Ali Soltani is a senior researcher in computational urban planning and policy who specialises in the intersection of land use and transportation. He is a member of UniSA Business and has previously worked as an urban planning professor at Shiraz University in Iran, where he was awarded the natonial research excellence medal in 2014, and as a research fellow in Turkey (Izmir), Australia (Griffith), and as a visiting fellow in Japan (Tsukuba) and Italy (Naples Federico II). Ali holds degrees in surveying (spatial science), urban planning, and data science. His research interests include urban analytics, computational planning and policy analysis, property data, Big Data applications in housing, active transport, shared... Read more
About me
Ali Soltani is a senior researcher in computational urban planning and policy who specialises in the intersection of land use and transportation. He is a member of UniSA Business and has previously worked as an urban planning professor at Shiraz University in Iran, where he was awarded the natonial research excellence medal in 2014, and as a research fellow in Turkey (Izmir), Australia (Griffith), and as a visiting fellow in Japan (Tsukuba) and Italy (Naples Federico II). Ali holds degrees in surveying (spatial science), urban planning, and data science. His research interests include urban analytics, computational planning and policy analysis, property data, Big Data applications in housing, active transport, shared mobility, and the impacts of planning and transportation infrastructure/policies on the housing sector. He has taken part in a number of grant-funded research initiatives both in Australia and overseas. He is an editor (associate) for Springer's Q1 Journal of Housing and Built Environment, and Journal of Environment, Development and Sustainability, and a member of editorial boards for some other journals. He was the receptionist of Australian Endeavour Award in 2015.
About me
Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI)
Planning Institute of Australia (PIA)
Regional Studies Association (RSA)
About me
Date | Title |
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14/02/2023 |
COVID lockdown failed to put the brake on Adelaide drivers, https://www.unisa.edu.au/media-centre/Releases/2023/covid-lockdown-failed-to-put-the-brake-on-adelaide-drivers/ |
07/10/2022 |
Researchers develop simplified property valuation method, https://www.apimagazine.com.au/news/article/researchers-develop-simplified-property-valuation-method |
30/09/2022 |
New property valuation technique delivers more accurate predictions using machine learning and big data, https://www.unisa.edu.au/media-centre/Releases/2022/new-property-valuation-technique-delivers-more-accurate-predictions-using-machine-learning-and-big-data/ |
22/11/2021 |
What makes Uni students steer clear of self-driving cars?, https://psnews.com.au/2021/11/29/what-makes-uni-students-steer-clear-of-self-driving-cars/?state=aps |
17/06/2020 |
Ali Soltani on COVID-19 and transport, https://imoveaustralia.com/thoughtpiece/ali-soltani-covid-19-transport/ |
07/09/2018 |
Adelaide needs to ‘walk the talk’ to become carbon neutral, https://www.unisa.edu.au/Media-Centre/Releases/2018/Adelaide-needs-to-walk-the-talk-to-become-carbon-neutral/#.W5HmAs4zZoZ |
06/02/2018 |
Adelaide tram extension estimated to cut CO2 emissions by 9%, http://www.unisa.edu.au/Media-Centre/Releases/2018/Adelaide-tram-extension-estimated-to-cut-CO2-emissions-by-9/#.W21ib9IzaUk |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
University of South Australia, Australia
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan
Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
My research areas include:
1. Housing: spatial economics; housing choices and preferences; property market data; policy analysis; visualisation.
2. Urban Analytics/Computational Urban Planning: smart cities; urban informatics; quantitative methods for policy analysis; projection; visualisation.
3. Spatial Techniques and Statistical Models: GIS applications; spatial statistics; choice modelling; behavioural modelling; optimisation; machine learning and artificial intellegence in urban studies; data mining; remote sensing and image processing in urban studies.
4. Transport Planning/Policy: active travel; health impacts of transport; inclusive transport; sharing mobility; autonomus vehicles; public transport;... Read more
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Colouring Adelaide - Australian Housing Data Analytics Platform (AHDAP) - Colouring Cities Research Programme
JCI-JSC-WP-2022 - Global Value Chains, Urban Amenities and City Agglomerations, ERIA, 2022-2023.
RG214307_API021 - Dynamics of the regional property markets: Spatio-temporal analysis, predictive modelling, and visualising of sales in regional SA and NSW, Australian Property Institute, 2021-2022.
LCL RP2021e1 - Greener Inner-urban Travel with Sharing Economy Mobility Services, CRC for Low Carbon Living Ltd.
CACSUD - Greening Campus Travel; Examining Students Attitudes to the Environment; A Comparative Study of Students Travel at UniSA and Tianjin Universities.
CRC RP2005 - Low Carbon Living project on Urban Microclimates of Australian Cities.
