Dr Sekhar Somenahalli

Senior Lecturer UniSA STEM

Mawson Lakes Campus (P2-17)
tel +61 8 830 21855

email Sekhar.Somenahalli@unisa.edu.au

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Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Public Transport Planning
Geographic Information Systems Applications
Ageing and Transport

Sekhar Somenahalli is a Civil Engineer/Planner with leadership credentials in transport planning and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications. Sekhar has more than 25 years of academic and professional experience and previously held positions at University Malaya, Malaysia and Rail India Technical and Economic Services (RITES), India. He has extensively researched and published on critical issues for transport development such as public transport service planning, transport & ageing, and vulnerability of transport network. Sekhar’s Endeavour and Mawson Lakes post-doctoral fellowship experiences allowed him to establish links with international universities and institutions in India, Japan, and the USA.

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Research

Research focus

Transportation and Freight Services
Urban and Regional Planning
Civil Engineering
Applied Mathematics
Geomatic Engineering

Highlights

My research focusses on applying the principles of GIS across multiple discipline areas, including my core expertise area of transportation.My research Interests include:

Use of public transport smart card data for understanding travel behaviour
Travel time forecasting and Origin-Destination estimation based on BlueTooth traffic monitoring
Bus Transit Oriented Development — Strengths and challenges relative to rail
Use of GIS in analysing accessibility to services in urban areas.
Neighbourhood walkability and the walking behaviour of Australian adults
Transport and ageing: Extending quality of life for older people via public and private transport
Using GPS data to gain Insight into public transport travel time... Read more

Research

Projects

Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.

RP2021u1 - Improving the connection efficiency of existing public transport interchanges, CRC for Low Carbon Living Ltd, 01/12/2018 - 31/03/2019
LCL RP2021e1 - Greener Inner-urban Travel with Sharing Economy Mobility Services, CRC for Low Carbon Living Ltd, 01/07/2017 - 31/12/2018
LCL RP 2021 - Greening Suburban Travel, CRC for Low Carbon Living Ltd, 28/04/2016 - 30/09/2018

Other projects

Other Grants won:

"Railway precinct development: transport and land use modelling approach. What is the future of mobility beyond cars ?" (2015), Funding Source: University of South Australia, Co-Chief Investigator, Amount: A$ 35,000
"How will an ageing population of Australians continue to be mobile in a society where cars are no longer appropriate?" (2014), Funding Source: University of South Australia, Co-Chief Investigator, Amount: A$ 20,000
"How will future mobility systems impact upon health, well-being and resilience?Transport network performance (SCATS and micro-simulation-centric)" (2013), Funding Source: Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network, Co-Chief Investigator, Amount A$ 341,300
Follow-up study- "Exploring predictors of physical activity attrition and maintenance among females in early adolescence"(2012), Funding source: Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation, Co-Chief Investigator Amount: A$ 56,000
"Exploring predictors of physical activity attrition and maintenance among females in early adolescence" (2011), Funding Source: Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation Co-Chief Investigator, Amount A$ 65,000
"Quality of Life for the Elderly: the Transport Mobility Perspective" (2011), Funding Source: New Research Themes and Refocussed Research Award -University of South Australia, Sole Chief Investigator, Amount : A$ 15,000
" Development of a method and tool for estimating the bus ridership in a medium sized city" (2009), Funding Source: Department of Transport, Energy and Infrastructure South Australia, Sole Chief Investigator, Amount: A$ 16,500
University of South Australia Distinguished Researcher Award nomination to invite a renowned researcher (2009): Funding Source: The University of South Australia, Amount: A$ 17,000
"Multi-criteria optimisation approach for planning Development of Bicycle Level of Service (LOS) Performance measures for Adelaide" (2007), Funding Source: Department of Education Science and Technology - Endeavour India Research Fellowships, SoleChief Investigator, Amount: A$ 25,000
"Development of Bicycle Level of Service (LOS) Performance measures for Adelaide" (2006), Funding Source:Divisional Research Committee UniSA, Sole Chief Investigator, Amount: A$ 8,981
" Improving Public Transport Options for Older Persons – A case study – Adelaide " (2005), Funding Source:Divisional Research Committee UniSA, Sole Chief Investigator, Amount: A$ 8,981
"Multi-criteria optimisation approach for planning a new transit route using Geographic Information Systems" (2004), Funding Source: Divisional Research Committee UniSA, Sole Chief Investigator, Amount: A$ 5,663

