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Dr Divya Jayakumar Nair

Dr Divya Jayakumar Nair

Associate Dean
Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation
E-mail
divya.nair@unsw.edu.au
Location
Civil Engineering Building (H20) Level 1, Room CE111 Kensington Campus
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Barbara M; Rey D; Rashidi T; Nair D, 2024, 'School choice modeling and network optimization in an urban environment', Annals of Regional Science, 72, pp. 927 - 958, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00168-023-01230-5
    Journal articles | 2024
    Siripanich A; Rashidi TH; Kalyanaraman S; Waller TS; Saberi M; Dixit V; Nair D, 2024, 'Using Facebook to Recruit Urban Participants for Smartphone-Based Travel Surveys', Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2024.101116
    Journal articles | 2024
    Xu J; Jayakumar Nair D; Haghani M, 2024, 'Relief network design problem (RNDP): A scoping review, challenges, and opportunities', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 104, pp. 104364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104364
    Journal articles | 2024
    Xu J; Jayakumar Nair D; Travis Waller S; Waller ST, 2024, 'Exploring the pre-disaster evacuation network design problem under five traffic equilibrium models', Computers and Industrial Engineering, 196, pp. 110506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2024.110506
    Journal articles | 2024
    Xu J; Nair DJ; Jayakumar Nair D, 2024, 'Data-Driven Network Connectivity Analysis: An Underestimated Metric', IEEE Access, 12, pp. 60908 - 60927, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3393968
    Journal articles | 2024
    Xu J; Nair DJ; Jayakumar Nair D, 2024, 'Pre-disaster evacuation network design with uncertain demand and behavioural choices: A bi-criteria generalized cost perspective', Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 26, pp. 1 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2024.101186
    Journal articles | 2023
    Najmi A; Waller T; Memarpour M; Nair D; Rashidi TH, 2023, 'A human behaviour model and its implications in the transport context', Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2023.100800
    Journal articles | 2023
    Niu C; Jian S; Nair D; Dixit V, 2023, 'Pre-Disaster Resilient Road Network Investment Strategy With Uncertainty Quantification', IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24, pp. 6849 - 6864, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3264471
    Journal articles | 2023
    Zhang T; Niu C; Nair DJ; Dixit V; Waller ST; Jayakumar Nair D, 2023, 'Equity analysis and improvement in transportation resilience optimisation at the pre-event stage', Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 122, pp. 103892, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103892
    Journal articles | 2022
    Niu C; Nair DJ; Zhang T; Dixit V; Murray-Tuite P, 2022, 'Are wildfire fatalities related to road network characteristics? A preliminary analysis of global wildfire cases', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103217
    Journal articles | 2022
    Niu C; Zhang T; Nair DJ; Dixit V; Murray-Tuite P; Jayakumar Nair D, 2022, 'Link-level resilience analysis for real-world networks using crowd-sourced data', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 73, pp. 102893, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102893
    Journal articles | 2021
    Waller ST; Chand S; Zlojutro A; Nair D; Niu C; Wang J; Zhang X; Dixit VV, 2021, 'Rapidex: A novel tool to estimate origin–destination trips using pervasive traffic data', Sustainability (Switzerland), 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132011171
    Journal articles | 2020
    Dixit V; Nair DJ; Chand S; Levin MW; Chakka SC; Jayakumar Nair D, 2020, 'A simple crowdsourced delay-based traffic signal control', PLoS ONE, 15, pp. e0230598, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230598
    Journal articles | 2020
    Saberi Kalaee M; Jayakumar Nair D; Dixit V; Waller S; Ashfaq M; Gardner L; Gu Z, 2020, 'A simple contagion process describes spreading of traffic jams in urban networks', Nature Communications, 11, pp. 1616, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15353-2
    Journal articles | 2019
    Nair DJ; Gilles F; Chand S; Saxena N; Dixit V; Chakka SC; Jayakumar Nair D, 2019, 'Correction: Characterizing multicity urban traffic conditions using crowdsourced data (PLoS ONE (2019) 14:3 (e0212845) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212845)', PLoS ONE, 14, pp. e0215728, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215728
    Journal articles | 2019
    Nair DJ; Gilles F; Chand S; Saxena N; Dixit V; Jayakumar Nair D; Chakka SC, 2019, 'Characterizing multicity urban traffic conditions using crowdsourced data', PLoS ONE, 14, pp. e0212845, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212845
    Journal articles | 2018
    Rey D; Almi’ani K; Jayakumar Nair D, 2018, 'Exact and heuristic algorithms for finding envy-free allocations in food rescue pickup and delivery logistics', Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 112, pp. 19 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2018.02.001
    Journal articles | 2017
    Jayakumar Nair D; Rey D; Dixit V, 2017, 'Fair Allocation and Cost-effective Routing Models for Food Rescue and Re-distribution', IISE Transactions, 49, pp. 1172 - 1188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24725854.2017.1351043
    Journal articles | 2017
    Nair DJ; grzybowska H; Fu Y; Dixit VV; Jayakumar Nair D, 2017, 'Scheduling and routing models for food rescue and delivery operations', Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 63, pp. 18 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2017.06.003
    Journal articles | 2016
    Dixit VV; Chand S; Jayakumar Nair D, 2016, 'Autonomous Vehicles: Disengagements, Accidents and Reaction Times', PLoS One, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168054
    Journal articles | 2016
    Jayakumar Nair D; Grzybowska H; Rey D; Dixit V, 2016, 'Food Rescue and Delivery: A Heuristic Algorithm for Periodic Unpaired Pickup and Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem', Transportation Research Record, 2548, pp. 81 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2548-10
    Journal articles | 2016
    Jayakumar Nair D; Hossein Rashidi ; dixit VV, 2016, 'Estimating surplus food supply for food rescue and delivery operations', Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 57, pp. 73 - 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2016.09.004
    Journal articles | 2013
    Kumar MV; Muralidharan R; jayakumar nair D, 2013, 'Comparative study of wet and dry blending of plastic modified bituminous mix used in road pavements', Indian Highways, http://worldcat.org/oclc/1790571
  • Conference Posters | 2023
    Zhang T; Niu C; Jayakumar Nair D; Dixit V; Waller ST, 2023, 'Equity Analysis and Improvement in Transportation Resilience Optimisation from an Economic Perspective at the Pre-event Stage', presented at The Transportation Research Board 102th Annual Meeting, 08 January 2023 - 12 January 2023
    Conference Posters | 2022
    Niu C; Jayakumar Nair D; Zhang T; Dixit V, 2022, 'Are Wildfire Fatalities Related to Road Network Characteristics?', presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 101th Annual Meeting, 09 January 2022 - 13 January 2022
    Conference Posters | 2022
