Staff Directory

CHIEF INVESTIGATORS

Australian Team

Queensland University of Technology

Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering

A/Prof Douglas Baker

Director of the Queensland Centre of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute and an Associate Professor in the School of Urban Development at the Queensland University of Technology. Dr Baker is the leading investigator of the international research team that is evaluating the Airport Metropolis concept. The team includes John Kasarda at the University of North Carolina, Warren Walker from the Technical University of Delft and Australian researchers who will be involved in the 4 year international project analysing the changing role of the modern airport in major cites world-wide. His areas of expertise include land use planning, performance based measurement, and airport management.

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+ 61 7 3138 2505

+ 61 7 3138 1827

d2.baker@qut.edu.au

Professor Luis Ferreira

Professor Ferreira has a strong multi-modal teaching, research and management background encompassing road and rail, freight and passenger transport. He has worked for 30 years in technical and managerial roles covering transport planning, research, management and consultancy. He has been closely involved with transport and traffic planning and modelling, evaluation and performance measurement of transport programs and projects as a practitioner, researcher and trainer. Luis has an extensive and distinguished road and rail related publications record in international journals and conferences.

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+ 61 7 3138 1542

+ 61 7 3138 1170

l.ferreira@qut.edu.au

Faculty of Business

Prof Kerry Brown

Professor in the School of Management in the Faculty of Business at Queensland University of Technology. She has co-authored two books, one examining the interrelationships between government, business and society and the other relating to managing change and innovation in the public sector. Kerry has co-edited a book on innovation in the construction industry and published over 40 articles in scholarly journals. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Small Business and Globalisation and the Queensland Editor of Public Administration Today.

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+ 61 7 3138 2939

+ 61 7 3138 1313

0407 591 127

ka.brown@qut.edu.au

University of New South Wales

Faculty of the Built Environment

Prof Robert Freestone

Professor of Planning and Urban Development in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales. He has also held teaching and research positions at the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney, and at the Australian National University. He worked as a practising planner in both the public and private sectors from 1986 to 1991. Areas of expertise include metropolitan restructuring, urban theory, and planning history.

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+ 61 2 9385 4836

+ 61 2 9385 4507

r.freestone@unsw.edu.au

International Team

United States of America

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kenan-Flagler Business School

Prof John Kasarda

Partner Investigator

John D. Kasarda is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Management and Director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Dr. Kasarda has published more than 100 scholarly articles and nine books on aviation infrastructure, logistics, economic development, competitiveness, and commercial real estate. He is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Week, and international media. Dr. Kasarda has offered numerous executive programs on airport cities, firm siting, and global supply-chain management to multinational firms such as Bank of America, Deloitte & Touche, FedEx, and Prudential Real Estate and has been an advisor to airports throughout the globe. He also regularly chairs the annual “Airport Cities” conferences around the world. Under his leadership, the Kenan Institute was named the world’s top air logistics educational institution by The International Air Cargo Association for its work on airports and economic development.

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+ 1 919 962 8201

john_kasarda@unc.edu

The Netherlands

Delft University of Technology

Prof dr Warren E. Walker

Partner Investigator

Warren Walker is a member of the Policy Analysis section of the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology. He has extensive international experience in (model-based) policy analysis and in the design of decision support systems. His recent research has focused on transport policy and the treatment of uncertainty in policymaking. He was Research Director of the TU Delft Airport Development Center, and is currently participating in the a project for the European Commission that is designing and building a decision support system for airport strategic planning.

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+ 31 15 278 5122

w.e.walker@tudelft.nl

A.Prof Vincent Marchau

Partner Investigator

Dr.ir. Vincent Marchau (1967) is an associate professor within Delft University of Technology (DUT). His areas of expertise include transport innovations and policy analysis. His main interest involves the further development and application of appropriate methodologies regarding transport system innovation within the context of public policy making. He is director of education of the Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics master program within DUT, fellow researcher of the Dutch Research School on TRAnsport, Infrastructure and Logistics (TRAIL) and member of the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC).