Other project contributions:

Transit Oriented Development Study – Australian Research Council (ARC) funded (2010-2013)
Development of remoteness indices for various towns in Australia in connection with testing network vulnerability – Australian Research Council (ARC) project (2006-2009)
Review the state of art of military logistics and report on logistic activities in during peace time, operational time and special events times - Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) project (2005)
Planning policies influence the characteristics of land use and can promote changes in travel behaviour towards more ’sustainable transport’, with particular reference to metropolitan corridors- ARC-SPIRT Project (2004)
Transit service area and route coverage analysis using Geographic Information Systems (2002- PhD Thesis)
Supervision of more than Fifteeen Honours and Masters degree student research projects relating to GIS and transportation projects (2005-2012)

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2017	Guo, Y, Peeta, S & Somenahalli, S 2017, 'The impact of walkable environment on single family residential property values', Journal of Transport and Land Use, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 241-261. Open access 21 19
2015	Guo, Y, Somenahalli, S & Peeta, S 2015, 'Effects of land use mix and property walk accessibility on single family residential property values', Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board, paper no. 15-1889, pp. 1-22.

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Bassiri Abyaneh, A, Allan, A, Pieters, J, Somenahalli, S & Soltani, A 2023, 'Applying the AURIN walkability index at the metropolitan and local levels by sex and age in Australia', in Robert Goodspeed et al. (eds), Intelligence for Future Cities: Planning Through Big Data and Urban Analytics, Springer, Switzerland, ch. 15, pp. 283-303.
2019	Dia, H, Taylor, M, Stone, J, Somenahalli, S & Cook, S 2019, 'Low carbon urban mobility', Decarbonising the built environment, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, ch. 14, pp. 259-285. 1
2019	Mosallanejad, M, Somenahalli, S & Mills, D 2019, 'Origin-destination estimation of bus users by smart card data', in S Geertman et al. (eds), 16th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM): Computational Urban Planning and Management for Smart Cities, Springer, Switzerland, ch. 17, pp. 305-320. 7
2017	Meng, L, Allan, A & Somenahalli, S 2017, 'Investigating theoretical development for integrated transport and land use modelling systems', in Geertman, S et al. (eds), Planning support science for smarter urban futures, Springer, Switzerland, ch. 15, pp. 263-278. 1

