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W Powrie 2015 - EPSRC: Track to the Future

Staff

Lead researcher

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]

Other researchers

Professor David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor of Railway Noise and Vibration

Research interests

  • Low noise design in railways
  • Ground vibration and ground-borne noise
  • Aerodynamic noise from high-speed trains
Connect with David

Email: [email protected]

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
Connect with Simon

Email: [email protected]

Professor John Preston

Professor in Rail Transport

Research interests

  • Demand, capacity and cost modelling for sustainable transport infrastructure.
  • The design, monitoring and evaluation of transport interventions designed to promote sustainable choices.
  • The determination of pathways for future mobility transitions to net zero carbon.
Connect with John

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Dynamics Group

The group's research covers a range of topics including fundamental theoretical studies, the development of numerical tools and experimental measurement techniques.

Transportation Group

Our research focuses on the interactions between behaviour, infrastructure and operations and how they translate into transport policy and practice.

Research outputs

Experimental study of noise mitigation measures on a slab track
Xianying Zhang, Hongseok Jeong, David Thompson & Giacomo Squicciarini, 2021, Applied Acoustics, 172
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1525
Type: article
Modelling railway ballasted track settlement in vehicle-track interaction analysis
Ilaria Grossoni, William Powrie, Antonios Zervos, Yann Bezin & Louis Le Pen, 2021, Transportation Geotechnics, 26
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2020.100433
Type: article
Measuring the performance of railway track through large scale trackside sensor deployments
David Milne, Louis Le Pen, William Powrie & Geoff Watson, 2021
Type: conference
The influence of track design on the rolling noise from trams
Wenjing Sun, David Thompson, Martin Toward, Marcus Wiseman, Evangelos Ntotsios & Stephen Byrne, 2020, Applied Acoustics, 170
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2020.107536
Type: article
A method for assessing the life cycle costs of modifications to ballasted track systems
Georgios Rempelos, Alejandro Ortega Hortelano, Simon Blainey, Jonathan Preston, Louis Le Pen & John Armstrong, 2020, Construction and Building Materials, 263
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.120603
Type: article