Sekhar Somenahalli

Research Interests

Road public transport Road Safety Transport Engineering Transport geography Transport Planning

Teaching Strengths

Being prepared and organized at all times
Knowledge of GIS and its applications
Passion, enthusiasm and supportive

Dr Sekhar Somenahalli

Senior Lecturer

School of Civil Engineering and Construction

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Sekhar Somenahalli is a Civil Engineer/Planner with leadership credentials in transport planning and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications. Sekhar has more than 25 years of academic and professional experience and previously held positions at University Malaya, Malaysia and Rail India Technical and Economic Services (RITES), India. He has extensively researched and published on critical issues for transport development such as public transport service planning, transport & ageing, and vulnerability of transport network. Sekhar’s Endeavour and Mawson Lakes post-doctoral fellowship experiences allowed him to establish links with international universities and institutions in India, Japan, and the USA.

My research focusses on applying the principles of GIS across multiple discipline areas, including my core expertise area of transportation.My research Interests include:

  • Use of public transport smart card data for understanding travel behaviour
  • Travel time forecasting and Origin-Destination estimation based on BlueTooth traffic monitoring
  • Bus Transit Oriented Development — Strengths and challenges relative to rail
  • Use of GIS in analysing accessibility to services in urban areas.
  • Neighbourhood walkability and the walking behaviour of Australian adults
  • Transport and ageing: Extending quality of life for older people via public and private transport
  • Using GPS data to gain Insight into public transport travel time variability
  • Geographical information systems aided traffic accident analysis system
  • Transport vulnerability analysis of strategic road networks

Date Position Institution name
2014 - ongoing Senior Lecturer University of South Australia
2003 - 2013 Lecturer University of South Australia
1996 - 1999 Lecturer University of Malaya
1996 - 1996 Assistant Manager RITES Limited
1989 - 1996 Traffic Engineer RITES Limited

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2019 Recognition Research Impact Low Carbon Living CRC (Australia) Australia -
2018 Recognition Research Impact FP Analytics United States -
2016 Honour Member of a delegation of Australian Technology Network(ATN) Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of Indonesia (RISTEK DIKTI ) Indonesia -
2016 Recognition Research Impact Low Carbon Living CRC (Australia) Australia -
2014 Fellowship Mawson Lakes Fellowship Scholarship Nagoya University Japan -
2013 Recognition Award University of South Australia Australia -
2010 Award Best Paper Australian Road Research Board Australia -
2009 Award Best Paper Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) Indonesia -
2009 Invitation Delivered expert-invited talk at a workshop Indian Institute of Technology Bombay India -
2009 Invitation Delivered expert-invited talk at a workshop Indian Institute of Science Bangalore India -
2007 Fellowship Endeavour Awards Indian Institute of Management Bangalore India -
2006 Teaching Award Supported Teacher Award for 2006 University of South Australia Australia -
2005 Teaching Award Supported Teacher Award for 2005 University of South Australia Australia -
1999 Scholarship University of South Australia President’s Research Scholarship for PhD Studies University of South Australia Australia -

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
Hindi Can read, speak and understand spoken
Kannada Can read, speak, understand spoken and peer review
Telugu Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date Institution name Country Title
2005 - 2007 Queensland University of Technology Australia GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION
1992 - 1994 School of Planning and Architecture Delhi India Master of Planning
1989 - 2002 University of South Australia India Doctor of Philosophy
1983 - 1988 BMS College of Engineering India Bachelor of Civil Engineering