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2024	Pourhassan, K & Somenahalli, S 2024, 'Study of urban vehicular traffic in Adelaide metropolitan area: a spatiotemporal analysis for a clearer definition of peak periods, peak hours, and nominal peak hours', Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, vol. 15, pp. 799-818. Open access
2024	Somenahalli, SVC, Taylor, MA & Wiguna, A 2024, 'Measuring access distance and geographic catchment areas for the bus rapid transit interchange from a longitudinal survey', Case Studies on Transport Policy, vol. 16, article no. 101189, pp. 1-11. Open access 1
2024	Taylor, MA & Somenahalli, S 2024, 'Distributions of walking access to public transport in Melbourne, Australia - evidence on acceptable and tolerable walking distances', International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 576-588. Open access
2023	Feng, X, Hu, M, Somenahalli, S, Bian, X, Li, M, Zhou, Z, Li, F & Wang, Y 2023, 'A study of spatio-temporal differentiation characteristics and driving factors of Shaanxi Province's traditional heritage villages', Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 10, article no. 7797, pp. 1-18. Open access 5 6
2023	Feng, X, Zhou, Z, Somenahalli, S, Li, M, Li, F & Wang, Y 2023, 'Spatio-temporal differentiation characteristics and driving factors of urban thermal environment: a case study in Shaanxi Province, China', Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 17, article no. 13206, pp. 1-14. Open access 2
2023	Mohamad Taufik, SN, Ishak, SZ, Mohd Yusoff, Z, Mohd Jaafar, MN & Somenahalli, S 2023, 'Methodological framework in applying Geographic Information System (GIS) for parking spaces data', vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1639-1651. Open access
2022	Sun, Z, Allan, A & Somenahalli, S 2022, 'Evaluating convenience and accessibility of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) neighbourhoods in greater Adelaide', Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, vol 14, pp. 1058-1072. Open access
2022	Wambrauw, MY, Somenahalli, S, Meng, L, Scrafton, D & Huynh , E 2022, 'Measuring travel behaviour changed of travellers using latent class model for discrete choice analysis', Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, vol. 14, pp. 761-778. Open access
2021	Sun, Z, Scrafton, D, Allan, A & Somenahalli, S 2021, 'A comparison of transit-oriented development in Sendai, Japan and Adelaide, Australia', Planning Practice and Research, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 337-351. 1 1
2020	Meng, L, Somenahalli, S & Berry, S 2020, 'Policy implementation of multi-modal (shared) mobility: review of a supply-demand value proposition canvas', Transport Reviews, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 670-684. 37 31
2020	Zou, X, Somenahalli, S & Scrafton, D 2020, 'Evaluation and analysis of urban logistics competitiveness and spatial evolution', International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 493-507. 14 9
2019	Jordan, GA, Anastasopoulos, PC, Peeta, S, Somenahalli, S & Rogerson, PA 2019, 'Identifying elderly travel time disparities using a correlated grouped random parameters hazard-based duration approach', Research in Transportation Business and Management, vol 30, article no. 100369, pp. 1-13. 29 26
2017	Guo, Y, Peeta, S & Somenahalli, S 2017, 'The impact of walkable environment on single family residential property values', Journal of Transport and Land Use, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 241-261. Open access 21 19
2017	Nawaz, M, Somenahalli, S & Allan, A 2017, 'Bus-based transit-oriented development (BTOD): opportunities and challenges for low-density, car-dependent Australian cities', Road and Transport Research: A Journal of Australian and New Zealand Research and Practice, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 62-74. 1
2017	Somenahalli, S, Meng, L & Sleep, C 2017, 'Age and gender analysis of transport and mobility issues of ageing Australians: case study in Adelaide', Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, vol. 12, pp. 2252-2267. Open access
