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CTEM Seminars

The Centre for Transport Engineering and Modelling (CTEM) hosts a series of research seminars in conjunction with UCL. They are presented by researchers in the Centre as well as invited speakers from other institutions and industry. For slides or further information on any of the presentations, please contact cts.admin@imperial.ac.uk.

Year 2018

Date	Time	Title	Speaker	Location
22/02/2018	14:00 - 15:30	Traffic Flow Observation and Modeling: Why is Rigor Important? The Emergence of Travel Time Reliability as a Key System Performance Measure	Prof Billy Williams, North Carolina State University, USA	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
28/02/2018	16:00 - 17:00	Management of Marine Safety in and around UK Ports	Dr Edward Joseph Rogers, Marico Marine	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)

Year 2017

Date	Time	Title	Speaker	Location
25/01/2017	16:00 - 17:00	Generative models for the maritime trade network: Evolution and robustness	Ms Zuzanna Kosowska-Stamirowska, University of Paris, France	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
01/02/2017	16:00 - 17:30	Improving the Cybersecurity of Transport Infrastructures	Prof Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow, UK	Room 201, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
22/02/2017	16:00 - 17:00	Controllability of events and associated factors: lessons learned from aviation	Dr Nektarios Karanikas, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
01/03/2017	16:00 - 17:00	Human Factors in Transport: From Asset Maintenance to Passenger Experiences	Dr Genovefa Kefalidou, University of Nottingham, UK	Room 064a, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
03/05/2017	15:30 - 16:30	A road less travelled: the systems approach to transport safety	Prof Paul Salmon, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia	Room 601, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
10/05/2017	16:00 - 17:00	Visualising Last-Mile Freight Delivery for Fun and Profit	Dr Sarah Wise, University College London, UK	Room 601, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
17/05/2017	16:00 - 17:00	The welfare loss of hypercongestion during public transport strikes in Rome	Prof Jos van Ommeren, VU University Amsterdam, NL	Room 601, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
18/07/2017	16:00 - 17:00	Game theory to analyse inter-modal competition between high speed rail and conventional transport	Dr. Ashish Verma, Indian Institute of Science	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
22/08/2017	15:30 - 16:30	Planning Reliable Service Facilities against the Threat of Disruptions and Congestion in A Continuous Space	Prof Yanfeng Ouyang, University of Illinois, USA	Room 163, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
13/12/2017	16:00 - 17:00	Making electric mobility happen: Insights from a reflexive, multi-method research program	Dr Jonn Axsen, Simon Fraser University, CA	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)

Year 2016

Date	Time	Title	Speaker	Location
09/03/2016	16:00 - 17:00	Decreased Millennial Automobility: Are There Public Health Co-Benefits?	Prof Noreen McDonald, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA	Room 163, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
06/04/2016	16:00 - 17:00	Understanding the Acquisition and Fruition of Travel Information: Fresh Evidence from London Commuters	Ms Séverine Maréchal, Centre for Transport Studies (CTS), Imperial College London	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
20/04/2016	16:00 - 17:00	British football stadium disasters - a failure to learn?	Dr Simon A Bennett, Director of the Civil Safety and Security Unit (CSSU), University of Leicester	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
06/05/2016	15:00 - 16:00	Safety Certification, Regulation and Risk Management	Eur. Ing. Amair Saleem, Director of Safety, Risk, Regulation and Planning, Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), Dubai, UAE	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
08/06/2016	16:00 - 17:00	Sharing the Lessons from Delivering Crossrail	Mr Simon Bennett, Head of Learning Legacy, Crossrail	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
09/06/2016	15:00 - 16:00	Supply Chain Networks Against Time: From Food to Pharma	Professor Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
13/06/2016	16:00 - 17:00	Connected and Automated Cars: What they can and may do to our way of life	Dr Chandra R. Bhat, Director of the Center for Transportation Research, The University of Texas at Austin, USA	Chadwick Lecture Theatre (B05), Chadwick Building, UCL
23/06/2016	16:00 - 17:00	A New Ambiguity Resolution Method and GNSS Positioning Over Very Long Baselines	Professor Wu Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
13/07/2016	16:00 - 17:00	Low Volume Road Infrastructure	Professor Andrew Dawson, University of Nottingham, UK	Room 207, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
03/08/2016	16:00 - 17:00	Dynamics of Social Networks and Activity Travel Behaviour	Dr Fariya Sharmeen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute of Management Research, The Netherlands	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
10/08/2016	14:00 - 15:00	A Unified Route Choice Model with Context-dependent Value of Time	Professor Hai Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Room 163, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
18/08/2016	16:00 - 17:00	Vehicle Platoon Formation Using Interpolating Control: A Laboratory Experimental Analysis	Professor Jack Haddad, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel	Room 601, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)
28/10/2016	15:30 - 16:30	Impact of Fuel & Car Ownership Taxes on Household Car Decisions & Welfare: An Indirect Utility Function Approach	Dr Reto Tanner	Room 427, Skempton Building (Civil Eng.)