Year Citation
2025 Feng, X., Feng, Z., Somenahalli, S., Yang, X., Li, M., & Zhou, Z. (2025). Effects of urban greening renewal on local ecological benefits: a case study of residential green space. Sustainability, 17(21, article no. 9855), 1-19.
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2025 Feng, X., Li, F., Somenahalli, S., Zhao, Y., Li, M., Zhou, Z., & Li, F. (2025). Analysis of the Coupling Trend Between the Urban Agglomeration Development and Land Surface Heat Island Effect: A Case Study of Guanzhong Plain Urban Agglomeration, China. Sustainability, 17(12, article no. 5239), 1-21.
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2025 Feng, X., Hu, M., Somenahalli, S., Zhang, W., Liu, K., Li, M., . . . Li, F. (2025). Study on the spatial morphology of Ando Tibetan traditional villages in China: a case of traditional villages in Huangnan Prefecture. Sustainability, 17(4, article no. 1353), 1-20.
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2025 Pourhassan, K., Lim, T., Payne, S., & Somenahalli, S. (2025). A heuristic approach to time-dependent origin-destination traffic demand estimation for the development of large-scale dynamic traffic assignment models. Transportation Engineering, 20(100328), 1-17.
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2025 Pourhassan, K., Pourhassan, M., & Somenahalli, S. (2025). Predicting the temporal distribution of origin-destination traffic demand using machine learning. Transportation Engineering, 21(100376), 1-14.
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2024 Somenahalli, S. V. C., Taylor, M. A. P., & Wiguna, A. (2024). Measuring access distance and geographic catchment areas for the bus rapid transit interchange from a longitudinal survey. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 16(101189), 1-11.
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2024 Pourhassan, K., & Somenahalli, S. (2024). Study of urban vehicular traffic in Adelaide metropolitan area: a spatiotemporal analysis for a clearer definition of peak periods, peak hours, and nominal peak hours. Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies. Journal, 15, 799-818.
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2024 Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. (2024). Distributions of walking access to public transport in Melbourne, Australia - evidence on acceptable and tolerable walking distances. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 18(7), 576-588.
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2023 Mohamad Taufik, S. N., Ishak, S. Z., Mohd Yusoff, Z., Mohd Jaafar, M. N., & Somenahalli, S. (2023). Methodological framework in applying Geographic Information System (GIS) for parking spaces data. Malaysian Journal of Computing, 8(2), 1639-1651.
2023 Feng, X., Zhou, Z., Somenahalli, S., Li, M., Li, F., & Wang, Y. (2023). Spatio-temporal differentiation characteristics and driving factors of urban thermal environment: a case study in Shaanxi Province, China. Sustainability, 15(17, article no. 13206), 1-14.
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2023 Feng, X., Hu, M., Somenahalli, S., Bian, X., Li, M., Zhou, Z., . . . Wang, Y. (2023). A study of spatio-temporal differentiation characteristics and driving factors of Shaanxi Province's traditional heritage villages. Sustainability, 15(10, article no. 7797), 1-18.
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2022 Sun, Z., Allan, A., & Somenahalli, S. (2022). Evaluating convenience and accessibility of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) neighbourhoods in greater Adelaide. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 14, 1058-1072.
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2022 Wambrauw, M. Y. B., Somenahalli, S., Meng, L., Scrafton, D., & Huynh, E. (2022). Measuring travel behaviour changed of travellers using latent class model for discrete choice analysis. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 14, 761-778.
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2021 Sun, Z., Scrafton, D., Allan, A., & Somenahalli, S. (2021). A comparison of transit-oriented development in Sendai, Japan and Adelaide, Australia. Planning Practice and Research, 36(3), 337-351.
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2020 Meng, L., Somenahalli, S., & Berry, S. (2020). Policy implementation of multi-modal (shared) mobility: review of a supply-demand value proposition canvas. Transport Reviews, 40(5), 670-684.
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2020 Zou, X., Somenahalli, S., & Scrafton, D. (2020). Evaluation and analysis of urban logistics competitiveness and spatial evolution. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 23(5), 493-507.
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2019 Jordan, G. A., Anastasopoulos, P. C., Peeta, S., Somenahalli, S., & Rogerson, P. A. (2019). Identifying elderly travel time disparities using a correlated grouped random parameters hazard-based duration approach. Research in transportation business and management, 30(100369), 1-13.
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2017 Guo, Y., Peeta, S., & Somenahalli, S. (2017). The impact of walkable environment on single-family residential property values. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 10(1), 241-261.
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2017 Guo, Y., Peeta, S., & Somenahalli, S. (2017). The impact of walkable environment on single family residential property values. Journal of transport and land use, 10(1), 241-261.
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2017 Nawaz, M., Somenahalli, S., & Allan, A. (2017). Bus-based transit-oriented development (BTOD): opportunities and challenges for low-density, car-dependent Australian cities. Road & Transport Research, 26(2), 62-74.
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2017 Somenahalli, S., Meng, L., & Sleep, C. (2017). Age and gender analysis of transport and mobility issues of ageing Australians: case study in Adelaide. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 12, 2252-2267.