2016	Alsharrah, SA, Bouabid, R, Bruce, DA, Somenahalli, S & Corcoran, PA 2016, 'Use of shadow for enhancing mapping of perennial desert plants from high-spatial resolution multispectral and panchromatic satellite imagery', Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, vol. 10, no. 3, article no. 036008, pp. 1-15. Open access 5 5
2016	Guo, Y, Agrawal, S, Peeta, S & Somenahalli, S 2016, 'Impacts of property accessibility and neighborhood built environment on single-unit and multiunit residential property values', Transportation Research Record, vol. 2568, pp. 103-112. 34 30
2016	Somenahalli, S, Hayashi, Y, Taylor, M, Akiyama, T, Adair, T & Sawada, D 2016, 'Accessible transportation and mobility issues of elderly: how does Australia compare with Japan?', Journal of Sustainable Urbanization, Planning and Progress, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-13. Open access
2016	Somenahalli, S, Taylor, M & Susilawati, S 2016, 'Road network accessibility and socio-economic disadvantage across Adelaide metropolitan area', Transportation in Developing Economies, vol. 2, no. 15, pp. 1-8. Open access 1
2015	Afroze, S, Allan, A & Somenahalli, S 2015, 'A methodological approach for cumulative effects assessment: assessing road transport sector sustainability', International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 62-69. Open access
2015	Alsharrah, S, Bouabid, R, Bruce, D, Somenahalli, S & Corcoran, P 2015, 'Multi-resolution satellite image analysis for mapping perennial arid vegetation in arid and semi-arid environments', International Journal of Geosciences and Geomatics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 8-16.
2014	Truong, LT & Somenahalli, SV 2014, 'Exploring frequency of public transport use among older adults: a study in Adelaide, Australia', Travel Behaviour and Society, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 148-155. 5 56 10
2013	Somenahalli, S & Shipton, M 2013, 'Examining the distribution of the elderly and accessibility to essential services', Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 104, pp. 942-951. Open access 34
2013	Somenahalli, S, Sleep, C, Primerano, F, Wadduwage, R & Mayer, C 2013, 'Public transport usage in Adelaide', Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 104, pp. 855-864. Open access 5
2013	Susilawati, S, Taylor, MA & Somenahalli, SV 2013, 'Distributions of travel time variability on urban roads', Journal of Advanced Transportation, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 720-736. Open access 118 107
2011	Ishak, SZ, Yue, WL & Somenahalli, S 2011, 'An assessment of heavy vehicle safety at level crossing using Petri nets: South Australia case studies', Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, vol. 9, pp. 1823-1838.
2011	Somenahalli, S 2011, 'Stop-level urban transit ridership forecasting - a case study', Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, vol. 9, pp. 422-436.
2011	Truong, LT & Somenahalli, SV 2011, 'Using GIS to identify pedestrian-vehicle crash hot spots and unsafe bus stops', Journal of Public Transportation, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 99-114. Open access 143 111
2010	Ishak, SZ, Yue, WL & Somenahalli, S 2010, 'Level crossing modelling using Petri nets approach and II-tool', Asian Transport Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 107-121. Open access
2010	Shipton, MD & Somenahalli, SV 2010, 'Locating, appraising, and optimizing urban storm water harvesting sites', vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 28-28. Open access
2010	Susilawati., Somenahalli, S & Taylor, MAP 2010, 'Travel Time Reliability Measurement for Selected Corridors in the Adelaide Metropolitan Area', Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, vol. 8, pp. 86-102.
2010	Taylor, MAP, Somenahalli, S & Susilawati. 2010, 'Travel time reliability and the bimodal travel time distribution for an arterial road', Road and Transport Research: A Journal of Australian and New Zealand Research and Practice, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 30-41. 19 12

