Dr. Rayya Hassan   Senior Lecturer - Transport

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, 2003.
• MEng Construction Management, Swinburne University of Technology, 1997.
• B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq, 1982

Past Organisations

• ARRB Group Ltd
• Swinburne University of Technology
• Baghdad Municipality, Iraq

Areas of Expertise and Research

• Road roughness and rideability
• Whole body vibration, analysis and interpretation
• Road-vehicle interaction and dynamic wheel loading
• Heavy vehicle dynamics
• Pavement design and performance
• Life cycle cost analysis
• Multi-objective analysis
• Transport economics
• Traffic engineering and management

Supervision of higher degree by research (HDR) (Current students)

Name	Degree	Research Centre	Start year	Role	Institution
Thanh Binh Tran	PhD	CSI	2009	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne
Mohammad Shahriar	MEng	Faculty	2010	Associate Supervisor	Swinburne
Wellage Prageeth Harsha Gunarathna	PhD	CSI	2011	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne
Konica Sultana	PhD	CSI	2011	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne

Previously Supervised higher degree by research (HDR) students

Name	Degree	Research Centre	Status	Role	Institution
Ranita Sen	MEng	CSI	Completed	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne

Topics for Prospective Ph.D Students - View ALL topics for Dr. Rayya Hassan

Impacts of road geometry on surface irregularities
This project involves studying and quantifying the contribution of road geometry to the initiation and progression of surface irregularities.


Long term performance of pavement line marking
This project involves monitoring the long term performance of common types of line marking materials over time and testing their reflectivity and effectiveness at different times and in different conditions.

Impacts of increased mass limits on road surface profile characteristics
This project involves studying the impacts of increased axle loads on the progression rates of surface roughness in different wavebands.

Publications

List of Further Publications from Swinburne Research Bank

Book Chapter

1. Hassan R and McManus, 2007, "Perception of low Frequency Vibrations by Heavy Vehicle Drivers", The effects of low-frequency noise and vibration on people, chapter 5, Multi-Science Publishing Co. Ltd., Essex, United Kingdom

Refereed Journal papers

2. Hassan, R. (2005), "Ensuring Successful Implementation of Asset Management Systems", Road and Transport Research, Vol.4, No.3, pp. 86-90, ARRB Group, Vermont South, Australia.
3. Hassan, R. and McManus K., (2003), "Assessment of the Interaction Between Road Roughness and Heavy Vehicles", Transportation Research Record, No. 1819, Vol. 2 pp.236-243, Journal of the Transportation Research Board Washington DC, USA.
4. Hassan R. and McManus K., (2002), "Perception of low frequency vibrations by heavy vehicle drivers", Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, Vol. 21 No. 2, Multi-Science Publishing Company Ltd, UK.
5. Hassan R. and McManus K., (2001), "Estimating Dynamic Loading of Pavements From Surface Profile Properties", Road and Transport Research Journal, Volume 10 No 3, pp 3-19, ARRB Transport Research Ltd, Australia
6. Hassan R., McManus K., Holden J., (1999), "Predicting Pavement Deterioration Modes Using Waveband Analysis", Transportation Research Record, No. 1652, Vol. 2, pp. 181-187, National Research Council, Transportation Research Board Washington DC, USA.

