Sharing transport expertise globally

Here he taught an MSc course unit on quantitative methods and their application in transport studies. He joined the transport group there and engaged in research on interpretation of automatically collected data to extract traffic management information. This research and his contact with that group will continue, with further exchange visits planned.

He also taught a graduate course on mathematical and statistical modelling at Shanghai Maritime University. Whilst at Shanghai, he and UCL graduate research student Hajar Hajmohammadi also attended a meeting on their project (part of the International Institute for Transport and the Environment), and contributed to a workshop on the project. This joint project with Cornell University and the University of Michigan is developing methods to estimate relationships between vehicle movement on road networks and emissions from those vehicles. This will be used to investigate the effects of traffic management and control on emissions and ultimately to establish control methods that will reduce emissions.

Ben and his colleague Helena Titheridge are co-organising the Universities Transport Study Group (UTSG)’s 50th annual conference, to be held at UCL in January 2018. This three-day conference brings together academics working in transport studies from around the British Isles – and in this 50th anniversary year from around the world – to discuss their latest research. The conference will include over 80 paper presentations.