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2016 Somenahalli, S., Hayashi, Y., Taylor, M., Akiyama, T., Adair, T., & Sawada, D. (2016). Accessible transportation and mobility issues of elderly: how does Australia compare with Japan?. Journal of Sustainable Urbanization, Planning and Progress, 1(1), 1-13.
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2016 Guo, Y., Agrawal, S., Peeta, S., & Somenahalli, S. (2016). Impacts of property accessibility and neighborhood built environment on single-unit and multiunit residential property values. Transportation research record, 2568(2568), 103-112.
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2016 Somenahalli, S., Taylor, M., & Susilawati, S. (2016). Road network accessibility and socio-economic disadvantage across Adelaide metropolitan area. Transportation in Developing Economies, 2(15), 1-8.
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2016 Alsharrah, S. A., Bouabid, R., Bruce, D. A., Somenahalli, S., & Corcoran, P. A. (2016). Use of shadow for enhancing mapping of perennial desert plants from high-spatial resolution multispectral and panchromatic satellite imagery. Journal of applied remote sensing, 10(3, article no. 036008), 1-15.
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2015 Alsharrah, S., Bouabid, R., Bruce, D., Somenahalli, S., & Corcoran, P. (2015). Multi-resolution satellite image analysis for mapping perennial arid vegetation in arid and semi-arid environments. International Journal of Geosciences and Geomatics, 3(1), 8-16.
2015 Afroze, S., Allan, A., & Somenahalli, S. (2015). A methodological approach for cumulative effects assessment: assessing road transport sector sustainability. International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology, 1(4), 62-69.
2014 Truong, L. T., & Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2014). Exploring frequency of public transport use among older adults: a study in Adelaide, Australia. Travel Behaviour and Society, 2(3), 148-155.
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2013 Somenahalli, S., Sleep, C., Primerano, F., Wadduwage, R., & Mayer, C. (2013). Public transport usage in Adelaide. Procedia: social and behavioural sciences, 104, 855-864.
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2013 Somenahalli, S., & Shipton, M. (2013). Examining the distribution of the elderly and accessibility to essential services. Procedia: social and behavioural sciences, 104, 942-951.
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2013 Susilawati, S., Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2013). Distributions of travel time variability on urban roads. Journal of advanced transportation, 47(8), 720-736.
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2011 Truong, L. T., & Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2011). Using GIS to identify pedestrian-vehicle crash hot spots and unsafe bus stops. Journal of public transportation, 14(1), 99-114.
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2011 Ishak, S. Z., Yue, W. L., & Somenahalli, S. (2011). An assessment of heavy vehicle safety at level crossing using Petri nets: South Australia case studies. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 9, 1823-1838.
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2011 Somenahalli, S. (2011). Stop-level urban transit ridership forecasting - a case study. Journal of the eastern Asia society for transportation studies, 9, 422-436.
2010 Ishak, S. Z., Yue, W. L., & Somenahalli, S. (2010). Level crossing modelling using Petri nets approach and II-tool. Asian transport studies, 1(2), 107-121.
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2010 Shipton, M. D., & Somenahalli, S. V. C. (2010). Locating, appraising, and optimizing urban storm water harvesting sites. Arc News, 32(1), 28.
2010 Susilawati., Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. (2010). Travel time reliability and the bimodal travel time distribution for an arterial road. Road and transport research, 19(4), 30-41.
2010 Susilawati., Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. (2010). Travel time reliability and the bimodal travel time distribution for an arterial road. Road and Transport Research, 19(4), 37-50.
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2010 Susilawati., Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. (2010). Travel Time Reliability Measurement for Selected Corridors in the Adelaide Metropolitan Area. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 8, 86-102.
2007 Somenahalli, S., & Taylor, M. A. P. (2007). Road network accessibility issues and impacts on regional Australia. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies.
2006 Soltani, A., Primerano, F., Allan, A. S., & Somenahalli, S. (2006). Design for movement : linking non-work travel and activity level to local urban design dimensions. Urban design international, 11(3-4), 173-186.
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2006 Soltani, A., Allan, A. S., Somenahalli, S., & Primerano, F. (2006). Travel in Inner City Versus Urban Fringe of Adelaide. World Transport Policy and Practice.
2006 Taylor, M. A. P., Somenahalli, S., & D'Este, G. (2006). Application of accessibility based methods for vulnerability analysis of strategic road networks. Networks and spatial economics, 6(3-4), 267-291.
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2004 Somenahalli, S., Yue, W. L., & Taylor, M. A. P. (2004). An approach to transit path design using GIS. International Journal of Urban Sciences, 8(1), 28-39.
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2003 Somenahalli, S., Yue, W. L., & Taylor, M. A. P. (2003). An approach to transit path design using GIS. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Tranportation Studies, 5, 414-425.
2001 Somenahalli, S. V. C., Coffee, N., & Yue, W. L. (2001). Transit route service area analysis using GIS. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Tranportation Studies.

