Newcastle University conduct world-leading research with commercial impact. Develop your innovative research through working with our experts. Our Transport and Operations Research group is a leading centre of transport technology in Europe. By pursuing research you'll join a successful research group focussing on:transportcivil engineeringOur mission is to foster, promote and conduct research of international quality. We attract high-quality graduates and researchers and train them to international standards.Research into transport and civil engineering is done by our Transport Operations Research Group (TORG). TORG is one of the leading centres of transport technology in Europe. We are central to key research in areas such as:road user charging and smartcardsdeveloping both the policy ideas and the underlying technologiesWe are running a world-leading trial in electric vehicles and public charging infrastructure in the north east of England. This research is informing:policyinternational standards developmentits impact on energy demand and environmental emissionsWe have also developed a low-cost wireless sensing technology called Motes. This is being used to:track traffic pollutionhelp develop strategies to manage traffic demandreduce emissionsThis world-leading technology is being used commercially by several local authorities. It is being assessed for deployment in some high profile international cities.Our main research areas are:land use and network modelspassenger transport and policytransport and the environmentinfrastructure design and telematicsWe supervise MPhil and PhD students in the following areas:freight and traffic loadingpublic transport management and operationstraffic management and controlroad traffic safety and accident analysistransport emissions and the environmenttransport telematics and image processingintelligent transport systems (ITS)travel behaviourhighway design and engineeringoperating speed models