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Australian Team |
Queensland University of Technology |
Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering |
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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 |
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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
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Southern Cross University |
School of Tourism & Hospitality Management Tweed |
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Professor
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in the School of Tourism & Hospitality Management Tweed at Southern Cross University. 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 5506 9370
+ 61 40 7731939
kerry.brown@scu.edu.au
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University of New South Wales |
Faculty of the Built Environment |
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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 |
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International Team |
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United States of America |
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Kenan-Flagler Business School |
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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 |
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RESEARCH STAFF |
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Queensland University of Technology |
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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
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Dr 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 |
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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 |
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Delft University of Technology |
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Visiting Fellow |
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University of Canterbury
André Dantas (BE) (MSc) (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Transportation Engineering at the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury. André has over 16 years of experience in Transportation Engineering, New Zealand. In 2002, he received his PhD from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan. Prior to that he was a GIS instructor at the University of Brasilia and a traffic engineer and transportation planner in different parts of Brazil. Andre also has a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering (1995) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and a Masters degree in Urban Transportation (1998) from the University of Brasilia, Brazil.
André teaches Network Analysis and Optimization, Transport Policy Making, Travel Demand Management, Transportation Planning and Modelling at University of Canterbury. André has published over 60 papers in International Journals and Conference proceedings. In 2001, he was awarded the Yasoshima’s Prize for Best Paper in the 4th Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam. Andre is currently conducting research on Energy Constrained Transportation Systems and Logistics of Disasters / Emergency Management. |
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64-3-364-2238
64-3-364-2758
andre.dantas@cantebury.ac.nz |
Postgraduate Students |
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Queensland University of Technology |
Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering |
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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
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n.stevens@qut.edu.au |
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Faculty of Business |
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Timothy Donnet
PhD 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.Timothy’s airport research experience includes co-authorship of the Airport Metropolis Project’s report to the Dutch Commission for airport region spatial development (2008), and a conference paper unpacking governance for different modes of airport management presented in TRAIL’s Airports of the Future conference in Rotterdam, 2008. With a keen interest in governance and decision-making, Timothy’s research will focus on the governance of infrastructure development at the airport interface with the aim to enhance decision-making coordination between airports and their surrounding regions. |
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timothy.donnet@qut.edu.au |
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Southern Cross University |
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Robbert Kivits
PhD Student Airport Governance
Robbert Kivits pursued his Masters in Engineering and Policy Analysis at the Technical University of Delft, after completing his bachelor degree in Aerospace Engineering. For his masters thesis he researched the influence of governance structures on the asset management performance of the Queensland Rail.
Robbert was a research assistant for the CRC for Construction Innovation (CRCCI) where he developed a detailed advisory report concerning the potential of adopting Building Information Modelling (BIM) as a general practice by Australian governments. Furthermore, Robbert has worked on several projects, with the Brace Aerospace, including a CAD survey for CERN, Switzerland and research for 'buckling behaviour' and 'delaminating processes' of Glare® by computer simulation in Patran/Nastran for the Airbus company in Germany
Robbert's PhD research will evaluate the regulatory frameworks involving the Australian airports. |
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r.kivits@qut.edu.au
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