Graham V. Currie
Australian academic

Graham V. Currie
OccupationsPublic transport researcher, policy advisor, and academic
Academic background
EducationB.Sc., Geography
M.Sc., Transport Studies
Ph.D., Civil Engineering
Alma materHuddersfield University
Cranfield University
Monash University
Academic work
InstitutionsMonash University

Graham V. Currie FTSE is a public transport researcher, policy advisor, and academic. He is a professor and chair at Monash University.

Currie's work has focused on public transport practice and strategy development. He contributed to a proposal for a Metro Tunnel, a concept intended to ease congestion in Melbourne, which opened in 2025. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and has been awarded the Transport Medal by Engineers Australia.

Education

Currie received a B.Sc. in Geography from Huddersfield University in 1982, followed by an M.Sc. in Transport Studies from Cranfield University in 1984. He later earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Monash University in 2011.[1]

Career

Following a career as a public transport consultant, Currie has been working as chair in Public Transport at Monash University since 2003.[1] He is the founder and director of the Public Transport Research Group at Monash University[2] and the founder of World Transit Research Clearinghouse.[3] He also holds Australia's first professorship in public transport at Monash University.[4]

Currie has advised the Victorian Office of the Auditor General,[5] and was elected president of the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF).[6] Since 1996, he has been a specialist advisor to international agencies on transport planning for large-scale events.[2]

Research

Currie's research has examined public transport practice, equity, and service quality using analytical and policy approaches.

Public transport practice

Currie highlighted the need for the Metro Tunnel, an underground rail tunnel project to ease pressure on Melbourne's crowded public transport system,[7] which opened in 2025,[8] and provided the research foundation and design rationale that helped shape the project's eventual adoption.[9] He also offered analysis on the financial arrangements supporting public transport during the post-pandemic patronage downturn.[10] In related research, he demonstrated that fare evasion can be either intentional or accidental, and sometimes involves smaller acts like using a cheaper ticket when a higher fare is required.[11] He co‑developed a structural model that segments fare evaders into accidental, unintentional, calculated, and habitual groups to distinguish deliberate from unintended evasion.[12] He further showed that persistent evaders resist enforcement due to deeper economic or ideological factors.[13]

Transport equity and accessibility

Currie's research has focused on public transport planning and policy, with attention to accessibility,[14] service quality,[15] and addressing transport disadvantages for marginalized populations.[16] His books No Way to Go: Transport and Social Disadvantage in Australian Communities[17] and Handbook of Public Transport Research both examine how public transport systems intersect with broader social issues.[18] He has developed frameworks to measure and improve transport equity[19] while identifying regions with inadequate services.[20] In his book New Perspectives and Methods in Transport and Social Exclusion Research, he presented new methods and insights for analysing transport disadvantage and social exclusion, linking accessibility, well-being, and social justice.[21]

Transit service quality and network design

Currie's work has also analysed the broader international evidence that higher-quality transit service significantly increases use.[22] His regression analysis indicated that station-level service quality is the primary driver of rail passenger flows.[23] In a collaborative study, he showed that network design and transfer behaviour are linked[24] and that they influence transit performance, though broader network effects remain limited.[25] His analyses identified key factors influencing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) ridership at system and route levels, highlighting both the importance and analytical complexity of service-supply variables due to potential endogeneity.[26]

Awards and honors

  • 2012, 2016 – William W. Millar Award, US Transportation Research Board[27]
  • 2017, 2021 – John H. Taplin Prize, Australasian Transport Research Forum[28]
  • 2017 – Fellow, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering[29]
  • 2020 – Transport Medal, Engineers Australia[30]

Bibliography

Selected books

  • Currie, Graham Victor; Gammie, Fergus; Waingold, Charles; Paterson, Darryn; Vandersar, Davinia (2005). Rural and Regional Young People and Transport - Improving Access to Transport for Young People in Rural and Regional Australia. Australian Government Dept of Family and Community Service. ISBN 9780975249857.
  • Currie, Graham; Stanley, Janet Robin (2007). No Way to Go: Transport and Social Disadvantage in Australian Communities. Monash University Publishing. ISBN 9780980361629.
  • Currie, Graham (2011). New Perspectives and Methods in Transport and Social Exclusion Research. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781780522005.
  • Currie, Graham (2021). The Handbook of Public Transport Research. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781788978651.

Selected articles

  • Currie, Graham (2010). "Quantifying spatial gaps in public transport supply based on social needs". Journal of Transport Geography. 18 (1): 31–41. Bibcode:2010JTGeo..18...31C. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.12.002.
  • Currie, Graham; Richardson, Tony; Smyth, Paul; Vella-Brodrick, Dianne; Hine, Julian; Lucas, Karen; Stanley, Janet; Morris, Jenny (2010). "Investigating links between transport disadvantage, social exclusion and well-being in Melbourne – Updated results". Research in Transportation Economics. 29 (1): 287–295. doi:10.1016/j.retrec.2010.07.036.
  • Delbosc, Alexa; Currie, Graham (2011). "Using Lorenz curves to assess public transport equity". Journal of Transport Geography. 19 (6): 1252–1259. Bibcode:2011JTGeo..19.1252D. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.02.008.
  • Delbosc, Alexa; Currie, Graham (2011). "The spatial context of transport disadvantage, social exclusion and well-being". Journal of Transport Geography. 19 (6): 1130–1137. Bibcode:2011JTGeo..19.1130D. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2011.04.005.
  • Faisal, Asif; Yigitcanlar, Tan; Kamruzzaman, Md.; Currie, Graham (2019). "Understanding autonomous vehicles: A systematic literature review on capability, impact, planning and policy". Journal of Transport and Land Use. 12 (1). doi:10.5198/jtlu.2019.1405.

