School staff
Julian Hill
Senior Research Fellow
Project Manager
Tel +44 (0)1509 226959
Email j.r.hill@lboro.ac.uk
Location LDS 1.21
Personal profile
Julian has over 23 years of experience in road accident research including in-depth accident investigation studies. These are multidisciplinary research activities involving specialist researchers, police, hospitals and other safety professionals to study highway safety engineering, vehicle safety engineering, human factors, psychology, injury and the biomechanics of injuries.
He established and managed Loughborough University's On the Spot (OTS) Accident Data Collection team operating on behalf of the UK Department for Transport from 1999 to 2010.
Julian has contributed to lecture programmes concerned with vehicle safety design and real-world accident issues, and has contributed to publications and in-depth reports concerned with the biomechanics of injury, human factors, vehicle design/collision performance and highway design.
Additionally, Julian has designed and managed accident data analysis programmes in support of motor industry research into Advanced Driver Assistance Systems to avoid and mitigate pedestrian collisions. Julian was manager and project steering committee member for EC Projects RISER (Road Infrastructure for Safer European Roads) and TRACE (Traffic Accident Causation in Europe).
Julian is Chairman of the Vehicle Design Working Party at the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) and a member of the PACTS Research and Policy Committee, providing advice to parliamentarians on vehicle safety design and transport safety research.
Teaching
- MSc in Road and Vehicle Safety (under development)
- HUP 203 - Roads and Infrastructure Design
- HUP 205 - Crash Investigation
Research
Research Group: Transport Safety Research Centre.
Accident causation, road infrastructure and safety, vehicle safety and crashworthiness.
Featured publications
- HILL, J. and CUERDEN, R., (2005) Development and implementation of the UK on the spot accident data collection study - phase I. Department for Transport: London.
- Stigson, H. and Hill, J. (2009) Use of Car Crashes resulting in Fatal and Serious Injuries to Analyse a Safe Road Transport System Model and to Identify System Weaknesses. Traffic Injury Prevention,10:5,441 — 450.
- Gkikas, N., Hill, J. and Richardson, J. (2009) Reset To Zero And Specify Active Safety Systems. According To Real-World Needs. Journal of Transportation Engineering.