Accepting applications from PhD students.
Email: R.Mcilroy@soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 23 8059 1225
Rich is currently focussing primarily on the Solent Future Transport Zone project. As part of the passenger theme of the project he is exploring car dependency and the barriers and potential incentives to greater uptake of active travel and public transport in urban, suburban, and semi-rural areas.
Rich teaches on the following following modules:
CENV3060 Highway & Traffic Engineering
CENV6168 Transport Management and Safety
FEEG3004 Human Factoprs in Engineering
Rich received the BSc (Hons) degree in Psychology and the MSc degree in Research Methods in Psychology from the University of Southampton, UK, in 2008 and 2009 respectively. He was awarded his Engineering Doctorate by the same University in 2016.
He has published across a variety of topics, including eco-driving and the effect of multi-sensory, in-vehicle information on driving behaviour and fuel use, the general utility of various human factors and sociotechnical systems methods for the support of decision making and system design in a variety of domains, the characteristics and determinants of road users’ attitudes and behaviours, and the benefit of applying sociotechnical systems methods to the issues of road safety and sustainability.
He is a chartered member of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors and of the British Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. He serves as co-chair of the Energy and Mobility sub-committee of the Human Factors and Sustainable Development Technical Committee and as Associate Editor of the journal Safety Science.
Rich is the lead researcher for the Transportation Research Group's Instrumented Vehicle and the Southampton University Driving Simulator and is the point of contact for anyone interested in those facilities.