Dr Marcus Young BSc, MSc, PhD, FRGS
Research Fellow in GIS and Transport Engineering Data
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Marcus Young is Research Fellow in GIS and Transport Engineering Data within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
I am currently part of the Track to the Future project which is helping to improve the performance and reduce the costs of Britain’s rail network. I am primarily working on the development of whole life cost and carbon modelling tools, utilising GIS to integrate and process a wide range of datasets to provide inputs to track system models.
I am also working on an impact acceleration project to implement an automated station demand forecasting model (developed during my PhD) on the Data Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI). This is one of four initial pilot projects selected to run alongside development of the core DAFNI platform.
I first joined the Transportation Research Group in 2014 to study for a PhD. My research focussed on developing improved aggregate models to forecast demand for new local railway stations by incorporating probabilistic station catchments defined using station choice models. The potential of the models I developed to produce more robust station demand forecasts has been recognised by transport practitioners at the national level, with work completed for the Welsh Government to assess the expected demand at 12 proposed new station locations.
Prior to beginning my PhD, I had a successful career in information technology and worked as a Computer Officer at the University of Cambridge for 11 years. I obtained an MSc in Geographic Information Systems from Ulster University in 2010 and my research project won the part-time student award for “Outstanding Contribution to GIS”.