Conferences

Year	Output
2024	Somenahalli, S 2024, 'Using census data to predict commuter bus usage in Adelaide's bus catchment areas', Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), Australasian Transport Research Forum, pp. 1-6. Open access
2023	Pourhassan, K, Lim, T, Payne, S & Somenahalli, S 2023, 'Traffic assignment methodologies and the concept of multi-tiered traffic modelling framework: A case study from Adelaide', Australasian Transport Research Forum, Australasian Transport Research Forum, pp. 1-16. Open access
2022	Nawaz, M, Somenahalli, S & Allan, A 2022, 'A multi-criteria decision analysis for selecting a bus-based transit corridor supporting transitoriented developments (BTODs): an Australian case study', 43rd ATRF, Australasian Transport Research Forum 2022, Australasian Transport Research Forum, pp. 1-16. Open access
2022	Somenahalli, S & Susilawati , S 2022, 'Spatial targeting method for road safety education to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes', 43rd ATRF, Australasian Transport Research Forum 2022, Australasian Transport Research Forum, pp. 1-14. Open access
2022	Susilawati, Lee, MK, Teh, P-L, Pin, TC, Somenahalli, S & Vaithilingam, S 2022, 'Assessing walkability in Bandar Sunway', 43rd ATRF, Australasian Transport Research Forum 2022, Australasian Transport Research Forum, pp. 1-20. Open access
2021	Bassiri Abyaneh, A, Allan, A, Pieters, J, Somenahalli, S & Soltani, A 2021, 'A GIS-based walkability analysis for the greater 3 Adelaide Metropolitan area: an evaluation of the 4 AURIN walkability index', Australasian Transport Research Forum, Australasian Transport Research Forum, pp. 1-14. Open access
2019	Sun, Z, Allan, A & Somenahalli, S 2019, 'Transit-oriented development compared: Sendai and Adelaide', 41st Australasian Transport Research Forum, ATRF 2019, ATRF - Australasian Transport Research Forum, pp. 1-5. Open access
2018	Meng, L, Berry, S, Somenahalli, S & Allan, A 2018, 'Identifying barriers in shared mobility implementation, a review', Australasian Transport Research Forum ATRF, Australasian Transport Research Forum, pp. 1-8. Open access
2018	Mosallanejad, M, Somenahalli, S, Vij, A & Mills, D 2018, 'Distinguishing transfer from activity using public transport fare data', Australasian Transport Research Forum ATRF, Australasian Transport Research Forum, pp. 1-5. Open access 1
2018	Mosallanejad, M, Somenahalli, S, Vij, A & Mills, D 2018, 'Estimation of the origin-destination matrix for bus systems using metrocard data', 23rd International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, pp. 1-9.
2017	Afroze, S, Allan, A & Somenahalli, S 2017, 'Analysis of stressors' interconnectedness: a pathway for cumulative effects assessment of an urban road transport system in Dhaka', 14th World Conference on Transport Research; WCTR 2016, Elsevier, vol. 25, pp. 4787-4801. Open access 2 2
2017	Mosallanejad, M, Somenahalli, S & Yue, WL 2017, 'Mining Adelaide's public transport smart card data for exploring passenger travel pattern', 15th International conference on computers in urban planning and urban management (CUPUM), CUPUM, pp. 1-12.
2017	Nawaz, M, Somenahalli, S & Allan, A 2017, 'An alternative design principle to transform conventional bus services into a bus transit network', 39th Australasian transport research forum (ATRF), Australasian transport research forum, pp. 1-18. Open access
2017	Nawaz, M, Somenahalli, S & Allan, A 2017, 'Design principles for transformation of a conventional bus route into a bus rapid transit corridor facilitating transit-oriented developments (BTODs).', 15th International conference on computers in urban planning and urban management (CUPUM 2017), CUPUM, pp. 1-16.
2017	Rahman, MM, Yue, WL, Somenahalli, S & Tasnim, N 2017, 'Investigation of the performance of traffic flow gating using signalised and un-signalised design and research aid (SIDRA)', The 12th Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies Conference; EASTS, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, vol. 11, pp. 1-11. Open access
2017	Sleep, C, Mosallanejad, M & Somenahalli, S 2017, 'Understanding the on-time performance of bus services across Adelaide from a passengers viewpoint', 12th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society For Transportation Studies, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, vol. 11, pp. 1-10. Open access
2017	Sleep, C, Somenahalli, S & Mosallanejad, M 2017, 'Understanding the on-time performance of bus services across Adelaide using ticketing data', 15th International conference on computers in urban planning and urban management, CUPUM, pp. 1-11.
2017	Tasnim, N, Somenahalli, S & Sleep, C 2017, 'Walking access to public transport in Adelaide: Issues and concerns', 15th International conference on computers in urban planning and urban management, CUPUM, pp. 1-24.
