Dr Rocco Zito |
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| Position: | Acting Director: Transport Systems Centre | |
| Division/Portfolio: | Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment | |
| School/Unit: | Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies | |
| Campus: | City East Campus | |
| Office: | BJ3-09 | |
| Telephone: | +61 8 830 21863 | |
| Fax: | +61 8 830 21880 | |
| Email: | Rocco_dot_Zito_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au | |
| URL for Business Card: | http://people.unisa.edu.au/Rocco.Zito | |
Rocco Zito is a Civil Engineer by profession. He graduated with honours from the University of South Australia in 1991. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow and deputy Director of the Transport Systems Centre at the University of South Australia.
His field of research is transport applications of GPS and the development of software and hardware tools for using GPS in a GIS environment. Recently he has been also been involved in several research projects dealing with the modelling of emissions from vehicles for environmental analysis.
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Professional associations
Institution of Engineers Australia
Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management
Chartered Institure of Logistics and Transport in Australia
Qualifications
BEng(Civil) with honours
PhD
Research interests
- His field of research is transport applications of GPS and the development of software and hardware tools for using GPS in a GIS environment. Recently he has been also been involved in several research projects dealing with the modelling of emissions from vehicles for environmental analysis.
- The use of new technologies in transportation
Research publications
Zito, R (2002). Ph Thesis: The integration of GPS and GIS in transportation Applications, University of South Australia
Taylor, M A P, Zito, R and Woolley, J E (2001). Effects of ITS implementations – INMS and ATIS – on greenhouse gas and air quality emissions in an urban road corridor, assessed using an instrumented probe vehicle and microsimulation modelling. Proc 9th World Conference on Transport Research, Seoul, July, paper no 6403, CD-ROM(Korea Transport Institute/Korean Society of Transportation: Seoul).
Taylor, M A P, Woolley, J E and Zito, R (2000). Integration of the global positioning system and geographical information systems for traffic congestion studies. Transportation Research C Vol8 2000.
4. Zito, R and Taylor, MAP(1999) Real Time GPS/GIS Navigation for Police Helicopter Operations. Proceedings Intelligent Transport Systems Australia 4th International conference. Adelaide May 1999.
Zito, R and Taylor, MAP(1996) Speed Profiles and Vehicle Fuel Consumption at LATM Devices. Proceedings ARRB 18th conference, Vol 18(7) pp. 391-406
Research Degree Supervisor
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