Dr Sekhar Somenahalli

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Sekhar currently teaches courses related to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Transportation Planning.

Background:

Sekhar has a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Bangalore University, India, Masters Degree in Transportation Planning from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India and PhD from University of South Australia.

Previous Consulting role:

Sekhar worked on many urban transport consulting projects in India from 1988 to 1996 while working for RITES (A Government of India consulting company).

Previous Teaching role:

Sekhar worked as a lecturer in the department of Civil Engineering, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) from 1996 to 1999 and taught transport planning, traffic engineering and GIS related subjects.

Previous Research role:

Sekhar joined the Transport Systems Centre (TSC), University of South Australia, in July 1999 as a full time PhD research scholar on a scholarship. He received PhD degree in October 2002 for his thesis titled 'Transit service area and route coverage analysis using geographic information systems'. From July 2002 to January 2003, he was working as a research Asistant and worked on few ARC research projects.

Current role:

Since January 2003 Sekhar is working as a Lecturer in this School of Natural and Built Environments(NBE)and his duties include teaching GIS and Transportation courses and working on research projects at the two research centers namely the Institute for Sustainable Systems Technologies (Transport Systems) and the Barbara Hardy Centre for Sustainable Urban Environments

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You can download Sekhar's Resume from the link below

Resume

My School - School of Natural and Built Environments

My Research Center : Institute for Sustainable Systems Technologies (Transport Systems)

My Research Center (Affiliate Researcher): The Barbara Hardy Centre for Sustainable Urban Environments

• Geographic Information Systems
• Transportation Planning
• Public Transport Planning
• Traffic Engineering
• Highway Geometric Design and Capacity

Spatial Sciences Institute - Australia

Institute of Town Planners of India

Institute of Engineers - India

Higher Education Graduate Certificate,Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia - 2007

PhD in Transport Systems Engineering, University of South Australia - 2002

Master’s Degree in Transportation Planning from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India - 1994

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)from Bangalore University, Bangalore,India - 1988

• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Application of GIS in Transportation Planning
• Public Transport Planning
• Transport Demand Modelling

Siti Zaharah, I., Yue, W. L. & Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2009 - Under review) Level Crossing Modelling using Petri nets Approach and Ð-Tools. Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies Surabaya , Indonesia.

Susilawati, S., Taylor, M. A. P. & Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2009 - Under review) Travel Time Reliability Measurement for Selected Corridors in the Adelaide Metropolitan Area. Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies Surabaya , Indonesia.

Siti Zaharah, I., Yue, W. L. & Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2009- Under review) Petri nets Approach in Assessing the Safety Level at Level Crossing- the Effect of Traffic and Train Characteristics to Safety Performance. Proceedings of 32nd Australasian Transport Research Forum 2009. Auckland, New Zealand.

Kall, A. E. M., Carleberg, E. & Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2008) Development of Intersection Bicycle Level of Service (I-BLOS). IN RAO, K. V. K. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies Mumbai, India, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Siti Zaharah, I., Yue, W. L. & Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2008) The methodology development of railway level crossing safety systems: South Australia. Proceedings of the Computers in Railways XI: Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and Other Transit systems. Toledo, Spain.

Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2008) Finding a bicycle route that offers high Level of Service (LOS) in Adelaide City. Proceeding of the 31st Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF). Gold Coast.

Somenahalli, S. V. C., Sharma, S., Rao, K. K. V., Matthew, T., Dhingra, S. & Ramanayya, T. V. (2008) Multi-Criteria optimisation approach for planning a new bus route using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). IN RAO, K. V. K. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies For Developing Countries (TPMDC). Mumbai, India, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Susilawati, S., Taylor, M. A. P. & Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2008) An activity based approach for road network Vulnerability measurement. Proceeedings of the International conference and the annual meeting of the Chinese Institute of Transportation.

Somenahalli, S. V. C. & Taylor, M. A. P. (2007) Road network accessibility issues and impacts on regional Australia. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 7, 12.

Somenahalli, S. V. C. & Taylor, M. A. P. (2007) Ageing and Transport: Mobility Issues - A case study for Adelaide. Proceedings of State of Australian Cities National Conference. Adelaide.

Somenahalli, S. V. C. & Taylor, M. A. P. (2007) Elderly Mobility: Issues, Opinions and Analysis of trip making in Adelaide Proceedings of 30th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), . Melbourne

Somenahalli, S. V. C. & Taylor, M. A. P. (2007) Road Network Accessibility Issues and Impacts on Regional Australia. Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies conference. Dalian, China.

Taylor, M. A. P., Somenahalli, S. V. C. & D'este, G. M. D. (2006) Application of accessibility based methods for vulnerability analysis of stratgic road networks. Journal on Network and Spatial Economics: A special issue on reliability and emergency issues on transport network analysis, 6, 25.

Soltani, A. & Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2005) Household Vehicle Ownership: Does Urban Structure Matter? . Proceedings of 28th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) conference. Sydney.

Somenahalli, S. V. C., Yue, W. L. & Taylor, M. A. P. (2004) An approach to transit path design using GIS. International Journal of Urban Sciences, 8, 13.

Somenahalli, S. V. C., Yue, W. L. & Taylor, M. A. P. (2004) A GIS approach to transit buffer problem analysis. Proceedings of the Australian Transport Research Forum (ATRF). Adelaide.

Somenahalli, S. V. C., Yue, W. L. & Taylor, M. A. P. (2003) An approach to transit path design using GIS. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 5, 12.

Somenahalli, S. V. C., Yue, W. L. & Taylor, M. A. P. (2003) A Geo-demographic model for route based bus patronage estimation in a small and medium sized city. Proceedings of Spatial Sciences Institute conference. Canberra.

Somenahalli, S. V. C. & University of South Australia. School of Geoinformatics Planning and Building. (2002) Transit service area and route coverage analysis using Geographic Information Systems. School of Geoinformatics, Planning and Building. Adeliade, University of South Australia, 2002.

Somenahalli, S. V. C., Yue, W. L. & Coffee, N. (2002) Development of GIS based tools for transit service analysis. Proceedings of the joint AURISA and The Institution of Surveyors, Australia conference. Adelaide.

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

Discipline: Planning

• Public Transport Service Planning and GIS
• Geographic Information Systems
• Transport Planning