RESEARCH STAFF

Queensland University of Technology

Arron Walker

Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering

Research Fellow

Arron Walker has recently completed his PhD in Spatial Information Retrieval at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). This research developed intelligent spatial data retrieval methodologies for Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In particular, Arron constructed a Bayesian framework that learns causal relationships between spatial datasets from historical expert knowledge. He has extensive industrial and academic experience in Virtual Reality, Decision Support Systems and GIS. As part of the Airport Metropolis project, he is conducting spatial analysis of historical data to discover the factors that are necessary for an airport to make a successful transition to an Airport Metropolis.

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+ 61 7 3138 2597

+ 61 7 3138 1827

ar.walker@qut.edu.au

Robyn Keast

Faculty of Business

Senior Research Fellow

Dr Robyn Keast is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Faculty of Business and Director of Research for the Airport Metropolis Project in Built Environment and Engineering Faculty at QUT. She brings an extensive background as a practitioner, policy officer and senior manager within the Queensland Public Service to her research leadership. In the academic arena she has adopted a multi-disciplinary approach to research leading teams of researchers in developing innovative solutions to organisational problems. She has wide experience having worked across industry sectors including construction, creative industries, business and social services.

Her research portfolio is diverse ranging from networks and collaboration, governance arrangements; community engagement; technology parks and innovation clusters and more recently to supply chain relationships, urban governance and social infrastructure.

She is widely published in a number of prestigious international journals and texts including Public Administration Review, Policy and Politics and Construction Engineering and Management. Dr Keast has been the recipient of several research and publication awards.

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+ 61 7 3138 1010
+ 61 7 3138 1313

rl.keast@qut.edu.au

Anne Krupa

Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering

Project Coordinator

Anne Krupa has ten years experience managing research projects at QUT. She is responsible for coordinating and administering the Airport Metropolis project.

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+ 61 7 3138 6786

+ 61 7 3138 1827

a.krupa@qut.edu.au

Kelly Dungey

Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering

Research Assistant

Kelly Dungey is a Researcher on the Airport Metropolis Research Project. She has a business management background from the customer service industry and has completed a Master of International Business and a Master of Business Administration at Bond University (Gold Coast, Australia). Kelly brings a business perspective to the multi-disciplinary research team. Her current research is the examination of airport business models, business structures, and the influence of strategic decisions on Airport Metropolises.

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+ 61 7 3138 6787

+ 61 7 3138 1827

k.dungey@qut.edu.au

Delft University of Technology

Roland Wijnen

Research Associate

Roland Wijnen, MSc. in Aeronautical Engineering, has been working at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology from 1998 - February 2007. As a Research Associate he participated as a researcher and project leader in commercial projects for businesses and governmental organizations with a focus on airport operations and environmental impacts. As a PhD researcher he worked on the design and development of a Decision Support System, called HARMOS, for airport strategic planning. HARMOS provides support for defining, evaluating, and comparing strategies for airport development against multiple scenarios. HARMOS collaborates with external tools that provide the necessary quantitative data, needed to support informed decisionmaking. Since March 2007, Roland is a Research Associate at the University’s Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. Within this project, he will work on growing the generic HARMOS version into an airport operator’s specific version (together with Arron Walker and an industry partner).

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+ 31 15 27 82158

r.a.a.wijnen@tudelft.nl

Postgraduate Students

Queensland University of Technology

Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering

Nicholas Stevens

PhD Student Land Use

Nicholas Stevens is a Landscape Architect and Urban Planner with a background in regional planning and urban design. He has previously been involved in the Airport Metropolis research project as a Senior Research Associate evaluating the coordination and integration of airport master planning and regional planning within the context of cooperative airport development. Nicholas' PhD research will evaluate the development, interaction and management of airport and regional land use.

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+ 61 7 3138 1594

+ 61 7 3138 1827

n.stevens@qut.edu.au

Faculty of Business

Timothy Donnet

Masters Student Governance

Timothy Donnet completed his Bachelor of Business in International Business and Management at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2007, and awarded the McGraw-Hill Australia Prize for International Logistics in 2006.  He is currently involved in a multi-national research initiative on business cluster development, and has presented research on supply chain and business cluster interactions at both the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Flensburg University, Germany.  Timothy’s research will focus on governance as applied to the airport metropolis context.

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+ 61 7 3138 1374

+ 61 7 3138 1827

timothy.donnet@qut.edu.au