ProfessorAshim Debnath
Associate Head of School, Research
Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering
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- Associate Head of School, ResearchFaculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering
- +61 3 522 73528 (Work)
- Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Road Safety
- Transport technology and program evaluation
- Vulnerable road users (cyclist, motorcyclist, pedestrian)
- Roadworks, work zone traffic management
- Bicycle transportation and cycling safety
- Smart, sustainable, and efficient transportation
- Statistical methods, Big data
- Simulation of transport systems
- Surrogate measures of road safety
GRANTS
- GRANTFEATUREDStreets for people: Design for active travel among children and youth1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2028People funded by this grant:
- Timperio A,
- Hoang T,
- Veitch J,
- Sahlqvist S,
- Debnath A
- GRANTFEATUREDThe Relevance and Reliability of Connected Vehicle Data in Road Safety31 Mar 2025 - 30 Apr 2027People funded by this grant:
- Debnath A,
- Sobhani A,
- Siriwardene S,
- Turner B
- GRANTFEATUREDUsing naturalistic data to measure the contributors to serious bicycle31 Mar 2025 - 30 Apr 2027People funded by this grant:
- Debnath A,
- Creighton D,
- Zaslavsky A,
- Lim CP,
- Haworth N
- GRANTFEATUREDCollecting better data on risky driver actions to improve safety at school zones and roadworks27 Mar 2025 - 30 Apr 2027People funded by this grant:
- Debnath A,
- Horan B,
- Blackman R,
- Mortimer M,
- Haworth N
- GRANTFEATUREDImproving cycling safety at intersections using proactive personalised safety alerts29 Jun 2021 - 1 Jun 2023People funded by this grant:
- Debnath A,
- Medvedev A,
- Lim CP,
- Zaslavsky A,
- Hassani A
- COLLABORATIVE GRANTFEATUREDLight Insight Trial (LiT)22 Apr 2021 - 21 Apr 2023People funded by this grant:
- Debnath A,
- Lim CP,
- Medvedev A,
- Creighton D,
- Zaslavsky A
- GRANTCollecting better data on risky driver actions to improve safety at school zones and roadworks27 Mar 2025 - 30 Apr 2027People funded by this grant:
- Debnath A,
- Horan B,
- Blackman R,
- Mortimer M,
- Haworth N
- CONTRACT RESEARCHTruckwise Roadshow - Increasing awareness of safety around heavy vehicles through virtual reality12 Feb 2025 - 21 Jul 2026People funded by this grant:
- Horan B,
- Debnath A,
- Mortimer M
- CONTRACT RESEARCHStudy on Portable Traffic Control Devices (PTCD) use in NSW.1 Dec 2023 - 30 Jun 2026People funded by this grant:
- Debnath A,
- Blackman R
- CONTRACT RESEARCHVR-TIMS: Multi-agency in-field and virtual reality exercises in controlled environments to improve traffic incident management coordination and capability.20 Apr 2023 - 30 Aug 2024People funded by this grant:
- Debnath A,
- Horan B,
- Blackman R,
- Mortimer M
- CONTRACT RESEARCHDevelopment of standard to evaluate bond strength at the interface between retroreflective raised pavement markers and road surface.21 Nov 2022 - 31 Mar 2024People funded by this grant:
- Subhani M,
- Jennings M,
- Nguyen N,
- Debnath A
- CONTRACT RESEARCHEvaluation of Speed Limit Reduction on the Great Ocean Road.26 Oct 2022 - 30 Jun 2023People funded by this grant:
- Ashim Debnath
- CONTRACT RESEARCHImproving Road Worker Safety on the M1.7 Jul 2022 - 31 Mar 2023People funded by this grant:
- Ashim Debnath
- TENDERProbe Data Trial4 Apr 2022 - 30 Mar 2023People funded by this grant:
- Debnath A,
- Soro W
- COLLABORATIVE GRANTAgriculture Plant Safer Equipment Research18 Oct 2021 - 17 Feb 2022People funded by this grant:
- Najdovski Z,
- Cotton J,
- Debnath A,
- Creighton D,
- Zaslavsky A
- CONTRACT RESEARCHGuidelines for Incident Response Vehicles and Truck-mounted Attenuators.23 Jun 2021 - 30 Nov 2022People funded by this grant:
- Debnath A,
- Kutadinata R
- CONTRACT RESEARCHSide Road Activated Speeds (SRAS) - Development of Framework Survey Design and Analysis for short-term evaluation.17 Dec 2020 - 30 Sep 2021People funded by this grant:
- Ashim Debnath
- CONTRACT RESEARCHHigh Speed Rural Intersections Evaluation Project20 Jan 2020 - 9 Jul 2021People funded by this grant:
- Ashim Debnath
- CONTRACT RESEARCHStrategic Transport Modelling Development.5 Aug 2019 - 17 Feb 2020People funded by this grant:
- Ashim Debnath