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Professor Majid Sarvi
Chair, Transport Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering; Program director, Transport Technologies; Professor, Transport for Smart Cities, University of Melbourne, and founder and a director of the AIMES (Australian Integrated Multimodal EcoSystem)
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Environment
Engineering a smart city
An app that can get you from A to B faster and safer? The technology to transform our burgeoning city transport systems into intelligent networks is already here
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Environment
New fixes for old traffic problems
Bringing transport systems into the 21st century means connecting all elements of the network – from the vehicles to the traffic lights, and even the pavements
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Sciences & Technology
Sounds like science fiction
Some of the technological innovations of 2017 sound more like sci-fi, but according to the brains behind a few of them, the future is still full of surprises
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Sciences & Technology
Stopping the stampede: Planning for urban emergencies
Engineers are using mice, ants and virtual reality to study crowd behaviour so infrastructure can cope with attacks and other disasters