Projects and Awards

Projects

Embedded Bluetooth Data Collection Device Prototype

Our director was re-engaged by the same organisation to develop a prototype system that collects bluetooth data from external locations.

Traffic and Transport Big Data Proof of Concept

Our director was engaged to support the development of a Big Data Proof of Concept as the Data Scientist for the project. His expertise in the areas of traffic management and signalling, along with software engineering and database development, were called upon in this project that included the development of a GIS application in C# using the ESRI ArcGIS for SharePoint 2013 component.

Nexus Database

A database of over 50 billion traffic signalling system records covering the whole of the Adelaide Metropolitan Area from between 2004 to 2012. The database has been used in numerous academic and government projects.

This database was conceived and developed by our director over the period of their PhD candidature and then whilst an employee of the University of South Australia.

Specifically, this application converted SCATS log files into a human-­‐readable format that was then uploaded to a database in order to be able to perform longitudinal analysis of metropolitan signalised intersections.

The prime purpose of the database was the data mining of signalling data, something that had not occurred in the same way (for SCATS DATA) prior to the development of the Nexus Database, however, it did also require data cleansing and the analysis of the data in order understand the meaning of the information and how it applied to the movement of traffic within the network.

The Analysis of Adelaide City Council Input and Output Vehicle Flows

Whilst our director was a PhD Candidate, and then a researcher he was engaged to support the development of a report relating to vehicle in and out flows within the Adelaide City Council.  Specifically, in 2008 and again in 2011, the Adelaide City Council (ACC) has engaged Transport Systems Centre (TSC) at the University of South Australia (UniSA) to conduct a traffic flow analysis for the ACC in order to determine the number of vehicles that are flowing into and out of the ACC area. In order to determine these flows extensive use was made of the Adelaide Coordinated Traffic Signal system (ACTS) vehicle count data that has been supplied to the TSC by the Department for Transport Energy and Infrastructure (DTEI).

TimeTravel

This work was conducted by our director when a researcher at the University of South Australia.

TimeTravel Mobile for Android Phones

The Barbara Hardy Institute – Transport Systems needed a new way of collecting GPS data for Travel Time analysis. This project required the research and analysis of appropriate technologies for this task. Then, once technology selection was made, the client required the development of the underlying software which would perform the task, and to provide a mechanism for analysing the data.

TimeTravel

Developed a PostGIS application that analyses travel time data based on GPS data points.

Testing for Congestion Persistence in Intersection Strategic Approaches using SCATS Degree of Saturation for TCS 25 and TCS 15 as a Case Study

This work was conducted whilst our director was a researcher at the University of South Australia.

The main objective of the project is to develop a spatial analysis tool for the assessment of vehicle emissions at the metropolitan level. Once a metropolitan spatial database has been developed, the methodology will be extended to include the rest of the State if the required resources are available.

SA EPA – Development of an On Road Mobile Emissions Source Inventory

This work was conducted whilst our director was a researcher at the University of South Australia.

The main objective of the project is to develop a spatial analysis tool for the assessment of vehicle emissions at the metropolitan level. Once a metropolitan spatial database has been developed, the methodology will be extended to include the rest of the State if the required resources are available.

Awards

Staff of Scientia Laboratories have won or have been finalists for the following awards:

  • ‘Outstanding Paper Award’ EASTS 2003 in Fukuoka Japan
  • ‘David Willis Memorial Prize’ ATRF 2004 in Adelaide Australia
  • 2011 Finalist, Australian Museum Eureka Awards, in the category of Innovative Use of Technology.

Outstanding Paper Award, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies 2003

Vogiatzis N, Ikeda H, Woolley J, He Y (2003), Integrated Multi-Nodal Traffic Network System, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol 5

In this paper, the authors argued for an information rich data environment that would provide insights to traffic and transport engineers on the nature of transport and how individuals behave within the transportation ecosystem.

David Willis Memorial Prize, Australasian Transportation Research Forum 2004

Vogiatzis N, Ikeda H, Wibisono W (2004). On the Locality Scope Model for Improving the Performance of Transportation Information Systems, 27th Australiasian Transportation Research Forum, 29 Sept – 02 Oct Adelaide 2004

In this paper, the authors argued for a new type of processing technique which uses a multilevel analysis process that includes both local and system knowledge to assist in converging to a solution faster.

2011 Finalist, Australian Museum Eureka Awards, in the category of Innovative Use of Technology

Along with Professor Michael A P Taylor and Dr Rocco Zito, our Director, Dr Nikolaos Vogiatzis, developed a database of traffic signalling data for the Adelaide Metropolitan Area.