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W Powrie 2015 - EPSRC: Track to the Future

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance.
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels).

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Other researchers

Professor John Preston

Professor in Rail Transport

Research interests

  • Demand, capacity and cost modelling for sustainable transport infrastructure.
  • The design, monitoring and evaluation of transport interventions designed to promote sustainable choices.

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Doctor Antonios Zervos

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • The mechanics of railway ballast and ballasted track.
  • The mechanics of catastrophic landslides.

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Professor David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor in Railway Noise And Vibration

Research interests

  • Low noise design in railways
  • Ground vibration and ground-borne noise

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

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Rail demand and operations modelling
  • GIS and transport

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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Dynamics Group

The group's research covers a range of topics including fundamental theoretical studies, the development of numerical tools and experimental measurement techniques.

Transportation Group

We're helping to secure sustainable transport for the UK and the world. We are interested in how society influences technological developments in transport.

Research outputs

Asphalt/ballast trackbeds for improved clearance beneath historical bridges for electrification works
Taufan Abadi,
& Louis Le Pen
, 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77234-5_6
Type: conference
Experimental study of noise mitigation measures on a slab track
Xianying Zhang,
Hongseok Jeong,
David Thompson,
& Giacomo Squicciarini
, 2021 , Applied Acoustics , 172
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2020.107630
Type: article
Measuring the performance of railway track through large scale trackside sensor deployments
David Milne,
Louis Le Pen,
William Powrie,
& Geoff Watson
, 2021
Type: conference
A method for assessing the life cycle costs of modifications to ballasted track systems
Georgios Rempelos,
Alejandro Ortega Hortelano,
Simon Blainey,
Jonathan Preston,
Louis Le Pen,
& John Armstrong
, 2020 , Construction and Building Materials , 263
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.120603
Type: article
A transferable method for estimating the economic impacts of track interventions: application to ground-borne noise reduction measures for whole sections of route
Marcus Young,
Georgios Rempelos,
Evangelos Ntotsios,
Simon Blainey,
David Thompson,
& Jonathan Preston
, 2020 , Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
DOI: 10.1177/0954409720953730
Type: article
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