train-transport-rail

Our projects

Our projects cover all major transport modes from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.
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IVP Signals - Formerly Traffic Signal Control

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Decarbonising Transport through Electrification, a Whole System Approach (DTE)

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

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Rail Energy Systems (IAA KTS)

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

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Further Development of Railway Capacity Analysis Tools (IAA KTS)

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

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Assessment, Costing and Enhancement of Long-Life, Long-Linear Assets (ACHILLES)

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Joel Smethurst BEng PhD GMICE FHEA

Professor
Research interests
  • Deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure subject to both seasonal cycles of wetting and d…
  • The effect of extreme weather events and climate change on the performance of earthworks (cut…
  • The effects of vegetation transpiration and root reinforcement on the performance of earthwor…
Connect with Joel

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

Other 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

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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ITRC (Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium): Long term dynamics of interdependent infrastructure systems

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Nicholls PhD

Professor of Coastal Engineering
Research interests
  • long-term coastal engineering and management
  • the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level…
  • the assessment of the future of deltaic areas, which are the most threatened coastal setting …
Connect with Robert

Email: R.J.Nicholls@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

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

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LSTF Case Study on Carbon Impacts and Congestion Relief

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

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 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

Professor Ian Williams

Professor of Applied Environmental Science
Research interests
  • Waste and Resource Management
  • Carbon management
  • Air Pollution
Connect with Ian

Email: I.D.Williams@soton.ac.uk

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MESSAGE: Mobile Environmental Sensing System Across a Grid Environment

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Metamorphosis Global

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 Ioannis Kaparias MEng, PhD, FHEA, MCIHT

Associate Professor
Connect with Ioannis

Email: I.Kaparias@southampton.ac.uk

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

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MISTRAL: Multi-scale Infrastructure Systems Analytics

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Nicholls PhD

Professor of Coastal Engineering
Research interests
  • long-term coastal engineering and management
  • the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level…
  • the assessment of the future of deltaic areas, which are the most threatened coastal setting …
Connect with Robert

Email: R.J.Nicholls@soton.ac.uk

Other 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

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

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