Elnaz Irannezhad

Elli is a Senior Lecturer in Transport Engineering at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW). Her research focuses on the automation, digitalisation, optimisation, and decarbonisation of transport and mobility systems, with a particular emphasis on freight transport. Elli began her professional career in 2005 as a Civil and Road Design Engineer and has accumulated over a decade of industry experience across consulting and government sectors, complemented by an extensive academic and research career. She received her PhD at the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Queensland (UQ) (2014-2017). Prior to that, she worked in the transport industry as a senior transport engineer in Iran for nine years. Her PhD was on behavioural freight transport modelling, in which she contributed to the field of behavioural agent-based modelling and operation research. From 2017 to 2020, she completed a three-year postdoctoral research fellowship at UQ’s Business Faculty on a partnership project with the Port of Brisbane. From 2020 to 2022, she worked as a Principal Engineer and the Portfolio Leader of Next Generation Transport Systems at the National Transport Research Organisation (NTRO, formerly ARRB) where she led several projects in automated driving technologies and sensors, infrastructure readiness for autonomous vehicles, smart heavy vehicle access monitoring and heavy vehicle origin-destination modelling. Elli joined UNSW in March 2022 as a Senior Lecturer of Transport Engineering. Elli's research focuses on freight transport optimisation, decarbonisation, automation and behavioural econometric and strategic transport modelling. heavy vehicle transport, blockchain, autonomous vehicles, supply chain, econometric, mathematical optimisation, discrete choice, discrete choice experiments, sustainable energy, fuel economy, logistic