The principal areas of current research activity within the Centre for Transport Studies include:

• Travel behaviour and transport modelling (e.g., survey design and data analysis, travel demand modelling using advanced statistical and econometric techniques, activity based modelling, microsimulation modelling of daily travel, analysis of traveller dynamics and learning).
• Transport technology and telematics (e.g., the design and evaluation of telematics systems for information dissemination and pricing, innovative data collection methods, impacts of e-commerce on travel behaviour, technological innovations for the elderly and disabled).
• Transport operations (e.g., modelling of traffic flow and control strategies, analysis of capacity and network reliability, microsimulation of traffic flow, network design and optimisation).
• Transport and environment (e.g., analysis of air quality impacts of local traffic management measures, transport and health, travel demand management policies, urban design and energy use)
• Transport policy and regulation (e.g., utilities regulation, funding and financing of infrastructure, pricing and investment appraisal, urban economics, transport economics and policy)
• Railway operations and management (e.g., the analysis of risk in rail investment decisions, design and analysis of safety critical systems (e.g. signalling), comparative assessment of performance through benchmarking studies).
• Geomatics (e.g., design and testing of high performance navigation and positioning systems, geodesy and surveying, earth observation, applications of GIS and GPS in Civil Engineering).
• Port operations and logistics (e.g., benchmarking and operational efficiency, port technology and planning, logistics and supply chain applications in ports and shipping, intermodal operations and management, safety and security issues).
• Air transport operations and planning (e.g., analysis of air sector capacity, airport performance analysis, environmental impacts of aircraft and airport operations, relationships between landside and airside movements).
• Freight transport and logistics (e.g., analysis of UK container operations, decision making in the freight industry, analysis of long-term infrastructure needs, port operations and investment, regulation and competition in the freight industry).
• Safety (e.g., analysis of road infrastructure impacts on safety, vehicle systems, statistical analyses of safety data, emergency medical systems, safety policy, air, rail and public transport safety)