STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Richard Tay
Position:
Principal Research Fellow
College / Portfolio:
Business
School / Department:
Business IT and Logistics
Phone:
+61 3 9925 1438
Email:
richard.tay@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Richard Tay is a VC Senior Research Fellow and has over 25 years of experience in research, and translating research into policy and practice, particularly in transportation and logistics, health and safety, and consumer demand and choices.
- Richard has published over 118 articles in international refereed journals, including 50 articles in high quality journals (ERA or ABDC A* or A) such as Transportation Research Part A, B, D, E, F; Journal of Advanced Transportation; Transportation Research Record; Accident Analysis and Prevention; Analytic Methods in Accident Research; Qualitative Health Research; Safety Science; Environment and Planning A, B; Journal of Urban Design; Journal of Urban Economics; Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Ageing and Society, etc. He has also published 123 conference papers, including 27 in ERA A ranked conferences.
- He has served as the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Transportation; associate editor of Journal of Transportation Safety and Security, Asia Pacific Journal of transport, and the Journal of Advanced Transportation; guest editor of Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Open Transportation Journal, KSEC Journal of Civil Engineering, Transportation Research Part E; and editorial board member of Accident Analysis & Prevention, Australian College of Road Safety Journal, Canadian Journal of Transportation, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Analytic Methods in Accident Research, Asian Transport Studies, etc.
- He has been awarded numerous research grants, including six grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC), five grants from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and two grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as well as grants from National Law Enforcement Fund, Queensland Transport, NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trust, Transport Canada, Calgary Transit, City of Calgary, City of Edmonton, Capital Region Intersection Safety Partnership, Alberta Transportation, Alberta Motor Association Traffic Safety Foundation, etc.
- He has conducted numerous consultancy projects and training for various government agencies, multinational corporations and non-profit organizations around the world including Transport Canada, Alberta Transportation, British Columbia Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles, Edmonton Police Services, City of Edmonton, City of Red Deer, City of Calgary, Korean Transportation Institute, National Police Agency of Korea, Korea Expressway Corporation, Queensland Department of Transport, Queensland Police Services, Queensland Taxi Council, Queensland Department of Main Roads, Victorian Department of Justice, Land Transport Authority of New Zealand, Christchurch City Council, Volvo Car Asia Pacific, Volkswagen Asia Pacific, Singapore Ministry of Trade of Industry, Economic Development Board of Singapore, etc.
- He has been invited to serve as reviewer for many research grant agencies, including the National Health and Medical Research of Australia, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the US Department of Transportation, the National Research Foundation of Singapore, the Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences, the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, etc.
- He has been invited to speak at many conferences in Canada, USA, UK, Nigeria, Iran, Korea, Hong Kong, China, Bangladesh, Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia.
- He has been appointed to many government task forces and committees, including the Expert Reference Group, Road Safety Camera Commission; Expert Working Group, 2011 Research Infrastructure Roadmap for Australia; Safety Workforce Development Committee, Traffic Enforcement Committee, Safety Data Analysis, Policy Committee on the Supply of Demand of Safety Workforce, and Policy Committee on Lessons from Benchmark Nations for the Transportation Research Board in USA, as well as many government panels, committees and task forces in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
- He has been invited to provide advice to many government agencies, including Victoria Parliamentary Road Safety Committee; Victoria Parliamentary Committee on Drug and Crime; Victoria Department of Health; Victoria Department of Justice; Royal Automobile Club of Victoria; Victoria Police Services; Motor Accident Insurance Commission, Queensland; Queensland Transport; Queensland Police Services; Queensland Parliamentary Travel Safe Committee; Transportation Research Board, USA; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, USA; Advocates for Highway Safety, USA; Korean Transportation Institute; Korean Expressway Corporation; Korea National Police; etc.
- He has been invited to provide advice to many policy makers, including the Assistant Minister for Seniors Affairs, Alberta; Assistant Ministers for Transportation, Alberta; Superintendent, Department of Motor Vehicles, British Columbia; Chair of the Victoria Parliamentary Road Safety Committee; Minister of Transport, Singapore; Minister of Communications, Singapore; plus visiting government officials from Germany, Ireland, Canada, USA, Britain, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, etc.
- He has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Institute of Transportation Engineers - Australia and New Zealand; the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Victoria; Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland; and the Institute for Social Participation and Centre for Public Sector Governance, Accountability and Performance at La Trobe University, etc.
- He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Alberta Traffic Safety Fund, Centre for Transportation Engineering and Planning, Canadian Transportation Research Forum and the Van Horne Institute of Transportation, as well as the expert advisory panel for the Accident Research Institute in Bangladesh, the Korean Expressway Corporation and the Key Laboratory of Urban Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University and Ministry of Education, China.