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2019 |
3
1
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2019 |
3
7
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2019 |
7
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2017 |
7
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Year | Output |
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2023 |
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2023 |
Open access
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2023 |
1
1
|
2023 |
Open access
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2023 |
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2022 |
Open access
2
2
1
|
2022 |
Open access
6
5
1
|
2022 |
Open access
1
2
|
2022 |
1
1
|
2022 |
Open access
|
2022 |
3
|
2022 |
|
2022 |
5
|
2022 |
Open access
5
4
|
2022 |
4
4
|
2022 |
2
1
|
2022 |
2
1
|
2022 |
Open access
|
2021 |
12
10
|
2021 |
3
3
10
|
2021 |
13
14
1
|
2020 |
Open access
14
12
|
2019 |
5
|
2019 |
Open access
13
15
|
2019 |
11
10
|
2019 |
Open access
12
8
|
2018 |
30
27
|
2018 |
Open access
73
68
|
2018 |
8
10
|
2018 |
15
13
|
2018 |
12
11
|
2018 |
Open access
|
2018 |
19
13
3
|
2018 |
Open access
37
33
|
2018 |
Open access
2
|
2017 |
Open access
2
|
2017 |
Open access
|
2017 |
64
52
|
2017 |
Open access
9
9
|
2017 |
Open access
87
77
11
|
2017 |
40
35
|
2017 |
1
|
2017 |
Open access
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2016 |
Open access
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2015 |
Open access
3
|
2015 |
Open access
19
15
|
2014 |
Open access
12
|
2014 |
25
|
2013 |
Open access
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2013 |
Open access
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2013 |
Open access
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2012 |
Open access
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2012 |
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2012 |
Open access
7
|
2012 |
Open access
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2011 |
Open access
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2011 |
Open access
17
|
2011 |
Open access
50
|
2011 |
Open access
3
|
2011 |
Open access
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Year | Output |
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2022 |
Open access
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2022 |
Open access
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2022 |
Open access
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2022 |
Open access
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2021 |
Open access
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2021 |
Open access
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2020 |
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2020 |
Open access
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2018 |
Open access
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2018 |
Open access
3
|
2018 |
Open access
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2015 |
Open access
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2014 |
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2011 |
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Year | Output |
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2019 |
Open access
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Books
A Soltani, 2016, Urban Land Use Planning, Shiraz University Press.
A Soltani, 2014, Dialouges in Urban Transportation; the Sustainability Approach, Shiraz University Press.
A Soltani, 2014, Design for Movement, How Local Planning Affects Active Travel, Scholars Press, Berlin.
Research
My research areas include:
1. Housing: spatial economics; housing choices and preferences; property market data; policy analysis; visualisation.
2. Urban Analytics/Computational Urban Planning: smart cities; urban informatics; quantitative methods for policy analysis; projection; visualisation.
3. Spatial Techniques and Statistical Models: GIS applications; spatial statistics; choice modelling; behavioural modelling; optimisation; machine learning and artificial intellegence in urban studies; data mining; remote sensing and image processing in urban studies.
4. Transport Planning/Policy: active travel; health impacts of transport; inclusive transport; sharing mobility; autonomus vehicles; public transport; transport in developing countries.
Editor (associate), Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Springer
Editor (associate), Journal of Environment, Development and Sustainability (ENVI), Springer
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Arcadis | UNITED STATES |
Babol Noshirvani University of Technology | IRAN |
Bojnourd University | IRAN |
Bu-Ali Sina University | IRAN |
Budapest University of Technology and Economics | HUNGARY |
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | UNITED STATES |
China University of Mining and Technology | CHINA |
Clemson University | UNITED STATES |
Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran | IRAN |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
Iran University of Science and Technology | IRAN |
Islamic Azad University | IRAN |
Lund University | SWEDEN |
Norwegian University of Science and Technology | NORWAY |
Polytechnic University of Madrid | SPAIN |
Private Individual | AUSTRALIA |
Queensland University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
RMIT University | AUSTRALIA |
Salman Farsi University | IRAN |
Shahid Beheshti University | IRAN |
Shiraz Municipality | IRAN |
Shiraz University | IRAN |
Tarbiat Modarres University | IRAN |
Technical University of Berlin | GERMANY |
Thammasat University | THAILAND |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Art Isfahan | IRAN |
University of Guilan | IRAN |
University of Isfahan | IRAN |
University of Macerata | ITALY |
University of Mazandaran | IRAN |
University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of Salman Farsi | IRAN |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Tehran | IRAN |
University of Texas | UNITED STATES |
University of Transport and Communications | VIET NAM |
University of Urmia | IRAN |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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110042 - Automated valuation model construction using machine and deep learning methods | Current |
Does community ownership affect public attitudes towards cumlative impacts that may be associated with wind farm projects | Current |
Walkable for who? Developing a weighted GIS-Based walkability index based on pedestrians' perceptions | Current |