Dr Nicholas Holyoak |
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| Position: | Research Fellow | |
| Division/Portfolio: | Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment | |
| School/Unit: | Division Office Research IEE | |
| Group: | Barbara Hardy Institute | |
| Campus: | City East Campus | |
| Office: | BJ3-15 | |
| Telephone: | +61 8 830 21220 | |
| Fax: | +61 8 830 21880 | |
| Email: | nicholas_dot_holyoak_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au | |
| URL for Business Card: | http://people.unisa.edu.au/nicholas.holyoak | |
Dr. Nicholas Holyoak is a Research Fellow and with the Barbara Hardy Institute specialising in Transport Systems. Within this homepage you can find out about his role within the University as well as information about research and teaching interests, student supervision and publications.
Links to other sites
Barbara Hardy Institute on facebook
The 34th Australasian Transport Research Forum, co-hosted by UniSA.
The 2011 Oceania Cube User Conference, co-hosted by UniSA.
Teaching interests
- Transport Planning
- Transport Modelling Software
- Behavioral and Choice Modelling
- Survey Design, Implementation and Analysis
- Geographic Information Systems
- Specialist software expertise includes: transport planning, [Cube, TransCAD, SATURN and others...], stated preference and surveys [NGene, NLogit, WinQuery], GIS [ArcGIS, Manifold], statistics [SPSS]
I teach the following courses
| CIVE 5071 | Advanced Transport Network Analysis |
| CIVE 5072 | Traffic Planning |
| CIVE 2001 | Geoinformatics for Engineers |
| CIVE 4021 | Transportation Engineering |
| ARCH 5014 | Transport and Planning |
Qualifications
BEng Hons (Civil)
PhD Transport Systems
Research interests
- Modelling travel behavior at all scales
- Survey design, deployment and data analysis
- Sustainable transport
- Electric vehicles
- Stated preference and choice modelling
Research publications
Research Degree Supervisor
I am a registered research degree supervisor in the field of transport systems.Current Projects:
A Study on Household Vehicle Ownership in Mid-Sized Cities of South East Asia: A Case Study
| The massive use of motorcycles is a unique traffic characteristic of Southeast Asia. Combining with the rapid increase in availability and use of private cars in recent years, this multi-modal traffic condition has led to many consequent transport issues in most crowded urban areas in this region, especially in Thailand. Due to the rapid economic growth in Thailand in the past few decades, several transport issues that used to occur only in Bangkok have spread across most of regional mid-sized cities in the country. Because most of the transport issues found in mid-sized cities of Thailand are caused by the massive use of private cars and motorcycles, a clear solution to those issues lies in the reduction of private vehicle usage. Household vehicle ownership seems to be a crucial underlying factor regarding people’s private vehicle usage behaviour. Therefore, understanding the nature of household vehicle ownership and determining how to influence this could provide another effective approach to regulate the usage of private vehicle in these cities. This research was developed to explore the fundamental nature of household vehicle ownership in mid-sized cities of Thailand, using Khon Kaen City as the principal study area. The nature of household vehicle ownership found in the research was also compared to that in other multi-million population cities in Southeast Asia, so as to examine opportunities in transferring some policies and schemes previously introduced in those large cities to the mid-sized cities. Eventually, the research came up with a set of proposed policies and schemes specifically designed for regulating household vehicle ownership and usage in the study area and all other mid-sized cities in Thailand. |
| Due to a number of catastrophic events, vulnerability analysis has been an area of increasing interest and esearch since the mid 1990s. This research seeks to look at the results of two vulnerability measures, importance and exposure, applied to networks for macroscopic and mesoscopic modelling within the city of Adelaide. The research looks at the case study of the road network disruption associated with the South Road / Anzac Highway underpass construction. As a two-year construction project at a major Adelaide intersection, long-term disruptions were faced by many travellers along the route. These disruptions had a severe impact on the local area, with slightly less of an impact on the network as a whole. |
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