Year Citation
2023 Bassiri Abyaneh, A., Allan, A., Pieters, J., Somenahalli, S., & Soltani, A. (2023). Applying the AURIN walkability index at the metropolitan and local levels by sex and age in Australia. In R. Goodspeed (Ed.), Event/exhibition information: The 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM), Montreal, Canada, 20/06/2023-22/06/2023
Source details - Title: Intelligence for Future Cities: Planning Through Big Data and Urban Analytics (Vol. Part F270, pp. 283-303). Switzerland: Springer.
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2019 Dia, H., Taylor, M., Stone, J., Somenahalli, S., & Cook, S. (2019). Low carbon urban mobility. In Source details - Title: Decarbonising the built environment (pp. 259-285). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2019 Mosallanejad, M., Somenahalli, S., & Mills, D. (2019). Origin-destination estimation of bus users by smart card data. In S. Geertman (Ed.), Event/exhibition information: 16th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM), Wuhan, China, 08/07/2019-12/07/2019
Source details - Title: 16th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM): Computational Urban Planning and Management for Smart Cities (pp. 305-320). Switzerland: Springer.
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2017 Meng, L., Allan, A., & Somenahalli, S. (2017). Investigating theoretical development for integrated transport and land use modelling systems. In S. Geertman (Ed.), Event/exhibition information: CUPUM 2017: 15th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Adelaide, Australia, 11/07/2017-14/07/2017
Source details - Title: Planning support science for smarter urban futures (pp. 263-278). Switzerland: Springer.
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Year Citation
2024 Somenahalli, S. (2024). Using census data to predict commuter bus usage in Adelaide's bus catchment areas. In Proceedings of the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) (pp. 1-6). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
2023 Pourhassan, K., Lim, T., Payne, S., & Somenahalli, S. (2023). Traffic assignment methodologies and the concept of multi-tiered traffic modelling framework: A case study from Adelaide. In Proceedings of the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF) (pp. 1-16). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
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2022 Nawaz, M., Somenahalli, S., & Allan, A. (2022). A multi-criteria decision analysis for selecting a bus-based transit corridor supporting transitoriented developments (BTODs): an Australian case study. In Proceedings of the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ARTF 2022) (pp. 1-16). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
2022 Susilawati., Lee, M. K., Teh, P. L., Pin, T. C., Somenahalli, S., & Vaithilingam, S. (2022). Assessing walkability in Bandar Sunway. In Proceedings of the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ARTF 2022) (pp. 1-20). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
2022 Somenahalli, S., & Susilawati, S. (2022). Spatial targeting method for road safety education to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes. In Proceedings of the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ARTF 2022) (pp. 1-14). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
2021 Bassiri Abyaneh, A., Allan, A., Pieters, J., Somenahalli, S., & Soltani, A. (2021). A GIS-based walkability analysis for the greater 3 Adelaide Metropolitan area: an evaluation of the 4 AURIN walkability index. In Australasian Transport Research Forum Proceedings (pp. 1-14). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
2019 Dia, H., Stone, J., Somenahalli, S., Cook, S., Perkovic, J., & Sleep, C. (2019). GREENING TRANSPORT IN AUSTRALIA'S SUBURBS. In JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT & HEALTH Vol. 14 (pp. S27). ELSEVIER SCI LTD.
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2019 Sun, Z., Allan, A., & Somenahalli, S. (2019). Transit-oriented development compared: Sendai and Adelaide. In Australasian Transport Research Forum, ATRF 2019 - Proceedings (pp. 1-5). Australia: ATRF - Australasian Transport Research Forum.
2018 Mosallanejad, M., Somenahalli, S., Vij, A., & Mills, D. (2018). Estimation of the OD matrix for bus systems using metrocard data. In Transportation Systems in the Connected Era Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies Hksts 2018 (pp. 75-82).
