Transport and Infrastructure
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Introduction
The previous research groups of structures and materials, surveying and geotechnics have been combined with transport research to form a single multi-disciplinary team, focused on the needs of designing, constructing, managing and maintaining the sustainable infrastructure of the future.
Key areas for the Transport and Infrastructure group include:
- Damage caused by unstable slopes in response to climate change
- Monitoring changes in landscape using archived imagery and photogrammetry, and the impact of flooding
- Development of new test procedures to measure the performance of composites in sports pitches and pavements, enhancing the sustainability of recycled materials
- The long term sustainability of transport infrastructure
- Development and evaluation of travel plan networks
- Real-time intelligent map-matching algorithms for advanced transport telematics systems
- Examining the acceptability of innovative carbon reduction strategies such as personal carbon trading
- The environmental impacts of air and surface transport
- Continuing research on aircraft accidents and the assessment of changes in the regulatory environment
- Advanced concretes and their production process, digital additive manufacturing techniques and FRP/steel plate repair
- Computational dynamics of composite and viscoelastic materials and structures, random vibration and stochastic finite elements
- Static, dynamic, hysteretic and fatigue properties of structural cables for bridging and offshore platform applications
- Offsite and adaptable building technologies of the future, including modern methods of construction and the optimisation of building systems
Achievements in addressing the global problems of mobility management, sustainable travel and infrastructure engineering are outlined on the Research Themes page.
