2014年03月22日15:00-16:00，澳大利亚蒙纳什大学市政工程系刘志远博士和Nirajan Shiwakoti博士应邀来到Bluesky工作室，并在交通学院327室进行了学术交流。
首先，刘致远博士回顾了以前在工作室学习的美好时光，并且向工作室成员隆重介绍了Nirajan Shiwakoti博士。然后，Nirajan Shiwakoti博士介绍了他的最新研究成果——《Understanding crowd dynamics: from ants to pedestrians》，讲座内容从课题的研究背景、人群模型的建立、未来的研究方向以及课题的独特之处等方面展开。本次讲座内容丰富、言语生动，赢得听众的阵阵掌声。最后，工作室成员与刘志远博士以及Nirajan Shiwakoti博士就相关问题展开积极讨论，深受启发。
邀请高端学者进行学术交流已经成为工作室人才培养中的重要环节，也是对工作室学术交流形式的丰富与完善，此次活动拓宽了工作室全体成员的学术研究视野，并也丰富了工作室硕博士的学习培养。
附：Nirajan Shiwakoti博士简介
Nirajan Shiwakoti Lecturer (Transport Engineering)
Homepage:http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=zoNATJwAAAAJ
Office:Room 111, Building 60, Clayton Campus
Qualification:B. Eng. Hons.(Civil), MEng. (Urban & Environment), PhD (Transport), M.I.E.Aust.
Current Project:
Innovative tools to improve station design and management of pedestrian crowds (Australian Research Council Industry Linkage Project LP120200361, 2012-2015)
Managing passenger congestion in transit networks (CSC funded research)
Managing unplanned disruptions in a railway network
Simulating pedestrians crowd in an urban network (Faculty of Engineering Seed Fund, Jan. 2013-Dec. 2013) ,
Innovative approach for passengers crowd modelling in complex situations (ITS grant, May 2011- Present)
Development of modelling tool for crowd management ( EmSim_Version 1.6 model has already been developed by me)
Public life and pedestrian activities in urban space (Ongoing)
Teaching Commitments:
Postgraduate:
CIV5304 Intelligent Transportation Systems
Undergraduate:
CIV3283 Road Engineering
CIV2282 Transport and Traffic Engineering
CIV4210: Fourth year Project A
CIV4211: Fourth year project B
Publications:
Dr Shiwakoti has more than 40 refereed journal, book chapters and conference articles. Some selected publications in past four years are below:
1. Pender, B., Currie, G., Delbosc, A., Shiwakoti, N., (2014) “Improving bus bridging responses via satellite bus reserve locations”, Journal of Transport Geography , Vol. 34, pp. 202-210
2. Shiwakoti, N. , Sarvi, M.(2013) Enhancing the panic escape of crowd through architectural design, Transportation Research Part C, Volume 37,Pages 260-267
3. Pender, B., Currie, G., Delbosc, A., Shiwakoti, N.,(In Press) “Social Media Use in Unplanned Passenger Rail Disruptions: International Study”, Transportation Research Record
4. Shiwakoti, N. , Sarvi, M. (2013) “Understanding pedestrian crowd panic: A review on model organisms approach”, Journal of Transport Geography , Vol. 26, pp.12-17
5. Shiwakoti, N.,, Sarvi, M., Burd, M., (2014) “Similar crowd behavior in organisms of vastly different body size”, Journal of Insect Behavior , Vol. 27(2), pp. 239-250
6. Shiwakoti, N.,, Sarvi, M., Burd, M., (2014) “Using non-human biological entities to understand crowd behavior under emergency condition”, Safety Science, Vol. 66, pp. 1-8
7. Pender B, Currie G, Delbosc A and Shiwakoti, N. , (2013)Disruption Recovery in Passenger Railways International Survey Transportation Research Record, Volume 2353 / Transit 2013, Vol. 4 pp. 22-32
8. Dias, C., Sarvi, M., Shiwakoti, N., Ejtemai, O., Burd, M.(2013) “Investigating collective behaviours in complex situations”, Safety Science, Vol. 60, pp.87-94
9. Dias, C., Sarvi, M., Shiwakoti, N., Burd, M.(2012) “Turning angle effect on emergency egress: experimental evidence and pedestrian crowd simulation”, Transportation Research Record , Washington, D.C., Vol. 2312, pp. 120-127
10. Shiwakoti N., Liu, Z. Hopkins, T. & Young, W. (2013) “An Overview on Multimodal Emergency Evacuation in an Urban Network”, 36th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 2 – 4 October, Brisbane, Australia,
11. Dias, C., Sarvi, M., Shiwakoti, N., Ejtemai, O., Burd M. (2013) “Examining the impact of different turning angles on the collective egress of crowds”, Journal of Transportation Safety and Security, Vol. 6(2), pp. 167-181
12. Shiwakoti, N., Sarvi, M., Rose, G., Burd, M. (2011) Animal dynamics based approach for modelling pedestrian crowd egress under panic conditions, Transportation Research Part B , Vol. 45, Issue 9, pp. 1433-1449
13. Shiwakoti, N., Sarvi, M., Rose, G., Burd, M. (2011) Consequence of turning movements during emergency crowd egress, Transportation Research Record, No. 2234, pp. 97-104, Washington, D.C.
14. Burd, M., Shiwakoti, N., Sarvi, M., Rose. G. (2010) Nest architecture and traffic flow: large potential effects from small structural features, Ecological Entomology , Vol. 35, Issue 4, pp. 464-468
15. Shiwakoti, N., Sarvi, M., Rose, G., Burd, M. (2010) Biologically inspired modeling approach for collective pedestrian dynamics under emergency conditions, In Transportation Research Record, No.2196, pp. 176-184 Washington, D.C., USA
16. Shiwakoti, N., Sarvi, M., Rose, G., Burd, M. (2010) Enhancing the safety of pedestrians during emergency egress: Can we learn from biological entities? Transportation Research Record , Washington, D.C., Vol. 2137, pp. 31-37