DrKasun De Silva Wijayaratna

Senior Lecturer

School of Civil, Environmental & Sociotechnical ENG

FUNDED RESEARCH

Research interests

• Traffic Engineering and Management
• Transport Modelling
• Network modelling and network science
• Demand modelling
• Transport data collection and analysis
• Transport planning

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    A qualitative decision-making framework for assessing design alternatives
    Air Force Office of Scientific Research1 Oct 2026 - 30 Sep 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • GRANT
    Integrated Simulation Framework for Mitigating Transport-Induced Loads in Prefabricated Modular Construction
    University of Technology Sydney1 Apr 2026 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    UTS Collaboration
  • GRANT
    ATRF – Conference Sponsorship - OCSE CSP Funding
    NSW Department of Planning, Housing, and Infrastructure DPHI (previously NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment)5 Jan 2026 - 27 Nov 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    NSW Office of the Chief Scientist & Engineer - Conference Sponsorship Program - (CSP202638)
  • GRANT
    Behavioural Analytics and Scenario Insights System (BASIS)
    iMove Australia Limited17 Oct 2025 - 16 Oct 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • De Silva Wijayaratna K,
    • Bagheri Khoulenjani N,
    • Saberi M,
    • Dixit V,
    • Divya
    iMOVE CRC
  • GRANT
    Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to understand perceived safety and travel behaviour in shared spaces
    iMove Australia Limited1 Sep 2025 - 30 Sep 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    iMOVE CRC
  • GRANT
    Reducing Trauma and Improving Safety on Rural and Regional Roads: Sustainable Road Sealing Innovation towards Net Zero
    Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts6 Feb 2025 - 1 Jan 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    National Road Safety Action Grants Program
  • GRANT
    Macroscopic speed and safety evaluation of the impacts of shared spaces in NSW
    iMove Australia Limited23 May 2024 - 21 Nov 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    iMOVE CRC - (iMove CRC 6-040)
  • GRANT
    Evaluation and Implementation of Shared Spaces in NSW: Stage 2a
    iMove Australia Limited8 Jul 2022 - 8 Aug 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    iMOVE CRC - (6-012)
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Responsive Passenger Information Systems: evaluating passenger congestion in order to design responsive nudges
    iMove Australia Limited4 Jul 2022 - 31 Jan 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Zeibots M,
    • Bywaters K,
    • De Silva Wijayaratna K
    iMOVE CRC - (5-055)
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Optimising Multimodal Transport Networks: Sharing the Road Space - Top Up PhD Scholarship - Delilah Slack-Smith
    iMove Australia Limited8 Oct 2021 - 23 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • De Silva Wijayaratna K,
    • Slack-Smith D,
    • Zeibots M
    iMOVE CRC - (5-054)
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Evaluation and Implementation of Shared Spaces in NSW: Framework for road infrastructure design and operations to establish placemaking Stage 1: Examination of existing Shared Space knowledge
    Transport for NSW5 Jul 2021 - 1 Nov 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    Transport for NSW
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Using Big Data to improve public transport: from model-driven product-centric services to empirically driven customer-centricity- Mathew Hounsell scholarship
    iMove Australia Limited4 Jan 2021 - 6 Jan 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    iMOVE CRC - (5-023)
  • GRANT
    Local Government & Towards Zero Community Partnerships Project
    Transport for New South Wales6 Nov 2019
  • GRANT
    Improving Fuel Efficiency in the NSW Road Transport Sector
    CRC FOR LOW CARBON LIVING LIMITED21 Jun 2019 - 31 Oct 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • De Silva Wijayaratna K,
    • Dixit V,
    • Hossein Rashidi T
    CRC FOR LOW CARBON LIVING LIMITED
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Centre for Road Safety - Local Government & Towards Zero Community Partnerships Project
    Transport for NSW4 Jun 2019 - 16 Oct 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • van den Nieuwenhof A,
    • Driver S,
    • Argyrous G,
    • Teteris C,
    • De Silva Wijayaratna K
    Transport for NSW