Research Projects
“Future Towns Mobility Demonstrator” (funded by the Enterprise M3 Local Economic Partnership, 2021) – Principal Investigator. The project develops a tool to determine rapid infrastructure responses to changing economic circumstances, and comprises the planning of schemes in three relevant areas: (i) re-allocation of road space; (ii) micro-mobility, and (iii) digital and data interventions.
“Measuring riding comfort on a street in Southampton using an instrumented bicycle” (funded by Southampton City Council, 2019) – Principal Investigator. The project involved performing field experiments with TRG’s instrumented bicycle on Millbrook Road East in Southampton before and after re-surfacing of the road in order to measure changes in cyclist riding comfort.
“Metamorphosis Global” (funded by the Department for International Development, 2018 – 2019) – Co-Investigator. The project looked at developing and testing an online toolkit for devising and implementing child-friendly street design measures for urban and rural areas of Low- and Middle Income countries.
“Potential future updates and enhancements to the Solent Sub-Regional Transport Model” (funded by Solent Transport, 2019) – Co-Investigator. The project involved assessing the data, methodological and software needs of, and making recommendations for building a new transport model for the Solent region.
“University Partnership Programme” (funded by Transport Systems Catapult, 2017 – 2018) – Co-Investigator. Activities comprised the facilitation of two PhD researcher placements (S. Miah and M. Mamouei) at the Transport Systems Catapult so as to enable validation tasks of their PhD research on energy-efficient Adaptive Cruise Control and on an intelligent cyclist localisation system, respectively.
“A user-centred mobile tool for transport information discovery” (Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Cubic Transportation Systems, sponsored by Innovate UK and EPSRC, 2016 – 2017) – Co-Investigator. The project looked at incorporating user experience principles in the design of new digital tools for passenger mobility.
“CONDUITS-DST: Further development of the CONDUITS Key Performance Indicators” (sponsored by Kapsch TrafficCom through POLIS aisbl, 2012 – 2015) - Principal Investigator. Implementation of the CONDUITS performance evaluation framework for urban traffic management and ITS in a novel decision support tool, using the output of microscopic and macroscopic traffic simulation tools.
“Modelling and incorporating travel time reliability in public transport” (sponsored by City University’s Research Pump-Priming Fund, 2013 – 2015) - Principal Investigator. Further development of an existing travel time quantification approach from car traffic to public transport and applying it to part of London’s bus network.
“Monitoring the Exhibition Road single surface scheme” (sponsored by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 2008 – 2012) - Main researcher at Imperial College London. Conduct of a series of research studies related to the Exhibition Road redevelopment scheme covering a wide range of transport aspects, such as traffic conflicts, perceptions of pedestrians and drivers, and travel behaviour, but also research extending beyond the scope of Exhibition Road itself, such as the investigation of the willingness to share space of pedestrians and drivers, the impacts on road safety, and the financial impacts of similar schemes.
“CONDUITS: Coordination of Network Descriptors for Urban Intelligent Transport Systems” (sponsored by the European Commission through the 7th Framework Programme (FP7), 2009 – 2011) - Main researcher at Imperial College London. Collaborative international project with the objective of developing a framework enabling the evaluation of urban traffic management policies and technologies. The main outcome was the definition and testing of a set of Key Performance Indicators in the areas of traffic efficiency; traffic safety; pollution reduction; and social inclusion and land use.
“NEARCTIS: Network of Excellence for Advanced Road Cooperative Traffic Management in the Information Society” (sponsored by the European Commission through FP7, 2008 – 2013) - Main researcher at Imperial College London. Collaborative international project with the objective of the identification and development of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) solutions to the main transport problems (safety; energy consumption; environmental impacts; and congestion) within the framework of a virtual research centre through the integration of the research activities of a number of participating institutions.
“BENEFIT: Benchmarking of Efficient Infrastructure and Transport” (sponsored by Transport for London, 2008) - Main researcher at Imperial College London. Conduct of a comparative analysis study and coordination of the first steps towards the formation of a worldwide city benchmarking club for road traffic management and infrastructure.
“Personalised Route Guidance” (sponsored by BMW Group within the framework of the “OFFENSIVE” collaborative research project, 2005 – 2009) - Supporting researcher at Imperial College London. Use of machine learning techniques in route guidance, so as to be able to derive the driver’s preferences and to consider them in route finding. The project resulted in the development of an algorithm for this purpose.
“Reliable Dynamic In-vehicle Navigation” (sponsored by BMW Group within the framework of the “OFFENSIVE” collaborative research project, 2004 – 2008) - Main PhD researcher at Imperial College London. Development of a new algorithm that evaluates travel time reliability based on historical data, and considers it in the search for optimal routes in the road network. With the prospect of making use of the algorithm in in-vehicle navigation systems, the research extended to the development of software (ARIAdNE), as well as to its application through laboratory and field experiments, which demonstrated its superiority compared with existing conventional navigation systems.
