Vinayak Dixit

Dr. Vinayak Dixit is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of New South Wales. After completing his degree in Mathematics and Computing, and Transportation Engineering, he served as the Associate Director of Research for the Gulf Coast Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency at Louisiana State University. At Louisiana State University Dr. Dixit in collaboration with other faculty founded the Driving Simulator Laboratory. His key research interest lies in studying risk in the transportation infrastructure system as it relates to highway safety, travel time uncertainty, as well as natural and man-made disasters. His projects have been predominantly funded by the United States National Science Foundation, Federal Highway Administration and the Strategic Highway Research Program of the Transportation Research Board. These grants are presently funding his research to develop experimental economic methods to study congestion pricing strategies, as well as, development of models that capture the impact of road infrastructure on driver’s risk perception and attitude. He is also involved in developing a decision support tool to guide state and local transportation agencies to determine optimal contracting and traffic management strategies to reduce impacts on traffic due to rehabilitation.