AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES OF A TRIPS SPECIALIST CENTRE OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH

  management, public transport priority and in-vehicle technology for guidance control and enforcement. Other more recent areas of research include freight and light rail operations, and environmental monitoring and evaluation. New initiatives in demand management and microscopic trip decision modelling are also underway. Considerable personal research is also undertaken on a wider range of topics, by both staff and research students. Clients for the research include the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Traffic Control Systems Unit in London (TCSU), London Transport, the European Commission (EC) and others. A significant development has been the formation of partnerships between the TRG and industry, consultants and local authorities to develop practical applications of our fundamental research.

A major area of activity is the TRG's development of CONTRAM which has taken place in recent years as part of a SERC sponsored Rolling Programme. Variants of CONTRAM have been produced to model Dynamic Route Guidance (DRG), re-routing effects of variable message signs (VMS) and more recently the use of Parking Guidance Information (PGI) to influence car park choice.

 MSC COURSE

A thriving MSc course in Transportation Planning and Engineering also forms a major part of our activities. This course has ICE, CIT and EPSRC accreditation with a number of EPSRC studentships available each year. Current annual intakes of students are between 15 and 20. The course has been operating since 1969 and is constantly updated to reflect the rapidly emerging new transport technologies and priority issues, such as congestion, safety and the environment. Figure 1 provides an outline of this course and how it addresses the transportation process.

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