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Dr

Jason Thompson

Senior Research Fellow
Architecture, Building and Planning
Safety
Transport Workplace
Public Health
Complex Systems
Injury Prevention
Systems
Agent Based Models
Injury
Rehabilitation
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Dr

Jason Thompson

 
Division
Architecture, Building and Planning
 
Primary Interest
Transportation
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Jason Thompson.

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Harnessing the benefits of autonomous vehicles for health

2021 - 2023
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MANAGING THE RISK POSED BY ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

2020 - 2023
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A Vision of Healthy Urban Design Imagery Dataset

2021 - 2023
Active
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WorkWell Evaluation Social Network Analysis Baseline and Annual Data Management

2019 - 2022
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Designing injury rehabilitation schemes for transport systems of tomorrow

This project aims to develop new models for understanding the effect of road transport system design on injury insurance, compensation and r..

2018 - 2022
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Comcare Project

2021 - 2021
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Scenario Modelling

2020 - 2021
Completed
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Designing injury rehabilitation schemes for transport systems of tomorrow

This project aims to develop new models for understanding the effect of road transport system design on injury insurance, compensation and r..

2018 - 2021
Completed
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RTW factor-based modelling

2018 - 2019
Completed
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Identification of road design characteristics associated with unsafe driving behaviours using in-vehicle telematics

2018 - 2019
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

7

Research Contracts

4

Research Grant

2

Internal Research Grant

Additional Information

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Jason Thompson.

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The probability of the 6-week lockdown in Victoria (commencing 9 July 2020) achieving elimination of community transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Jason Thompson, Natalie Carvalho, Tony Blakely

Journal article  |  2021  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

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City Design and the Transmission of COVID-19

Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson, Branislava Godic, Thanh Ho

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Who is in control? Managerial artificial general intelligence (MAGI) for Football

S McLean, GJM Read, J Thompson, PA Hancock, PM Salmon

Journal article  |  2021  |  Soccer and Society

Advanced technologies now threaten to surpass human intelligence. This watershed will radically impact the ways we currently play,..

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Identifying safe intersection design through unsupervised feature extraction from satellite imagery

Jasper S Wijnands, Haifeng Zhao, Kerry A Nice, Jason Thompson, Katherine Scully, Jingqiu Guo, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2020  |  COMPUTER-AIDED CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING

The World Health Organization has listed the design of safer intersections as a key intervention to reduce global road trauma. Thi..

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The probability of the 6-week lockdown in Victoria (commencing 9 July 2020) achieving elimination of community transmission ofSARS-CoV-2

Tony Blakely, Jason Thompson, Natalie Carvalho, Laxman Bablani, Nick Wilson, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2020  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

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Computational modelling and systems ergonomics: a system dynamics model of drink driving-related trauma prevention

Paul M Salmon, Gemma JM Read, Jason Thompson, Scott McLean, Rod McClure

Journal article  |  2020  |  ERGONOMICS

System dynamics is a computational modelling method that is used to understand the dynamic interactions influencing behaviour in c..

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Simulating the behaviour of complex systems: computational modelling in ergonomics

Gemma JM Read, Paul M Salmon, Jason Thompson, Roderick J McClure

Journal article  |  2020  |  ERGONOMICS

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Streetscape augmentation using generative adversarial networks: Insights related to health and wellbeing

Jasper S Wijnands, Kerry A Nice, Jason Thompson, Haifeng Zhao, Mark Stevenson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Sustainable Cities and Society

Deep learning using neural networks has provided advances in image style transfer, merging the content of one image (e.g., a photo..

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Melbourne, Australia

Carolyn Whitzman, Jason Thompson, Rewa Marathe

Book Chapter  |  2020

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Who is to blame for crashes involving autonomous vehicles? Exploring blame attribution across the road transport system

Elin Poellaenen, Gemma JM Read, Ben R Lane, Jason Thompson, Paul M Salmon

Journal article  |  2020  |  ERGONOMICS

The introduction of fully autonomous vehicles is approaching. This warrants a re-consideration of road crash liability, given driv..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Expanding Knowledge
Urban and Regional Planning
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Public Health
Design
Ground Transport
Machine Learning
Sociology
Architecture
Clinical Sciences

News

Displaying the 10 most recent news articles by Jason Thompson.

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How long till Sydney gets out of lockdown?

Driss Ait Ouakrim, Tim Wilson, Laxman Bablani, Hassan Andrabi, Jason Thompson, Tony Blakely

More than a month after the first case of the current COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales was identified, the State Government is still str..

July 20, 2021
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Get ready for a shift in the COVID blame game

Jason Thompson

The politics of COVID-19 in Australia have been largely characterised by a culture of blame. Who to blame for hotel quarantine breaches? Who..

July 8, 2021
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This lockdown is different – in a good way

Jason Thompson

This morning, Victorians woke to the first day of a fresh 7-day lockdown. It follows a 26-case cluster originally sparked by a hotel quarant..

May 28, 2021
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Part 3: Things we know at the end of 2020

Jason Thompson, Kenny McAlpine, Melissa Conley Tyler, Tony Blakely

Who knew, at the outset of 2020, that so many of us would spend the year glued to televised updates from government (both in Australia and o..

December 30, 2020
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The ghost of Christmas yet to come: how an AI 'SantaNet' might end up destroying the world

Paul Salmon, Gemma Read, Jason Thompson, Scott McLean, Tony Carden

ShutterstockWithin the next few decades, according to some experts, we may see the arrival of the next step in ..

December 22, 2020
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Clear and present danger: how best to fight the latest whooping cough outbreak

Julie Leask, Jodie McVernon

Children too young for the vaccine or those who haven't been vaccinated are most at risk from whooping cough. anjanettew/FlickrEven thou..

December 15, 2020
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Adapting Melbourne’s public transport to ‘COVID normal’

David Ashmore, John Stone, Jason Thompson, Catie Moore, Eric Keys

As much as we might wish otherwise, the responsibility for complex public policy problems such as controlling COVID-19 do not fall neatly wi..

November 17, 2020
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How ‘artificial societies’ are helping plan our COVID-19 response

Jason Thompson

The year 2020 has been extraordinary. Never before has such a rapid confluence between science, social science, and policy-making been obser..

October 16, 2020
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Reimagining international airports in COVID-19

Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes, Jason Thompson, David Ashmore

Cases of inadequate screening, the quarantining of incoming cruise ship and airline passengers have exacerbated the importation and spread o..

September 15, 2020
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Modelling Victoria’s escape from COVID-19

Jason Thompson, Mark Stevenson, Tony Blakely, Rod McClure

On Sunday, Premier Daniel Andrews outlined the Roadmap for Victoria to manage its way out of the COVID-19, second-wave crisis. This is a sta..

September 8, 2020
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2017

Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)

Australian Research Council
2017

Best Paper Award

Computational Social Science Society of the Americas

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Senior Research Fellow

Architecture, Building and Planning

Member

Australian Injury Prevention Network

Member

European Complex Systems Society

Member

Australian Economics Society

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Deakin University

Masters of Psychlogy (Clinical)

University of Ballarat

Bachelor of Science

Deakin University

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