Associate Professor
Mark Ho
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
Mark Ho received his BEng (Hons) and PhD degrees in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and was an Associate Professor before he left for the Queensland University of Technology in Sept 2010.Mark is now with the School of Engineering Systems while he is also the Director of Postgraduate Courses and Customised Education of the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering.
His research interests include railway signalling, computer simulation of railway operation, railway maintenance and condition monitoring, open access railway market, traffic control in networks and intelligent transportation systems.
He has been the principal investigator in a number of internally and externally funded research and consultancy projects and he has published more than 40 journal papers.
Recent Research Projects
Project Title
Funding source(s)
Amount (HK$)
Date
Optimum Scheduling of Railway Power Systems Maintenance
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
240,000
2004
Smart Railway Sensor Network (as Co-Investigator)
Hong Kong Polytechnic University & Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation
16,000,000
2005
Development of Accelerometer System for Train On-board Measurement (as Co-Investigator)
Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation
200,000
2005
Assessment of Train Services Schedules
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
180,900
2006
Train Scheduling in Open Railway Market
Research Grant Council, HK
379,000
2006
Stakeholder Negotiation Behaviour Modelling for Open Railway Access Market
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
126,000
2007
Railway Timetable Scheduling for Quantitative Assessment
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
157,500
2008
Direct Comparison of Train Service Timetables for Mainline Railways
Research Grant Council, HK
355,176
2008
Modelling and Simulation for Open Railway Access Market
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
345,400
2008
Recent Student Supervision
Name
Thesis
Degree
Year
Remark
Y. Ding
Study on Train Movement Calculation and Operation Optimization Simulation System
PhD
2004
Joint-supervision
K.K. Wong
Hierarchical Real-time Train Control in DC Metro Systems
PhD
2006
S.K. Chen
Model and Algorithms on Optimum Maintenance Scheduling of Railway Power System
PhD
2006
Joint-supervision
C.W. Tsang
Modelling Negotiations in Open Railway Access Market for Resource Allocation
PhD
2007
W.Z. Jia
Route Allocation Problem and Buffer Times at Large-Scale Passenger Rail Stations
PhD
2010
Joint-supervision
S.K. Wong
Modelling and Simulation for Open Railway Access Market
PhD
On-going
Personal details
Keywords
Artificial Intelligence Techniques, Condition Monitoring, Intelliegent Transportation systems, Maintenance & Reliability, Railway Engineering, Railway Open Access Market, Signalling & Traffic Control, Simulation & Modelling
Discipline
Other Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD Electrical and Electronic Engineering (University of Birmingham)
- BEng (Hons) (University of Birmingham)
Professional memberships and associations
- Member, IET (Institute of Engineering Technology Australia) (MIET)
- Member, IEEE (MIEEE)
- Fellow, Engineers Australia (FIEAust)
- Chartered Engineer (CEng)
Selected publications
- Wong S, Ho M, (2010) Intelligent negotiation behaviour model for an open railway access market, Expert Systems with Applications, 37 (12), pp. 8109-8118.
- Ho M, Ip K, Tsang C, (2009) Service bid comparisons by fuzzy ranking in open railway market timetabling, Expert Systems with Applications, 36 (7), pp. 10334-10343.
- Tsang C, Ho M, (2008) Optimal track access rights allocation for agent negotiation in an open railway market, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 9 (1), pp. 68-82.
- Wong K, Ho M, (2007) Dwell-time and run-time control for DC mass rapid transit railways, IET Electric Power Applications, 1 (6), pp. 956-966.
- Chen S, Ho M, Mao B, (2007) Reliability evaluations of railway power supplies by fault-tree analysis, IET Electric Power Applications, 1 (2), pp. 161-172.
- Ho M, Tsang C, (2006) Conflict resolution through negotiation in a railway open access market: a multi-agent system approach, Transportation Planning and Technology, 29 (3), pp. 157-182.
- Heung T, Ho M, Fung Y, (2005) Coordinated road-junction traffic control by dynamic programming, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 6 (3), pp. 341-350.
- Ho M, Chi Y, Wang J, Leung K, Siu L, Tse C, (2005) Probabilistic load flow in AC electrified railways, IET Electric Power Applications, 152 (4), pp. 1003-1013.
- Wong K, Ho M, (2004) Coast control for mass rapid transit railways with searching methods, IET Electric Power Applications, 151 (3), pp. 365-376.
- Ho M, Chi Y, Ferreira L, Leung K, Siu L, (2006) Evaluation of Maintenance Schedules on Railway Traction Power Systems, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 220 (2), pp. 91-102.
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