Associate Professor Sara Moridpour

Areas of research and consulting expertise

• Driving behaviour modelling and analysis,
• Transport infrastructure maintenance planning and management,
• Road freight management,
• Transport network modelling and simulation,
• Traffic safety studies.

Achievements

• Winner of AutoCRC Postgraduate Top-Up Scholarships, June 2007.
• Awarded the David Willis Prize for the best paper by a young professional in the 32nd Australasian Transport Research Forum, Auckland, New Zealand, 2009 ($300).
• Winner of the PTV Vision Scientific Award, 2011 (€1,000).
• Winner of the RMIT University Teaching Award of Early Career Academics (Higher Education), 2012 ($5,000).
• Winner of the RMIT University Early Career Researcher International Travel award, 2014 ($4,600).
• Selected as one of the finalists for Young Professional of the Year (Victoria) Award by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Australia, Victoria Division, 2015.
• Selected as one of the finalists for Young Professional of the Year Award by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Australia, 2015.
• Winner of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Rising Star Award for Australia and New Zealand, 2016.
• Awarded the Executive Ready Leadership Scholarships for Women, 2016 ($4,000).
• Winner of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Pedestrian Committee (ANF10) Best Paper Award, 2016.
• Selected as one of the finalists for the Sixth Annual Australian Road Safety Awards, 2017.
• Selected as one of the finalists for the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) Research Impact Award, 2017.
• Awarded the Scholarship for Advanced Leadership Program for Higher Education, 2018, ($3,000).
• Awarded a place to attend the CSIRO Innovation Program-ON Prime4, 2018.
• Selected as one of the finalists for the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) Research Impact Award, 2018.

External research funding

• "Tram Track Maintenance Optimisation", Yarra Trams, 2014-2016, $90,000.
• "Traffic Management: Signal Coordination vs. Heavy Vehicle Restriction", Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) Group Road Infrastructure and Operations Research Support Grants, 2014-2015, $50,000.
• The Ian Potter Foundation Travel Grant, Round One, 2016, $2,500.
• Cyclists at roundabouts, Moridpour, S., Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd, 2016, $2,340.
• "Evaluating the Influence of Green Wave and Warning Signs on Cyclist Safety", Transport Accident Commission Community Road Safety Grants, 2016-2017, $24,992.
• "Identifying Vehicle-pedestrian and Vehicle-cyclist Traffic Conflict Hotspots around the RMIT University City Campus", Transport Accident Commission Community Road Safety Grants, 2016-2017, $24,983.
• "Transport Infrastructure Maintenance", Moridpour, S., CSIRO ON Prime Program, 2018, $1,750.
• Bavarian Funding Programme for the Initiation of International Projects Travel Grant, 2018, €8,133 (equivalent to AUD12,525)
• RMIT University Grant Scheme for Teaching and Learning Research (STeLR), College of Science, Engineering and Health, 2018, $8,400.

Teaching and coordinating

• Transport Engineering 1, CIVE1180,
• Transport Engineering 2, CIVE1157,
• Transport Engineering 3, CIVE1182,
  
• Advanced Transport Infrastructure, CIVE1253.
  

• B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 1998-2002.
• M.Eng. in Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2002-2004. 
• PhD in Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Monash University, Australia, 2006-2010.
• Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning, RMIT University, Australia, 2011-2012.
• Graduate Certificate in Executive Ready Leadership Program, Women and Leadership Australia, 2017.
• Graduate Certificate in Advanced Leadership Program for Higher Education, Women and Leadership Australia, 2018.