Year 2015

Seminars from 14/05/2015 - 30/12/2015
Dates	Details
14/05/2015	Sustainable mobility in Baden-Württemberg – Strategy and implementation Dr Winfried Hermann from Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Baden-Württemberg
06/07/2015	GNSS Integrity – from Concepts to Implementation Professor Wu Chen from Department of Land Surveying and Geoinformatics (LSGI), Hong Kong Polytechnic University
19/08/2015	Crowd Dynamics: Automatic Extraction of High Precise Trajectories of Marked Persons in Experiments Dr Maik Boltes from Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
30/09/2015	Choice Modelling Perspectives on Social Influence in Travel Behaviour – A Behavioural Review with Future Research Directions Dr Michael Maness from University of Maryland, US
03/12/2015	Transition of Public Transport in Post-Socialist Countries: the Case of Budapest David Vitézy, Former CEO of the Centre for Budapest Transport
10/12/2015	Across the Lifespan: Evidence on the Health Impacts of the Built and Natural Environment Professor Lawrence D. Frank,Visiting Professor at University College London AND President OF Urban Design 4 Health, Inc.

Seminars from 10/03/2015 - 01/04/2015
Dates	Details
10/03/2015	Effecting a change in individual travel behaviour: How to increase walking and cycling Dr Eva Heinen from ‎University of Cambridge, UK
25/03/2015	Techniques for inferring mileage from the Department for Transport's MOT data set Professor Eddie Wilson from University of Bristol, UK
31/03/2015	Trojans & Drones: Design Explorations of Community Driven, Last-mile Distribution Solutions Mr Lorenzo Davoli from Umea Institute of Design, Sweden
01/04/2015	Port-centric logistics: An Australian perspective Professor Michael Bell from ITLS, The University of Sydney Business School, Australia

Year 2014

Seminars from 08/10/2014 - 17/12/2014
Dates	Details
08/10/2014	Capturing human expertise in modelling and control of transportation systems Dr Simon Box from University of Southampton, UK
15/10/2014	Analysis of congestion charging using dynamic traffic equilibrium Professor Benjamin Heydecker from University College London (UCL), UK
22/10/2014	Benchmarking disaggregate customer satisfaction scores of transport operators in different cities and countries Mr Mark Trompet from Imperial College London (ICL), UK
29/10/2014	Specifications and standards: Stimulus or constraint. An update on where they are Dr Mark Pleydell from Pleydell Technology Consulting Ltd, UK
19/11/2014	Urban informatics and ICT entrepreneurship for data-driven public transport planning and operations Professor Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah from University of Glasgow, UK
28/11/2014	Multimodal mobility in Mainland Europe – State of the art and future scenarios Professor Christoph Menzel from the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany
03/12/2014	The Transport Internet & Foodtubes – Electric cargo-capsule pipelines Mr Dave Wetzel, Mr Noel Hodson and Professor Fred Taylor (THE TRANSPORT INTERNET™ & FOODTUBES™)
17/12/2014	Transport and poverty in Britain Professor Roger Mackett and Dr Helena Titheridge from University College London (UCL), UK

