RSSB has formed a strategic partnership with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Department for Transport to jointly support high quality academic research into some of the most pressing challenges to the rail industry in Great Britain.

 

This partnership issued its first call for proposals on 19th February into “Rail Capacity: Overcoming the constraints caused by nodes (stations and junctions) on the rail network”.

Under this partnership, funding is available to support cross-disciplinary collaborations to develop novel approaches to overcome the capacity constraints of stations and junctions on the main line rail network in Great Britain. The partnership would particularly like to encourage applications from academic parties, including those not traditionally associated with the rail industry.

RRUK members may wish to consider teaming up with colleagues from other university departments, for example (but not exclusively) mathematics researchers, to generate a fresh approach.

 

The call closing date is 4pm Thursday 22 April 2010.

An information day relating to this call is being held at RSSB’s offices on 15th March and further details on the call topic are available in the call document http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/NetworkNodes.htm To register for the information day, please contact paul.edmonds@rssb.co.uk by 8th March.