Publications

Book chapters:

• 1. Ronald, N, Navidi, Z, Wang, Y, Rigby, M, Jain, S, Kutadinata, R, Thompson, R & Winter S 2017, “Mobility Patterns in Shared, Autonomous, and Connected Urban Transport”, in G Meyer & S Shaheen (eds), Disruptive Mobility: Impacts of Sharing Economy and Innovative Transportation on Cities, Springer International Publishing, pp. 275-290.

In journals:

• 1. Navidi, Z., Ronald, N. & Winter, S. Evaluating performance of flexible-route and fixed-route transit: A simulation study. Public Transport, 2018.

  2. Wang, Y., S. Winter, and N. Ronald. How much is trust: The cost and benefit of ridesharing with friends. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 65, pp. 103-112, 2017.

  3. Ronald, N., R. Thompson, and S. Winter. Simulating ad-hoc demand-responsive transportation: a comparison of three approaches. Transporation Planning and Technology 40(3), pp. 340-358, 2017.

  4. Jain, S., N. Ronald, R. Thompson, and S. Winter. Predicting susceptibility to use demand responsive transport using demographic and trip characteristics of the population. Travel Behaviour and Society 6, pp. 44–56, 2017.

  5. Ronald, N., T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. Towards process validation for complex transport models: a sensitivity analysis of a social network-enhanced activity-travel model. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 55, pp. 24-32, 2016.

  6. Ronald, N., R. Thompson, and S. Winter. A comparison of constrained and ad-hoc demand-responsive transportation systems. Transportation Research Record 2536, pp. 44-51, 2015.

  7. Ronald, N., R. Thompson, and S. Winter. Simulating demand-responsive transportation: a review of agent-based approaches. Transport Reviews 35(4), pp. 404-421, 2015.

  8. Ma, H., N. Ronald, T. Arentze and H. Timmermans. Negotiating on location, timing, duration, and participant in agent-mediated joint activity-travel scheduling. Journal of Geographical Systems 15(4), pp. 427-451, 2013.

  9. Ronald, N., V. Dignum, C. Jonker, T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. On the engineering of agent-based simulations of social activities with social networks. Information and Software Technology 54(6), pp. 625-638, 2012.

  10. Ronald, N., T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. Modeling social interactions between individuals for joint activity scheduling. Transportation Research Part B 46(2), pp. 276-290, 2012.

  11. Ma, H., N. Ronald, T. Arentze and H. Timmermans. New credit mechanism for negotiation with incomplete information in semi-cooperative agent-mediated joint activity-travel scheduling. Transportation Research Record, 2230, pp. 104-110, 2011.

  12. Ronald, N., T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. The effects of different interaction protocols in agent-based simulation of social activities. International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems, 3(2), pp. 18-32, 2011.

  13. Ronald, N., L. Sterling, and M. Kirley. An agent-based approach to modelling pedestrian behaviour. International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science & Technology, 8(1), pp. 25-38, 2006.

In refereed conference proceedings:

• 1. Mehmood, U, Moser, I & Ronald, N, (2020). Event Attendance Prediction Using Social Media”, In Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference (ACSW’20), Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

  2. Ronald, N., Winter, S., & Vishwanath, A. (2016). Simulating city-wide impacts of microcars: preliminary results. In 1st Workshop on Agent Based Modelling of Urban Systems (ABMUS 2016). Singapore, May 2016.

  3. Navidi Kashani, Z., Ronald, N., & Winter, S. (2016). Comparing Demand Responsive and Conventional Public Transport in a Low Demand Context. In First International Workshop on Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transport Systems (AwareCities’16). Sydney, Australia, March 2016.

  4. Jain, S., Ronald, N., & Winter, S. (2015). Creating a Synthetic Population : A Comparison of Tools. In 3rd Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India. Kolkota, India, Dec 2015.

  5. Kelly, R., Ronald, N., Winter, S., & Wallace, M. (2015). Exploring the effects of mixed request schemes for demand-responsive feeder services. In 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM), Gold Coast, Qld, Australia, Dec 2015.

  6. Ronald, N., Thompson, R. G., & Winter, S. (2015). Modelling ad-hoc DRT over many days: a preliminary study. In 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM) (pp. 1175–1181). Gold Coast, Qld, Australia, Dec 2015.

  7. Zhao, H., Ronald, N., & Winter, S. (2015). A Fading Memory Model for Indoor Evacuation – Preliminary Results. In 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM), Gold Coast, Qld, Australia, Dec 2015.