Refereed Conference papers

7. Hassan R, 2009, “Feasibility of using high RAP contents in Hot Mix Asphalt”, Proceedings of the 13th International Flexible Pavements Conference, 11-14 October 2009, Gold Coast, Australia.
8. Hesami R., McManus K. J., Evans R. P. and Hassan R., 2009, “A Comparative Study of Roughness Indices for Monitoring the Performance of Thin Seal Flexible Pavements Subjected to Low Traffic Volumes in Australia”, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, Sept 2009.
9. Hassan R and McManus, 2009, “Better Ride for Freight”, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment, 22-24 June 2009, Bologna, Italy.
10. Patterson, J., McManus, K., Hassan, R. and Schier, M. (2003), “Changes in Brain Electrical Activity caused by Low-Frequency Whole Body Vibrations”, Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, 24-29 August
11. Hassan R, Martin T, Thoresen T, Jameson G, Roper R, (2008), “Economic Evaluation of Increasing Heavy Vehicle Axle Mass Limits”, Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 23rd ARRB conference, Adelaide, Australia, July 2008, ARRB Group, Vermont South, Australia.
12. Michel N., Hassan R., Roberts J., (2008), “FAMLIT: Freight Axle Mass Limits Investigation Tool”, Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 23rd ARRB conference, Adelaide, Australia, July 2008, ARRB Group, Vermont South, Australia.
13. Hassan R., Thoresen T., Martin T., Roper R., “High productivity vehicles and pavement economic impacts” (2008), Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 3rd European Pavement and Asset Management Conference (EPAM3), July 2008, Coimbra, Portugal.
14. Michel N., Hassan R and Roberts J., (2008), “FAMLIT-A new Pavement Assessment Tool”, Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 3rd European Pavement and Asset Management Conference (EPAM3), July 2008, Coimbra, Portugal.
15. Hassan R, McManus K & Cossens I, 2006, “Development of HATI - Heavy articulated truck index”, Proceedings of the 22nd ARRB conference, Canberra October 2006, ARRB Group, Vermont South, Vic.
16. Hassan R, Roper R & Hoque Z, 2006, “Trading off maintenance intervention criteria across road assets to meet budget”, Proceedings of the 22nd ARRB conference, Canberra, October 2006, ARRB Group, Vermont South, Vic.
17. Hassan R. and McManus K., (2001), “Truck Ride Number- A New Management Tool”, Proceedings of the 20th ARRB Conference on Managing your Transport Assets, 19-21 March, Melbourne, Australia.
18. Alcazar, E., Hassan, R., McManus, K. (2004), “Towards Sustainable Local Road Pavements”, Proceedings of the Sustainable City 2004 conference, Siena, Italy 16-18 June 2004.
19. Hassan R. and McManus K., (2001), “Heavy Vehicle Ride and Driver Comfort”, SP (special publication) - 1591, paper No. 2001-01-0386, SAE World Congress, Society of Automotive Engineers, March 5-8, Cobo Centre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
20. Hassan R. and McManus K., (2001), “Factors affecting Truck Driver's Comfort”, Proceedings of the SAE 2001 Noise and Vibration conference and Exhibition, paper No. 2001-01-1571, Society of Automotive Engineers, April 30- May 3, Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
21. Hassan R. and McManus, K., (2000), “Truck driver perception as an indicator of pavement performance”, Proceedings of the 10th Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australia (REAAA) conference on road development for the 21st Century, Tokyo/ Japan, 4-9 September.
22. Hassan R., McManus K., Evans R., (1998), “Roughness Waveband Characteristics as an Indicator of Pavement Deterioration”, 19th ARRB conference, Investing in -Transport, Sydney, 7-11 Dec.
23. McManus K., Hassan R., Sukkar F., (1997), “Founding Road Embankments on Peat and Organic Soils”, Proceedings of the Conference On Recent Advances in Soft Soil Engineering, Sarawak/ Malaysia, (5-7) March.
24. McManus K., Sukkar F., Hassan R., (1997), “Construction Technology for Supporting Light Structures on Sarawak's Soft Soils - Malaysia”, Proceedings of the Conference On Recent Advances in Soft Soil Engineering, Sarawak/ Malaysia, (5-7) March.

Research/consulting Reports

25. Hassan R. and Martin T, (2009) “Guide to Asset Management - Part 4: Program Development and Implementation”, AGAM04/09, Austroads Report, Sydney.
26. Hassan R, Martin T, Thoresen T, Jameson G, Evans C, Roper R and Michel N, (2009), “High Productivity Vehicles and Pavement Economic Impacts: Network Level assessment Approach”, Austroads Report AP-T116/09, Austroads, Sydney.
27. Hassan R, Martin T, Thoresen T, Jameson G, Evans C, Roper R and Michel N, (2009), “Impacts of PBS Pavement Vertical Loading Standards at Network Level - Tasks1 and 2: Final Report”, Austroads Report AP-T117/09, Austroads, Sydney.
28. Hassan R, Byrne M, Jameson G, and Osman L (2008), “Cost Implications of Incremental Loads on Road Pavements”, Austroads draft report - project AT1394
29. Osman L, Michel N, Hassan R, (2008) “FAMLIT User Manual”, Austroads draft report - project AT1165.
30. Hassan R, Michel N, (2008) “FAMLIT Models Summary and Application of Outputs”, Austroads draft report - project AT116.
31. Hassan, R., (2007), “Process for setting intervention criteria and allocating budgets: literature review”, Austroads Report AP-T80/07, 62p, Austroads, Sydney, Australia.
32. Su, M and Hassan R., (2007) “Application of the analytic hierarchy process in road asset management: User Manual”, Austroads Report AP-T84/07, 46p, Austroads, Australia.
33. Moffatt M. and Hassan, R., (2007) “Guide to asset management: part 5C: rutting”; 2nd ed Austroads Report AGAM05C/07, 49p, Austroads, Australia.
34. Hassan R, Roper R, Salvador F, (2006) “Process for setting intervention criteria and allocating budgets: process description and application”, Austroads Report AP-T69/06, 94p, Austroads, Sydney, Australia.
35. Moffatt M and Hassan R, (2006) “Guide to asset management: part 5E: cracking”, Austroads Report AGAM05E/06, 79p, Austroads, Sydney, Australia.
36. Moffatt M, Hassan R, (2006) “Guide to asset management: part 5C: rutting”, Austroads Report AGAM05C/06, 52p, Austroads, Sydney, Australia.
37. Hassan, R. and McManus K., (2004), “Providing Better Ride Quality for Freight Industry”, A report prepared for VicRoads, consultancy agreement RD888.
38. Hassan R., McManus K., (1998), “The Effect of Long Wavelength Roughness on Pavement Damage”, Safety, User costs and Comfort, A report prepared for VicRoads.
39. Hassan R., and McManus (1997), “Founding Road Embankments on Peat and Organic Deposits”, a report prepared for Road Authority, Sarawak/Malaysia.