- He has been invited to review research articles for many journals, including Transportation Research Part A, B, C, D, E & F, Journal of Advanced Transportation, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Transport Policy, Transportation Research Record, Road and Transport Research, Canadian Journal of Transport, Open Transportation Journal, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, ITS Journal, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of Automotive Engineering, ITE Journal, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Journal of the East Asian Society of Transportation, Transportmetrica, Journal of Transportation Safety and Security, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Safety Science , Journal of Safety Research, Injury Prevention, Traffic Injury Prevention, International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, Annals of Epidemiology, Health Policy, Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Health Economics, Health Education Research, Health Marketing Quarterly, IATSS Research, ACRS Journal, Network and Spatial Economics, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, International Journal of Transport Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Eastern Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Education, Contemporary Policy Issues, Canadian Public Policy, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Korean Journal of Civil Engineering, Journal of Environmental Management, Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, Journal of Gerontology, Personality and Individual Differences, Ageing and Society, British Journal of Occupational Therapists, Cities, Urban Studies, Journal of the American Planning Association, etc.
- He has been invited regularly by the media to by The New York Times, The Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Weekly, National Post, Globe and Mail, CBC TV, CBC News National, CTV News, Global TV, Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Sun, Edmonton Journal, Toronto Sun, Vancouver Sun, CBC Radio, Lite 95 Radio, Dave Rutherford Show, Saskatoon Star, Winnipeg Sun, Globe and Mail, Canadian Press, National Post, Seattle Post, Indiana Gazette, London Free Press, Vienna TV, The Australian, The Age, Courier Mail, 3AW, ABC News National, etc.
- PhD in Economics, Purdue University, USA
- MSc in Engineering Economic Systems, Stanford University, USA
- BSc in Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University, USA
- Fellow, Institute of Transportation Engineers
- Fellow, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
- Associate Professor in Engineering Management, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Chair in Road Safety Management and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
- AMA Chair in Road Safety and Professor in Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Associate Professor in Road Safety, Centre for Accident Research, School of Psychology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
- Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Marketing, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Lecturer, Department of Decision Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Lecturer, Department of Economics and Statistics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Visiting Scholar, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
- Unsworth, C.,Rawat, V.,O'Sullivan, J.,Tay, R.,Naweed, A.,Gudimetla, P. (2019). "I'm very visible but seldom seen": consumer choice and use of mobility aids on public transport In: Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, , 1 - 11
- Toran Pour, A.,Moridpour, S.,Tay, R.,Rajabifard, A. (2018). Influence of pedestrian age and gender on spatial and temporal distribution of pedestrian crashes In: Traffic Injury Prevention, 19, 81 - 87
- Shiwakoti, N.,Tay, R.,Stasinopoulos, P.,Woolley, P. (2018). Passengers' perceived ability to get out safely from an underground train station in an emergency situation In: Cognition, Technology and Work, 20, 367 - 375
- Tay, R. (2018). Effects of roadside memorials on red light running intention in different age, gender and personality groups In: Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 54, 86 - 95
- Moshahedi, N.,Kattan, L.,Tay, R. (2018). Factors associated with compliance rate at pedestrian crosswalks with Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon In: Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 45, 554 - 558
- Shiwakoti, N.,Tay, R.,Stasinopoulos, P.,De Sousa, T.,Barber, A. (2018). Development of on-site poster to influence pedestrian jaywalking behavior In: Proceedings of the 40th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF 2018), Darwin, Australia, 30 October - 1 November 2018
- Choi, J.,Tay, R.,Kim, S.,Jeong, S. (2017). Turning movements, vehicle offsets and ageing drivers driving behaviour at channelized and unchannelized intersections In: Accident Analysis and Prevention, 108, 227 - 233
- Bruce, C.,Unsworth, C.,Dillon, M.,Tay, R.,Falkmer, T.,Bird, P.,Carey, L. (2017). Hazard perception skills of young drivers with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can be improved with computer based driver training: An exploratory randomised controlled trial In: Accident Analysis and Prevention, 109, 70 - 77
- Shiwakoti, N.,Tay, R.,Stasinopoulos, P. (2017). Exploring jaywalking at intersections In: Proceedings of the 39th Australasian Transport Research Forum 2017, Auckland, New Zealand, 27-29 November 2017
- Tay, R. (2017). Correlation, variance inflation and multicollinearity in regression model In: Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 12, 2006 - 2015
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
2 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions6 PhD Current Supervisions
Transport and freight, Road safety, Transport economics, Transport policy, Transport safety, Sustainable transport, Transport accessibility, Intelligent transport systems, Consumer choice models, Driver behaviour
- 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)
- Digital Health CRC Core Participants Agreement - Umbrella Agreement. Funded by: Digital Health CRC from (2018 to 2025)
- Evaluating the influence of green wave and warning signs on cyclist safety. Funded by: Transport Accident Commission (TAC) Grant 2016 from (2016 to 2018)
- Reducing jaywalking and distracted walking behaviour at intersections C383. Funded by: TAC Community Road Safety Grants 2017 from (2016 to 2018)
- Identifying vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-cyclist traffic conflict hotspots around the RMIT University city campus. Funded by: Transport Accident Commission (TAC) Grant 2016 from (2016 to 2018)