2015	Alsharrah, SA, Bruce, DA, Bouabid, R, Somenahalli, S & Corcoran, PA 2015, 'High-spatial resolution multispectral and panchromatic satellite imagery for mapping perennial desert plants', Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VI, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), vol. 9644, article no. 96440Z, pp. 1-13. 6 5
2015	Guo, Y, Somenahalli, S & Peeta, S 2015, 'Effects of land use mix and property walk accessibility on single family residential property values', Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board, paper no. 15-1889, pp. 1-22.
2014	Susilawati, S, Taylor, MAP & Somenahalli, S 2014, 'Urban arterial road travel time variability modelling using Burr regression', in K Steudle (ed.), Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, ARRB - Australian Road Research Board, pp. 1-16, paper no. 14-5654.
2013	Sleep, C, Somenahalli, S, Magiera, J, Lotfi, M & Bruce, J 2013, 'Analysing bus transit on-time performance at the stop level using AVL data', in T Okamura (ed.), 10th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), EASTS - Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, vol. 9, article no. 242, pp. 1-12. Open access
2011	Susilawati, S, Taylor, MA & Somenahalli, S 2011, 'Modelling urban travel time variability with the Burr regression technique', 34th Australasian Transport Research Forum, University of South Australia, pp. 1-18. Open access 3
2011	Truong, LT & Somenahalli, S 2011, 'Exploring mobility of older people: a case study of Adelaide', 34th Australasian Transport Research Forum 2011, Australasian Transport Research Forum, pp. 1-18. Open access 2
2010	Borrello, BP, Somenahalli, S, Elsworthy, ML & Edwards, CJ 2010, 'Factors Influencing Commuter Rail Boardings in Adelaide', in Abu Hassan Abu Baker, ICBEDC 2010: International Conference on Built Environment in Developing Countries, Universiti Sains Malaysia, pp. 1-13.
2010	Bruce, DA, Shipton, MD & Somenahalli, S 2010, 'Investigating the Spatial Distribution of the Elderly and its Implications for Service Provision in Adelaide Metropolitan Area', in ATRF, 33rd Australasian Transport Research Forum 2010, Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport & Regional Economics, pp. 1-16. Open access 7
2010	Somenahalli, S & Sims, AG 2010, 'Hot Spot Identification using frequency of distinct crash types rather than total crashes', in ATRF, 33rd Australasian Transport Research Forum 2010, Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport & Regional Economics, pp. 1-13. Open access 3
2010	Somenahalli, S & Taylor, MAP 2010, 'Ageing and Transport Mobility Issues - A Case Study for Adelaide', 12th International Conference on Mobility and Transprot for the Elderly and Disabled Persons, pp. 1-10.
2010	Susilawati., Somenahalli, S & Taylor, MAP 2010, 'Creating Climate Change Resilient Emergency Plans by Incorporating Travel Time Reliability into the Evacuation Process', in ATRF, 33rd Australasian Transport Research Forum 2010, Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport & Regional Economics, pp. 1-16. Open access
2010	Taylor, MAP, Somenahalli, S & Susilawati. 2010, 'Distributions of variability in travel times on urban roads - a longitudinal study', in Jose Manuel Viegas & Rosario Macario, 12th WCTR: World Conference on Transport Research Forum 2010, WCTR, pp. 1-18.
2010	Yue, WL, Ishak, SZ & Somenahalli, S 2010, 'Petri nets in assessing Risk at Level Crossings: The Effect of Heavy Vehicles', in ARRB, 24th ARRB Conference, ARRB, pp. 1-11.
2009	Yue, WL, Ishak, SZ & Somenahalli, S 2009, 'Petri Nets Approach in Assessing the Safety at Level Crossing - The Effect of Traffic and Train Characteristics on Safety Measurement', in Grant Strachan, 32nd Australasian Transport Research Forum: ATRF 2009, Ministry of Transport, pp. 1-11. Open access 1
2008	Carleberg, E, Somenahalli, S & Kall, EMA 2008, 'Intersection Bicycle Level of Service (I-BLOS)', in Krishna Rao, IIT Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, pp. 1-22.
2008	Ishak, SZ, Somenahalli, S & Yue, WL 2008, 'The methodology development of railway level crossing safety systems - South Australia case study', in j Allan, E Arias, CA Breddia, CJ Goodman, AF Rumsay, G Sciutto & N Tomii, WIT Press, Wessex Institute of Technology, pp. 629-637. Open access 5 2
2008	Rao, K, Dhingra, S, Somenahalli, S, Ramanayya, T, Sharma, S & Matthew, T 2008, 'Multi Criteria approach for planning a new bus route using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)', in Krishna Rao, IIT Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, pp. 1-17.
2008	Somenahalli, S 2008, 'Finding a bicycle route that offers a high Level of Service in Adelaide', in Euan D Ramsay, 31st Australasian Transport Research Forum, Planning and transport research centre (PATREC), pp. 153-163. 1
2008	Susilawati., Taylor, MAP & Somenahalli, S 2008, 'A review: An activity based approach for road network vulnerability measurement', Chinese Institute of Transportation, pp. 1-12.
2008	Susilawati., Taylor, MAP & Somenahalli, S 2008, 'Travel time variability and reliability (The South Road Corridor Study Case)', CAITR, pp. 1-16.