2018 Mosallanejad, M., Somenahalli, S., Vij, A., & Mills, D. (2018). Distinguishing transfer from activity using public transport fare data. In Proceedings of the Australasian Transport Research Forum (pp. 1-5). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
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2018 Mosallanejad, M., Somenahalli, S., Vij, A., & Mills, D. (2018). Estimation of the origin-destination matrix for bus systems using metrocard data. In International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (pp. 1-9). China: Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies.
2018 Meng, L. I., Berry, S., Somenahalli, S., & Allan, A. (2018). Identifying barriers in shared mobility implementation, a review. In Proceedings of the Australasian Transport Research Forum (pp. 1-8). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
2017 Afroze, S., Allan, A., & Somenahalli, S. (2017). Analysis of stressors' interconnectedness: a pathway for cumulative effects assessment of an urban road transport system in Dhaka. In Transportation research procedia Vol. 25 (pp. 4787-4801). Netherlands: Elsevier.
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2017 Rahman, M. M., Yue, W. L., Somenahalli, S., & Tasnim, N. (2017). Investigation of the performance of traffic flow gating using signalised and un-signalised design and research aid (SIDRA). In Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies Vol. 11 (pp. 1-11). Japan: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies.
2017 Sleep, C., Mosallanejad, M., & Somenahalli, S. (2017). Understanding the on-time performance of bus services across Adelaide from a passengers viewpoint. In Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies Vol. 11 (pp. 1-10). Japan: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies.
2017 Nawaz, M., Somenahalli, S., & Allan, A. (2017). An alternative design principle to transform conventional bus services into a bus transit network. In Papers from the Australasian transport research forum (ATRF) (pp. 1-18). New Zealand: Australasian transport research forum.
2017 Tasnim, N., Somenahalli, S., & Sleep, C. (2017). Walking access to public transport in Adelaide: Issues and concerns. In International conference on computers in urban planning and urban management flashdrive (pp. 1-24). Australia: CUPUM.
2017 Mosallanejad, M., Somenahalli, S., & Yue, W. L. (2017). Mining Adelaide's public transport smart card data for exploring passenger travel pattern. In International conference on computers in urban planning and urban management flashdrive (pp. 1-12). Australia: CUPUM.
2017 Sleep, C., Somenahalli, S., & Mosallanejad, M. (2017). Understanding the on-time performance of bus services across Adelaide using ticketing data. In 15th International conference on computers in urban planning and urban management : CUPUM 2017 (pp. 1-11). Australia: CUPUM.
2017 Nawaz, M., Somenahalli, S., & Allan, A. (2017). Design principles for transformation of a conventional bus route into a bus rapid transit corridor facilitating transit-oriented developments (BTODs).. In 15th International conference on computers in urban planning and urban management (CUPUM 2017) (pp. 1-16). Australia: CUPUM.
2016 Nawaz, M., Somenahalli, S., & Allan, A. (2016). Bus based transit oriented development (BTOD): opportunities and challenges for low density, car dependent Australian cities. In Australasian Transport Research Forum 2016 proceedings (pp. 1-15). Australia: ATRF.
2015 Alsharrah, S. A., Bruce, D. A., Bouabid, R., Somenahalli, S., & Corcoran, P. A. (2015). High-spatial resolution multispectral and panchromatic satellite imagery for mapping perennial desert plants. In Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VI Vol. 9644 (pp. 1-13). France: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).
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2015 Guo, Y., Somenahalli, S., & Peeta, S. (2015). Effects of land use mix and property walk accessibility on single family residential property values. In TRB 94th annual meeting compendium of papers (pp. 1-22). US: Transportation Research Board.
2014 Susilawati, S., Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. (2014). Urban arterial road travel time variability modelling using Burr regression. In K. Steudle (Ed.), 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (pp. 1-16). US: ARRB - Australian Road Research Board.
2013 Sleep, C., Somenahalli, S., Magiera, J., Lotfi, M., & Bruce, J. (2013). Analysing bus transit on-time performance at the stop level using AVL data. In T. Okamura (Ed.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) Vol. 9 (pp. 1-12). Taiwan: EASTS - Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies.
