School staff
Dr Andrew Morris
Reader in Vehicle Safety
Tel +44 (0)1509 226981
Email a.p.morris@lboro.ac.uk
Location LDS 1.08
Personal profile
Andrew originally joined Loughborough University in 1995 but also worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) in Melbourne, Australia between 1997 and 2001. During this time, he worked on the Australian National Crash In-depth Study (ANCIS).
Currently he is involved in a large programme of work which is evaluating nomadic driver information systems in real-world driving trials (the TeleFOT project). He is also interested in studying driver behaviour in naturalistic and experimental situations in the PROLOGUE and DaCoTA projects.
Andrew also conducts Special Accident Investigations involving road crash and injury outcomes. Andrew's other research interests include vehicle passive safety performance, accident and injury causation and intelligent transport systems.
He has published over 100 refereed technical publications, reports and conference papers in the subject of accident research and road crash injury.
Andrew was awarded US Government Special Award of Appreciation in recognition of outstanding leadership and special contributions in the field of motor vehicle safety (June 2009).
Teaching
Module Leader, Masters Programme in Road and Vehicle Safety (HUP200, HUP207).
Research
Research Group: Transport Safety Research Centre.
Injury Biomechanics, Crash Investigation, Crash Analysis, Field Trials, Field Operational Tests (FOTs), Naturalistic Driving, Driver Behaviour, Intelligent Transport Systems, Human Factors.
Current Projects
- TELEFOT - Sub-project 4 Leader (Assessment) and Core-Group Member
- PROLOGUE - Steering Group Member
- DaCoTA - Work-package 2 Leader and Steering Group Member)
- CLAHRC - Steering Group Member
Current grants as Principal Investigator
- TeleFOT (£939,276)
- TeleFOT INCO (£22,038)
- PROLOGUE (£67,855)
- SAFERBRAIN (£198,150)
- CLAHRC (£99,410)
- Current Grants as Co-Investigator
- DaCoTA (£978,276)
Featured publications
A P MORRIS, C BRACE, S REED et al,"The Development of a European Fatal Accident Database", ICRASH Conference 2008, Kyoto, Japan, July 2008.
R WELSH, S REED and A P MORRIS, "AIS 3+ head injury mechanisms and crash characteristics - a review of airbag deployed crashes". Proceedings of IRCOBI Conference, Bern Switzerland, September 2008.
R WELSH, A P MORRIS et al, Car to Car Struck Side Impacts - A Comparison Between European Accident Data and Directive 96/27/EC. Proceedings of IRCOBI Conference, York, UK, September 2009.
J S BARNES and A P MORRIS " A study of Impairing Injuries in Real-World Crashes Using the Injury Impairment Scale (IIS) and the Predicted Functional Capacity Index (pFCI-AIS). In Proceedings of AAAM Conference, Baltimore, US, October 2009.