train-transport-rail

Our projects

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

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 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

Dr Rich McIlroy EngD, C.ErgHF, C.Psychol, FHEA

Lecturer in Sustainable Transport
Research interests
  • Systems thinking in transport safety and sustainability
  • Transport equity in the context of smart mobility systems
  • Sociotechnical approaches to system safety
Connect with Rich

Email: R.Mcilroy@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

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

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 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

Miss Katherine Theobald

Teaching Fellow in Surveying
Connect with Katherine

Email: Katherine.Theobald@soton.ac.uk

Professor Tim Waters

Head of Department
Research interests
  • Wave propagation in structures
  • Vibration control
  • Vibration based structural health monitoring
Connect with Tim

Email: T.P.Waters@soton.ac.uk

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

Professor James Scanlan

Professor of Design
Connect with James

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

Dr Mehmet Erbil

Principal UAV Engineer Soton UAV THU
Connect with Mehmet

Email: MA.Erbil@soton.ac.uk

Dr Bob Entwistle

Principal Enterprise Fellow (Soton UAV THU)
Connect with Bob

Email: R.Entwistle@soton.ac.uk

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Research project

Southampton Delivery and Servicing Plans

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

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Research project

STRAIGHTSOL

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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Sixth Sense Transport: Reducing/re-distributing transport options through a flexible interpretation of time

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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HI:DAV: Human Interaction: Designing Autonomy in Vehicles (part of the TASCC programme: Towards Autonomy - Smart and Connected Control)

Staff

Lead 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

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The use of passenger loading data to influence behaviour and provide an improved experience for passengers and operators alike

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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Traffic lights: Harnessing distributed control intelligence

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Transport Systems Catapult: University Partnership Programme

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Ioannis Kaparias MEng, PhD, FHEA, MCIHT

Associate Professor
Connect with Ioannis

Email: I.Kaparias@southampton.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

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Trustworthy human-swarm partnerships in extreme environments

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Research project

UKCRIC National Infrastructure Database, Modelling, Simulation and Visualisation Facilities. Strand C: Data Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI)