Professor Nicholson holds the following degrees: a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), a Master of Engineering, a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy.?He joined the University of Canterbury in 1981, and was Director of the Transportation Engineering Programme for 15 years and Head of the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering for five years. He has twice been awarded a Visiting Fellowship from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, has been a Fellow of the New Zealand Institution of Professional Engineers since 2000, and was for three years the National Chairman of the Institution’s Transportation Group.
He has 28 years’ experience advising various Government authorities in New Zealand on transport research, and has been an expert advisor to transport research organisations in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Israel and Qatar. He has reviewed papers for sixteen International Journals, including Transportation Research A and B, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, and European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research.
He was for eight years a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Accident Analysis and Prevention, and has since 2013 been a member of the Education Advisory Board of the UK Institute of Risk Management. He has been a member of the International Scientific Committee for the international symposia series on Transportation Network Reliability (since 2001) and Transport Simulation (since 2008), and has been Vice-President of the Australasian Transport Research Forum since 2017.
Professor Nicholson’s research interests include traffic modelling, network reliability, traffic safety and risk management. He is the author or co-author of over 160 peer-reviewed papers in International Journals, Proceedings of International and National Conferences, and chapters in edited books. He has been an invited keynote speaker at 15 international conferences in various countries, including Australia, China, Italy, Singapore, Jordan and Syria.
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