Dr Zia Wadud
Associate Professor
Phone: +44 (0)113 34 38768 (ITS); +44 (0)113 34 37733 (CIER)
Room: 2.15 (ITS); G.20 (CIER)
Email: Z.Wadud@leeds.ac.uk_
Research Group: Spatial Modelling and Dynamics
Dr Wadud holds a joint appointment with the Centre for Integrated Energy Research (CIER, http://www.cier.leeds.ac.uk/) at the School of Chemical and Process Engineering (SCAPE, https://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/chemical/)
Key Research Interests
- Transportation, energy and environment
- Econometric modeling (energy/transport)
- Tradable permits
- Developing countries
- Aviation
- Impacts of vehicle automation
Employment History
- 2016-present, Associate Professor, Centre for Integrated Energy Research, Institute for Transport Studies and School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds
- 2012-2015, University Research Fellow, Centre for Integrated Energy Research, Institute for Transport Studies and School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds
- 2011-2012, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engg., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
- 2008-2011, 2004, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engg., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
- 2008, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2007-2008, Research Associate, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
- 1999-2002, Lecturer, Department of Civil Engg., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Education
- PhD, Imperial College London, 2008
- MDevTech, University of Melbourne, 2003
- MSc (Civil Engg.), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2002
- BSc (Civil Engg.), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 1999
Professional Engagements
- Member of the Editorial Panel, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
- Member of the Editorial Panel, Proceedings of the ICE: Energy
- Member, Committee on Transportation Energy, Transportation Research Board (TRB)
- Member, Committee on Aviation Economics and Forecasting, TRB
- Member, Special Task Force on Climate Change and Energy, TRB
- Member, Engineers Institution, Bangladesh
Research Impact News
- TR-A paper Help or hindrance? Travel, energy and carbon implications of highly automated vehicles is the most downloaded paper of the journal for the last one year. A policy briefing here: www.its.leeds.ac.uk/mobilityenergyfutures-selfdrivingcars
- Press: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3831/will_driverless_cars_increase_reliance_on_roads
- BBC Radio Why Factor (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04263vj)
- University spotlight feature: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/site/custom_scripts/spotlight/driverless-cars.php
Research Grants (at Leeds)
- Microsimulation of energy and emissions impacts of self-driving vehicles, Arup Global Challenges
- Modeling Residential and Transport Energy for Downstream Policies, Marie Curie Actions, (PI)
- Dynamics of Energy Mobility and Demand Centre, RCUK
Other Ongoing Research
- TCO analysis for automated vehicles and its adoption/uptake
- Travel time use in automated vehicles
- Asymmetry in fuel demand using household data
- Diesel demand in the freight sector
- Heterogeneity in transport energy elasticities in the UK
Doctoral Research Students
- Richard Riley, CO2 benefits of hybrid vehicles for taxi fleet (completed 2016)
- Holly Edwards, Low carbon cockpit: reducing fuel use in aircraft operations (completed 2015)
- Abdullah Alsebaei, Solid waste management in Mina during the Hajj season (completed 2015)
- Khaled Abdullah, Traffic modelling of automated vehicles
- Xudong Chen (visiting), Environmental traffic capacity
- Kate Palmer, Modeling energy and emissions implications of future transport fleet
- Charlotte Stead, Biodiesel for Indian Railway
- Thalia Hernandez Amezcua, Reducting transport carbon emission in Mexico (tentative)
- AVIA3030 Aviation Futures
- TRAN5231M Global Issues in Transportation
- CAPE5470M Policy and Economics for Sustainable Energy Systems
- Supervision of Undergraduate, Masters and PhD dissertations at ITS, SCAPE, Civil Engg. & Business School
Papers
- Wadud Z (2017) Fully automated vehicles: A cost of ownership analysis to inform early adoption, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 101, pp.163-176. doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.005
- Wadud Z; Huda FY (2017) Fire Safety in the Readymade Garment Sector in Bangladesh: Structural Inadequacy Versus Management Deficiency, Fire Technology, 53, pp.793-814. doi: 10.1007/s10694-016-0599-x
- Wadud Z; Baierl M (2017) Explaining “peak car” with economic variables: A comment, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 95, pp.381-385. doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2016.11.002
- Dent CM; Bale CSE; Wadud Z; Voss H (2016) Cities, energy and climate change mitigation: An introduction, Cities, 54, pp.1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2015.11.009
- Wadud Z; MacKenzie D; Leiby P (2016) Help or hindrance? The travel, energy and carbon impacts of highly automated vehicles, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 86, pp.1-18. doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2015.12.001
- Wadud Z (2016) Diesel demand in the road freight sector in the UK: Estimates for different vehicle types, Applied Energy, 165, pp.849-857. doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.12.102
- Edwards HA; Dixon-Hardy D; Wadud Z (2016) Aircraft cost index and the future of carbon emissions from air travel, Applied Energy, 164, pp.553-562. doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.11.058
- Upham P; Virkamäki V; Kivimaa P; Hildén M; Wadud Z (2015) Socio-technical transition governance and public opinion: The case of passenger transport in Finland, Journal of Transport Geography, 46, pp.210-219. doi: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.06.024
- Wadud Z (2015) Decomposing the drivers of aviation fuel demand using simultaneous equation models, Energy, 83, pp.551-559. doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.02.061