2011 Susilawati, S., Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. (2011). Modelling urban travel time variability with the Burr regression technique. In Australasian transport research forum 2011 proceedings (pp. 1-18). Australia: University of South Australia.
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2011 Truong, L. T., & Somenahalli, S. (2011). Exploring mobility of older people: a case study of Adelaide. In Australasian Transport Research Forum 2011 Proceedings (pp. 1-18). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
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2011 Somenahalli, S. (2011). Is urban density the key to increasing public transport patronage. In 1st Conference of Transportation Research Group of India : CD proceedings (pp. 1-12). India: Transportation Research Group of India.
2010 Susilawati., Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. (2010). Creating resilient emergency plans by incorporating travel time reliability into the evacuation process. In Australasian Transport Research Forum 2010 Proceedings (pp. 1-16). Canberra: Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport & Regional Economics.
2010 Susilawati., Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. (2010). Distributions of variability in travel times on urban roads - a longitudinal study. In J. M. Viegas, & R. Macario (Eds.), 12th WCTR: World Conference on Transport Research Selected Papers (pp. 1-18). Lisbon, Portugal: WCTR.
2010 Somenahalli, S., & Taylor, M. A. P. (2010). Ageing and Transport Mobility Issues - A Case Study for Adelaide. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobility and Transprot for the Elderly and Disabled Persons (pp. 1-10).
2010 Somenahalli, S., Borrello, B. P., Edwards, C. J., & Elsworthy, M. L. (2010). Factors Influencing Commuter Rail Boardings in Adelaide. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Built Environment in Developing Countries (ICBEDC 2010) (pp. 1-13). Penang, Malaysia: Universiti Sains Malaysia.
2010 Susilawati., Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. (2010). The distribution of day to day variability in the travel times on urban roads-some empirical evidence. In D. Levinson (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability 2010. USA: University of California.
2010 Ishak, S. Z., Yue, W. L., & Somenahalli, S. (2010). Petri nets in assessing Risk at Level Crossings: The Effect of Heavy Vehicles. In Proceedings of the 24th ARRB Conference: Building on 50 years of road and transport research (pp. 1-11). Australia: ARRB.
2010 Sims, A. G., & Somenahalli, S. (2010). Hot Spot Identification using frequency of distinct crash types rather than total crashes. In Australasian Transport Research Forum 2010 Proceedings (pp. 1-13). Canberra: Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport & Regional Economics.
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2010 Somenahalli, S., Shipton, M. D., & Bruce, D. A. (2010). Investigating the Spatial Distribution of the elderly and its Implications for Service Provision in Adelaide Metropolitan Area. In Australasian Transport Research Forum 2010 Proceedings (pp. 1-16). Canberra: Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport & Regional Economics.
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2009 Ishak, S. Z., Yue, W. L., & Somenahalli, S. (2009). Petri nets approach in assessing the safety at level crossing - the effect of traffic and train characteristics on safety measurement. In S. Strachan, & G. Grant (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Australasian Transport Research Forum. New Zealand: Ministry of Transport.
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2008 Carleberg, E., Kall, E. M. A., & Somenahalli, S. (2008). Intersection bicycle level of service (I-BLOS). In IIT Bombay golden jubilee international conference and 8th international workshop on transportation planning and implementation methodologies for developing countries TPMDC 2008 (pp. 1-22). India: IIT Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
2008 Somenahalli, S., Sharma, S., Rao, K. V., Matthew, T., Dhingra, S., & Ramanayya, T. V. (2008). Multi criteria approach for planning a new bus route using geographic information systems (GIS). In IIT Bombay golden jubilee international conference and 8th international workshop on Transportation planning and implementation methodologies for developing countries TPMDC 2008 (pp. 1-17). India: IIT Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
