Researcher

Dr Divya Jayakumar Nair

Fields of Research (FoR)

Civil Engineering, Road and Rail Transportation, Urban and Regional Planning

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Biography

Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation


My Research Activities

My research interests extend but are not limited to, the following topics;

Transportation Engineering, Transport Infrastructure Resilience, Traffic Assignment, Network Design, Highway Engineering, Operations Research, Statistical Modelling, Data Mining, Traffic Flow Theory,...view more

Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation


My Research Activities

My research interests extend but are not limited to, the following topics;

Transportation Engineering, Transport Infrastructure Resilience, Traffic Assignment, Network Design, Highway Engineering, Operations Research, Statistical Modelling, Data Mining, Traffic Flow Theory, Autonomous Vehicle, Humanitarian logistics

  • Traffic congestion modelling methodologies and variants that explain day-to-day flow volatility.
  • Incident modelling, investigations into the traffic recovery patterns and predictive modelling.
  • Safety related studies in autonomous vehicles
  • Real-time traffic signal design and coordination
  • Resilient transport networks: Disaster Resilience, Dynamic Traffic Assignment, CGE Models
  • Ethical transport network modelling
  • Innovative modelling and solution techniques for hunger and disaster long-term and short-term relief operations. Policies and tactics that have the potential to improve vulnerable peoples’ life by addressing welfare, fairness, effectiveness, and efficiency simultaneously.

My Research Supervision


Areas of supervision

  • Transport relief network design
  • Resilient transport networks: Disaster Resilience, Dynamic Traffic Assignment, CGE Models
  • Ethical transport network modelling
  • Traffic congestion modelling
  • Supply chain and logistics
  • Hunger and disaster relief operations

Currently supervising

  • Mikel Barabara
  • Chence Niu
  • Tingting Zang
  • Junxiang Xu

My Teaching

  • CVEN9405: Urban Transport Planning Practice (PG/UG), Lecturer in 2019, Lecturer and Coordinator in 2020
  • CVEN9050: Masters Practice Project A (PG) Lecturer and coordinator in 2020
  • CVEN9051: Masters Practice Project B (PG) Lecturer and coordinator in 2020
  • CVEN9415: Transport Systems Part 2 (PG/UG) Lecturer and coordinator since 2022
  • CVEN4402: Transport Systems – Part 1: Network Analysis (PG/UG), Lecturer and Cc-course coordinator in 2018
  • CVEN4404: Fundamentals of Traffic engineering (PG/UG), Lecturer and Course coordinator since 2020
  • CVEN2401/3401: Sustainable Transport and Highway Engineering (UG), Lecturer course coordinator since 2019
  • CVEN2402/3402: Transport Engineering & Environmental Sustainability (UG), Lecturer course coordinator since 2019
  • ENGG1400: Engineering Infrastructure Systems (a first-year faculty-wide engineering UG), Lecturer in 2019 and 2021
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Location

Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Level 1, Room CE111
Kensington Campus