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• Our team is presenting 4 papers at WCTR in Tolouse, France, 2 papers at IFORS in Vienna, Austria, one paper at INSTR in Lyon, France, and 2 papers at ISTTT in Munich, Germany (July 2025).
• I am giving a talk at ETH Zurich entitled ‘Analytical Methods for Emerging Challenges in Public Transport’ (June 2026).
• I am giving a talk at EPFL entitled ‘Dynamic Decisions and Temporal Frictions in On-Demand Mobility’ (June 2026).
• I am giving a talk in the ‘Workshop on Innovations in Public Transport Systems’ at the Technical University of Munich. The talk is entitled ‘Reconciling Dynamism and Reliability in Shared-on-Demand Services’ (June 2026).
• I am visiting EPFL in Switzerland until the end of June (June 2026).
• Our paper ‘The divisibility index as a theoretical tool to support public transport design’ has been highlighted by the last bulletin of the Chilean Society of Transport Engineers SOCHITRAN (June 2026).
• Our paper ‘The divisibility index as a theoretical tool to support public transport design’, co-authored with Valentina Gómez and Sergio Jara-Díaz, has been published in Nature Sustainable Mobility and Transport (April 2026).
• I am visiting Brisbane! I gave a talk about ‘Efficiency or Reliability (Or Both)? Advancing On-Demand Public Transport‘ at UQ, and another entitled ‘Revisiting Canonical Models: Analytical Insights for Emerging Public Transport Challenges’ at QUT (April 2026).
• I have published the opinion piece ‘Apps pressure delivery riders into courting danger – here’s what needs to change’ in The Conversation, explaining how apps foster dangerous riding strategies, and how ultimately increasing safety would lead to greater costs for the users (April 2026).
• Our paper ‘The invisible hand of the app: The role of platform operational rules in fostering risky rider behaviour in food delivery’, co-authored with Minjun Song, has been published in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (April 2026).
• Our paper ‘Where should the last passenger be dropped off? Anticipatory walking in ridepooling’, co-authored by Xinyu Wang, has been published in Transportation Research Part C: Methodological (March 2026).
• We hosted the workshop “From Strategy to Operations: An Industry–Academia Dialogue to Rethink On-Demand Public Transport”, where 4 of our students presented as well as representatives from the industry (March 2026).
• Our team has 4 papers accepted to be presented at the World Conference on Transport Research (February 2026).
• I have been appointed as an Associate Editor in the Journal of Inteligent Transportation Systems (February 2026).
• I have been appointed as an Associate Editor in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological (February 2026).
• Our paper ‘Roadspace allocation between autos, buses, and bicycles with heterogeneous demand’, co-authored with Yang Gao and David Levinson, has been published in Transportation Research Part A (January 2026).
• Our paper ‘Detecting dangerous driving via computer vision: Linking video-based indicators to road crashes‘, co-authored with Amin Shaer and David Levinson, has been published in the Journal of Transportation & Safety (January 2026).
• Our paper ‘Analysis of commuter mode choice with and without real-time park-and-ride information‘, co-authored with Marc Awad, has been published in the Preceedings of ATRF 2025 (January 2026).
• I gave a talk about ‘The Increasing Gap Dynamics in a General Spatial Matching Model’ at the Workshop Stochastic Games and Online Decision Making at Universidad de Chile (December 2025).
• I have been included for the first time in the single-year list of 2% top scientists by TopSciNet (December 2025).
• My PhD student Regine Tejada was awarded for the best presentation in the Human-Centred Mobility Stream at TRANSW 2025. Congrats Regine! (November 2025)
• I have joined the recently created Contemporary Inequalities Centre of the University of Sydney as a core member (November 2025).
• I have presented our paper ‘Analysis of commuter mode choice with and without real-time Park-and-Ride information’, co-authored with Marc Award, at the 46th Australasian Transport Research Forum in Auckland (November 2025).
• I’ve been interviewed by the scientific magazine Spektrum about the impact of metros and trams on cities (November 2025).
• The pre-print of our paper ‘Analytical modelling of a stop-less modular bus service with an application to charging strategies comparison’, co-authored with Haoran Zhao and Neema Nassir, has been published online (November 2025).
• My application to be promoted at the University of Sydney has been accepted. Since January I am a Senior Lecturer with a confirmed (tenured) position (October 2025).
• I joined the Editorial Board of the journal Transport, Mobility & Society. This is an emerging journal, originated in Latin America, open-access, and with no APC (August 2025).
• I am visiting Tongji University in Shanghai between 7-11 July. I am delivering the talk “Finding Modern Answers through a Classical Public Transport Model” at the College of Transportation, 08/July, and “Temporal Friction in On-demand Assigned Mobility: Short-term decisions, long-term dynamics, and the limits of optimisation” at the School of Economics and Management, 09/July (July 2025).
• Our paper ‘Are users ready to accept fully flexible walking in on-demand mobility?’, co-authored with Andrea Pellegrini, has been published in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (June 2025).

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