Transportation Research Group, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ.
Tel 01703 594657, Fax 01703 593152, E-mail gdl@soton.ac.uk, Web Site http://www.trg.soton.ac.uk
INTRODUCTION
MVA Systematica are now actively seeking to strengthen their association and activity with the academic community. To do so they wish to identify a number of Universities internationally with which to form mutually beneficial links. Such universities will be attributed with the acronym title TRIPS SPECTRE standing for a TRIPS Specialist Centre of Teaching and Research. This paper briefly describes the first fLEDgling SPECTRE at the University of Southampton. A background to this SPECTRE is given in addition to an outline of the responsibilities assumed by both parties. The paper describes what the SPECTRE has achieved and is seeking to do as its TRIPS related activity develops.
THE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH GROUP
The Transportation Research Group (TRG) has been established for over 25 years as a Research Group within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southampton. The Group has grown considerably to a total current staff of some 20 drawn from a range of science, engineering, mathematics and social science disciplines.
The research activities of the TRG have built on and extended the early research on all aspects of traffic engineering, and individual studies have related to traffic control, safety and project evaluation both in the UK and overseas. In the last decade, the range of research has been extended to include the identification and assessment of the potential for new technology with studies and modelling of route guidance, on-line traffic control in networks, integrated network
