Research project

Overcoming Capacity Constraints - A Simulation Integrated with Optimisation for Nodes (OCCASION)

Research groups:

Transportation Group
Lead researcher:

Professor John Preston
Other researchers:

Emeritus Professor Chris Potts
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor John Preston

Professor in Rail Transport

Research interests

Demand, capacity and cost modelling for sustainable transport infrastructure.
The design, monitoring and evaluation of transport interventions designed to promote sustainable choices.
The determination of pathways for future mobility transitions to net zero carbon.

Connect with John

Email: J.M.Preston@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Chris Potts

Research interests

Combinatorial Optimization, especially scheduling in production and transport

Connect with Chris

Email: C.N.Potts@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Operational Research

Operational Research (OR) is the discipline of applying advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions.

Transportation Group

Our research focuses on the interactions between behaviour, infrastructure and operations and how they translate into transport policy and practice.

Research outputs

Capacity utilisation and performance at railway stations

John Armstrong & Jonathan Preston, 2017, Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 7(3), 187-205

DOI: 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2017.08.003

Type: article

Addressing nodal constraints on railway capacity

John Armstrong, Jonathan Preston, Christopher Potts, Tolga Bektas & D. Paraskevopoulos, 2017, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 231(5), 637-646

DOI: 10.1177/0954409717706271

Type: article

A cycle-based evolutionary algorithm for the fixed-charge capacitated multi-commodity network design problem

D. Paraskevopoulos, T. Bektas, T.G. Crainic & C.N. Potts, 2015, European Journal of Operational Research, 253(2), 265-279

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.12.051

Type: article

The congested multicommodity network design problem

2015, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 85, 166-187

DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2015.10.007

Type: article

Value for rail capacity. Assessing efficiency of operators in Great Britain.

M. Khadem Sameni & John M. Preston, 2012, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2289, 134-144

DOI: 10.3141/2289-18

Type: article