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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).
  • 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

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

Our research focuses on the interactions between behaviour, infrastructure and operations and how they translate into transport policy and practice.

Research outputs

Monitoring and repair of isolated trackbed defects on a ballasted railway
David Milne,
Louis Le Pen,
Geoff Watson,
David Thompson,
William Powrie,
Mick Hayward,
& Simon Morley
, 2018 , Transportation Geotechnics , 17 (Part A) , 61--68
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.09.002
Type: article
Analysis of resonance effect for a railway track on a layered ground
J.-Y. Shih,
D.J. Thompson,
& E. Ntotsios
, 2018 , Transportation Geotechnics , 16 , 51--62
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.07.001
Type: article
Automated processing of railway track deflection signals obtained from velocity and acceleration measurements
David Milne,
Louis Le Pen,
William Powrie,
& David Thompson
, 2018 , Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
DOI: 10.1177/0954409718762172
Type: article
Improving the performance of railway tracks through ballast interventions
Taufan Abadi,
Louis Le Pen,
Antonios Zervos,
& William Powrie
, 2018 , Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit , 337--355
DOI: 10.1177/0954409716671545
Type: article
Estimation of track parameters and wheel--rail combined roughness from rail vibration
Qi Li,
David J. Thompson,
& Martin G.R. Toward
, 2018 , Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit , 232 (4) , 1149--1167
DOI: 10.1177/0954409717710126
Type: article
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