    Niu C; Zhang T; Jayakumar Nair D; Dixit V, 2022, 'Link-level Resilience Analysis for Real-world Networks Using Crowd-sourced Data', presented at the Transportation Research Board 101th Annual Meeting, 09 January 2022 - 13 January 2022
    Conference Posters | 2022
    Zhang T; Niu C; Jayakumar Nair D; Dixit V, 2022, 'Transportation Resilience Optimization from an Economic Perspective at the Pre-event Stage', Vol. 3, pp. 100027, presented at The Transportation Research Board 101th Annual Meeting, 09 January 2022 - 13 January 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.samod.2023.100027
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Jayakumar Nair D; Dixit V, 2021, 'Innovative Approaches to Traffic Analysis in Bangkok', presented at Online Research Symposium on: Tools for Determining the Causes of Air Pollution Affecting Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand, Online Research Symposium, ESCAP, UN, 25 August 2021 - 26 August 2021
    Conference Abstracts | 2021
    Zhang T; Jayakumar Nair D; Dixit V, 2021, 'Transportation Network Resilient Pre-investment Optimization from An Economic Perspective at the pre-event stage', in the 31st European Conference on Operational Research, Athens, Greece, presented at Euro 2021, Athens, Greece, 11 July 2021 - 14 July 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Zhang T; Niu C; Jayakumar Nair D; Dixit V, 2021, 'Transport Network Resilience Optimization from An Economic Perspective', presented at The Transport Research Association for NSW (TRANSW) Virtual Symposium 2021, 30 November 2021 - 02 December 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Zhang T; Niu C; Jayakumar Nair D; Dixit V, 2021, 'Transportation Resilience Optimization from an Economic Perspective at the Pre-event Stage', presented at the 31st European Conference on Operational Research, 11 July 2021 - 14 July 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Zhang T; Niu C; Jayakumar Nair D; Dixit V, 2020, 'Transportation Network Resilience Analysis using Crowd-soured data', presented at the Transport Research Association for NSW (TRANSW) Virtual Symposium 2020, 17 November 2020 - 19 November 2020
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Jayakumar Nair D; Dixit VV, 2018, 'Application of Allocation and Routing Model on Food Rescue and Delivery Network', in Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting Papers, Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C, presented at The Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C, 07 January 2018 - 11 January 2018, https://trid.trb.org/view/1495992
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Wijayaratna K; Jian S; Jayakumar Nair D; Waller T, 2018, 'Novel approach to transport project appraisal: Demand weighted multi-modal level of service', in Transportation Systems in the Connected Era - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, HKSTS 2018, pp. 265 - 272
    Conference Papers | 2018
    rey D; Almiani K; Jayakumar Nair D; Waller ST, 2018, 'A tree-based heuristic for Equitable food relief operations', in Transportation Research Board (TRB) 97th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA., presented at Transportation Research Board (TRB) 97th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA., 07 January 2018 - 11 January 2018, http://amonline.trb.org/2017trb-1.3983622/t012-1.3998821/763-1.3998900/18-06177-1.3994727/18-06177-1.3998903?qr=1
    Conference Abstracts | 2017
    Dixit V; Chand S; Jayakumar Nair ; Chakka SC, 2017, 'Autonomous vehicles: Disengagements, accidents and reaction times', in Future Land Force Conference, Adelaide, Australia, presented at Future Land Force Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 05 February 2017 - 07 February 2017
    Conference Abstracts | 2017
    Nair DJ; Grzybowska H; dixit VV; Jayakumar Nair D, 2017, 'A Multi-objective Dynamic Vehicle Routing Model for Food Rescue and Delivery', in Annual Workshop of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization (VeRoLog), Amsterdam, Netherlands, presented at Annual Workshop of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization (VeRoLog), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10 July 2017 - 12 July 2017, https://verolog2017.sciencesconf.org/
    Conference Abstracts | 2016
    Grzybowska H; Jayakumar nair D; Rey D, 2016, 'A Heuristic Approach for Welfare-oriented Periodic Food Recovery and Distribution Problems', in 28th European Conference on Operational Research, 60-734 Poznan, Poland, presented at 28th European Conference on Operational Research, 60-734 Poznan, Poland, 03 July 2016 - 06 July 2016, https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro28/treat_abstract?paperid=1082
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Jayakumar Nair D; Rey D; Dixit V, 2016, 'Models For Food Rescue and Delivery: Routing And Resource Allocation Problem', in The 95th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C, presented at The 95th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C, 10 January 2016 - 14 January 2016, https://trid.trb.org/view/1392957
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Jayakumar Nair D; Saxena N; Dixit VV, 2016, 'Evaluating the Perception Index for Cyclists' Safety Using Structural Equation Modelling', in Wang KCP (ed.), International Conference on Transportation and Development 2016: Projects and Practices for Prosperity, AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS, Houston, TX, pp. 1099 - 1110, presented at International Conference on Transportation and Development, Houston, TX, 26 June 2016 - 29 June 2016
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Jayakumar Nair D; saxena N; Dixit V, 2016, 'Evaluating Perception Index for Cyclist's Safety to Determine the Minimum Overtaking Distance', in International Conference on Transportation and Development 2016, Houston, Texas,, presented at International Conference on Transportation and Development 2016, Houston, Texas,, 26 June 2016 - 29 July 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784479926.098
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Nair DJ; Grzybowska H; Rey D; Dixit V; Jayakumar Nair D, 2016, 'Food Rescue and Delivery: A Heuristic Algorithm for Periodic Unpaired Pickup and Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem', in Research Board (TRB) 95th Annual Meeting Proceedings, Washington, DC, USA, presented at Transportation Research Board (TRB) 95th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 10 January 2016 - 14 January 2016
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Jayakumar Nair D; Rey D; Dixit V, 2015, 'Clustering Models for Food Rescue and delivery Problem', in The 3rd Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India, Calcutta, India, presented at The 3rd Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India, Calcutta, India, 17 December 2015 - 20 December 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/25768
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Jayakumar Nair D; Rey D; Dixit V, 2015, 'Location Allocation Models for Food Rescue and Delivery to the People in Need', Sydney, Australia, presented at The 37th Australasian Transport Research Forum, Sydney, Australia, 30 September 2015 - 02 October 2015
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Jayakumar Nair D, 2008, 'A Genetic algorithm approach to optimise signal timings along a corridor.', Kochi, India, presented at the The 3rd CUSAT National Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering, Kochi, India, 04 December 2008 - 06 December 2008

