projects |
| This page contains short summaries of selected current and recent
projects. For more information, please contact the named Principal
Investigator for each project. |
commencing 2011 |
 SECURE: SElf Conserving URban Environments
Newcastle: Prof Margaret Bell (PI), Prof David Graham, Prof David Manning, Dr Anil Namdeo, Dr Fabio Galatioto, Dr Graeme Hill, Dr Abhishek Tiwary, Mr Glyn Rhys-Tyler (Project Manager), Dr Sharon Velasquez Orta, Mr James O’Brien
With Loughborough, Sheffield and Exeter Universities
EPSRC SUE3 Programme
2011-2015, £2,224,011
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 SiDE: Social inclusion through the Digital Economy
Dr Amy Guo, Mr Simon Edwards, Mr Dan Brennan, Miss Yvonne Huebner
Director of transport theme: Prof Phil Blythe
Research Councils UK Digital Economy Programme
2009-2014,
value to Newcastle £12 million
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 Switch-EV
Prof Phil Blythe, Dr Graeme Hill, Ms V Suresh
Contract Holder: Prof Phil Blythe
Partners: Nissan Motor Company, ONE NE, Future Transport
Systems, AVID Electric Vehicles, Smiths Electric Vehicles and Liberty
Electric Vehicles.
Technology Strategy Board and ONE North East
2009-2013, £540,000
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 IFM: Interoperable Fare Management
Ms Hannah Bryan and P Stoddart, Contract Holder, Prof Phil Blythe
EU 7th Framework IST-2007-214787
Support Action (SA), ITSO, UK
2008-2011
€54,000
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 4M: Measurement, Modelling, Mapping and Management: an evidence-based methodology for understanding and shrinking the urban carbon footprint
Prof Margaret Bell, Dr Anil Namdeo, Dr Abhishek Tiwary, Dr Fabio Galatioto, Dr Graeme Hill and Mr Justin Cairns
In collaboration with the Universities of De Montfort (lead partner), Loughborough, Leeds and Sheffield
EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environments SUE2 Programme
2008-2011, £2,500.000 (£500,000 Newcastle) |
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 Foot-LITE
Prof Phil Blythe, Dr Neil Thorpe, Dr Jenny Brake, Mr Richard Fairchild
EPSRC, Department for Transport and Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform through the Future Intelligent Transport Systems
research programme
2007-2010, £325,788 |
 YORCARD: Yorkshire smartcards for transport and citizen services
Prof Phil Blythe, Hannah Bryan, Mr Gareth Evans, Ms Amy Guo
Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH - Fare Collection Systems
2007-2009,
£257,000 |
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 MESSAGE: Mobile Environmental Sensing System Across Grid Environments
Prof Phil Blythe, Prof Margaret Bell, Mr Simon Edwards, Ms Hannah
Bryan, Mr Gareth Evans, Dr Fabio Galatioto, Prof Byan Sharif (EECE), Dr Jeff Neesham
(EECE), Prof Paul Watson (NEESC) DrLakshmi Suresh (NEESC) and
Jayne Wallace (Culture Lab)
EPSRC e-Science Programme
2006-2009, £861,163 |
 EMMA: Embedded Middleware in Mobility Applications
Prof Phil Blythe, Mr Gareth Evans, Dr Alan Tully (CS) and Dr Selva
Kirusnapillai (CS/TORG)
6th Framework Programme - Information Society Technologies, Project
Coodinator ETRA Investigación y Desarrollo, S.A., Commission of the European Communities
2006-2008, £158,213 |
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 The
green city of the future: Star City
Prof Phil Blythe, Dr Oliver Heidrich
Commission
of the European Communities
2005-2008, £78,750 |
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 SUNRISE:
Social cohesion in UrbaN / ruRal areas based on Innovative
and Sustainable collective mobility services
Prof John Nelson, Dr Jenny Brake, Dr
Corinne Mulley
INTERREG III C
Partners: ATAF SpA (Firenze Transit Company) (Italy), Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, (Greece), Bratislava Transit Company (Slovak Republic),
Ring a Link, Kilkenny (Ireland), City of Terrassa, (Spain), CAT Spa (Italy)
2004-2006
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 Phone
and Go II
Prof John Nelson
Northumberland County Council
2004-2005, £230,627 |
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 Lorry
road user charging
Prof Phil Blythe, Dr Neil Thorpe, Prof Philip Moore and Dr David
Barber
SERCO
2004-2005, £23,000 |
commencing 2003 |
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 TRANEE: TRANsport
in E-Europe
Prof Phil Blythe, Mr Simon Edwards
European Commission Leonardo da Vinci Programme.
Co-ordinating Partner: Local Futures Group
2003--2006, £41,000 |
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 Transport
Direct
Prof P T Blythe, Mr Simon Edwards
DfT Framework Contract as Sub-contractor to WSP Systems
2003-2005, £8,000
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 EMIRES:
Economic Growth and Sustainable Mobility
Prof John Nelson, Dr Jenny Brake
Supported by IST at Regional Level Including SME’s
EC 5th Framework, IST Programme
Partners: ETRA (Spain), RCAUEB (Greece), Mobisoft Oy (Finland), CCSS
(Czech Republic) and others
2002-2005 |
 Secondary road network traffic management strategies
(SENSOR) Commission of the European
Communities
2002-2004, £132,699 |
 Distance based charging system design
Department
of Transport, Local Government & Regions
2002, £11,359 |
commencing 2001 and earlier |
 Click
and Go
Prof John Nelson, Dr Jenny Brake
Northumberland County Council and Northumberland Health Authority
2001-2005, £46,000 |
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 IMAGE:
Intelligent Mobility Agent for complex Geographical Environments
Commission of the European Communities
2001-2003, £127,634 |
 Monitoring
significant activities related to international interoperability
of smart cards in transport
DETR
2000-2003, £27,490 |
 Support
to DETR for standardisation of the UK specifications for smartcard
applications in transport
DETR
2000-2002, £14,610 |
 Solution options for individual-centric road-user charging
exemption schemes
National Physical Laboratory
Management Ltd
2000-2001, £12,804 |
 Enforcement
policy and practice especially for satellite-based systems
DETR
1999-2004, £35,235 |
 I-AM: Improving
Accessibility for those with impaired Mobility
EPSRC
1999-2001, £135,700 |
 DISTINCT: Deployment
and Integration of Smart card Technology and Information Networks
for Cross-sector Telematics
EU, DGXIII-C5,
IADS Integrated Applications for Digital Sites Programme
1998- |
Niches+: New and Innovative Concepts for Helping
European Transport Sustainability –
towards implementation
AALIANCE:
Cambridge transport innovation fund
ELTRACS: East
London TRAffic Control Systems refresh study
Research
into users’ attitudes to public transport best value
performance
Demand
responsive transport Good Practice Guide
Peer Review
of London congestion charging technology trials
DIRECTS: Demonstration
of Interoperable Road-user End to end Charging and Telematics
Systems