Professor Simon Washington

This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
- 2009 - 2010: Director - Safe Transportation Research and Education Center, University of California, Berkeley
- 2005 - 2009: Professor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe
- 2007: Invited Professor - Institute for Transport and Logistic Studies, School of Business, Department of Business and Economics, University of Sydney, Australia.
- 2004: Invited Professor - Electronics Engineering: Intelligent Transportation Systems, College of Information and Communication, Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
- 2001 - 2005: Associate Professor - Department of Civil and Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, College of Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson.
- 2000 - 2001: Associate Professor - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
- 1995 - 2000: Assistant Professor - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
Personal details
Keywords
motor vehicle crashes, public transport, statistical methods, strategic transport modelling, traffic safety, transport demand, transport planning, transport safety, transport sustainability, travel behaviour
Discipline
Civil Engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of California)
Professional memberships and associations
- Member - Institute of Transportation Engineers
- Member - American Statistical Association
- 2010: Committee Member - California Statewide Highway Safety Plan Sub-Committee on Distracted Driving.
- 2008 - present: Associate Editor - ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering.
- 2008 - present: Area Editor - Journal of Transportation Safety and Security.
- 2007 - present: Member - Founding Editorial Board - The Open Ergonomics Journal, Bentham Open.
- 2006 - present: Chair - Transportation Research Board Committee - Statistical Methods and Computer Software in Transportation.
- 2005 - present: Member - Editorial Board - Accident Analysis and Prevention.
- 2003 - present: International Editorial Board and Founding Member - Journal of Sustainable Transportation.
- 2003 - present: Member - Scientific Review Panel - Highway Safety Manual, Transportation Research Board.
- 2002 - present: Member - Editorial Advisory Board - Transportation Research Part A.
- 2002 - present: Transportation Research Board Committee on Traffic Records and Analysis.
Past memberships and associations
- 2009: Expert Panel Member - NHTSA Task Force on Developing National Sampling Strategy for Law Enforcement Database.
- 2007 - 2008: Committee Member - TRB Task Force on Highway Safety Workforce Development, ANB23T.
- 2007: Federal Transit Administration Panel on Economic Development Impacts of Transit.
- 2004 - 2006:Editorial Board Member - Journal of Transportation Statistics. (Journal terminated)
- 2002 - 2006: Panel Member - National Academy of Sciences: Ideas Deserving Exploration and Analysis (IDEA) Program.
- 1999 - 2002: Panel Member - National Cooperative Highway Research Program. “Statistical Methods for Conducting Safety Analyses in Transportation”.
- 1999 - 2001: Panel Member: Federal Clean Air Act Federal Advisory Subcommittee: Transportation, Land-Use, and Air-Quality.
- 1999 - 2002: Panel Chair - National Cooperative Highway Research Program. “Short-Term Modeling for CO and PM10 Conformity Determinations”.
- 1998 - 2004: Transportation Research Board Committee on Travel Behavior and Values.
- 1998 - 2006: Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation Statistics and Computer Software.
- 1998 - 2002: Transportation Research Board Committee Member on Transportation and Air Quality.
- 1998 - 2002:Associate Member and Member of Committee on Environmental and Energy Aspects of Transportation - American Society of Civil Engineers.
- 1997: Vice-Chair - ASCE Committee on Transportation and Energy in Transportation
- 1997: Chair - Paper Review Subcommittee - TRB A1F03 Committee on Transportation and Air Quality.
- 1997: Chair - Paper review and solicitation subcommittee - TRB A5011 Committee on Transportation Statistics and Computer Software.
- 1996 - 1998: ITS America Committee Member on Energy and Environment.
- 1996: Interim Committee Secretary, TRB A1FO3 Committee on Transportation and Air Quality, Winter Meeting.
- 1996: Panel Member - Apogee Research/EPA/FHWA “Assessment of ITS technologies on the Environment”.
- 1995: Technical Advisory Committee - AB 1336 Reporting Procedures for Employer Based Trip Reduction Programs, California Air Resource Board.
- Past Member - Air & Waste Management Association
Teaching
Civil Engineering Professional PracticeUnit for Civil Engineering undergraduate students. Unit covers topics in engineering economics, professionalism, and communication skills development. Introduced new topics such as conflict resolution, negotiation skills, memory improvement, and importance of mentoring.
Sustainable Transport SystemsThis unit serves as an undergraduate elective or graduate unit. The unit examines from a system-level perspective the major externalities of the transportation network after first reviewing the transportation planning process. It addresses air quality, noise, economics, health, water quality, congestion, and the social impacts.
Urban Transportation SafetyThis unit serves as an undergraduate elective or graduate unit, and broadens aspects of transportation safety to include roadway engineering principles and concepts concerned with roadway safety. It also covers in depth human factors issues, accident reconstruction, and state of the art crash analysis methods.
Research and Statistical Methods for Civil EngineersThis unit is designed to provide a solid theoretical foundation of a broad range of statistical methods used in Civil Engineering and Transport applications, with a focus on statistical modeling. Methods covered include probability and statistics fundamentals review, linear regression, survival models, count data models, discrete choice models, time series models, Bayesian models, and others.
