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Research project

Industrial Doctorate Centre: Transport and the Environment

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
  • Groundwater and groundwater control
Connect with William

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Creating the environment for driver distraction: a thematic framework of sociotechnical factors
Katie Parnell, Neville Stanton & Katherine Plant, 2018, Applied Ergonomics, 68, 213-228
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2017.11.014
Type: article
What technologies do people engage with while driving and why?
Katie Parnell, Neville Stanton & Katherine Plant, 2018, Accident Analysis & Prevention, 111, 222-237
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2017.12.004
Type: article
Where are we on driver distraction? Methods, approaches and recommendations
Katie Joanne Parnell, Neville A. Stanton & Katherine Plant, 2017, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 1-28
DOI: 10.1080/1463922X.2017.1414333
Type: article
Local government authority attitudes to road traffic CO2 emissions modelling
Matt Grote, Ian Williams, John Preston & Simon Kemp, 2017, Transportation Planning and Technology, 40(1), 45-63
DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2016.1238570
Type: article
The influence of tree root water uptake on the long term hydrology of a clay fill railway embankment
K. Briggs, J. A. Smethurst, W. Powrie & A.S. O'Brien, 2016, Transportation Geotechnics, 9, 31-48
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2016.06.001
Type: article