W Powrie 2015 - EPSRC: Track to the Future

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
Groundwater and groundwater control

Connect with William

Email: W.Powrie@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor of Railway Noise and Vibration

Research interests

Low noise design in railways
Ground vibration and ground-borne noise
Aerodynamic noise from high-speed trains

Connect with David

Email: djt@isvr.soton.ac.uk

Professor Simon Blainey PhD, FRGS, FHEA, MCIHT, CMILT

Professor of Sustainable Transport

Research interests

Rail demand and operations modelling
GIS and transport
Transport decision support systems

Connect with Simon

Email: S.P.Blainey@soton.ac.uk

Professor John Preston

Professor in Rail Transport

Research interests

Demand, capacity and cost modelling for sustainable transport infrastructure.
The design, monitoring and evaluation of transport interventions designed to promote sustainable choices.
The determination of pathways for future mobility transitions to net zero carbon.

Connect with John

Email: J.M.Preston@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Dynamics Group

The group's research covers a range of topics including fundamental theoretical studies, the development of numerical tools and experimental measurement techniques.

Transportation Group

Our research focuses on the interactions between behaviour, infrastructure and operations and how they translate into transport policy and practice.

Research outputs

Installation of under sleeper pads on ballasted railway track

Alejandro Ortega Hortelano, Simon Blainey & Jonathan Preston, 2018, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 232(6), 1800-1813

DOI: 10.1177/0954409717748811

Type: article

Estimation of track parameters and wheel--rail combined roughness from rail vibration

Qi Li, David J. Thompson & Martin G.R. Toward, 2018, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 232(4), 1149-1167

DOI: 10.1177/0954409717710126

Type: article

The behaviour of under-sleeper pads at switches and crossings (S&C) - field measurements

Louis Le Pen, Geoffrey Watson, Andrew Hudson & William Powrie, 2018, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 232(4), 1049-1063

DOI: 10.1177/0954409717707400

Type: article

Automated processing of railway track deflection signals obtained from velocity and acceleration measurements

David Milne, Louis Le Pen, William Powrie & David Thompson, 2018, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

DOI: 10.1177/0954409718762172

Type: article

Improving the performance of railway tracks through ballast interventions

Taufan Abadi, Louis Le Pen, Antonios Zervos & William Powrie, 2018, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 337-355

DOI: 10.1177/0954409716671545

Type: article