Human Factors and Safety Analysis in TransportationThis graduate level unit introduces important concepts underlying human factors and transportation safety analysis. The types of analyses include identification of factors contributing to accident occurrence and the evaluation of safety investments. Concepts covered include: definitions of risk, exposure, and system safety; driver factors, roadway factors, and vehicle factors; accident accounting and reporting; prediction and estimation of accident occurrence (including modeling techniques--Poisson and Negative Binomial regression, Bayesian Estimation, Survival and Time Series Analysis, and other techniques.), and psychological aspects of driver behavior.
Survey Design and AnalysisThis unit focuses on the fundamentals in the design of survey instruments: mail out mail back, telephone, and personal interviews. It then covers the topics of basic sampling methods and design. The last half of the course develops statistical modeling tools: discrete choice models, covering models of binary and multi-nomial choice including linear probability model, and logit, probit, and nested logit models, and structural equation models.
Urban Transportation PlanningThis graduate level unit covers the many aspects of transportation planning, including policy, basic traffic principles, history of transportation, transportation control measures, and advanced transportation technologies. The course and laboratories have been significantly revised by Simon Washington, Randall Guensler, and Larry Frank.Probability and Statistics for EngineersThis unit covers basic concepts in graphical and numerical methods of central tendency and spread, counting, probability, distributions, and hypothesis testing.
Experience
- 2010: AAA Automobile Club and Insurance Company. Expert consultant for strategic planning.
- 2010: Carcione et al. LLC. Expert Opinion on Railway Crossing Multi-Fatality Crash.
- 2008: Cambridge Systematics, NCHRP 17-40. National Safety Curriculum Development.
- 2006 - 2008: City of Scottsdale, 101 Speed Enforcement Evaluation Committee Chair.
- 2003 - 2005: Arizona Department of Transportation.
- 2004: Korean Institute of Construction Technology.
- 2004: Korean Transportation Institute.
- 2003 - 2004: Mohr, Hacket, Pederson, Blakley & Randolph, P.C.
- 2002: University of Alabama Transportation Center. Research proposal review
- 2002: National Academy of Sciences. Scientific Approaches for Transportation Research, Short Course Instructor
- 2000: California State University, Chico. Safety-related research design, analysis, and report preparation
- 1999: United States Environmental Protection Agency. “Evaluation of driving cycles for national motor vehicle emission testing procedures”
- 1997 - 1998: Cal y Mayor Engineering Consulting Firm, Mexico.“Design and Development of a National Safety Database for Facilitating Accident Analysis”. Study for the Mexican Government. Consultant to Cal y Mayor Engineering Firm in Mexico
- 1994: Union of Concerned Scientists. “State of the Practice Emissions Modeling Review”
Selected publications
- Lord D, Washington S, Ivan J, (2005) Poisson, Poisson-gamma and zero-inflated regression models of motor vehicle crashes: balancing statistical fit and theory, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 37 (1), pp. 35-46.
- Cheng W, Washington S, (2005) Experimental evaluation of hotspot identification methods, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 37 (5), pp. 870-881.
- Kim D, Lee Y, Washington S, Choi K, (2007) Modeling crash outcome probabilities at rural intersections: Application of hierarchical binomial logistic models, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 39 (1), pp. 125-134.
- Lord D, Washington S, Ivan J, (2007) Further notes on the application of zero-inflated models in highway safety, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 39 (1), pp. 53-57.
- Cheng W, Washington S, (2008) New criteria for evaluating methods of identifying hot spots, Transportation Research Record, 2083 (2008), pp. 76-85.
- Shin K, Washington S, van Schalkwyk I, (2009) Evaluation of the Scottsdale Loop 101 automated speed enforcement demonstration program, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 41 (3), pp. 393-403.
- Lee Y, Washington S, Frank L, (2009) Examination of relationships between urban form, household activities, and time allocation in the Atlanta Metropolitan Region, Transportation Research, Part A: Policy and Practice, 43 (4), pp. 360-373.
- Oh J, Washington S, Lee D, (2009) Expected safety performance of rural signalized intersections in South Korea, Transportation Research Record, 2114 (2009), pp. 72-82.
- Washington S, Congdon P, Karlaftis M, Mannering F, (2009) Bayesian multinomial logit: Theory and route choice example, Transportation Research Record, 2136 (2009), pp. 28-36.
- Mannering F, Washington S, Karlaftis M, (2010) Statistical and Econometric Methods for Transportation Data Analysis (2nd Edition), CRC Press Group.
QUT ePrints
To find publications by Simon, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering,Area editor for safety research
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Journal of Accident Analysis & Prevention, ElsevierEditorial Advisory Board Member
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2009
- Details
- Best Paper Award by Young Researcher for ¿New Criteria for Evaluating Hotspot Identification Methods¿, by Wen Cheng and Simon Washington.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Best Paper Award for Simon Washington, P. Congdon, M. Karlaftis, and F. Mannering. The Bayesian Multinomial Logit Model: Theory and Route Choice Example; Statistical Methods Committee.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Most Cited Technical Paper, 2005-2009, for ¿Poisson, Poisson-Gamma, and Zero-Inflated Regression Models of Motor Vehicle Crashes: Balancing Statistical Fit and Theory¿, by Dominique Lord, Simon Washington, and John Ivan, published in 2004. Top cited journal article over 5 year period.