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Research project

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).
  • Groundwater and groundwater control.
Other researchers

Professor David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor

Research interests

  • Low noise design in railways
  • Ground vibration and ground-borne noise
  • Aerodynamic noise from high-speed trains

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

Professor of Sustainable Transport

Research interests

  • Rail demand and operations modelling
  • GIS and transport
  • Transport decision support systems

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.
  • The determination of pathways for future mobility transitions to net zero carbon.

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Ilaria Grossoni,
Louis Le Pen,
Pedro Jorge,
Yann Bezin,
Dimitrios Kostovasilis,
, 2019 , Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
Type: article
Georges Kouroussis,
& Evangelos Ntotsios
, 2019 , Vehicle System Dynamics , 57 (7) , 936--983
Type: review
Evangelos Ntotsios,
& Mohammed F.M. Hussein
, 2019 , Transportation Geotechnics , 21
Type: article
Chi Liu,
Michael Griffin,
& Mani Entezami
, 2019 , Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
Type: article
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