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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

Measurements of the high frequency dynamic stiffness of railway ballast and subgrade
Xianying Zhang, David Thompson, Hongseok Jeong, Martin Toward, David Herron, Chris Jones & Nicolas Vincent, 2020, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 468
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2019.115081
Type: article
A Model for Evaluating Long-Term Support Degradation at Railway Switches
Ilaria Grossoni, Yann Bezin, Louis Le Pen, Geoff Watson & Dimitrios Kostovasilis, 2020
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38077-9_45
Type: conference
The role of stiffness variation in switches and crossings: comparison of vehicle-track interaction models with field measurements
Ilaria Grossoni, Louis Le Pen, Pedro Jorge, Yann Bezin, Geoff Watson, Dimitrios Kostovasilis & William Powrie, 2019, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
DOI: 10.1177/0954409719892146
Type: article
A comparison of ground vibration due to ballasted and slab tracks
Evangelos Ntotsios, David J. Thompson & Mohammed F.M. Hussein, 2019, Transportation Geotechnics, 21
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2019.100256
Type: article
Behaviour of under-track crossings on ballasted railways
William Powrie, Louis Le Pen, David Milne, Geoff Watson & John Harkness, 2019, Transportation Geotechnics, 21
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2019.100258
Type: article