Fourie, Pieter Jacobus

Singapore-ETH Centre
Pieter Jacobus Fourie
Future Cities Laboratory
#06-01 CREATE Tower
1 CREATE Way
138602 Singapore
SINGAPORE

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Education

2011 –

Doctoral studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dissertation title: “TBD”
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen

2007 – 2009

University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dissertation title: “An initial implementation of a multi-agent transport simulator for South Africa”
Degree: MEng Industrial Engineering with distinction

2005 – 2006

University of Pretoria, South Africa
Degree: BEng Hons (Industrial Engineering)

1993 – 1997

University of Pretoria, South Africa
Degree: BEng (Metallurgical Engineering)

Working Experience

2011 –

Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability SEC), Singapore
PhD Researcher

2009 – 2011

Planning Support Systems, CSIR Built Environment, Pretoria, South Africa
Applied researcher

2007 – 2009

Dept. Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Lecturer, graduate researcher

1998 – 2009

Various locations in South Africa and Tanzania
Freelance broadcast video & multimedia producer

Teaching Experience

2007 - 2008

Lecturer, 2nd year course “Industrial Analysis", Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Pretoria.

Supervised Student Theses

• Greeff, A. (2009). Maintenance scheduling of earth moving equipment at Klipspruit colliery, BEng final year project, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
• Moshapane, T. (2009). A metaheuristics approach to delivering stock to customers, BEng final year project, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
• Swanepoel, D.H. (2009). Capacity expansion management of landfill gas extraction projects, BEng final year project, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Papers & Publications

• Joubert, J.W., P.J. Fourie and K.W. Axhausen (2010) Large-scale agent-based combined traffic simulation of private cars and commercial vehicles, Transportation Research Record, 2168, 24–32. Download
• Fourie, P.J. (2010) Agent-based transport simulation versus equilibrium assignment for private vehicle traffic in Gauteng, paper presented at the 29th Annual Southern African Transport Conference, Pretoria, July 2010.
• Fourie, P.J. and J.W. Joubert (2009) The first agent steps in agent-based transport planning, paper presented at the 28th Annual Southern African Transport Conference, Pretoria, July 2009.