References

  1. ^ a b "Gaham Currie". ORCID. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Graham Currie - Monash University". Monash University. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  3. ^ "Prof Graham Currie, Monash University" (PDF). Squarespace. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  4. ^ "Monash to host 'world-leading' public transport research centre". Railexpress. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  5. ^ "INDEPENDENT EXPERTISE CONSULTANCY" (PDF). Monash University. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  6. ^ "About us". Australian Transport Research Forum. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
  7. ^ Silkstone, Dan; Millar, Royce (7 November 2005). "Call for 'tube' line underneath Melbourne". The Age. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  8. ^ "Metro Tunnel Project overview". Victoria’s Big Build. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  9. ^ "Metro Tunnel: Inside the research that became Melbourne's biggest transport project". Monash Lens. 27 November 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  10. ^ "Victoria government pays almost $500 million to shield Metro Trainis from pandemic fallout". The Age. 17 June 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  11. ^ Muñoz, Daniel; Lee, Kris; Plyushteva, Anna (2023). "Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport". Research in Transportation Economics. 19 (3): 345–362. doi:10.1080/17450101.2023.2240539 – via CrossRef.
  12. ^ Barabino, Benedetto; Lai, Cristian; Olivo, Alessandro (2020). "Fare evasion in public transport systems: a review of the literature". Public Transport. 12: 27–88. doi:10.1007/s12469-019-00225-w – via Springer.
  13. ^ Escalona, Pablo; Brotcorne, Luce (2025). "Spot-fare inspection in urban bus transportation systems: strategy and unpredictability under a Stackelberg game approach". Public Transport: 2. doi:10.1007/s12469-025-00398-7. hdl:2268/336823 – via SpringerLink.
  14. ^ Stuart, A. L. (2019). "Exploring the equity performance of bike-sharing systems with disaggregated data: A story of southern Tampa". Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 130: 529–545. Bibcode:2019TRPA..130..529C. doi:10.1016/J.TRA.2019.09.048.
  15. ^ Engels, Benno (2011). "Social exclusion, location and transport disadvantage amongst non-driving seniors in a Melbourne municipality, Australia". Journal of Transport Geography. 19 (4): 985. Bibcode:2011JTGeo..19..984E. doi:10.1016/J.JTRANGEO.2011.03.007.
  16. ^ Kamruzzaman, Md.; Yigitcanlar, Tan; Yang, Jay; Mohamed, Mohd Afzan (20 July 2016). "Measures of Transport-Related Social Exclusion: A Critical Review of the Literature". Sustainability. 8 (7): 9. Bibcode:2016Sust....8..696K. doi:10.3390/su8070696.
  17. ^ "No Way to Go: Transport and Social Disadvantage in Australian Communities". WorldCat. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
  18. ^ "Handbook of public transport research". WorldCat. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
  19. ^ Halimi, Zahra; SafariTaherkhani, Mohammad; Cui, Qingbin (2024). "A Generalized Framework for Assessing Equity in Ground Transportation Infrastructure: An Exploratory Study": 9. arXiv:2409.19018 – via arXiv. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  20. ^ Malekzadeh, Ali; Chung, Edward (2019). "A review of transit accessibility models: Challenges in developing transit accessibility models". Review Articles. 14 (10): 18. doi:10.1080/15568318.2019.1625087 – via CrossRef.
  21. ^ "New perspectives and methods in transport and social exclusion research". WorldCat. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  22. ^ Alam, Bhuiyan Monwar; Nixon, Hilary; Zhang, Qiong (14 October 2018). "Factors Affecting Travel Demand by Bus: An Empirical Analysis in the U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area Level". Transportation Research Record. 2672 (8): 818. doi:10.1177/0361198118798714 – via Transportation Research Board.
  23. ^ Lin, Luzhou; Gao, Yuezhe; Cao, Bingxin; Wang, Zifan; Jia, Cai (2023). "Passenger Flow Scale Prediction of Urban Rail Transit Stations Based on Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)". Complexity. 2023: 2. doi:10.1155/2023/1430449.
  24. ^ Badia, Hugo (2020). "Comparison of Bus Network Structures in Face of Urban Dispersion for a Ring-Radial City". Networks and Spatial Economics. 20: 244. doi:10.1007/s11067-019-09474-5. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
  25. ^ Mulley, Corinne; Ho, Chinh (November 2013). "Evaluating the impact of bus network planning changes in Sydney, Australia". Transport Policy. 30: 2. doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2013.07.003.
  26. ^ Ko, Joonho; Kim, Daejin; Etezady, Ali (7 March 2019). "Determinants of Bus Rapid Transit Ridership: System-Level Analysis". Journal of Urban Planning and Development. 145 (2) 04019004: 1. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000506.
  27. ^ "William W. Millar Award". National Academies. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  28. ^ "History of the ATRF". Australasian Transport Research Forum. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  29. ^ "2017 Fellows" (PDF). Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  30. ^ "President's Prize" (PDF). Engineers Australia. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
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