Michelle is a transport planner, specialising in the analysis of sustainable urban passenger transport systems. Her research, consultancy work and teaching draws together operational, behavioural and governance features relating to multi-modal urban transport networks.
Michelle is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology (FEIT) where she lectures in transportation planning & engineering. Michelle is also the Co-Leader of Program 5 — Transport Economics, Planning & Service Engineering within the UTS Transport Research Centre, which is a multi-disciplinary, cross-faculty research hub within UTS dedicated to applied transport research, teaching and learning programs within a customer service paradigm.
Michelle combines her knowledge of more sustainable public and active (walking and cycling) transport models as a means of reducing road traffic congestion through her specialisation in induced traffic growth, having completed a PhD in the topic at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at UTS. Michelle has since acted as an expert witness and expert referee, carried out empirical analysis and joint-authored reports for several Australian State and New Zealand Government agencies on this aspect of travel behaviour change.
