Researcher

Biography

Dr Maliheh Tabasi holds a PhD in Civil Engineering (Transport) and is currently a Research Associate at UNSW. She is a transport engineering researcher with expertise in travel demand modelling, behavioural analysis, and survey methodology, grounded in both traditional four-step and activity-based frameworks. Her research focuses on understanding urban travel behaviour, improving model realism through high-quality travel and activity data...view more

Dr Maliheh Tabasi holds a PhD in Civil Engineering (Transport) and is currently a Research Associate at UNSW. She is a transport engineering researcher with expertise in travel demand modelling, behavioural analysis, and survey methodology, grounded in both traditional four-step and activity-based frameworks. Her research focuses on understanding urban travel behaviour, improving model realism through high-quality travel and activity data collected via smartphone-based methods.


My Qualifications

PhD in Civil Engineering (Transport)
University of New South Wales

Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Transportation and Highway)
University of Tehran

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
University of Tehran

 


My Awards

- Winner, Highest Impact Factor Student Paper Award (rCITI), 2024

- Winner, Best Student Paper (rCITI), 2023

- Tuition Fee Waiver Scholarship, UNSW, 2021

- Straight admission to MSc from BSc, University of Tehran, 2017

- Faculty of Engineering Fellowship Award, University of Tehran (2014, 2015)


My Research Activities

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

- Tabasi, M., Rose, J.M., Pellegrini, A., Hossein Rashidi, T., 2024. An empirical investigation of the distribution of travellers’ willingness-to-pay: A comparison between a parametric and nonparametric approach. Transportation Policy 146, 312–321. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.TRANPOL.2023.12.006   

- Tabasi, M., Najmi, A., Miller, E.J., MacIntyre, C.R., Rashidi, T.H., 2024. Effectiveness of vaccination, travel load, and facemask use control strategies for controlling COVID Delta variant: the case of Sydney Metropolitan Area. Transportation (Amst). 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-024-10471-y

- Tabasi, M., Siripanich, A., Khan, N.A., Auld, J., Rashidi, T.H., 2024. GPS-supported smartphone app-based integrated travel diary and time-use data collection: challenges and lessons learned. Transportation. 2024 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/S11116-024-10546-W

- Tabasi, M., Raei, A., Hillel, T., Krueger, R., Rashidi, T., 2023. Enriching a revealed preference survey with a supplementary stated preference survey: demonstration of willingness-to-pay estimation within a mode choice case study. Travel Behaviour and Society, 33, 100632. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.TBS.2023.100632

 

Conferences

2025

- Tabasi, M., Rose, J., Khan, NA, Auld, Rashidi, T., 2025, “Appropriate approaches to collect travel, time-use and expenditure data for microeconomic time-use modelling”, 13th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods (ISCTSC), Da Nang, Vietnam– Oral presentation.

- Tabasi, M., Rose, J., Khan, NA, Auld, Rashidi, T., 2025, “Designing a Comprehensive Survey Structure with an Innovative Stated Preference Time-Use Survey to Estimate Components of Value of Travel Time Saving”, Transportation Research Board annual meeting (TRB), Washington, USA – poster presentation.

2024

- Tabasi, M., & Rashidi, T., 2023, “Designing a Comprehensive Survey Structure with an Innovative Stated Preference Time-Use Survey to Estimate Components of Value of Travel Time Saving within the Econometric Time-use and Expenditure Framework”, Transport Research Association for New South Wales (TRANSW) Symposium, Sydney, Australia – oral presentation.

- Tabasi, M., Siripanich, A, Khan, NA, Auld, J, Rashidi, T, 2024, “GPS-based smartphone integrated travel diary and time-use data collection: lessons learned and preliminary results”, 17th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research (IATBR), Vienna, Austria – presented by the co-author.

- Greenlee, J., Raei, A., Barry, S., Tabasi, M., Siripanich, A., Rashidi, T., Shankari, K., 2024, “From Simple Labels to Time-Use Integrations: Supporting the Spectrum of Qualitative Travel Behavior Data”, Transportation Research Board annual meeting (TRB), Washington, USA – presented by the first author.

- Tabasi, M., Rose, J., Pellegrini, A., Rashidi, T., 2024, “An Empirical Investigation of the Distribution of Travellers’ Willingness-to-pay: A Comparison between a Parametric and a Non-parametric Approach”, Transportation Research Board annual meeting (TRB), Washington, USA – poster presentation.

2023

- The Australasian Transport Research Forum conference (ATRF), 2023, Perth, Western Australia – attended.

- Tabasi, M., & Rashidi, T., 2023, “Investigating the Value of Travel Time of Sydney Residents by Developing Time-use Activity-based Models”, Transport Research Association for New South Wales (TRANSW) Symposium, Sydney, Australia – oral presentation.

- Tabasi, M., Rose, J., Pellegrini, A., Rashidi, T., 2023, “An Empirical Investigation of the Distribution of Travellers’ Willingness-to-pay: A Comparison between a Parametric and a Non-parametric Approach”, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) seminar, Sydney, NSW, Australia – oral presentation.

- Tabasi, M., Raei, A., Hillel, T., Krueger, R., Rashidi, T., 2023, “A joint SP-RP transport mode choice model for smartphone travel diary data”, 16th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Montréal, Québec, Canada – oral presentation.

2022

- The Transport Research Association for New South Wales (TRANSW) Symposium, 2022, Sydney, NSW, Australia – attended.

2020

- Maliheh Tabasi and Mahdi Samadzad, 2020, “A new micro-simulation multi-class on-street parking search model,” 18th International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Tehran, Iran – oral presentation

2018

- Mahyar Razi, Mahdi Samadzad, and Maliheh Tabasi, 2018, “The effect of parking availability on the propensity towards public transportation: a case study of a Tehran business district,” 11th international congress on civil engineering, Tehran, Iran – oral presentation

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Location

Civil Engineering Building (H20), Level 1, Room 111



Publications

by Mrs Maliheh Tabasi