Vinayak Dixit

Int MTech IIT Delhi India, PhD UCF Florida USA


Senior Lecturer

Contact Details

Office Location:
CE 106 Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Phone: +61 2 9385 5381
Fax: + 61 2 9385 6139
Email: v.dixit@unsw.edu.au

Dr. Dixit is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of New South Wales (UNSW). He joined UNSW, after serving as the Associate Director of Research for the Gulf Coast Centre for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency at Louisiana State University. At Louisiana State University he founded the Driving Simulator Laboratory in collaboration with other faculty in the department. His key research interest lies in studying risk in the transportation infrastructure system as it relates to highway safety, travel time uncertainty, as well as natural and man-made disasters. His projects have been funded by the United States National Science Foundation, Federal Highway Administration and the Strategic Highway Research Program of the Transportation Research Board.

Teaching Areas

  • Transportation Modelling and Simulation
  • Transportation Management and Control
  • Traffic Flow Theory
  • Traffic Engineering

Research Areas

  • Behaviour under Risk and Uncertainty in Transportation Systems
  • Transportation Modelling and Simulation
  • Traffic Flow Theory
  • Traffic Safety
  • Workzone Management Strategies
  • Experimental Economics

Selected Publications

Dixit V. V. (2012) “Quality of Traffic at Roundabouts and Strategies.” Accepted for Publication in ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering

Dixit, V. V., C. Wilmot and B. Wolshon (2012) “Modeling Risk Attitudes in Evacuation Departure Choice,” Accepted for Publication in Transportation Research Record

Dixit V. V., V. Gayah and E. Radwan (2012) “Comparison of Driver Behavior by Time-of-Day and Wet Pavement Conditions.” Accepted for Publication in ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering

Zheng, H., C. Cai, E. Nava, V. V. Dixit, Y. C. Chiu, E. Radwan and D. Ismart (2012) “Optimization of Renewal-Based Project Scheduling in an Urban Network” 91st Transportation Research Board Meeting, Washington D.C.

Dixit, V. V. and A. Pande (2012) “Choice of Time Spent Accelerating as Driver's State-Based Utility Maximization Mechanism” 91st Transportation Research Board Meeting, Washington D.C.

Dixit, V. V. and S. Ishak (2012) “Behavioral Model for Stochastic Characteristics of Speed Transitions” 91st Transportation Research Board Meeting, Washington D.C.

Parr, S., V. V. Dixit and B. Wolshon (2012) “Factors Influencing Location of Police Traffic Control Points During Emergencies” 91st Transportation Research Board Meeting, Washington D.C.

Dixit, V. V., C. Wilmot and B. Wolshon (2012) “Modeling Risk Attitudes in Evacuation Departure Choice,”91st Transportation Research Board Meeting, Washington D.C.

Dixit V. V., G. Harrison, E. Rutstrom (2011) “Estimation of Subjective Beliefs of Crash among Drivers” Kuhmo Nectar Conference for Summer School of Transportation Economics Annual Conference of the ITEA, Stockholm, Sweden, June 27-July 1 2011

Dixit V. V., T. Montz and B. Wolshon (2011) “Validation Techniques for Region-Level Microscopic Mass Evacuation Traffic Simulations” Transportation Research Record: Journal of Transportation Research Board, No. 2229, 2011 pp. 66-74

Dixit V. V., A. Pande, M. Abdel-Aty, E. Radwan and A. Das (2011) “Quality of Traffic Flow on a Urban Arterial Streets and Its Relationship With Safety,” Accident Analysis and Prevention Volume 43, Issue 5, Pages 1610-1616

Turner, D., W. A. Evans, B. Wolshon, V. V. Dixit, V. P. Sisiopiku., S. Islam, and M. Andersen, (2011) “Issues, Practices, and Needs for Communicating Evacuation Information to Vulnerable Populations,” Transportation Research Record, Volume 2196 pp. 159-167

Dixit V. V., E. Rutstrom, S. Mard, and R. Zielske (2010) “Factors Influencing Outcomes of Referendums for Transit Funding,” Transportation Research Record, Volume 2143, pages 44-47

Dixit V. V. and E. Radwan (2010) “Evacuation Strategies at Destination Networks,” Greenshields’ 75 Symposium, Transportation Research Circular

Dixit V. V. and E. Radwan (2009) “Hurricane Evacuation: Origin, Route, and Destination,” Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, Volume 1, Issue 1, pages 74 - 84  

Dixit V. V., A. Pande, E. Radwan, and M. Abdel-Aty, (2008) "Understanding The Impact Of A Recent Hurricane On Mobilization Time During A Subsequent Hurricane," Transportation Research Record, Volume 2041, 49-57