Dr Agachai Sumalee (CEE)

Biography:

Dr Agachai Sumalee (www.cse.polyu.edu.hk/~ceasumal) holds a BEng in Civil Engineering (KMITL-Ladkrabang), a MSc (Eng) and a PhD in Transportation Planning and Engineering (Leeds University). His research areas are intelligent transport systems, network modelling and optimisation, and sustainable transport planning. Dr Sumalee has published more than 70 journal papers on these topics. He has secured several research grants from the RGC (5 out of 6 years since 2006), the UK Department for Transportation, Volvo Research Foundation, and European Commission. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, Editor of Journal of Transport Policy, Associate Editor of Networks and Spatial Economics, and Editorial Board Member of Transportation Research Part B, Transportation, and Journal of Advanced Transportation. He is also a board member of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, a committee member of Innovation and Information Technology of Thailand’s National Housing Authority, and of the US Transportation Research Board Network Modelling Committee.

Future Plan:

In the past six years, his main research focus has been on developing a practical algorithm for intelligent transportation systems (ITS), particularly on the topics of real-time traffic information and state estimation. He plans to deploy such systems into practice. Some part of this system has already been deployed in the real-world environment, e.g. deployment of the Stochastic Cell Transmission system for real-time state estimation for the Expressway Authority of Thailand (EXAT). His plan is to further develop this system for relevant ITS applications, including incident detection, incident management, lane management, etc. In addition he also plans to establish a joint research centre on ITS based on a Memorandum of Understanding between PolyU, EXAT, and King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL). This centre, which will be physically located at KMITL in Bangkok, will provide a link for PolyU to the growing population/activities in South East Asia. The main activities of the centre will include joint research projects, joint taught courses (e.g. MEng in Mobility Technology), and joint research student supervision.