Melbourne School of Engineering Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Consulting: Transport

The transport group is highly regarded in the freight and logistics industry. The group has specialist expertise in transport, distribution and logistics. Itis engaged to conduct specialist consulting projects by the private and public sector.

The group offers specialist consulting services in the following areas:

Specific contacts for each of the areas listed above are provided with the linked information. For general consulting enquires please contact:

Dr Russell Thompson
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 Australia

T: + 61 3 8344-6774
F: + 61 3 8344-4616
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Statistical Analysis

The group is regularly involved in a variety of statistical analysis projects relating to the demand and performance of freight transport systems. Recent projects include:

  • interaction of road use and pavement costs,
  • vehicle fleet characteristics, and
  • transport cost indices

Contact

Dr Russell Thompson or Dr Kim Hassall (Centre for Freight and Logistics)
 

Designing Multi-Modal Networks

The group has considerable experience in designing improved multi-modal networks for increasing the efficiency and productivity of freight flows. The Wagga Wagga multi-modal terminal and Hume corridor is currently being investigated with a consortium of rail and road freight operators.

Contact

Dr Kim Hassall (Centre for Freight and Logistics)
 

Intelligent Vehicle Routing and Scheduling

The group has wide ranging experience in applying optimisation procedures for designing more efficient freight networks. Considerable costs reductions can be achieved by implementing advanced vehicle routing and scheduling procedures that allow the benefits of alternative fleet configurations, depot locations, inter-modal networks or real time data (vehicle location, demand and traffic conditions) to be quantified.

Contact

Dr Russell Thompson or Dr Kim Hassall (Centre for Freight and Logistics)
 

Planning Freight Systems

The group has extensive experience in developing improved methods for data collection, modelling and evaluation of freight projects. This includes defining key performance indicators for assessing the overall efficiency of freight and logistics operations, and project evaluation criteria for infrastructure investment.

Contact

Dr Russell Thompson or Dr Kim Hassall (Centre for Freight and Logistics)