ProfessorMichiel Bliemer

MSc RUG PhD Delft

Michiel joined the University of Sydney as Professor and Chair in Transport Network Modelling in early 2012. Before moving to Australia he was Associate Professor in Transport Planning at Delft University of Technology, and worked as a consultant at Goudappel Coffeng, the largest transport and traffic consultancy in the Netherlands. Michiel is the Discipline Lead for Logistics & Supply Chain Management in the School of International Business, Logistics and Supply Chains. Further, he is a member of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, which is the Commonwealth Key Centre of Teaching and Research in Transport Management.

Michiel studied Econometrics and Operations Research at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), with a one-year study visit at Brown University (USA), and was awarded a MSc degree (cum laude) in 1996. In 2001 he received a PhD degree in transport planning and traffic engineering at Delft University of Technology for his work on the topic of multiclass dynamic traffic assignment.

Michiel has published over 200 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings. He is Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part C and the Journal of Choice Modelling. He is an affiliate of the Choice Modelling Centre at the University of Leeds and the Erasmus University Rotterdam, a member of the Scientific International Advisory Committee of the Dynamic Traffic Assignment Symposium, and a member of the International Association on Travel Behaviour Research. In 2017 Michiel was the recipient of the Business School Excellence in Research Award. In addition, in 2018 Michiel founded the Transport Research Association for NSW, which organises an annual symposium with presentations from research students from the Univeristy of Sydney, UNSW, UTS, and the University of Wollongong. He is also Director of the Travel Choice Simulation Laboratory and the Future Transport Research Group.

Michiel has been successful in obtaining grants from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) with respect to two large road pricing studies, as well as nine grants from the Australian Research Council on various topics, including Discovery Projects, Linkage Projects, and LIEF. He received funding from the Australian Data Research Commons to develop and integrate transport planning and simulation tools PLANit and MATSim in the Australian Transport Research Cloud. Michiel works actively with governments and industry partners to bring scientific innovations to practice. He has advised governments in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium regarding their transport model systems, has developed several traffic assignment and simulation models and algorithms implemented in the OmniTRANS and AIMSUN software tools, and is co-developer of the Ngene software for generating experimental designs for stated choice surveys.