I have no sympathy for those people who criticize the unrealistic simplifications of model-builders, and imagine that they achieve greater sophistication by avoiding stating their assumptions clearly. The point is to realize that economic models are metaphors, not truth. By all means express your thoughts in models, as pretty as possible.... But always remember that you may have gotten the metaphor wrong, and that someone else with a different metaphor may be seeing something that you are missing -- Paul Krugman.
Peter graduated from UNSW with 1st class honours, winning the university medal in Computer Science in 2000. Since graduating, he worked as an applied mathematician/modeller at Defence Science and Technology Organization, CSIRO (Maths and Information Sciences), and Australian National University (Centre for Advanced Data Inference).
His PhD thesis, completed at UTS in 2009, was entitled "The Impact of Physical Planning Policy on Household Energy Use and Greenhouse Emissions".
Research
Urban modelling/simulation, transport/land-use interaction, residential energy use, transport planning, housing choice
Publications
Journal Articles
Rickwood, P. and Sambridge, M. (2009)
Inferring Residential Choice Preferences Without Price Information. in review.
Rickwood, P. and Glazebrook, G. (2009)
Urban Structure and Commuting in Australian Cities.
Urban Policy and Research. 27(2).
Rickwood, P. (2009)
Residential Operational Energy Use. Urban Policy and Research, 27(2).
Glazebrook, G. and
Rickwood, P. (2008) Options for Reducing Transport Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Emissions for Sydney,
Built Environment. 34(3).
Rickwood, P. , Glazebrook, G., and Searle, G. (2008)
Urban Structure and Energy -- A Review,
Urban Policy and Research, 26(1). [NB: pdf is a low-res extract only, go to the Journal for the full text article]
Rickwood, P., Taylor, A. (2008)
Methods for automatically analyzing humpback song units ,
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 123(3). [NB: pdf is an early draft only, and contains errors. Go to the journal for thhe amended article]
Rickwood, P. and Karantonis, A. (2007).
A Present Value Approach to Analyzing Residential Property. Pacific Rim Property Research Journal, 13(3).
Sambridge, M.,
Rickwood, P. , Rawlinson, N. and Sommacal, S. (2007) Automatic differentiation in geophysical inverse problems,
Geophysics Journal International , 170 ,1-8
Rickwood, P. and Sambridge, M. (2006),
Efficient parallel inversion using the Neighbourhood Algorithm Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, 7
Sambridge, M., Gallagher, K, Jackson, A and
Rickwood, P. (2006),
Trans-dimensional inverse problems, Model Comparision and the Evidence Geophy. J. Int., 167, 528-542
Refereed Conference Papers
Rickwood, P. and Knight, D. (2009). The health impacts of local traffic pollution on primary school age children.
State of Australian Cities 2009 Conference Proceedings Rickwood, P., Giurco, D., Glazebrook, G.J., Kazaglis, A., Thomas, L.E., Zeibots, M.E., Boydell, S., White, S., Caprarelli, G. & McDougall, J. (2007).
Integrating population, land-use, transport, water and energy-use models to improve the sustainability of urban systems. State of Australian Cities 2007 Conference Proceedings.
Other Refereed Publications
Rickwood, P. The Impact of Physical Planning Policy on Household Energy Use and Greenhouse Emissions , PhD thesis, UTS, 2009.
(PDF: 12MB)
Other Publications (Unrefereed)
Boydell, S., Giurco, D.,
Rickwood, P. , Glazebrook, G.J., Zeibots, M.E., White, S. & Thomas, L.E. 2009, 'Using integrated urban models to respond to climate change in cities', Fifth Urban Research Symposium on Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an urgent agenda, Marseille, France, June 2009, http://www.urs2009.net/papers.html.
Recent Publications
Papers
Rickwood, P. and Glazebrook, G. (2009) Urban Structure and Commuting in Australian Cities. Urban Policy and Research. 27(2).
Rickwood, P. (2009) Residential Operational Energy Use. Urban Policy and Research, 27(2).
Rickwood, P. and Sambridge, M. (2009) Inferring Residential Choice Preferences Without Price Information. in review.
Glazebrook, G. and Rickwood, P. (2008) Options for Reducing Transport Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Emissions for Sydney, Built Environment. 34(3).
Rickwood, P., Taylor, A. (2008) Methods for automatically analyzing humpback song units , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 123(3). [NB: pdf is an early draft only, and contains errors. Go to the journal for thhe amended article]
Rickwood, P. , Glazebrook, G., and Searle, G. (2008) Urban Structure and Energy -- A Review, Urban Policy and Research, 26(1). [NB: pdf is a low-res extract only, go to the Journal for the full text article]
Sambridge, M., Rickwood, P. , Rawlinson, N. and Sommacal, S. (2007) Automatic differentiation in geophysical inverse problems, Geophysics Journal International , 170 ,1-8
Rickwood, P., Giurco, D., Glazebrook, G.J., Kazaglis, A., Thomas, L.E., Zeibots, M.E., Boydell, S., White, S., Caprarelli, G. & McDougall, J. (2007). Integrating population, land-use, transport, water and energy-use models to improve the sustainability of urban systems. State of Australian Cities 2007 Conference Proceedings.
Rickwood, P. and Karantonis, A. (2007). A Present Value Approach to Analyzing Residential Property. Pacific Rim Property Research Journal, 13(3).
Rickwood, P. and Sambridge, M. (2006), Efficient parallel inversion using the Neighbourhood Algorithm Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, 7
Sambridge, M., Gallagher, K, Jackson, A and Rickwood, P. (2006), Trans-dimensional inverse problems, Model Comparision and the Evidence Geophy. J. Int., 167, 528-542
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