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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

The role of clay content on the response of railway track foundations during free-to-drain cyclic changes in principal stress rotation
Anna Mamou, Christopher Clayton, William Powrie & Jeff Priest, 2019, Transportation Geotechnics, 20, 1-6
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2019.100246
Type: article
Effect of train speed and track geometry on the ride comfort of high-speed railways based on ISO 2631-1
Chi Liu, David Thompson, Michael Griffin & Mani Entezami, 2019, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
DOI: 10.1177/0954409719868050
Type: article
The noise radiated by ballasted and slab tracks
Xianying Zhang, Hongseok Jeong, David Thompson & Giacomo Squicciarini, 2019, Applied Acoustics, 151, 193-205
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2019.03.012
Type: article
Noise reduction for ballasted track: a comparative socio-economic assessment
John Armstrong, Alejandro Ortega, Simon Blainey, John Preston, David Thompson, Giacomo Squicciarini & Evangelos Ntotsios, 2019, International Journal of Transport Development and Integration, 3(1), 15-29
DOI: 10.2495/tdi-v3-n1-15-29
Type: article
Modelling, simulation and evaluation of ground vibration caused by rail vehicles
David Thompson, Georges Kouroussis & Evangelos Ntotsios, 2019, Vehicle System Dynamics, 57(7), 936-983
DOI: 10.1080/00423114.2019.1602274
Type: review