Peter Stopher

Professor Emeritus Peter Stopher is affiliated with the University of Sydney's Business School (BUS) department. His research interests include road transportation and freight services, intelligent mobility, rail transportation and freight services, transportation, logistics, and supply chains. He has held a position at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies since 2015. Prior to this, he was a professor at several universities, including Northwestern, Cornell, McMaster, and Louisiana State University. He has contributed significantly to transport planning, travel forecasting, and data collection methods, particularly through the development of travel and activity diaries.

Peter Stopher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney, specializing in transportation planning, behavior surveys of human populations, GPS technology, and passive survey methods. His research focuses on improving transportation systems through data-driven analysis of travel behavior, with an emphasis on the accuracy and reliability of survey methods. Stopher has contributed extensively to the development of GPS-based travel surveys, the evaluation of service quality in public transport, and the modeling of travel demand. His work includes assessing the effectiveness of behavioral travel models and exploring the integration of GPS data in urban transportation planning. His research has significant implications for reducing road congestion and enhancing emergency evacuation planning.