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Our projects

Our projects cover all major transport modes from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.
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Research project

Decision Support Systems for Resilient Strategic Transport Networks in Low Income Countries

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Simon Blainey PhD, FRGS, FHEA, MCIHT, CMILT

Research interests
  • Rail demand and operations modelling
  • GIS and transport
  • Transport decision support systems
Connect with Simon

Email: S.P.Blainey@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

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

Dr Marcus Young PhD

Research Fellow
Research interests
  • Application of GIS methods and techniques to research relating to public transport and active…
  • Development of open source tools for transport planning applications, for example the Station…
  • Rail demand modelling and appraisal with a focus on developing improved aggregate models to f…
Connect with Marcus

Email: M.A.Young@soton.ac.uk

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Research project

Design of next generation track systems

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
Research interests
  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
  • Groundwater and groundwater control
Connect with William

Email: W.Powrie@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

Professor Simon Blainey PhD, FRGS, FHEA, MCIHT, CMILT

Research interests
  • Rail demand and operations modelling
  • GIS and transport
  • Transport decision support systems
Connect with Simon

Email: S.P.Blainey@soton.ac.uk

Dr John Armstrong

Snr Res Fellow in Engineering Economics
Connect with John

Email: J.ARMSTRONG@soton.ac.uk

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Developing integrated tools to optimise rail systems (DITTO)

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

Dr John Armstrong

Snr Res Fellow in Engineering Economics
Connect with John

Email: J.ARMSTRONG@soton.ac.uk

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Research project

E-Drone

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

Other researchers

Dr Matt Grote

Research Fellow in Transport & the Environment
Research interests
  • Mitigating road traffic impacts
  • Sustainable aviation
  • Practical modelling methods
Connect with Matt

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

Professor James Scanlan

Professor of Design
Connect with James

Email: J.P.Scanlan@soton.ac.uk

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XHS: eXplainable Human-swarm Systems

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FLIPGIG: Digitally transforming deliveries and collections in the gig-economy, for fairer and more sustainable last mile parcel logistics

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

Other researchers

Professor Toni Martinez Sykora

Head of Department
Research interests
  • Optimisation and Combinatorial Optimisation 
  • Cutting and packing problems
  • Transportation and vehicle routing problems
Connect with Toni

Email: A.Martinez-Sykora@soton.ac.uk

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Foot-LITE

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Freight Traffic Control 2050: transforming the energy demands of last-mile urban freight through collaborative logistics

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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Gender Equitable electric Micro-mobility (GEM) Guidelines

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Green adaptive control for future interconnected vehicles (G-ACTIVE)

Staff

Other researchers

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