testing of emerging traffic safety devices.

Congestion Management

Development of large-scale dynamic traffic flow models for the study and evaluation of strategies to manage vehicular congestion. Development and implementation of optimization frameworks for the calibration and validation of network models.

Infrastructure Management

Development of software systems for the management and visualization of roadway infrastructure. Advanced analytics for generation of deterioration and network screening models and systems.

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Generation of framework for the deployment of real-time traveler information. Evaluation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies using network and traffic flow models. Field testing of emerging ITS products.

Travel Demand

Study of travel demand and behavior using statistics and econometric methods. Development of optimization frameworks for model estimation and validation.