Seminars from 26/04/2014 - 30/07/2014
Dates	Details
14/05/2014	How buses can transform the world Professor Nick Tyler from University College London (UCL), UK
21/05/2014	Using smart card and GPS data for policy and planning: the case of Transantiago Professor Marcela A. Munizaga from Universidad de Chile
28/05/2014	Methodological and empirical challenges in modelling residential location choices Dr Alireza Zolfaghari from Imperial College London, UK
04/06/2014	GNSS software receiver - State of the art Dr Xin Zhang from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
11/06/2014	CARBOTRAF: A decision support system for reducing CO2 and black carbon emissions by adaptive traffic management Dr Robin North, Dr Margherita Mascia and Dr Jun Hu from Imperial College London, UK
18/06/2014	Ocean container transport: Making global supply chain management effective Professor Chung-Yee Lee from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
20/06/2014	GNSS Receiver autonomous integrity monitoring Professor Jinling Wang from University of Ne w South Wales, Sydney, Australia
25/06/2014	Modelling travel time use and productivity in the era o f ubiquitous ICT, nomadism and multi-tasking Mr Jacek Pawlak from ‎Imperial College London, UK
30/07/2014	Security and safety of maritime-oriented energy Dr Aldo NAPOLI from ‎Risks and Crisis (CRC) of MINES ParisTech, France

Year 2013

Seminars from 01/10/2013 - 30/12/2013
Date	Details
16/10/2013	From Safety-I to Safety-II: The past and future of safety management Professor Erik Hollnagel, Ph.D from the Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
23/10/2013	How road elevation affects vehicle energy consumption and eco-routing from a network perspective Ms Melissa Duell from the University of New South Wales , Australia
30/10/2013	CIHT GL Branch Seminar on Air quality 4 speakers from UCL and Chartered Institution of High ways & Transportation (CIHT)
06/11/2013	Cities as Transaction Machines: The importance of space in the generation of human interactions Professor Tim Stonor the Managing Director of the strategic consulting firm Space Syntax Limited
13/11/2013	Horizon 20:20 Dr Marcel Rommerts from the European Commission
20/11/2013	Impacts of traffic interv entions on road safety: An application of causal models Dr Haojie Li from the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London
04/12/2013	Modelling The Charging Behaviour of Electric Vehicle Users in Smart Grid Environments Mr Nicolo Daina from the Centre for Transpo rt Studies at Imperial College London
11/12/2013	The effects of social networking a nd social interaction on adolescents' travel behaviour Ms Maria Kamargianni from the UCL Energy Institute, UCL

