Research Strengths
- Transport policy and practice
- Transport operations
- Public transport
- Rural transport issues
- Social inclusion
- Evaluation
- Financial appraisal, Social science and behavioural issues
- Biometrics
- Communications
- Interaction of maritime transport and ports with intermodal logistics chains
- Safety and performance of offshore structures and ships
- Alternative ship designs and hydrodynamic efficiency
- Intelligent technologies for transport monitoring and systems management
- Transport applications of ambient computing, wireless communications and advanced sensors
- Measuring, monitoring and managing the environmental impacts of transport
- Design and use of fuel cells, Biofuels and new battery technologies
- Application of ICT to freight and logistics
- Logistics and supply chain management
- Use of novel materials, processes and structures for rail vehicles design
- Innovative rail freight vehicle concepts and logistics
- Inter-modal passenger and freight transport
- Infrastructure (road/rail/port) design and management
- Transport and network safety and security
- Power electronics and machines with potential automotive and aerospace applications
- Automotive Engineering of all-electric or hybrid drive vehicles
- Electrically-actuated fault tolerant systems for aircraft
- Accessibility and mobility in the built and natural environment
- Reuse and repackaging of transport data for holistic and interdisciplinary research
- Computer modelling