Transportation Group

Our people

Meet our researchers and learn more about their expertise.

Dr Katie Parnell BSc, EngD, C.ErgHF

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Road safety 
  • Aviation decision making
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Dr Katie Plant

Associate Professor
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Mr Kimoon Jang

Research interests

  • (1) Construction such as supply of all facilities regarding container ports: How much and how timely the facilities should be supplied considering the port's role and feature, demand and supply phenomena, What facilities are needed such as terminals, hinterlands, and near port transportation system which is constituted by road, rail, etc
  • (2) Operation of container terminals: enhancing the productivity of ports, the operating structure of the port which means how the governance of port is and how many terminals are operated in the port, and how much the players make synergy effects
  • (3) Global container logistics in maritime focused on transshipment network in the area of North East Asia: trends and main flows as time goes by especially before and after the Pandemic
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Professor Mark Young BSc (Hons), PhD, CErgHF, FCIEHF

Professor of Human Factors in Transport

Research interests

  • human factors
  • transport safety
  • accident investigation and analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Matt Grote

Research Fellow Transport & the Envirmt

Research interests

  • Mitigating road traffic impacts
  • Sustainable aviation
  • Practical modelling methods
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Emeritus Professor Neville Stanton

Research interests

  • Ergonomics and Human Factors methods
  • Distributed cognition and distributed situation awareness
  • The effects of automation on human tasks, mainly focused on the development of vehicle automation in road transport
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