All Projects

  • CleanER-D
    Project Leader(s): Roberto Palacin
    CleanER-D aims to develop, improve and integrate emissions reduction technologies for diesel locomotives and rail vehicles.
  • D-Rail
    Project Leader(s): Prof. Mark Robinson and Roberto Palacin
    D-Rail will focus on freight traffic, identifying root causes of derailment of particular significance to freight vehicles.
  • e-Freight
    Project Leader(s): Tom Zunder
    Development of interoperable ICT technologies for freight management.
  • EBSF - European Bus System of the Future
    Project Leader(s): Roberto Palacin
    The project will build upon state-of-the-art clean vehicular technologies and concentrate on improving bus systems as a whole.
  • ERRAC Roadmap
    Project Leader(s): Prof. Mark Robinson
  • FIRE-RESIST
    Project Leader(s): Conor O'Neill, Dr. George Kotsikos
    This project brings together the rail, aerospace and marine industries to develop innovative solutions for improving composite material fire performance.
  • HERMES
    Project Leader(s): Dr. George Kotsikos
  • OSIRIS
    Project Leader(s): Roberto Palacin
    OSIRIS - Optional Strategy to Innovate and Reduce energy consumption In urban rail Systems.
  • RailNewcastle
    Project Leader(s): Dr. Marin Marinov
    RailNewcastle will develop, organise and conduct a three week intensive programme in railway logistics to be held at Newcastle University in the summer of 2012.
  • Real time simulation of complex engineering scenarios
    Project Leader(s): Conor O'Neill
    NewRail is currently developing simulation technologies
  • RETRACK - freight corridors research
    Project Leader(s): Tom Zunder
    The main objective of RETRACK is to research, develop and implement a rail freight corridor from Rotterdam to Constanza.
  • RiFLE - Rail Freight and Logistics Curriculum Development
    Project Leader(s): Dr. Marin Marinov
    The main objective of the RiFLE project is to develop an MSc in Rail Freight and Logistics
  • RRUK
    Project Leader(s): Dr. Francis Franklin
    Rail Research UK (RRUK) is an EPSRC-funded virtual centre, a network of UK researchers working on a variety of collaborative railway research projects.
  • SECUREMETRO
    Project Leader(s): Conor O'Neill
  • Smartfusion
    Project Leader(s): Tom Zunder
    Smartfusion will demonstrate smart urban freight solutions in urban-interurban supply chains.
  • SPECTRUM
    Project Leader(s): Tom Zunder
    Designed to help rail freight rise to the challenge of availability and reliability, as well as complying with other market demands in particular the time sensitive delivery of lower density and higher value goods.
  • SuperGreen
    Project Leader(s): Tom Zunder
    Supporting EU’s freight Transport Logistics Action Plan on Green Corridors Issues
  • SUSTRAIL
    Project Leader(s): Dr. Francis Franklin
    The purpose of the SUSTRAIL project is to contribute to the rail freight system to allow it to regain position and market.
  • TransNEW
    Project Leader(s): Prof Mark Robinson