Dr Soufiane Boufous
Field of Research (FoR): Road Safety
Tel: +61 2 9385 6227
Email: soufiane@unsw.edu.au
Recent or suggested topics include:
- Reporting of aviation crashes in Australian newspapers
- Airline safety in the age of social media
- The analysis of digital flight data to monitor the performance of flying students
- Trends and characteristic s of runway incursions in Australia. Analysis of ATSB aviation safety investigations and reports
- Factors that contribute to pilot shortage in Australia
- Data integration and aviation safety
Dr Carlo Caponecchia
Field of Research (FoR): Human Factors and Safety
Tel: +61 2 9385 7184
Email: carloc@unsw.edu.au
Recent or suggested topics include:
- Driving home drowsy: drowsiness on commuter trips
- Validation of selection tests for trainee pilots
- Assessing safety knowledge, skills and competencies in management
- Assessing the validity of trainee Pilot selection tests
- Methods for providing feedback on trainee pilot visual scanning
- Driver distraction from smartphone use, including voice control activation
- Driver drowsiness on short commuter trips
- Reliability and usability of methods for understanding complex systems and incidents (eg. FRAM)
- Evaluating methods for error and incident classification
- Safety management, practices and responsibilities for transnational operations
- Aviation health and wellbeing: physical and mental health of crew and passengers
- Improving Injury data classification and management
Associate Professor Julie Hatfield
Field of Research (FoR): Operator training and education; Human response to aircraft noise; Cycling safety.
Tel: +61 2 9385 7949
Email: j.hatfield@unsw.edu.au
Recent or suggested topics include:
- Coaching versus instruction; which best supports trainee pilot outcomes?
- The effect of relaxation training on response to critical situations in flight
- Training pilot scanning patterns using attentional highlighting
- Trends and characteristics of ground safety incidents at Australian airports
- How do young cyclists ride? building an evidence base for riding safety education
- Using naturalistic driving data to understand driver’s safety-relevant behaviour
Dr Tay T.R. Koo
Field of Research (FoR): Air Transportation and Freight Services, Human Geography, Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
Tel: +61 2 9385 6737
Email: t.koo@unsw.edu.au
Recent or suggested topics include:
- Modelling sustainable air travel choices and practices by consumers of aviation
- Methods and tools for mapping spatial and temporal dynamics of the air transport-tourism system
- Commercial, recreational, research-based airborne drone management, policy, and governance
- Research methods in air route development for stakeholders such as airports and tourism
Professor Gabriel Lodewijks
Field of Research (FoR): Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Tel: +61 2 9385 6767
Email: g.lodewijks@unsw.edu.au
Recent or suggested topics include:
- Intelligent Cooperation in the Aviation Industry
- The utilisation of automated guided vehicles in baggage handling systems
- The impact of alternative taxi procedures on the emission of CO2 at SYD
- The frontport concept: establishing a link between Sydney’s CBS and SYD
- The last mile logistics; utilising drone in Sydney’s CBD
- Optimising the storage procedure in an early baggage storage
Associate Professor Brett Molesworth
Field of Research (FoR): Personality, Abilities and Assessment, Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Computer-Human Interaction
Tel: +61 2 9385 6757
Email: b.molesworth@unsw.edu.au
Recent or suggested topics include:
- Using EEG spectral components to assess the fatiguing effect of aircraft noise
- Effect of tone of feedback on the performance of student pilots
- Effect of visual and auditory feedback on student pilots’ learning outcome
- Investigating predictors of risk in the general population and the pilot population
- Passenger attention during in-flight safety video
- Pilot Psychology: Health and Wellbeing
Dr Anthony Webber
Field of Research (FoR): Airline Fuel and FX Hedging; Airport Finance; Airline Finance; Airline Revenue Forecasting and Yield Modelling; Aircraft Configuration; Passenger Forecasting; Route Profitability Modelling
Tel: +61 2 9385 7186
Email: a.webber@unsw.edu.au
Recent or suggested topics include:
- A critical assessment of the Virgin Australia Game Change Strategy
- Towards an understanding of the trend reduction in reliability rates on key Australian domestic routes
- An analysis of the impact of market share targeting on airline profitability in the Australian domestic market
- Estimating the price elasticity of demand for domestic air travel through the cross-sectional impact of sector length on demand
- An examination of the J-curve Hypothesis in a tourism context: The case of inbound and outbound tourism in the Australia-Japan market
- Estimating the elasticity of yield to domestic capacity and the bend in the medium run airline revenue curve: The case of Qantas in the domestic market
- The role of the Australian dollar in causing switch between domestic and overseas holidays
Associate Professor Richard CL Wu
Field of Research (FoR): Airline Management/Performance
Tel: +61 2 9385 4191
Email: c.l.wu@unsw.edu.au
Recent or suggested topics include:
- The impact of personalised mobile marketing on passenger shopping behaviours in the airport terminal
- Assessing the Effect of Textual and Visual Information Presentation on the Usability of Airline Web Interface with Eye-Tracker and EEG
- The Impact of Personalised Mobile Marketing on Passenger Shopping Behaviours in the Airport Terminal
- Understanding and Predicting Consumer Behaviour Based on an Analysis of Clickstream and Frequent Flyer Data
- Effects of Enterprise Bargaining and Agreement Clauses on Operating Cost of Airline Ground Crew Scheduling