Transport
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Projects
An investigation in to the effects of information provision on driver learning
Ben Waterson, Hans Fangohr (Investigators), James Snowdon
This work aims to better understand and model the role of individual learning and experience on driver route choice. We intend to demonstrate that vehicle-driver agent based models stand alone in being able to capture the complex reciprocal interactions between drivers and their environment, and allow us to incorporate the effects of prior knowledge from previous trips and advice from official information sources and social networks.
Generic Operational Simulation of Civil Unmanned Air Vehicle Operations
Hans Fangohr, James Scanlan (Investigators)
This project creates a generic operational simulation of Unmanned Air Vehicle Operations. UAVs can be valued for their mission-suitability and compared against various configurations.
Integrating Automated Vehicles into the Transport Network
Bani Anvari, Ben Waterson (Investigators), Craig Rafter
Innovative new designs to transportation infrastructure - with a strong evidence base - that will support automated vehicles to maximize sustainability in the transport network.
OCCASION: Overcoming Capacity Constraints - A Simulation Integrated with Optimisation for Nodes
Tolga Bektas (Investigator)
OCCASION is a collaboration between TRG and the Schools of Mathematics and Management. The project's objective is to identify and investigate innovative methods of increasing the capacity of nodes (i.e. junctions and stations) on the railway network, without substantial investment in additional infrastructure. To this end, a state-of-the-art review of recent and ongoing work in this area will be conducted, followed by the development of tools to (i) assess existing levels of capacity utilisation at nodes, and (ii) investigate options for re-routeing and re-scheduling trains, with a view to reducing capacity utilisation levels. These tools will be used in combination to develop solutions delivering reduced levels of capacity utilisation, and thus increases in capacity and/or service reliability. Incremental changes to existing railway technologies (e.g. improved points) and operating practice (e.g. relaxations of the Rules of the Plan) will be investigated, as will concepts from other modes (e.g. road and air transport) and sectors (e.g. production scheduling).
Operational Simulation of the Solent Search-and-Rescue environment
James Scanlan, Kenji Takeda, Hans Fangohr (Investigators), Ben Schumann
This project aims to identify useful metrics for a proposed Search-and-Rescue UAV and test it virtually in a realistic environment.
Population24/7: space-time specific population surface modelling
Samantha Cockings, David Martin, Samuel Leung (Investigators)
Project funded by Economic and Social Research Council to compute time-specific geographical representations of population distribution.
Simulation of Parking Choice Behaviour
Ben Waterson, Hans Fangohr (Investigators), James Snowdon
Exploring how psychological models of individual parking search behaviours can be combined into an accurate simulation of vehicle flows, allowing for assessment of the impact on searching traffic of different demand/ supply ratios, different driver population characteristics and different charging regimes.
Spatially Embedded Complex Systems Engineering
Seth Bullock (Investigator)
SECSE brought together an interdisciplinary team of scientists working on an ambitious three-and-a-half year project titled. The research cluster spanned neuroscience, artificial intelligence, geography, and complex systems in an attempt to understand the role of spatial organization and spatial processes in complex networks within the domains of neural control, geo-information systems and distributed IT systems such as those implicated in air-traffic control.
People
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Professor, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)
Professor, Engineering Sciences (FEE)
Professor, Geography (FSHS)
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Senior Lecturer, Engineering Sciences (FEE)
Lecturer, Engineering Sciences (FEE)
Lecturer, Geography (FSHS)
Lecturer, Institute of Sound & Vibration Research (FEE)
Lecturer, Civil Engineering & the Environment (FEE)
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Sound & Vibration Research (FEE)
Research Fellow, Geography (FSHS)
Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)
Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)
Postgraduate Research Student, Mathematics (FSHS)
Postgraduate Research Student, Engineering Sciences (FEE)
Postgraduate Research Student, Engineering Sciences (FEE)
Postgraduate Research Student, Civil Engineering & the Environment (FEE)
Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)
Administrative Staff, Research and Innovation Services
Alumnus, University of Southampton
Alumnus, Engineering Sciences (FEE)
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