|
research
technologies for transport monitoring and systems management
The Transport group is at the forefront of development of new technologies to help deliver and indeed transform transport policy, primarily through road-user charging, smart cards and pervasive sensors. The group developed the technical options for the extension of the London Congestion Charging system, assessed the charging technology in the DIRECTS (DfT) National Pilot, developed new approaches to HGV charging and presented Government with options for future National Road User Charging. A series of projects has taken the use of pervasive sensors from proof-of-concept trials to automotive, road-to-vehicle and environmental sensing applications and deployment in the instrumented City (iC) facility. Prof Margaret Bell has upgraded the iC through the delivery of £5M of national research infrastructure (JIF and SRIF), yielding a terabyte of historic data (traffic, pollution, noise, meteorological conditions, accidents etc) from UK cities providing unprecedented insights into air pollution and impact of driver behaviour, vehicle fleet and traffic flow characteristics.
|
projects |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Foot-LITE
Prof Phil Blythe, Dr Neil Thorpe, Dr Richard Fairchild
EPSRC, DfT and DTI through the Future Intelligent Transport Systems
research programme
2007-2010, £325,788 |
 Mobile Environmental Sensing System Across Grid Environments
(MESSAGE)
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 |
 Embedded Middleware in Mobility Applications (EMMA)
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Lorry
road user charging
Prof Phil Blythe, Dr Neil Thorpe, Prof Philip Moore and Dr David
Barber
SERCO
2004-2005, £23,000 |
 TRANsport
in E-Europe (TRANEE)
Prof Phil Blythe, Mr Simon Edwards
European Commission Leonardo da Vinci Programme.
Co-ordinating Partner: Local Futures Group
2003--2006, £41,000 |
|
 Transport
Direct
Prof P T Blythe, Mr Simon Edwards
DfT Framework Contract as Sub-contractor to WSP Systems
2003-2005, £8,000
|
|
|
|
 Secondary road network traffic management strategies
(SENSOR) Commission of the European
Communities
2002-2004, £132,699 |
|
 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 |
 Enforcement
policy and practice especially for satellite-based systems
DETR
1999-2004, £35,235 |
 Improving
Accessibility for those with impaired Mobility (I-AM)
EPSRC
1999-2001, £135,700 |
 Deployment
and Integration of Smart card Technology and Information Networks
for Cross-sector Telematics (DISTINCT)
EU, DGXIII-C5,
IADS Integrated Applications for Digital Sites Programme
1998- |
|
SiDE:
Niches+: New and Innovative Concepts for Helping
European Transport Sustainability –
towards implementation
AALIANCE:
East
London TRAffic Control Systems (ELTRACS) refresh study
Review
of London congestion charging technology trials
Demonstration
of Interoperable Road-user End to end Charging and Telematics
Systems (DIRECTS)