2008 Somenahalli, S. (2008). Finding a bicycle route that offers a high level of service in Adelaide. In Proceedings of the 31st Australasian transport research forum : transports role in delivering economic prosperity, liveability and sustainability (pp. 153-163). Perth, Western Australia: Planning and transport research centre (PATREC).
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2008 Susilawati., Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. (2008). A review: an activity based approach for road network vulnerability measurement. In International conference and annual meeting of Chinese institute of transportation, Blue ocean strategy for global logistics (pp. 1-12). Kaohsiung, TAIWAN: Chinese Institute of Transportation.
2008 Susilawati., Taylor, M. A. P., & Somenahalli, S. (2008). Travel time variability and reliability (the south road corridor study case). In Proceedings for the 30th conference of the Australian institute of transport research: CAITR 2008 (pp. 1-16). Monash University: CAITR.
2008 Ishak, S. Z., Yue, W. L., & Somenahalli, S. (2008). The methodology development of railway level crossing safety systems: South Australia case study. In A. Allan, & J. J (Eds.), Proceedings of the computers in railways XI: computer system design and operation in the railway and other transit systems. COMPRAIL 2008 Vol. 103 (pp. 629-637). UK: WIT Press, Wessex Institute of Technology.
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2007 Somenahalli, S., & Taylor, M. A. P. (2007). Ageing and transport : mobility issues : a case study for Adelaide. In Proceedings of the State of Australian Cities National Conference 2007 (pp. 1117-1127). Adelaide, S. Aust.: SOAC.
2007 Somenahalli, S., & Taylor, M. A. P. (2007). Elderly mobility: issues, opinions and analysis of trip making in Adelaide. In 2007 ATRF: Australasian Transport Research Forum. Victoria, Australia: ETM Group of Companies.
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2005 Soltani, A., & Somenahalli, S. (2005). Household vehicle ownership: does urban structure matter. In ATRF 05: The 28th Australasian Transport Research Forum: Transporting the Future: Transport in a Changing Environment: Conference Proceedings. Australia: NSW Transport and Population Data Centre.
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2005 Somenahalli, S. (2005). Study of road network accessibility and socio-economic indicators of Austalian towns using GIS. In International Conference on Operations Research Applications in Infrastructure Development in conjunction with the 2005 Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India. Bangalore, India: Indian Institute of Science.
2005 Somenahalli, S., & Taylor, M. A. P. (2005). GIS approach to understand the relationship between road network accessibility and soci-economic indictors. In E-Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Transportation and Environment. Xi'an China: China Academy of Transportation Sciences.
2004 Somenahalli, S., Yue, W. L., & Taylor, M. A. P. (2004). A GIS approach to transit buffer problem analysis. In T. Tisato, & P. Peter (Eds.), Papers of the 27th Australasian Transport Research Forum: Volume 27. Adelaide: University of South Australia.
2003 Somenahalli, S., Yue, W. L., & Taylor, M. A. P. (2003). A geo-demographic model for route based bus patronage estimating in a small and medium sized city. In L. Lees, & B. B (Eds.), Spatial knowledge without boundaries. Canberra: Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association.
2002 Somenahalli, S., Yue, W. L., Taylor, M. A. P., & Coffee, N. (2002). Development of GIS based tools for transit service analysis. In E-future : into the mainstream, 25-30 November 2002, Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia : a joint AURISA and Institution of Surveyors Australia conference. Australia: AURISA and The Institute of Surveyers.
2002 Somenahalli, S., Yue, W. L., Taylor, M. A. P., & Coffee, N. (2002). Anaylsis of regional imbalance of quality of bus service within a city. In European Transport Conference. Cambridge, UK: Homerton College, Cambridge.
2001 Somenahalli, S. V. C., Taylor, M. A. P., Coffee, N., & Yue, W. L. (2001). Analysis of transit system service coverage level of service using GIS. In K. Kim (Ed.), Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management 2001. USA: Univesity of Hawaii at Manoa.
1999 Somenahalli, S. (1999). Transit Service Planning using GIS.. In 21st Conference of Australian Institute of Transport Research.. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland, Brisbane.
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Courses I teach

