STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Sara Moridpour
Position:
Associate Dean Student Experience - Engineering
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|Learning, Teaching and Quality
Phone:
+61399252407
Email:
sara.moridpour@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Dr Sara Mordipour is an expert in traffic engineering and transportation modelling.
She works in the areas of driving behaviour modelling and analysis, road freight management, transport infrastructure maintenance planning and management, transport network modelling and simulation, and road safety.Research Expertise
- Transport Modelling
- Sustainable Transport and Accessibility
- Transport Infrastructure Maintenance
- Traffic Safety
- Driving Behaviour Simulation
Teaching Expertise
- Traffic Engineering
- Transport Modelling
- Road Design
- Road Infrastructure Maintenance
Awards
Leadership Awards and Scholarships
- Veski Inspiring Women in STEM Sidebyside Leadership Award, 2023.
- The School of Engineering at RMIT University Leadership Award, 2021.
- Position for Wattle Program for Academic Leaders, 2021.
- Scholarship for Advanced Leadership Program for Higher Education, 2018.
- The Executive Ready Leadership Scholarship for Women, 2016.
Teaching Awards
- The Executive Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award for the Greatest Teaching Practice Innovation, 2020.
- The School of Engineering at RMIT University Teaching Award for the Highest Teaching Performance, 2019.
- The RMIT University Teaching Award of Early Career Academics (Higher Education), 2012.
Research Awards
- The Article of the Year Award, Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2022.
- The School of Engineering at RMIT University Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Supervision Award for Outstanding HDR Supervision, 2019.
- The Best Paper Award from the 19th International Conference on Transportation Networks and Transportation Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, 2017.
- The Institute of Transportation Engineers Rising Star Award for Australia and New Zealand, 2016.
- The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Pedestrian Committee (ANF10) Best Paper Award, 2016.
- The RMIT University Early Career Researcher International Travel award, 2014.
- The PTV Vision Scientific Award, 2011.
- The David Willis Prize for the best paper by a young professional in the 32nd Australasian Transport Research Forum, Auckland, New Zealand, 2009.
Memberships
- Executive Board Member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Australia and New Zealand Section Inc. (ITEANZ), 2015 - present.
- Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, 2017 - present.
- Executive Committee Member of the Australian Association for Engineering Education, 2019 - present.
Editorial Board Memberships
- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering, 2018 - present.
- Editor, Scientific Reports, 2021 - present.
- Editor, Sustainability Journal, 2020 - present.
- Editor, Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2020 - present.
- Editor, Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, 2017 - present.
- Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research, 2016 - present.
- Editor, The Open Transportation Journal, 2016 - 2020.
Guest Editorial Membership of Special Issues
- Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Impact of COVID-19 on Pedestrian Behavior, Road Safety and Sustainable Transportation”, Sustainability Journal, 2022.
- Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Pedestrian Safety and Sustainable Transportation”, Sustainability Journal, 2019.
- Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Sustainable and Resilient Transport Infrastructure”, Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2018.
- Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Optimization Concepts in Traffic and Transportation Science”, Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2017.
Technical/Organising Committee Memberships
- Technical Committee Member of the 10th International Conference on Traffic and Logistic Engineering, 12-14 August 2022, Macau, China.
- Technical Committee Member of the 11th International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Engineering, 27-29 December 2022, Wuhan, China.
- Technical Committee Member of the 9th International Conference on Traffic and Logistic Engineering, 9-11 August 2021, Macau, China.
- Scientific Committee Member and Deputy Chair of “Traffic Engineering, Management and Safety” Committee in the 42nd Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) Conference, 8-10 December 2021, Brisbane, Australia.
- Technical Committee Member of the 10th International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Engineering, 24-26 December 2021, Chengdu, China.
- Technical Committee Member of the 9th International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Engineering, 29-31 December 2020, Naples, Italy.
- Scientific Committee Member and Chair of “Traffic Engineering, Management and Safety” Committee in the 41st Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) Conference, 30 September to 2 October 2019, Canberra, Australia.
- Technical Committee Member of the 8th International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Engineering, 19-21 December 2019, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Scientific Committee Member and Deputy Chair/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.
- Technical Committee Member of the 5th International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Engineering, 6-10 July 2016, Lucerne, Switzerland.
