train-transport-rail

Our projects

Our projects cover all major transport modes from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.
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Causal self-evident reactionary delays

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr John Armstrong

Snr Res Fellow in Engineering Economics
Connect with John

Email: J.ARMSTRONG@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor John Preston

Professor of Rail Transport
Research interests
  • Demand, capacity and cost modelling for sustainable transport infrastructure.
  • The design, monitoring and evaluation of transport interventions designed to promote sustaina…
  • The determination of pathways for future mobility transitions to net zero carbon.
Connect with John

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

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Centre for Re-Engineering for Electric Mobility (RE4EM)

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor John Preston

Professor of Rail Transport
Research interests
  • Demand, capacity and cost modelling for sustainable transport infrastructure.
  • The design, monitoring and evaluation of transport interventions designed to promote sustaina…
  • The determination of pathways for future mobility transitions to net zero carbon.
Connect with John

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

Professor Andrew Cruden BEng, MSc, PhD, FIET

Professor of Energy Technologies
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Email: A.J.Cruden@soton.ac.uk

Professor Ling Wang PhD, CEng, FInstNDT, FHEA

Professor of Tribo-Sensing
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Email: ling.wang@soton.ac.uk

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Centre for Sustainable Travel Choices (CSTC)

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor John Preston

Professor of Rail Transport
Research interests
  • Demand, capacity and cost modelling for sustainable transport infrastructure.
  • The design, monitoring and evaluation of transport interventions designed to promote sustaina…
  • The determination of pathways for future mobility transitions to net zero carbon.
Connect with John

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

Other researchers

Dr Alan Wong

Research Fellow
Research interests
  • the development of people-friendly, sustainable and liveable cities, that inter-link urban wi…
  • improving the de-carbonisation of road transport, with the associated improvements on air qua…
  • encouraging more sustainable modes of travel, including walking, cycling and taking public tr…
Connect with Alan

Email: a.wong@soton.ac.uk

Mr Adrian Hickford

Senior Research Assistant
Research interests
  • Methods to assess future changes to national and regional infrastructure systems
  • Promoting use of active travel and sustainable transport and improvements to road safety
  • Sustainable distribution and freight
Connect with Adrian

Email: A.J.Hickford@soton.ac.uk

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Gopal Ramchurn

Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Connect with Gopal

Email: sdr1@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng FCGI

Director of WSI
Research interests
  • Web Science
  • AI Policy
  • Artificial Intelligence
Connect with Dame Wendy

Email: wh@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Diana Eccles

Dean (Medicine)
Research interests
  • Genetic predispostion to cancer
  • Cancer susceptibility variant interpetation and clinical application
  • Patient communication to optimise shared decision making
Connect with Diana

Email: D.M.Eccles@soton.ac.uk

Professor Michael Butler

Dean (Engineering & Physical Sciences)
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Email: M.J.Butler@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Neville Stanton

Research interests
  • Ergonomics and Human Factors methods
  • Distributed cognition and distributed situation awareness
  • The effects of automation on human tasks, mainly focused on the development of vehicle automa…
Connect with Neville

Email: N.Stanton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Age Chapman

Professor of Computer Science
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Email: Adriane.Chapman@soton.ac.uk

Professor Paurav Shukla

Professor of Marketing
Research interests
  • Luxury consumption
  • Brand management 
  • Consumer behaviour and self-identity 
Connect with Paurav

Email: P.V.Shukla@soton.ac.uk

Professor Wendy Adams

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Email: W.Adams@soton.ac.uk

Professor James Scanlan

Professor of Design
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Email: J.P.Scanlan@soton.ac.uk

Professor Christian Enemark BA, LLB, PhD

Professor of International Relations
Research interests
  • Ethics of war and peace
  • Arms control
  • Politics of global health
Connect with Christian

Email: C.Enemark@soton.ac.uk

Professor Susan Gourvenec FREng, FICE, FIEAust, PhD, BEng

Professor of Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
Connect with Susan

Email: Susan.Gourvenec@southampton.ac.uk

Professor Michael Boniface CEng, FIET

Professor of Information Technology
Research interests
  • Artifical intelligence for health systems
  • Human centred interactive systems
  • Federated systems management 
Connect with Michael

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

Dr Nic Fair PhD

Senior Enterprise Fellow
Research interests
  • Data Science
  • Ontologies
  • AR/VR/XR
Connect with Nic

Email: N.S.Fair@soton.ac.uk

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CITYLAB: City Logistics in Living Laboratories

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Tom Cherrett

Professor of Logistics & Transport Management
Research interests
  • Understanding and improving the distribution of goods and the management of freight vehicles …
  • How optimisation techniques can be used to improve system efficiency and in what ways Intelli…
  • Approaches to more effectively collect and manage the movement of waste in terms of both hous…
Connect with Tom

Email: T.J.Cherrett@soton.ac.uk

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CITYMOBIL2

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Collecting and analysing traffic data through drone vision

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor John Preston

Professor of Rail Transport
Research interests
  • Demand, capacity and cost modelling for sustainable transport infrastructure.
  • The design, monitoring and evaluation of transport interventions designed to promote sustaina…
  • The determination of pathways for future mobility transitions to net zero carbon.
Connect with John

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

Other researchers

Professor Jonathon Hare BEng (Hons), PhD, FHEA, SMIEEE

Professor
Research interests
  • My main research interests lie in the area of representation learning;
  • The long-term goal of my research is to innovate techniques that can allow machines to learn …
Connect with Jonathon

Email: jsh2@soton.ac.uk

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CRoss-modal Intervention Training to Improve Cyclist Awareness Levels (CRITICAL)

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DAFNI Champion – developing user cases for DAFNI with the broader UK transport research community

Staff

Lead researchers

Mr Adrian Hickford

Senior Research Assistant
Research interests
  • Methods to assess future changes to national and regional infrastructure systems
  • Promoting use of active travel and sustainable transport and improvements to road safety
  • Sustainable distribution and freight
Connect with Adrian

Email: A.J.Hickford@soton.ac.uk

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DAFNI-ROSE: Extending DAFNI’s usage and capabilities through EPSRC’s Resource-Only Strategic Equipment (ROSE) fund