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Our projects cover all major transport modes from a range of disciplinary backgrounds.
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Open Skies Cornwall

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 James Scanlan

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

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Overcoming Capacity Constraints - A Simulation Integrated with Optimisation for Nodes (OCCASION)

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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Providing improved information to rail passengers and understanding the value of data privacy

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Rail demand and external impacts

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

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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TRACK21: Railway Track for the 21st Century (Workpackage 6)

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 David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor of Railway Noise & Vibration
Research interests
  • Low noise design in railways
  • Ground vibration and ground-borne noise
  • Aerodynamic noise from high-speed trains
Connect with David

Email: djt@isvr.soton.ac.uk

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REsilient Autonomous SOcio-cyber-physical ageNts (REASON)

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Reducing logistics related energy demand through shared human and autonomous interventions over the last mile

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 James Scanlan

Professor of Design
Connect with James

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

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Road safety in low income countries: state of knowledge and future directions

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Shahram Heydari

Lecturer
Research interests
  • Transport and health (traffic injury, traffic related air pollution, travel behaviour)
  • Climate change, mobility, and population health
  • Data science and Bayesian modelling
Connect with Shahram

Email: S.Heydari@soton.ac.uk

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Routable Active Travel Infrastructure Networks (RATIN)

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

Professor Jason Sadler

Professor
Research interests
  • Spatial data infrastructure (SDI)
  • Web science
  • Environmental web applications and semantics
Connect with Jason

Email: jds@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

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

Professor Chris Hill

Professor
Connect with Chris

Email: cth@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Mr Chris Emberson

Senior Enterprise Fellow
Connect with Chris

Email: cre@geodata.soton.ac.uk

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SMARt ciTIES Network for Sustainable Urban Futures (SMARTIES Net)