Professional memberships

• Member of the Institute of Engineers Australia, 2006-2016.
• Technical and Organising Committee Member of the 1st International Conference on Infrastructure Failures and Consequences, 16-20 July 2014, Melbourne, Australia.
• Technical and Organising Committee Member of the RMIT Higher Degree by Research Student Conference, 17 October 2014, Melbourne, Australia.
• Programme Committee Member of IEEE Asia-Pacific World Congress on Engineering, 4-6 May 2015, Plantation Island, Fiji.
• Executive Board Member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Australia and New Zealand Section Inc. (ITEANZ), 2015 to present.
• Technical Committee Member of the 5th International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Engineering, 6-10 July 2016, Lucerne, Switzerland.
• Editorial Board Member, The Open Transportation Journal, 2016 to present.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research, 2016 to present.
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering, 2017 to present.
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, 2017 to present.
• Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, 2017 to present.
• Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Optimization Concepts in Traffic and Transportation Science", Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2017.
• Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Sustainable and Resilient Transport Infrastructure", Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2018.
• Scientific Committee Member and Deputy Leader of "Traffic Engineering and Management" Committee in the 40th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) Conference, 30 October-1 November 2018, Darwin, Australia.
• Technical Committee Member of the 7th International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Engineering, 21-23 December 2018, Beijing, China.

Employment history

• Part-time Civil Engineer in Kongereh Sazan Co., Iran, June 2002 to July 2003.
• Research Assistant in Traffic and Transport Engineering/Science in the Institute for Transportation Studies and Research (ITSR) in Sharif University of Technology, Iran, August 2003 to August 2005.
• Traffic Engineer and Project associate in Rah Andishan-e-Pars Consulting Engineers, Iran, October 2005 to May 2006.
• Tutoring, demonstration and Marking in Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia, July 2006 to June 2010.
• Tutoring and Marking at Monash College Pty. Ltd., Australia, July 2009 to June 2010.
• Lecturer, Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Discipline, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia, July 2010 to December 2014.
• Senior Lecturer, Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Discipline, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia, January 2015 to present.
• Lecturer, School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, 2010 - 2014.
• Senior Lecturer, School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, 2015 - Present.

Formal talks and training courses

• Moridpour, S., Rose, G. and Sarvi, M. 2010. Lane Changing Behaviour of Heavy Vehicle Drivers. The PTV Vision Asia-Pacific Users Group Meeting, Sydney, Australia, 18-19 November. (Invited Speech)
• Moridpour, S., Rose, G. and Sarvi, M. 2011. Lane Changing Behaviour of Heavy Vehicle Drivers. The 21st PTV Users' Group Meeting, New York, U.S., 13-14 September. (Invited Speech)
• Moridpour, S. 2013. Microsimulation of Driving Behaviour in Congestion. Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia, 3 April. (Invited Speech)
• Moridpour, S., Lay, M. and Li, C. Q. 2013. Influence of Heavy Vehicles on their Surrounding Traffic Characteristics. The 2nd International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS), Wuhan, China, 28 June-1 July. (Invited Speech)
• Lay, M., Moridpour, S. and Li, C. Q. 2013. New Understandings of Traffic Behaviour. The 2nd International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS), Wuhan, China, 28 June-1 July. (Keynote Speech)
• Interview on "Transport and Road Research" published in Engineers Australia Journal, Civil Edition, 86(10):56, October 2014.
• Moridpour, S. 2017. Measuring Accessibility and Accident Risk in Melbourne Metropolitan Area. The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC), Sydney, Australia, 11 July. (Invited Speech)
• Organising and running a three day training course "Transport Infrastructure and Safety" for Henan Transport Investment Group from Wuhan, China, 4-6 September 2012.
• Organising and running the "RMIT University Transport Career Talk" for undergraduate and postgraduate students as the representative of ITEANZ, second semester, 2015 to present.
• Organising and running the ITEANZ Transportation Seminar titled "Learning from History" at RMIT University, 4 April, 2018.
• Organising and running the ITEANZ Transportation Seminar titled "Sustainable Transport" at RMIT University, 1 May, 2018.
• Organising and running the ITEANZ Transportation Seminar titled "Transport Pricing" at RMIT University, 26 June, 2018.
• Organising and running the ITEANZ Transportation Seminar titled "On Your Bike" at RMIT University, 24 July, 2018.