Seminars from 01/01/2013 - 30/06/2013
Date	Details
09/01/2013	The Supply Chain of Seabed Mining: Results and Experiences from the LRET Research Collegium Dr. Nicole Kudla from CTS, Imperial College London
23/01/2013	Interdisciplinary Behaviour Studies for Cross-Sector Energy Policies Dr Biying Yu from Hiroshima University, Japan
30/01/2013	Safe Shipping, Cleaner Seas Mr Sunil Shastri from the Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences, University of Hull
06/02/2013	Determining the quality road service: towards a reflective novel approach Dr. Johnnie Ben-Edigbe from University of Technology, Malaysia
13/02/2013	Managing motorway traffic at junctions: a Ramp Metering strategy using Cooperative Vehicles Mr Riccardo Scarinci from Centre for Transport Studies, UCL
20/02/2013	An Empirical Investigation of the Measurement of Land Use Mix in the Context of Public Transport Demand Dr Niovi Karathodorou from CTS, Imperial College London
27/02/2013	How safe is road travel for children in wheelchairs? Mr Costandinos Visvikis from the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)
13/03/2013	Impacts of transport investments and market access on regional specification patterns Dr Theodore Tsekeris from the Centre of Planning and Economic Research, Athens, Greece.
20/03/2013	Insights into the relationship between Internet use and travel Mr Charilaos Latinopoulos from CTS, Imperial College London
27/03/2013	Inclusive Design of Pedestrian Areas Dr Catherine Holloway from Centre for Transport Studies, UCL
08/05/2013	Green peroid capacity and stochastic signal queues Mr Nicholas Taylor from Centre for Transport Studies, UCL
15/05/2013	A framework for assessing the quality of aviation safety databases Ms Sabine Wilke from CTS, Imperial
22/05/2013	Creating world-class underground stations: the civil engineering challenges Mr Ralph Freeston (Head of Station Capacity Programme) and Allan Thomson (Station Interchange Development Sponsor) from Transport for London
29/05/2013	A study to identify and quantify the most significant Performance Shaping Factors in Railway Operations Mr Miltos Kyriakidis from CTS, Imperial
12/06/2013	Modelling and Optimisation of Transport Infrastructure Dr Andy Chow from Centre for Transport Studies, UCL
19/06/2013	The long term impact of mobility scooters Ms Roselle Thoreau from Centre for Transport Studies, UCL
26/06/2013	Transport-Induced Agglomeration Effects in US Metropolitan Statistical Areas Dr Patricia Melo from CTS, Imperial

Year 2012

Seminars from 01/01/2012 - 30/06/2012
Date	Details
11/01/2012	A Mathematical Model for Driver and Pedestrian Interaction in Shared Space Environments Miss. Bani Anvari from CTS, Imperial College London
08/02/2012	Macroscopic Features of Urban Traffic, a London case study Mr. Alexandre Santacreu from Transport for London
15/02/2012	A Balanced Approach to Normalising Bus Operational Data for Performance Benchmarking Purposes Mr. Mark Trompet from CTS, Imperial College London
29/02/2012	Station and Platform-Train Interface Safety Mr. Robin Hirsch from CTS, Imperial College London
07/03/2012	Robots, Lasers and Traffic Lights: Machine Learning in Urban Traffic Control Dr. Simon Box from the Transportation Research Group, University of Southampton
14/03/2012	Port Choice: A Maritime Container Flow Assignment model Mr. Xin Liu from CTS, Imperial College London
21/03/2012	A self-coordinating approach to the bus bunching problem in urban transport Professor John Bartholdi from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
23/04/2012	A Vocabulary of Travel Experiences: The use of GPS and SMS data in illuminating the experience of mobility Dr. Kristian Hegner Reinau from Aalborg University, Denmark
02/05/2012	Multiscale Human Mobility: Towards Smarter Transport Dr. Anders Johansson from the University of Bristol
09/05/2012	The role of the European Commission in stimulating policy transfer and Europeanisation in the field of urban transport Mr. Marcel Rommerts from the European Commission, Brussels
16/05/2012	Measuring real-world energy consumption and vehicle emissions: innovative solutions for the RAC Future Car Challenge Dr. Robin North, Mr. David Williams, Mr. Aravinth Thiyagarajah, from CTS, Imperial College London
23/05/2012	Route choice in congested transit networks with count down displays Ms. ValentinaTrozzi from CTS, Imperial College London
30/05/2012	A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Rail Projects on Land and Property Values Ms. Sara Mohammad from CTS, Imperial College London
13/06/2012	Optimizing Liquefied Natural Gas Sales at the Operational Level in a Production and Distribution Project Mr. Hamed Nikhalat from CTS, Imperial College London
19/06/2012	Developing a Sustainable Transport Model to Assess Urban Transportation Policies and Projects Dr. Ashish Verma from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
20/06/2012	A comparison of dynamic user optimal states with zero, fixed and variable tolerances Professor Ying-en Ge from Dalian University of Technology, China
27/06/2012	Researching the Benefits and Deployment Opportunities for Vehicle/Roadside cooperative ITS Dr. Alan Stevens from Transportation Research Laboratory, UK