  • ENGC_X408 Traffic and Transport Modelling (2026)
  • ENVI_5009 GIS for Engineers (2026)
  • CIVE 2012 Road Design and Traffic Management (2025)
  • CIVE 4039 Traffic Engineering (2025)
  • GEOE 5001 Geographical Information Systems and Analysis (2025)
  • CIVE 2012 Road Design and Traffic Management (2024)
  • CIVE 4039 Traffic Engineering (2024)
  • GEOE 5001 Geographical Information Systems and Analysis (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2018 Co-Supervisor Investigating the sustainable strategy of transport and urban planning for mega event. Case study Dubia Expo 2020 - during and post event - Doctorate Part Time Mr Bashar Taha Almosuli

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2023 - ongoing Member Standing Committee on Public Transport.” Australasian Transport Research Forum Australia
2022 - ongoing Member Australasian Transport Research Forum Australasian Transport Research Forum Australia
2008 - 2014 Member International Scientific Committee EASTS (Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies) Japan

Date Role Membership Country
2010 - 2012 Member Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute Australia -
2005 - ongoing Member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies -
1995 - ongoing Member Town Planners of India -
1990 - ongoing Member Institute of Engineers of India -

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2015 - ongoing Board Member Journal of Sustainable Urbanization, Planning and Progress Chongqing University China
2010 - ongoing Board Member International Research Group member Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies- Australia Japan

Date Title Type Institution Country
2018 - 2018 Performance Evaluation of Transit Routes Thesis Review Queensland University of Technology Australia
2010 - 2010 Development of models to determine impacts of telecommuting on transport systems and environment Thesis Review University of New South Wales Australia

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