Transportation Research Group
Transportation Research Group

Our people

Meet our researchers and learn more about their expertise.

Dr Rich McIlroy EngD, C.ErgHF, C.Psychol, FHEA

Senior Research Fellow in MaaS

Research interests

  • Systems thinking in transport safety and sustainability
  • Transport equity in the context of smart mobility systems
  • Sociotechnical approaches to system safety

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Rich

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 1225

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Miss Sabrina Sheikh

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Dr Shahram Heydari

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Transportation safety
  • Travel behaviour
  • Traffic-related air pollution

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 2175

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Professor Simon Blainey PhD, FRGS, FHEA, MCIHT, CMILT

Professor of Sustainable Transport

Research interests

  • Rail demand and operations modelling
  • GIS and transport
  • Transport decision support systems

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 2834

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Miss Sophie Hart

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Professor Tom Cherrett

Prof of Logistics and Transport Mgnment

Research interests

  • Understanding and improving the distribution of goods and the management of freight vehicles in urban areas, including the supply of goods to hospitals and the use of consolidation centres; 
  • How optimisation techniques can be used to improve system efficiency and in what ways Intelligent Transport Systems (smart tagging of assets and the use of smartphones) can improve operating efficiency; 
  • Approaches to more effectively collect and manage the movement of waste in terms of both household domestic waste collection strategies, Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) management and joint domestic/commercial waste collection strategies. He has worked on a number of research projects in these specific areas: (Department for Transport grant PPAD 9/142/034, ‘Optimising vehicles undertaking waste collections' GR/S79626/01, SUE project 55 ‘Transport and Logistics'; EP/D043328/1, ‘Green Logistics'.
Connect with Tom

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4657

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Mrs Tracey Najafpour Navaei

Research interests

  • Carbon Neutral
  • Net Zero Carbon
  • Geotechnical Solutions
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Mr William Paine

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Mr Zafer Kupeli

Research interests

  • Travel time reliability
  • E-scooter
  • Micro-mobility
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Zeina Nazer

Research interests

  • Smart Cities, Smart Mobility, Sustainability, LiDAR, Road Safety, Connected Autonomous Vehicles, Road User Charging
Connect with Zeina

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