Staff Profile

Qualifications

BEng Civil Engineering (Liverpool University 1981)

MSc Civil (Urban) Engineering (South Bank University 1992) with Distinction

MICE - Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1987)

FCIHT - Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (1999)

CEng - Chartered Engineer - 1987

Background

Roger Bird graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Liverpool before working for six years for two local authorities. After becoming a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Chartered Engineer, he spent eleven years working for an international civil engineering consultancy. During that period he gained a Masters Degree in Urban (Civil) Engineering at South Bank University, graduating with Distinction and taking the annual prize. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation.

Teaching 

Roger Bird is a Senior Lecturer whose experience and teaching can be summarised as Safety and Sustainability in Transport Infrastructure. He teaches various aspects of Transport Infrastructure Design, Traffic Engineering, Road Safety and Civil Engineering Design Skills.

As a Chartered Engineer himself, he has a passion for helping students to become professional engineers, developing the necessary career skills. He does this through his teaching, and through leading field trip activities which focus on developing professional skills, teamworking and wider personal development.

Roles and Responsibilities

Deputy Degree Programme Director – Civil Engineering 

Chairman of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Boards of Examiners

Senior Tutor

Member Civil Engineering Industrial Advisory Board

Course Director for the Annual Residential Course in Asphalt Materials and Flexible Pavements.

Professional and External Activities

He has held a number of posts as External Examiner for Postgraduate and Undergraduate courses in other Universities. He was a visiting lecturer at Imperial College, London for eight years.

In recent years, he has worked with the World Resources Institute delivering Road Safety training courses in Brazil and Bolivia.  

He is currently a member of the JBM (Joint Board of Moderators).

Memberships

FCIHT - Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (1999)

MICE - Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1987)

Previous Positions

Highway and Traffic Engineer - Dartford Borough Council

Project Engineer - London Borough of Bexley

Project Manager - Rendel Palmer and Tritton

Research Interests

Highway geometry, design standards, safety and consistency

Cycle behaviour and infrastructure design

Road Pavement Materials, Construction and Environmental LCA

Current Work

Use of mobile scanned Lidar data for highway modelling and Road Safety research.

Consistency of forward visibility and safety on highways 

Modelling urban junctions, balancing demands for all road users

Traffic Management at highway incidents.

Future Research

Road Safety

Geometric consistency as a technique for improving undesigned roads

Speed distribution & impact on highway design

Postgraduate Supervision

A Alkaabi: Traffic Management at Incidents on Highways

I H Hashim: Safety and the consistency of geometry and speed on rural single carriageways

Y Huang: Life cycle assessment of road pavement materials

D M P Wedagama: The relationship between urban land use and non motorised transport accidents and casualties

Esteem Indicators

Invited Expert for DfT Research Project: Speed Choice and the Road Environment

Invited International Advisor to Government of Dubai on New Geometric Design Standard

Member of Scientific Committee for the Transportation Research Board Symposium on Highway Geometric Design 

Fellow of Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation

Member of Joint Board of Moderators

Undergraduate Teaching

Undergraduate teaching on transport infrastructure engineering, and multidisciplinary design

ENG1002 Sustainable Design, Creativity, and Professionalism

CEG2401 Land Traffic and Highways

CEG3401 Design of Transport Infrastructure

CEG3001 Design of Sustainable Engineering Systems 3

CEG3099 Individual Project - Civil Engineering (BEng)

CEG8099 Investigative Research Project

Postgraduate Teaching

Postgraduate teaching on transport infrastructure, traffic engineering safety and related topics 

CEG8403 Design of Transport Infrastructure

CEG8410 Road Safety

CEG8421 Traffic Flow and Control

Project Supervision

Research Project and Dissertation Supervision at BEng, MEng and MSc level

• Articles

  • Goodman PS, Galatioto F, Thorpe N, Namdeo AK, Davies RJ, Bird RN. Investigating the traffic-related environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing (Fracking) operations. Environment International 2016, 89-90, 248-260.
  • Wedagama P, Dissanayake D, Bird R. Modelling the Relationship between Male and Female Pedestrian Accidents and Land Use Characteristics (Case Study: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK). Journal of the Eastern Asia Society of Transportation Studies 2011, 9, 1715-1730.
  • Wedagama DMP, Bird RN, Dissanayake D. The Influence of Urban Land Use on Pedestrian Accidents during Congested and Uncongested Periods. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies 2007, 7, 2830-2843.
  • Aryaija J, Dissanayake D, Wedagama DMP, Bird RN. Land Use Factors and the Risk for Child Pedestrians. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies 2007, 7, 2814-2829.
  • Huang Y, Bird RN, Heidrich O. A review of the use of recycled solid waste materials in asphalt pavements. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 2007, 52(1), 58-73.
  • Wedagama DMP, Bird RN, Metcalfe AV. The influence of urban land-use on non-motorised transport casualties. Accident Analysis & Prevention 2006, 38(6), 1049-1057.
  • Bird RN, Allen R, Huang Y. A Life Cycle Approach to the Selection of Construction Materials. The International Journal of Pavement Engineering & Asphalt Technology 2006, 7(2), 65-82.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Huang Y, Galatioto F, Parry T, Bird R, Bell MC. Road Pavement Maintenance Life Cycle Assessment – A UK Case Study. In: International Symposium on Pavement LCA 2014. 2014, Davis, California, USA.
  • Huang Y, Galatioto F, Parry T, Bird R, Bell MC. Road Pavement Maintenance Life Cycle Assessment – A UK Case Study. In: International Symposium on Pavement LCA 2014. 2014, Davis, California, USA.
  • Heidrich O, Bird RN, Huang Y. The Application Of Recycled Waste Materials In The Construction Of Asphalt Pavements. In: ISWA/NVRD World Congress 2007: Challenging the Future. 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: ISWA/NVRD.
  • Bird RN, Hashim IH. Operating Speed and Geometry Relationships for Rural Single Carriageways in the UK. In: TRB 3rd International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design. 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Hashim IH, Bird RN. Analysis of Accident Rates and Geometric Consistency Measures on Sections of Rural Single Carriageway. In: Road Safety on Four Continents (VTI/TRB Conference). 2005, Warsaw, Poland.