Dr Peter Pudney

2000, PhD in Mathematics, University of South Australia.

1986, Master of Applied Science in Computer Studies, South Australian Institute of Technology

1982, Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Studies, South Australian Institute of Technology

• Efficient transport

  • Development of Trev, a two-seater renewable energy vehicle
  • AutoCRC project: Planning for Electric Vehicles in Australia
  • Evaluation of a Solectria electric car
  
  
  

• Solar cars

  • Strategist and solar array designer for Aurora Vehicles
  • 2005: Second, World Solar Challenge
  • 2003: Second, World Solar Challenge
  • 2002: Around Australia, 13000km in 24 days
  • 2001: Second, World Solar Challenge
  • 2000: Sydney - Melbourne in a day
  • 1999: Winner, World Solar Challenge
  • 1994: Perth - Sydney in 8 days
  • Technical advisor, SA Solar Car Consortium
  
  
  

• RailCRC

  • Development of an in-cab advice system for improving timekeeping and reducing energy consumption on long-haul trains
  • Automated scheduling for long-haul rail networks
  • Assessing the impacts of temporary speed restrictions
  • Corridor capacity analysis
  • Dynamic crew scheduling
  
  
  

• Other

  • Solar lighting
  • Predicting overload in wireless communications channels
  • Water-powered generator for remote villages
  
  
  

Books

Pudney PJ, 2000, Optimal energy management for solar powered cars, PhD Thesis, University of South Australia.

Howlett PG & Pudney, PJ, 1995, Energy-Efficient Train Control, Advances in Industrial Control, Springer, London.

Patents

Pudney PJ & Howlett PG, 2008, Scheduling method and system for rail networks, US7428452, 23 September 2008.

Pudney PJ & Howlett PG, 2006, System for improving timekeeping and saving energy on long-haul trains, GB2405016, 26 July 2006.

Long AM, Milroy IP, Benjamin BR, Gelonese GA & Pudney PJ, 1990, System for energy conservation on rail vehicles, WO90/03622, 5 April 1990.

Recent refereed publications

Howlett PG, Pudney PJ & Vu X, 2009, Local energy minimisation in optimal train control, Automatica, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 2692-2698.

Albrecht A, Holyoak N, Racui R, Pudney P & Zito R, 2009, Electric vehicles: the solution to emissions from transport?, AutoCRC 2009 Conference Proceedings, 5 March 2009, Melbourne, Australia.

Teh A, Jayasuriya A, Pudney P, 2008, Admission control in wireless infrastructure networks based on the predicted percentage of delayed packets, 14th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, 2008, 14–16 October 2008, Tokyo, Japan.

Pudney P & Wardrop A, 2008, Generating train plans with Problem Space Search, in Computer-aided Systems in Public Transport, edited by M Hickman, P Mirchandani & S Voß, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer.

Mills G & Pudney P, 2008, The effects of deadlock avoidance on rail network capacity and performance, Proceedings of the 2003 Mathematics-in-Industry Study Group.

Teh A, Pudney P & Jayasuriya A, 2007, Efficient admission control based on predicted traffic characteristics, Proceedings of the 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’07), 3-5 September, Athens, Greece, IEEE.

Howlett P, Pudney P & Vu X, 2004, Estimating train parameters with an Unscented Kalman filter, Proceedings of the Fifth Asia-Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference, Gold Coast, 12-15 December 2004, ed. E Kozan, Queensland University of Technology.

Pudney P & Zito R, 2004, Predicting the energy use of a solar-electric commuter car, and some implications for sustainable transport, Papers of the 27th Australasian Transport Research Forum. September, Adelaide. CD-ROM, Paper no 47, Transport Systems Centre, University of South Australia: Adelaide.

Yee R & Pudney P, 2004, Saving fuel on long-haul trains: FreightMiser initial trial results, Proceedings of CORE 2004 Conference of Railway Engineering, Darwin, 20-23 June 2004.

Pudney P & Howlett P, 2003, An optimal battery interchange policy for an electric car powered by a mobile solar power station, Australian & New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal, vol. 44, part E, pp. E255-E268.

Pudney P & Howlett P, 2002, Critical speed control of a solar car, Optimisation and Engineering, vol. 3, pp. 97-107, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.

Ernst A & Pudney P, 2002, Efficient loading of intermodal container trains, in Proceedings of the 2001 Mathematics-in-Industry Study Group, edited by J Hewitt.

Boland J, Gaitsgory V, Howlett P & Pudney P, 2001, Stochastic optimal control of a solar powered car, in Progress in Optimisation III, Contributions from Australasia, edited by A Rubinov, pp. 71-82, Kluwer.

Boland J, Gaitsgory V, Howlett P & Pudney P, 2001, Stochastic optimal control of a solar car, in Optimization and Related Topics, edited by Rubinov, A. & Glover, B., Applied Optimization, vol. 47, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Pudney PJ, 2000, Wiring a curved photovoltaic array, Solar 2000, From Fossils to Photons, Brisbane, November 2000.

Howlett P & Pudney P, 2000, Energy-efficient driving strategies for long-haul trains, Proceedings of CORE 2000 Conference on Railway Engineering, Adelaide, 21-23 May 2000.

Wardrop A & Pudney P, 2000, Development of strategic infrastructure and train operations modelling, Proceedings of CORE 2000 Conference on Railway Engineering, Adelaide, 21-23 May 2000.

Cheng J, Davydova Y, Howlett P & Pudney P, 1999, Optimal driving strategies for a train journey with non-zero track gradient and speed limits, IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry, vol. 10, pp. 89-115.

Selected reports

Albrecht A, Holyoak N, Racui R, Pudney P, Taylor M, Zito R & Groves J, 2009, Technologies for sustainable vehicles, AutoCRC.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Applied Mathematics

• Energy-efficient transport
• Solar and electric vehicles
• Planning for electric vehicles in Australia