Seminars from 01/07/2012 - 31/12/2012
Date	Details
04/07/2012	A Comprehensive Approach to Modelling Household Activit y Generation Mr. Siamak Khorrami from CTS, University College London
14/09/2012	Winter Road Safety and Mobility Professor Liping Fu from University of Waterloo, Canada
17/10/2012	Designing Pedestrian Environment s for those with Reduced Mobility Dr. Catherine Holloway from CTS, University College London
24/10/2012	Driverless Future Transport: An Assessment of PRT and AV Technologies Professor Martin Lowson from Ultra Global PRT, UK
31/10/2012	The Annual The Lloyds Register Educational Trust (LRET) Lecture on Transport Risk Management:Cyber safety in Europe’s transport system Professor Chris Johnson from University of Glasgow
07/11/2012	The role of ports as decoupling points in global supply chains Dr. Khalid Bichou from CTS, Imperial College London
14/11/2012	Coordinating drayage trucking and marine terminal operations at North American ports Professor Anne Goodchild from University of Washington, USA
21/11/2012	Some observations on highway journey time data Professor Neil Hoose from CTS, Imperial College London
28/11/2012	Agglomeration Benefits from Public Transit Improvements: implementing the Venables model Professor Tim Hazledine from University of Auckland, New Zealand
05/12/2012	Developing a support tool for the analysis in the wild based on distributed cognitive perspective. – a case of Air traffic controllers’ work Dr Satoru Inoue from the Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Japan
12/12/2012	China's Sustainable Development Dr. Liu Rongxia from the Sustainable Development Research Group, China

Year 2011

Seminars from 01/01/2011 - 30/06/2011
Date	Details
19/01/2011	Adaptation of Transportaiton Infrastructure to Climate Change from a Risk Based Policy Perspective Mr. Tom Wall
02/02/2011	The Multinomial Logit Model Revisited: A Semiparametric Approach in Discrete Choice Analysis Dr. Baibing Li
16/02/2011	Railway Safety, a personal perspective Mr. Vince C. Murtagh
24/02/2011	Metro Demand Multi-city Model and Cross Mode Impact Miss Sofia Clara Galligani
02/03/2011	Fatal Train accidents on Europe`s railways 1980-2009 Professor Andrew Evans
16/03/2011	Transport Poverty and Social Equity Research Past, Present and Future Dr. Karen Lucas
28/03/2011	Monitoring and performance measures of congestion for urban traffic systems Professor Nikolas Geroliminis
25/04/2011	Dynamic Hyperpath Search in Congested Transit Network Ms. Valentina Trozzi
08/06/2011	Public Perceptions of Rail Safety in Britain Mr. John Cartledge
27/06/2011	A splitting rate model of traffic re-routing: with application to the design of congestion-reducing traffic control systems Professor Mike Smith

Seminars from 01/07/2011 - 31/12/2011
Date	Details
12/08/2011	The Japan Disaster What Lessons Learned for the Supply Chain Professor James B. Rice
09/09/2011	Workshop on Traffic Incident Management Professor Michael Bell et al.
28/10/2011	The Use of Activity-Based Accessibility Measures in Land Use and Other Long Term Life Style Models Professor Yoram Shiftan
16/11/2011	Agglomeration economies and other spatial impacts of infrastructure: do we know what we're looking for (or at)? Dr. Cameron Gordon