  8. Ronald, N., Yang, J., and Thompson, R. (2015). Exploring co-modality using on-demand transport systems. In 9th International Conference on City Logistics. Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, June 2015.

  9. Das, R., N. Ronald, and S. Winter. A Simulation Study on Automated Transport Mode Detection in Near-Real Time using a Neural Network. In Proceedings of Research@Locate'15, Brisbane, Australia, March 2015. (Online proceedings)

  10. Ronald, N., R. Thompson, and S. Winter. A comparison of constrained and ad-hoc demand-responsive transportation systems. In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January 2015.

  11. Das, R., N. Ronald, and S. Winter. Clustering based Transfer Detection with Fuzzy Activity Recognition from Smart-phone Trajectories. In Proceedings of the 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, October 2014.

  12. Ronald, N., R. Thompson, J. Haasz, and S. Winter. Determining the Viability of a Demand Responsive Transport System under Varying Demand Scenarios. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, Orlando, Florida, November 2013.

  13. Ronald, N. Workers, adventurers, explorers: uncovering activity patterns in Melbourne. In Proceedings of the 36th Australasian Transport Research Forum, Brisbane, Australia, October 2013. (PDF, online proceedings)

  14. Ma, H., N. Ronald, T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. New Credit Mechanism for Negotiation with Incomplete Information in Semicooperative Agent-Mediated Joint Activity-Travel Scheduling. In TRB 90th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, January 2011.

  15. Ma, H., N. Ronald, T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. An Overview of Negotiation Models for Activity-Travel Applications. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM'2010), Hasselt, Belgium, October 2010.

  16. Ronald, N., H. Ma, T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. Incorporating power into joint social activity negotiation. In Proceedings of the 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation, Kassel, Germany, September 2010.

  17. Ronald, N., V. Dignum and C. Jonker. When will I see you again: modelling the influence of social networks on social activities. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S) at Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops 2010, Lyon, France, August 2010. (PDF, online proceedings)

  18. Ronald, N., T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. An agent-based framework for modelling social influence on travel behaviour. In Proceedings of the MSSANZ International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM09), Cairns, Australia, July 2009. (PDF, online proceedings)

  19. Ronald, N., L. Sterling and M. Kirley. Evaluating JACK Sim for agent-based modelling of pedestrians. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2006), Hong Kong, December 2006.

  20. Ronald, N. and M. Kirley. Pedestrian modelling: a comparative study using agent-based cellular automata. In Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Modelling of Complex Systems by Cellular Automata (LNCS 3993), Reading, UK, May 2006.

  21. Ronald, N., L. Sterling, and M. Kirley. A conceptual framework for specifying and developing pedestrian models. In Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM05), Melbourne, Australia, December 2005.

  22. Ronald, N. and L. Sterling. Modelling pedestrian behaviour with the BDI architecture. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2005), Compiègne, France, September 2005.

  23. Ronald, N. and L. Sterling. A BDI approach to modelling pedestrian behaviour. In Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Riga, Latvia, June 2005.

  24. Ronald, N. The role of pedestrian modelling in planning for special events. In Proceedings of the 27th Australasian Transport Research Forum, Adelaide, Australia, October 2004. (PDF, online proceedings)

In abstract-only refereed conference proceedings:

• 1. Ma, H., N. Ronald, M. Wu, T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. Multi-player multi-issue negotiation with incomplete information in agent-based activity-travel scheduling. In Proceedings of the 10th Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning Conference (DDSS'10), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 2010.

  2. Ronald, N., T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. Validating models of social activities and travel behaviour. In Proceedings of the 12th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR 2010), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2010. (PDF, online proceedings)

  3. Ronald, N., T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. Modelling social interactions between individuals for joint activity-travel scheduling. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR'09), Jaipur, India, December 2009.

  4. Ronald, N., T. Arentze, and H. Timmermans. Modelling social aspects of travel behaviour: a preliminary review. In Proceedings of the 9th Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning Conference (DDSS'08), Leende, The Netherlands, July 2008.

As theses:

1. Ronald, N. Modelling the effects of social networks on activity and travel behaviour. PhD thesis, Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, November 2012. (PDF, TU/e library)

2. Ronald, N. Agent-based approaches to pedestrian modelling. MEngSc thesis, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, February 2007. (PDF, Unimelb eprints)