PhD School

Prof. Dr. Michiel C. J. Bliemer is a transportation researcher specializing in transport planning and network modelling, with research interests covering traffic assignment, route choice, travel behaviour, discrete choice modelling, road pricing, and transport network performance. He is Professor and Chair in Transport Network Modelling at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, which he joined in 2012. He holds an MSc from the University of Groningen and a PhD from Delft University of Technology. His work connects transport network modelling with behavioural choice modelling, including applications in strategic transport planning, traffic assignment, road pricing, and travel demand analysis. He is also an Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

Dr. Anke Ye is a transportation researcher specializing in the modeling and optimization of urban mobility and transport systems, with a focus on emerging services such as on-demand delivery, ride-sharing, and tradable credit schemes. She currently leads the Travel Demand Management research group at the Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), working with Prof. Dr. Klaus Bogenberger. She completed her PhD at Zhejiang University and conducted visiting research at EPFL under Dr. Kenan Zhang and Prof. Nikolaos Geroliminis. Her work draws on transport system modeling, game theory, and data-driven methods, and has been published in Transportation Research Part C and Part E. She has been an active participant in the International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT), contributing both research presentations and ongoing engagement with the community.

Prof. Robert L. Bertini, P.E. is Professor and Head of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at The University of Alabama, where he also serves as Chief Transportation Science Research and Development Officer with the Alabama Transportation Institute. He previously founded the Portland State University Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory and the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium, and has served as director or associate director for several National and Tier One University Transportation Research Centers. He also served as Deputy Administrator for Research and Innovative Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation, leading the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office and supporting international collaboration with the European Commission and Japan. His work spans transportation systems, intelligent transportation systems, traffic flow theory, transportation operations, multimodal data, performance measurement, modeling, and prediction. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and a Senior Member of IEEE.