ProfessorJohn Rose

After an eight-year absence, John re-joined the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies as the Neil Smith Research Chair in Sustainable Transport Futures in October 2022. Having been a member of the Institute from 2001 to 2014, John left to first become a director at the Institute for Choice at the University of South Australia before becoming founding director of the Institute for Business Intelligence and Data Analytics (BIDA) at the University of Technology Sydney.

John undertook a Bachelor of Economics, majoring in Economics, Econometrics and Marketing (with Honours) at the University of Sydney, where he also worked as a tutor and associate lecturer teaching within the marketing discipline. In 2006, he completed his PhD at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies under the supervision of Professor David Hensher in the area of Transport Economics dealing specifically with optimal design theory for discrete choice experiments.

Over the course of his academic career, John has published over 300 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings. He has also been an Associate Editor of Transportation, and Co-Editor and Chief of the Journal of Choice Modelling and Transportation Research Part A. He has also held various roles on multiple conference committees both in Australia and overseas.

Since graduating with a PhD, John has been obtained numerous grants worth over $3.4 million. These include a number of ARC discovery grants in the areas of Public Health, Transportation crowding, general economic theory related to utility separability as well as one on improving the external validity of Discrete Choice Experiments. In addition to academic grants, John has been involved in $9 million in industry-based contract research since the year 2005. John is also director of several companies, including CaPPRe and is co-developer of the Ngene software for generating experimental designs for stated choice surveys.