Associate Professor Richard Tay
Details
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Department: Accounting, Info Sys & Supply Chain
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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richard.tay@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-6297-0593
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
A/Prof. Richard Tay is an internationally recognised expert in transport and road safety and serves on the editorial board of 18 academic journals. He is ranked in the top 1% worldwide and top 5 transport researchers in Australia (the only one who specialises in road safety). RMIT University was ranked sole first in the State of Victoria and sole second in Australia in Excellence in Research, Australia (ERA) in 2018. He had six grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC), five from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, and two from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) if Canada. He has served on numerous international, national and state government taskforces, committees and advIsory panels. He also has served as a member of scientific committees for many international and national conferences.
Invited to discuss research and policy implications with many government agencies, including Victoria Parliamentary Road Safety Committee; Victoria Parliamentary Committee on Drug and Crime; Victoria Department of Justice; Victoria Police Services; Queensland Transport; Queensland Parliamentary Travel Safe Committee; Queensland Police Services; Transportation Research Board, USA; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, USA; Advocates for Highway Safety in USA; Superintendent, Department of Motor Vehicle, British Columbia; Assistant Minister for Seniors Affairs, Alberta; Assistant Minister for Transportation, Alberta; Minister of Transport and Communications, Singapore; plus visiting government officials from Germany, Ireland, Canada, Vietnam, Indonesia, China, USA, UK, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia
Richard has been Invited regularly to speak and comment on transportation and road safety issues by the media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Weekly, National Post, London Times, Globe and Mail, CBC TV, CBC News National, CTV News, Global TV, Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Sun, Edmonton Journal, Toronto Sun, Vancouver Sun, CBC Radio, The Australian, The Age, Courier Mail, Herald Sun, 3AW, etc., as well as news media in Singapore, UK, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Hong Kong, New Zealand & Korea.
Research fields
- 3509 Transportation, logistics and supply chains
UN sustainable development goals
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
Academic positions
- Associate Professor
- RMIT University
- Accounting, Information System and Supply Chain
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2 Feb 2015 – Present
- Associate Professor
- University of Melbourne
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- 15 Feb 2014 – 15 Jan 2015
- Chair in Road Safety Management
- La Trobe University
- Marketing and Hospitality
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jul 2010 – 15 Apr 2014
- AMA Chair in Road Safety
- University of Calgary
- Civil Engineering
- Calgary, Canada
- 1 Sep 2004 – 30 Jun 2010
- Associate Professor
- Queensland University of Technology
- Psychology and Counselling
- Brisbane, Australia
- 27 Aug 2004 – 15 Aug 1999
- Senior Lecturer
- Lincoln University
- Economics and Marketing
- Lincoln, New Zealand
- 15 Aug 1996 – 15 Oct 1999
- Assistant Professor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Managerial Sciences
- Hong Kong, China
- 30 Dec 1994 – 15 Aug 1996
- Visiting Scholar
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Sloan School of Management
- Cambridge, United States
- 15 Sep 1992 – 30 Jun 1993
- Lecturer
- Nanyang Technological University
- Economics and Statistics
- Singapore, Singapore
- 1 May 1990 – 30 Dec 1994
Supervisor projects
- New methods for simulating the adoption and deployment of automated vehicles
- 23 Jul 2024
- A Physics-Informed Deep Learning Approach to Analyse the Safety of Pedestrians
- 27 Mar 2023
- Enhancing the safety of cyclists in urban areas
- 17 Mar 2023
- Role of human behaviour in road safety: CALD community members attitude towards road safety
- 1 Oct 2022
- Enhancing Pedestrian Safety Using Educational Posters
- 17 Feb 2021
- Improving the Safety of Young Pedestrians Using Educational Videos
- 17 Feb 2021
- Dynamic Mointoring and Prediction of Pavement Degradation
- 9 Oct 2018
- Assessment of Train Passengers’ Pre- and Post-Boarding Behaviors and Insights into Platform and Carriage Design, Preference, and Satisfaction
- 2 Jul 2018
- Investigating the Impact of Digital Technologies on the Performance of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- 21 Mar 2018
- Investigating the Relationship Between Product–service Systems Supply Chain Capabilities and the Sustainability Performance: A Case of the Indonesian Motorcycle Industry
- 1 Mar 2018
- Critical Determinants for Mobile Commerce Adoption in Vietnamese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
- 29 Nov 2017
- Pedestrian crash severity modelling at mid-blocks
- 8 Feb 2016
Teaching interests
OMGT 1058: Transport Economics
OMGT 2243: Global Trade Operations
OMGT 1020: Distribution & Freight
OMGT 2357: Supply Chain Contracts
OMGT 2103: Freight, Logistics and Transport
Other Courses Taught: Understanding Driver Behavior, Modfying Driver Behaviuor, Program Evaluation, Introducion to Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Topics in Transprtation Engineering, Road Safety, Marketing Management, Social Marketing, Marketing Research, Tourism Economics, Transport Economics, Urban Economics, Applied Econometrics, Microeconomics, Macroeconmics, Managerial Economics, Introduction to Business Mathematics, Introduction to Operation Reseach, Business Statistics, Regression Analysis, etc.
Research interests
Transportation and Freight Services, Transportation Engineering, Transportation Economics, Business and Management, Marketing, Other Mathematical Sciences, Information Systems