My research interests extend but are not limited to, the following topics;

Transportation Engineering, Transport Infrastructure Resilience, Traffic Assignment, Network Design, Highway Engineering, Operations Research, Statistical Modelling, Data Mining, Traffic Flow Theory, Autonomous Vehicle, Humanitarian logistics

  • Traffic congestion modelling methodologies and variants that explain day-to-day flow volatility.
  • Incident modelling, investigations into the traffic recovery patterns and predictive modelling.
  • Safety related studies in autonomous vehicles
  • Real-time traffic signal design and coordination
  • Resilient transport networks: Disaster Resilience, Dynamic Traffic Assignment, CGE Models
  • Ethical transport network modelling
  • Innovative modelling and solution techniques for hunger and disaster long-term and short-term relief operations. Policies and tactics that have the potential to improve vulnerable peoples’ life by addressing welfare, fairness, effectiveness, and efficiency simultaneously.

My Research Supervision

  • Mikel Barabara
  • Chence Niu
  • Tingting Zang
  • Junxiang Xu

My Teaching

  • CVEN9405: Urban Transport Planning Practice (PG/UG), Lecturer in 2019, Lecturer and Coordinator in 2020
  • CVEN9050: Masters Practice Project A (PG) Lecturer and coordinator in 2020
  • CVEN9051: Masters Practice Project B (PG) Lecturer and coordinator in 2020
  • CVEN9415: Transport Systems Part 2 (PG/UG) Lecturer and coordinator since 2022
  • CVEN4402: Transport Systems – Part 1: Network Analysis (PG/UG), Lecturer and Cc-course coordinator in 2018
  • CVEN4404: Fundamentals of Traffic engineering (PG/UG), Lecturer and Course coordinator since 2020
  • CVEN2401/3401: Sustainable Transport and Highway Engineering (UG), Lecturer course coordinator since 2019
  • CVEN2402/3402: Transport Engineering & Environmental Sustainability (UG), Lecturer course coordinator since 2019
  • ENGG1400: Engineering Infrastructure Systems (a first-year faculty-wide engineering UG), Lecturer in 2019 and 2021