Professor Elisabetta Cherchi

Professor of Transport

Degree Programme Director

Areas of expertise:

  • discrete choice analysis
  • microeconomic derivation of behavioural models and bounded rationality (integration with psychology and social effects)
  • decision-making process, preference formation and dynamic evolution, the effect of habit/inertia
  • data collection (revealed and stated preference data, short and long panel data, focus groups, real and virtual experiments)
  • project evaluation (user benefits)

Professor Margaret Carol Bell CBE

Science City Professor of Transport and the Environment

Areas of expertise:

  • traffic and environment monitoring
  • traffic modelling management
  • traffic control

Roger Bird

Senior Lecturer in Highway Engineering

Areas of expertise:

  • highway geometry, design standards, safety and consistency
  • cycle behaviour and infrastructure design
  • road pavement materials, construction and environmental LCA
  • traffic management at highway incidents

Professor Phil Blythe

Professor of Transport

Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport (DfT)

Areas of expertise:

  • Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
  • electromobility
  • connected and autonomous vehicles
  • Smart Cities, Big Data and Internet of Things

Dr Dilum Dissanayake
Lecturer in Transport Modelling, Planning and Management

Areas of expertise:

  • travel behaviour analysis with attention to behaviour change:
    • sustainable mobility
    • shared mobility
    • electric mobility
  • travel demand modelling and forecasting:
    • investigating transport user choices on modes and routes
  • road user safety:
    • child pedestrians
    • driver and pedestrian perceptions on road safety
    • traffic incident analysis
  • developing country research:
    • both road safety
    • travel behaviour
    • transport policy
  • transport modelling applications:
    • applications of discrete choice modelling methods (RP, SP and RP_SP)
    • data factoring and clustering approaches
    • Structural Equations Modelling
    • Generalised Linear Modelling
    • Hazard Based Duration Modelling
    • Bayesian Networks

Dr Paul Goodman
Lecturer in Intelligent Transport Systems

Areas of expertise:

  • intelligent transport systems
  • road traffic and environmental pollution
    • Noise, Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases modelling

Dr Neil Thorpe

Lecturer in Transport Studies

Areas of expertise:

  • traffic management and road safety
  • technologies for sustainable transport
  • sustainable design education in civil engineering