Joseph Affum

 

Dr Affum joined the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) Queensland team in February 2005. Joseph holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of South Australia for his thesis titled: ‘Integration and development of GIS-based tools for transport planning applications’. Prior to joining ARRB, Joseph was employed for eight years by Griffith University, initially as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow and later as a Research Fellow/Lecturer at the School of Environmental Planning.

 

As a researcher, Joseph worked on several Australian Research Council (ARC) funded traffic and transport planning projects in the area of the environmental impacts of Transport Systems. Joseph has over 20 years’ work experience in traffic engineering, road safety, noise modelling, GIS and PBS heavy vehicle route assessment. Joseph has a well demonstrated expertise in developing GIS-based transport related applications and possesses advanced skills in spatial analysis.

 

Joseph was involved in the initial development of AusRAP, iRAP and KiwiRAP and has been involved in several risk assessment projects including AusRAP and NetRisk in Australia, KiwiRAP in New Zealand, and iRAP in Malaysia and Vietnam.