Reports

Year	Output
2019	Dia, H, Cook, S, Somenahalli, S & Stone, J 2019, Greening urban and suburban travel: final report, CRC Low Carbon Living, Australia. Open access
2019	Somenahalli, S, Li, M, Mosallanejad, M & Berry, S 2019, RP 2021u1 Improving the connection efficiency of existing public transport interchanges, CRC for Low Carbon Living, Australia. Open access
2019	Somenahalli, S, Meng, L, Sleep, C & Berry, S 2019, Barriers to the provision of shared mobility services, Cooperative Research for Low Carbon Living, Australia. Open access
2019	Somenahalli, S, Meng, L, Sleep, C & Berry, S 2019, Greening inner-urban travel with sharing economy mobility services: barriers to the provision of shared mobility services final report, CRC_Low Carbon Living, Australia. Open access

Other outputs

Technical/Government - Reports

Sekhar Somenahalli (2013), Exploring Transport Mobility Needs of Aged South Australians - A case study for Adelaide Preliminary Report Prepared for the Productive Ageing Centre of National Seniors Australia

Sekhar V.C. Somenahalli (2009), Development of a method and a tool for estimating Public Transport ridership in a medium sized City, Final Report Prepared for the Department of Transport Energy and Infrastructure

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

Research collaboration:

Purdue University, USA – Joint research publications (2015)
Monash University, Malaysia - Joint research publications (2015)
Nagoya University, Japan– Through my Mawson Lakes post-doctoral fellowship (2014)
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore & Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay- Delivered invited expert talks (2009) in the Research Workshops.
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay - Through my Endeavour post-doctoral fellowship (2007)

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Aimsun	SPAIN
Atkins, Epsom Gateway	UNITED KINGDOM
Australian National University	AUSTRALIA
Campbelltown City Council	AUSTRALIA
Chuo University	JAPAN
CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research organisation)	AUSTRALIA
Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT)	AUSTRALIA
Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI)	AUSTRALIA
Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture de Mekn's, Morocco	MOROCCO
ECOMO Foundation	JAPAN
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Georgia Institute of Technology	UNITED STATES
Indian Institute Of Management Bangalore	INDIA
Indian Institute of Technology	INDIA
MARA University of Technology (Malaysia)	MALAYSIA
Meknes National School of Agriculture	MOROCCO
MNJ Teras Sdn Bhd	MALAYSIA
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Monash University Malaysia	MALAYSIA
Nagoya University	JAPAN
National School of Agriculture, Morocco	MOROCCO
Polytechnic State of Padang	INDONESIA
Purdue University	UNITED STATES
State University of New York Buffalo	UNITED STATES
Sunway University	MALAYSIA
Swinburne University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Alabama	UNITED STATES
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Transport and Communications	VIET NAM
University Technology MARA	MALAYSIA
Xian University of Architecture and Technology	CHINA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Editorial Board Member Journal of Urbanization, Sustainable Planning and Progress	2018
International Editorial Board Member Journal of Asian Transport Studies	2018
International Research Group member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2018
Editorial Board Member Journal of Urbanization, Sustainable Planning and Progress	2017
International Editorial Board Member Journal of Asian Transport Studies	2017
International Research Group member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2017
Member Institute of Engineers of India	2017
Member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies- Australia	2017
Member Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute Australia	2017
Member Institute of Town Planners of India	2017
Editorial Board Member Journal of Urbanization, Sustainable Planning and Progress	2016
International Editorial Board Member Journal of Asian Transport Studies	2016
International Research Group member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2016
Editorial Board Member Journal of Urbanization, Sustainable Planning and Progress	2015
International Editorial Board Member Journal of Asian Transport Studies	2015
International Research Group member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2015
International Editorial Board Member Journal of Asian Transport Studies	2014
International Research Group member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2014
International Scientific Committee member Journal of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2014
Mawson Lakes Fellowship Program University of Nagoya	2014
International Editorial Board Member Journal of Asian Transport Studies	2013
International Research Group member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2013
International Scientific Committee member Journal of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2013
International Editorial Board Member Journal of Asian Transport Studies	2012
International Research Group member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2012
International Scientific Committee member Journal of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2012
International Editorial Board Member Journal of Asian Transport Studies	2011
International Research Group member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2011
International Scientific Committee member Journal of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2011
Best Paper (co-authored) Award 24th Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) Conference, Melbourne	2010
International Editorial Board Member Journal of Asian Transport Studies	2010
International Research Group member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2010
International Scientific Committee member Journal of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS)	2010

