civil engineering
newcastle university
civil engineering and geosciences

transport research
technologies for transport monitoring and systems management
travel behaviour and transport planning
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research

travel behaviour and transport planning

Advanced understanding of travel behaviour and trip choice, with recent extension to developing countries, is an essential complement to the group’s technology research. The work has involved analysis of land use and ownership and public acceptance of road user charging technologies, and has yielded high impact guidance and methodologies for benchmarking public transport.

The next five years will see increasingly significant outputs from the sensor networks for which we are responsible, notably the iC and the MESSAGE (Mobile Environmental Sensing System Across Grid Environments) network of 200 sensors across Leeds, Gateshead and Leicester. These will form the basis for a continuing stream of policy relevant insights into the complex interactions between drivers, traffic management systems and vehicles, and their impacts on the environment. Collaborations in Newcastle with the Tyndall Centre, Science City and the Sir Joseph Swan Institute will provide the platform for key contributions to the ESEM Objectives 1 and 4, with an increasing orientation towards using cutting edge technologies and behavioural understanding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport.

people
Professor Richard Allsop Visiting Professor of Transport
Mr Roger Bird Senior Lecturer in Highway Engineering
Professor Margaret Bell Professor of Transport and the Environment
Professor Phil Blythe Professor of Transport
Dr Dillum Dissanayake Lecturer in Transport Studies
Dr Anil Namdeo
 Senior Lecturer in Transport and Sustainability
Dr Neil Thorpe
 Lecturer in Transport Studies
Mr Simon Edwards Senior Researcher in Transport
Dr Gareth Evans
 Researcher in Transport
Dr Amy Guo Researcher in Transport
Dr Martin Higginson Visiting Researcher in Transport
Miss Yvonne Huebner Senior Researcher in Intelligent Transport Systems
   

projects
  • 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
  • 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
  • YORCARD (Yorkshire smartcards for transport and citizen services)
    Prof Phil Blythe, Ms Hannah Bryan, Mr Gareth Evans, Ms Amy Guo
    Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH - Fare Collection Systems
    2007-2009, 257,000
  • The green city of the future: Star City
    Prof Phil Blythe, Dr Oliver Heidrich
    Commission of the European Communities
    2005-2008, £78,750
  • Phone and Go II
    Prof John Nelson
    Northumberland County Council
    2004-2005, £230,627
  • 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
  • Distance based charging system design
    Department of Transport, Local Government & Regions
    2002, £11,359
  • Click and Go
    Prof John Nelson, Dr Jenny Brake
    Northumberland County Council and Northumberland Health Authority
    2001-2005, £46,000
  • Solution options for individual-centric road-user charging exemption schemes
    National Physical Laboratory Management Ltd
    2000-2001, £12,804