Dr Chaitrali Shirke
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Biography
Miss Chaitrali Shirke completed her PhD at QUT in the area of transportation engineering. She has also worked as a traffic engineer and research assistant in the past. Her research interests include transport modelling and planning, traffic flow theory, traffic simulation, urban traffic management, performance assessment of transport network, customers' experience, and transit-oriented development. She has a good experience in working with traffic management systems especially urban traffic management. She can efficiently work with the latest modelling software/tools such as Aimsun, SIDRA, STREAMS etc. She also has a working knowledge of Australian standards and guides for traffic management.Academic Qualifications
- PhD (Transportation Engineering) from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, Expected graduation in early 2020
- Master of Engineering (in Transportation Engineering) from the Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, 2015
- Bachelor of Technology (in Civil Engineering) from the Pune University, India, 2012
Personal details
Keywords
Urban traffic control, Macroscopic traffic modelling, Performance evaluation, Customer's experience, Emergency vehicle preemption (EVP), Traffic simulation
Discipline
Civil Engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Member, WCTRS Special Interest Group (SIG) on Intelligent Transport Systems
Teaching
- Designing the tutorial and assignments for the unit EGB 489: Advanced Transport Modelling. EGB 489 is an elective unit offered to 3rd and 4th year bachelor (Civil engineering) students at QUT
- Tutor for the unit EGB 489 where she teaches the transport modelling, its application and traffic management by using software/tools such as SIDRA, AIMUSN and computer language R
- Assessor for assignments submitted for EGB 489
- Supervising undergraduates for final year project unit EGH400-1, EGH400-2 and EGH-408
Experience
Ongoing research project:
- Customer experience measure from existing network performance data
Completed research projects:
- Pilot study on the development of practitioner’s toolkit for signal control performance evaluation and development
- Development of Motorcycle Safety Audit Methodology using Instrumented Motorcycle
- Review of current arterial and motorway traffic management systems operating in Australia and overseas
Selected publications
- Shirke C, Bhaskar A, Chung E, (2019) Macroscopic modelling of arterial traffic: An extension to the cell transmission model, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 105, pp. 54-80.
- Shirke C, Bhaskar A, Chung E, (2019) Australia and New Zealand. In K Tang, Z Tian, M Boltze & H Nakamura, Global practices on road traffic signal control: Fixed-time control at isolated intersections (World Conferences on Transport Research), Elsevier BV, pp. 139-162.
QUT ePrints
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