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Other Professional and academic awards and distinctions

Received 10 years Staff Service award in 2013 at the University of South Australia.
Received the University of South Australia Supported Researcher Awards in 2009, 2011 and again in 2012.
Won the Best Paper (co-authored) Award for Methodological development for the paper titled ‘Level Crossing Modelling using Petri nets Approach and Π-Tools’ at an at the 8th International Conference of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) held in Surabaya, Indonesia on 16-19 November 2009.
Delivered expert invited talk at a workshop in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in April 2009.
Delivered expert invited talk at a workshop in the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India in April 2009·
Won an Endeavour India post-doctoral Research Fellowship in 2007 to work at the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay) and Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore).
Delivered expert invited talk in 2006 at an international workshop conducted by Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.
Received the University of South Australia Supported Teacher Awards in 2005 and again in 2006.
Received the 1999 University of South Australia President’s Research Scholarship for Ph.D. studies.

Teaching & student supervision

Teaching strengths

Being prepared and organized at all times
Knowledge of GIS and its applications
Passion for teaching and caring about my students

Highlights

I teach transportation-related courses in Civil Engineering discipline and Geographic Information System (GIS) related courses in Environmental & Geospatial Sciences discipline.

I am currently supervising four Ph.D. students and looking for new Ph.D. students.

Note for potential Ph.D. students:

Competition for a scholarship is very high with successful applicants having: a) excellent referee reports, b) masters with high scores in most subjects or first class honours from an internationally recognised University and c) journal publications which demonstrate your scholarship and d) your relevant experience. I would, therefore, encourage high achieving students to apply for our research degree (Ph.D.) scholarships. If you are successful in gaining a scholarship, I am prepared to supervise topics of my research interest. Please refer this website for the application process: How to apply for our Research degree?. You can also visit High-achiever scholarship web page to know more about prestigious scholarships available to postgraduate students who have excelled in their studies.

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Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Investigating the sustainable strategy of transport and urban planning for mega event. Case study Dubia Expo 2020 - during and post event	Current
The public transit demand and supply gap in low-density Australian cities	Current
Time of travel modelling: improving the four-step travel demand models	Current
Walkable for who? developing a PPGIS walkability index based on pedestrians' perceptions	Current
Bus passenger origin¿destination matrix estimation and travel behaviour investigation using smart cards	Completed
Cumulative effect assessment for sustainable road transport system planning: a study on Dhaka City of Bangladesh	Completed
Investigating the travellers¿ route choice behaviour before and after the completion of the new bridge in Papua Province, Indonesia	Completed
Level crossing safety assessment using petri nets (LXsafe_Pnets) model for assessing risk at level crossing locations: South Australian case study	Completed
Mapping perennial arid vegetation using high-spatial resolution satellite imagery: a case study in Morocco	Completed
Modeling urban arterial road travel time variability	Completed
The challenges of achieving sustainable transit-oriented developments: Bowden, St Clair and Mawson Lakes in metropolitan Adelaide	Completed
The potential for a transport mode shift to improve the sustainability of travel in the suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia	Completed
Transformation of a conventional arterial bus corridor into a bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor: a discrete mode-choice analysis in exploring the opportunities and challenges for low-density car-dependent cities	Completed

Dr Sekhar Somenahalli

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