- Wadud Z (2015) Imperfect reversibility of air transport demand: Effects of air fare, fuel prices and price transmission, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 72, pp.16-26. doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.11.005
- Wadud Z; Huda FY; Ahmed NU (2014) Assessment of Fire Risk in the Readymade Garment Industry in Dhaka, Bangladesh, FIRE TECHNOLOGY, 50, pp.1127-1145. doi: 10.1007/s10694-013-0349-2
- Wadud Z (2014) Cycling in a changed climate, Journal of Transport Geography, 35, pp.12-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.01.001
- Wadud Z (2014) New vehicle fuel economy in the UK: Impact of the recession and recent policies, Energy Policy, 74, pp.215-223. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.05.017
- Wadud Z (2014) The asymmetric effects of income and fuel price on air transport demand, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 65, pp.92-102. doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.04.001
- Wadud Z (2014) (Unintended) Transport impacts of an energy-environment policy: The case of CNG conversion of vehicles in Dhaka, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 66, pp.100-110. doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.04.017
- Wadud Z; Khan T (2013) Air quality and climate impacts due to CNG conversion of motor vehicles in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Environmental Science and Technology, 47, pp.13907-13916. doi: 10.1021/es402338b
- Wadud Z (2013) Using meta-regression to determine Noise Depreciation Indices for Asian airports, Asian Geographer, 30, pp.127-141. doi: 10.1080/10225706.2013.778580
- Wadud Z (2013) Simultaneous modeling of passenger and cargo demand at an airport, Transportation Research Record, pp.63-74. doi: 10.3141/2336-08
- Alam JB; Wadud Z; Alam JB; Polak JW (2013) Energy demand and economic consequences of transport policy, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 10, pp.1075-1082. doi: 10.1007/s13762-013-0240-1
- Guttikunda SK; Begum BA; Wadud Z (2012) Particulate pollution from brick kiln clusters in the Greater Dhaka region, Bangladesh, Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, pp.1-9. doi: 10.1007/s11869-012-0187-2
- Dey HS; Kabir MA; Wadud Z; Khan SI; Azad MAK (2011) Econometric modeling and forecasting of natural gas demand for power sector in Bangladesh, IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON, pp.1383-1386. doi: 10.1109/TENCON.2011.6129035
- Wadud Z (2011) Modeling and forecasting passenger demand for a new domestic airport with limited data, Transportation Research Record, pp.59-68. doi: 10.3141/2214-08
- Wadud Z; Waitz I (2011) Comparison of air quality-related mortality impacts of different transportation modes in the united states, Transportation Research Record, pp.99-109. doi: 10.3141/2233-12
- Wadud Z (2011) Personal tradable carbon permits for road transport: Why, why not and who wins?, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 45, pp.1052-1065. doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2010.03.002
- Wadud Z; Dey HS; Kabir MA; Khan SI (2011) Modeling and forecasting natural gas demand in Bangladesh, Energy Policy, 39, pp.7372-7380. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.08.066
- Wadud Z; Graham DJ; Noland RB (2010) Gasoline demand with heterogeneity in household responses, Energy Journal, 31, pp.47-74.
- Wadud Z; Noland RB; Graham DJ (2010) A semiparametric model of household gasoline demand, Energy Economics, 32, pp.93-101. doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2009.06.009
- Wadud Z; Graham DJ; Noland RB (2009) A cointegration analysis of gasoline demand in the United States, Applied Economics, 41, pp.3327-3336. doi: 10.1080/00036840701477306
- Graham DJ; Glaister S; Quddus M; Wadud Z (2009) Testing for the distributional effects of national road user charging, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 3, pp.18-38. doi: 10.1080/15568310701345386
- Noland RB; Wadud Z (2009) Review of oil demand restraint policies for heavy-goods vehicles, Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy, 4, pp.84-99. doi: 10.1080/15567240701423985
- Wadud Z; Graham DJ; Noland RB (2009) Modelling fuel demand for different socio-economic groups, Applied Energy, 86, pp.2740-2749. doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2009.04.011
- Wadud Z; Noland RB; Graham DJ (2008) Equity analysis of personal tradable carbon permits for the road transport sector, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY, 11, pp.533-544. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2008.04.002
- Reynolds TG; Barrett S; Dray LM; Evans AD; Köhler MO; Morales MV; Schäfer A; Wadud Z; Britter R; Hallam H; Hunsley R (2007) Modelling environmental & economic impacts of aviation: Introducing the aviation integrated modelling project, Collection of Technical Papers - 7th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, 1, pp.569-580.
- Wadud Z; Ahmad S (2006) Design charts for helicoidal stair slabs with landing at midspan, Journal of Structural Engineering, 132, pp.312-320. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2006)132:2(312)
- Wadud Z; Aye L; Beer T; Watson HC (2006) Modeling Australian road transport emissions till 2025, Journal of Civil Engineering (IEB), 34, pp.115-127.
- Wadud Z; Ahmad S; Alauddin M (2003) A design rationale for circular silos based on finite element analysis, Journal of Civil Engineering (IEB), 31, pp.83-103.
Book Chapters
- Gühnemann A; Wadud Z (In press) Carbon and Noise Trading in Aviation, Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, John Wiley and Sons. doi: 10.1002/9780470686652.eae1077
Reports
- Marsden G; Mattioli G; Whiteing A; Jones I; Cepeda M; Atkinson P; Palmer K; Edwards H; Wadud Z; Burkinshaw J (In press) Section 1: New trends in transport demand and related impact on transport systems and patterns, pp.11-52. doi: 10.2861/64175
- Wadud Z; Anable J (In press) Automated vehicles: Automatically low carbon?, .
- Hall S; Shepherd S; Wadud Z (2017) The Innovation Interface: Business model innovation for electric vehicle futures, .
Conference Papers
- Edwards H; Dixon-Hardy DW; Wadud Z (2015) Optimisation of Aircraft Cost Indices to Reduce Fuel Use, 2015 TRB 94th Annual Meeting: Compendium of Papers .