- Programme Committee Member of IEEE Asia-Pacific World Congress on Engineering, 4-6 May 2015, Plantation Island, Fiji.
RMIT University Leadership
- Associate Dean of Student Experience (School of Engineering), 2021 - present.
- Program Manager, Bachelor of Engineering - BH126, 2019 - 2021.
- Program Manager, Master of Engineering (Civil Engineering) - MC257, 2016 - 2021.
- Program Developer, Master of Engineering (Civil Engineering)-MC257, 2015 - 2016.
- Onternational Coordinator and Selection Officer, Bachelor of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (BH077 and BH088), 2010 - 2015.
Teaching and Coordinating
- Transport Engineering 2 -CIVE1157, Undergraduate Course, 2011 - present.
- Transport Engineering 3 - CIVE1182, Undergraduate Course, 2011 - 2019.
- Advanced Transport Infrastructure - CIVE1253, Postgraduate Course, 2018 - 2022.
By appointment
- Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning, RMIT University, Australia, 2012.
- PhD in Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Monash University, Australia, 2011.
- M.Eng. in Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2004.
- B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2002.
- Aminpour, M.,Alaie, R.,Khosravi, S.,Kardani, N.,Moridpour, S.,Nazem, M. (2023). Slope stability machine learning predictions on spatially variable random fields with and without factor of safety calculations In: Computers and Geotechnics, 153, 1 - 18
- Paul, D.,Moridpour, S.,Nguyen, L. (2023). Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 on the Behaviour of Pedestrians In: Sustainability, 15, 1 - 23
- Shtayat, A.,Moridpour, S.,Best, B.,Daoud, H. (2023). Application of noise-cancelling and smoothing techniques in road pavement vibration monitoring data In: International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, , 1 - 10
- Shtayat, A.,Moridpour, S. (2023). An Alternative System for Assessing Pavement Condition in the Event of an Epidemic: A Case of COVID-19 In: Sustainability, 15, 1 - 10
- Mayo, F.,Maglasang, R.,Moridpour, S.,Taboada, E. (2022). Impact of transport policies to commuter safety in urban cities of a developing country: A sustainability and system perspective In: Case Studies on Transport Policy, 10, 2138 - 2152
- Fatima, K.,Moridpour, S.,Saghapour, T. (2022). Development of a Public Transport Accessibility Index for Older Commuters: A Time-Based Approach In: Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2022, 1 - 15
- Iranmanesh, M.,Seyedabrishami, S.,Moridpour, S. (2022). Identifying high crash risk segments in rural roads using ensemble decision tree-based models In: Scientific Reports, 12, 1 - 16
- Karimi, S.,Aghabayk, K.,Moridpour, S. (2022). Impact of driving style, behaviour and anger on crash involvement among Iranian intercity bus drivers In: IATSS Research, 46, 457 - 466
- Shtayat, A.,Moridpour, S.,Best, B.,Abuhassan, M. (2022). In press - Using supervised machine learning algorithms in pavement degradation monitoring In: International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, , 1 - 12
- Aminpour, M.,Alaie, R.,Kardani, N.,Moridpour, S.,Nazem, M. (2022). In press - Highly efficient reliability analysis of anisotropic heterogeneous slopes: machine learning-aided Monte Carlo method In: Acta Geotechnica, , 1 - 17
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
8 PhD Completions and 6 Masters by Research Completions9 PhD Current Supervisions
Transport Modelling, Traffic Simulation and Analysis, Sustainable Transport, Transport Infrastructure Maintenance, Traffic Safety
- Soil dynamics at extreme deformations. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2020 from (2020 to 2023)
- Enhancing the young pedestrians' perceived risk of distraction. Funded by: Justice and Community Safety Directorate - competitive from (2020 to 2023)
- Identifying the pedestrian and cyclist crash black spots in ACT road network. Funded by: Justice and Community Safety Directorate - competitive from (2020 to 2023)
- Investigation of the impact of age and gender on spatial and temporal distributions of vehicle-pedestrian crashes in the ACT. Funded by: Justice and Community Safety Directorate - competitive from (2019 to 2020)
- Improvement of systematic road maintenance by means of vibration monitoring and image analysis (Verbesserung der systematischen Strassenerhaltung mittels SchwingungsÜberwachung und Bildauswertung). Funded by: Bavarian Research Alliance from (2018 to 2018)