Year 2010

Seminars from 01/01/2010 - 30/06/2010
Date	Details
18/01/2010	New Scheduling Models with Applications in Logistics and Operations Management Dr. Dirk Briskorn
20/01/2010	The Measurement of Land Use Mix Ms. Niovi Karathodorou
03/02/2010	High Performance Computing for Transport Scaling to handle next generation data capture, modeling and analysis Dr. Jeremy Cohen
24/02/2010	Monitoring the Implementation of a Shared Space Scheme in Exhibition Road Dr. Ioannis Kaparis
03/03/2010	Short-term Congestion Prediction for in-vehicle Navigation System Mr. Jun Hu
12/05/2010	Racing Green Endurance - Driving an electric car down the Pan-American Highway Mr. Clemens F. Lorf
09/06/2010	Revolution the Road to a Low Carbon Future Ms. Caroline Watson

Seminars from 01/07/2010 - 31/12/2010
Dates	Details
06/10/2010	The Option Value of Active Mobility: House Prices and Journeys to Work in Auckland City Professor Tim Hazledine
13/10/2010	WhipCar transforming how cars are used in UK Mr. Vinay Gupta
27/10/2010	Stobart Group Delivering sustainable multimodal logistics solutions Mr. Richard Butcher
24/11/2010	Modelling Urban Energy Systems An Update Dr. Aruna Sivakumar
08/12/2010	The Development of a Performance Indicator to Compare Regularity of Service between Urban Bus Operators Mr. Mark Trompet
15/12/2010	Determinants of Delay Incident Occurrence of Urban Metros Dr. Patricia Melo

Year 2009

Seminars from 01/01/2009 - 30/06/2009
Dates	Details
11/01/2009	Traffic flow on managed motorways Mr. Puff Addison and Professor Benjamin Heydecker
28/01/2009	Modelling Freight Mode Choice Behaviour Accounting for Supply Chain Structures and Taste Heterogeneity Dr. Kriangkrai Arunotayanun
04/02/2009	The market for shared-car services Dr. Scott Le Vine
11/02/2009	Traffic flow on managed motorways 2 Mr. Puff Addison and Benjamin Heydecker
17/02/2009	Research in emissions analysis techniques Ms. Janneke van Baalen
25/02/2009	Benchmarking Urban Bus Operations Lessons from the International Bus Benchmarking Group Mr. Mark Trompet
04/03/2009	CROST on the track of affordable tramways Professor Lewis Lesley
11/03/2009	International Research Workshop (Special Event in CTS Seminar Series) Prof Mic hael GH Bell
18/03/2009	The Catalytic Games Mr. Joao de Campos Cruz
25/03/2009	Accessibility without access Dr. F rancesca Medda
15/04/2009	Children in Transit Oriented Developed Japan: Connections with Neighbours, Independent Travel, and Exercise Dr. Owen Waygood
06/05/2009	Aviation in 2030 Ms. Nadine Pilon
20/05/2009	Discrete choice modelling with latent variables some new findings Professor Juan de Dios Ortúzar
03/06/2009	The car in British society Professor Peter Jones
10/06/2009	TPEG - an introduction to the growing family of standards and specifications for Traffic and Travel Information services Mr. Bev Marks

Seminars from 01/07/2009 - 31/12/2009
Dates	Details
22/07/2009	Of the earth and the heavens towards seamless positioning Professor Washington Ochieng
03/09/2009	Sustainable Urban Transportation Design for Human Health and the Environment Mr. Julian Marshall
18/08/2009	Land Use and Population Evolution in the Integrated Land Use, Transportation, and Environment (ILUTE) Modelling Framework Dr. Bilal Farooq
25/09/2009	Special event in CTS seminar series Professor Michael G.H. Bell
07/10/2009	The Role of the Private Sector in Border Management Reform Dr. Andrew Grainger
23/10/2009	Modeling and Optimization in Traffic Flow Management Dr. Banavar Sridhar
28/10/2009	Challenges that face validation of the new ATC system Dr. Branka Subotic
18/11/2009	Modelling Urban Energy Systems Dr. A runa Sivakumar
25/11/2009	Managing the real-world environmental impacts of transport: Advances in pervasive sensing and on-demand modeling Dr. Robin North

Seminars held before 2009 (pdf)

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