Edinburgh Napier University

Emeritus Professor, School of Computing and Transport Research Institute

Other Affiliations: Imperial College London, Centre for Transport Studies, Department of Civil Engineering
University of Melbourne, GAMUT (the Volvo Research and Education Foundation Centre of Excellence in the Governance and Management of Urban Transport)
University of Melbourne, Infrastructure Engineering
Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Emeritus Professor

Transport Research Institute

About

Currently Principal of Oxford Systematics Australia in UK, US and Australia as an Independent Researcher and Consultant.

A continuing part (Emeritus Professor) of the Napier of Transport Research Institute (http://www.tri-napier.org/tri-napier-members.html) since 1999 and also the School of Computing, since 2001.

Wide and active interests, including civil liberties in the information era (life member of Electronic Frontiers Australia, and the Australian Privacy Foundation), integrated transport policy, including powered and unpowered two and three wheelers, as well as mobility options ranging from electric bicycles to hybrid and conventional 'cars', freight and logistical systems and modelling analyses of all these area. Pavement management systems and ITS, GIS applications to human geography, Location Based Services and their ITS and privacy and surveillance aspects, Governance of transport and information systems, transport data and its effective utilisation, contestable evidence based policy as a transformative tool in the transitions to sustainability.

Most recent EU Framework 7 project: ROADIDEA, as Senior Consultant at Demis BV, Delft, The Netherlands, where Poul Grashoff (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/grashoff-poul-grashoff/1/ba6/251) and I look after the Dissemination and Exploitation Tasks for this project, and previously worked together on the Reorient project where I led the dissemination and knowledge base and communication and collaborations tools and utilisation tasks from Edinburgh Napier University (www.reorient.org.uk).

Previous EU projects include OPUS (http://www.opus-project.org/), led by Prof John Polak (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.polak ; http://www.cts.cv.ic.ac.uk/html/Staff/staffDetails.asp?id=JWP) of Imperial College London, where I was responsible for Internal Audit and communications function, and

ReOrient, on EU Railway policy and potential: 2004-2007, CoOrdinated by ToI in Norway), where I was responsible for the Knowledge Base (a combination of Document Repository, advanced search tools (TeraText) communications systems (Wikis, email management video conferencing), thematic mapping tools, OPen GIS access, and datacube analysis, developed by Robert Kukla and I to operational level by mid 2005). This KB is still running stably 6 years after project completion, subsequently served another EU Framework project (WorldNet) throughout its life and still garners >2000 hits a month... check it out at www.reorient.org.uk where the public components of the underlying >10Gb of materials are still operational and accessible.It also hosts a 2500 paper repository of the Association for European Transport annual conference papers, but not as a publicly accessible resource (at) where this full scale searchable OAI PMH compliant Repository was built in 3 days by Robert Kukla and Alan Cannon as a demonstration of how researchers can deliver swiftly repository tools that serve multi institutional networks.. and to illustrate the power of the RKB infrastructure, which has subsequently been declared Open Source.This raid build included an inverted tree approach to the generation of efficient keywords, which offered the ability to extend existing Thesauri to cover methodological terms with an equally efficient testing and verification via search processes

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