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  • Bowness, D., Lock, A.C., Powrie, W., Priest, J.A., Richards, D.J. (2007). Monitoring the dynamic displacements of railway track. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp. 13-22.
  • Burrow, M.P.N., Bowness D., Ghataora, G.S. (2007). A comparison of railway track foundation design methods. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp. 1-12.
  • Bye, R., Farrington-Darby, T., Cox, G., Hockey, G.R.J., Wilson, J.R., Clarke, T. (2007). Work analysis and distributed cogniton representation of integrated rail operations. In: Wilson, J.R., Norris, B.J., Clarke, T., Mills, A. (eds). People and Rail Systems: Human Factors at the Heart of the Railway. Ashgate Publishing: Abingdon, UK. pp. 275-286.
  • Donohew, B.E., Griffin, M.J. (2007) Low frequency motions and motion sickness on a tilting train. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp. 125-134.
  • Fletcher, D.I., Hyde, P., Kapoor, A. (2007) Investigating fluid penetration of rolling contact fatigue cracks in rails using a newly developed full-scale test facility. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp. 35-44.
  • Franklin, F.J., Kapoor, A. (2007). Modelling wear and crack initiation in rails. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp. 23-34.
  • Garnham, J.E., Franklin, F.J., Fletcher, D.I., Kapoor, A., Davis, C.L. (2007). Predicting the life of steel rails. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp.45-58.
  • Hillmansen, S., Robert, C. (2007) Energy storage devices in hybrid railway vehicles: a kinematic analysis. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp. 135-144.
  • Hsu, S.S., Huang, Z.Y., Iwnicki, S.D., Thompson, D.J., Jones, C.J.C., Xie, G., Allen, P.D. (2007). Experimental and theoretical investigation of railway wheel squeal. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp. 59-74.
  • Powrie, W., Yang, L.A., Clayton, C.R.I. (2007). Stress changes in the ground below ballasted railway track during train passage. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-2 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp. 247-262.
  • Preston, J., Armstrong, J., Bouch, C.J., Goodman, C.J, Weston, P., Takagi, R. (2007). Decision Support System for Dynamic Re-scheduling of Trains under Disturbance. 11th World Conference on Transport Research, Berkeley, California, 2007.
  • Smith, R.A., Hatano, L., Hillmansen, S. (2007). International Railway Comparisons. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp. 117-124.
  • Weston, P.F., Ling, C.S., Goodman, C.J., Roberts, C., Li, P., Goodall, R.M. (2007) Monitoring lateral track irregularity from in-service railway vehicles. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp. 89-100.
  • Weston, P.F., Ling, C.S., Roberts, C.,Goodman, C.J., Li, P., Goodall, R.M. (2007) Monitoring vertical track irregularity from in-service railway vehicles. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp. 75-88.
  • Wilson, J.R., Farrington-Darby, T., Cox, G., Bye, R., Hockey, G.R.J. (2007). The railway as a soci-technical system: human factors at the heart of successful railway engineering. Proc. IMechE Vol. 221-1 Part F: J. of Rail & Rapid Transit. pp.101-116.
  • Wilson, J.R., Norris, B.J., Clarke, T., Mills, A. (eds). (2007). People and Rail Systems: Human Factors at the Heart of the Railway. Ashgate Publishing: Abingdon, UK.
  • Burrow, M.P.N., Evdorides, H.T., Ghataora, G.S., Gunn D.A. (2006). A Comparative Analysis of Railway Foundation Design Principles: A Case Study. Railway founations, RailFound 06, proceedings of the first international conference on railway foundations. University of Birmingham, UK. pp 316 -327.
  • Bye, R., Hockey, G.R.J. (2006). A cognitive analysis of train driver information requirements. In D. de Waard, K.A. Brookhuis & A. Toffetti (Eds), Developments in Human Factors in Transportation, Design and Evaluation, pp 73-86. Maastricht, The Netherlands: Shaker Publishing.
  • Bye, R., Naweed, A. (2006). Enhanced decision support systems for train drivers. HFES European Chapter Meeting, 8-10 November 2006, Sheffield.
  • Clayton, C.R.I., Grabe, H., Powrie, W. (2006). Ground Investigations and Monitoring for Track Formation Problems. Railway founations, RailFound 06, proceedings of the first international conference on railway foundations. University of Birmingham, UK. pp 1 -22.
  • Donohew,B.E. (2006). Motion sickness with lateral and roll oscillation. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.
  • Farrington-Darby, T., Wilson, J.R., Clarke, T. (2006). The nature of expertise: A review. Applied Ergonomics, 37 (1) p.17-32.
  • Fletcher, D.I., Hyde, P., Kapoor, A. (2006). Modelling and full scale trials to investigate fluid pressurisation of rolling contact fatigue cracks. Contact Mechanics of Rail Wheel Systems (CM2006), Brisbane, Australia, Sept 2006.
  • Fletcher, D.I., Kapoor, A. (2006). A rapid method of stress intensity factor calculation for semi-elliptical surface breaking crack under elliptical contact loading. Proceedings of the IMechE Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, Volume 220, Number 3, 2006, pp. 219-234.
  • Franklin, F.J., Garnham, J.E., Fletcher, D.I., Kapoor, A., Davis, C.L. (2006). Modelling Rail Steel Microstructure and its Effect on Wear and Crack Initiation. Contact Mechanics of Rail Wheel Systems (CM2006), Brisbane, Australia, Sept 2006.
  • Garnham, J.E., Davis, C.L. (2006). Rolling contact fatigue initiation in pearlitic rail steels. Contact Mechanics of Rail Wheel Systems (CM2006), Brisbane, Australia, Sept 2006. (Refereed)
  • Ghataora, G.S, Burns, B., Burrow, M.P.N., Evdorides, H.T. (2006). Development of an index test for assessing anti-pumping materials in railway track foundations. Railway foundations, RailFound 06, proceedings of the first international conference on railway foundations. University of Birmingham, UK. pp 355 -366.
  • Ghataora, G.S., Burrow M.P.N. (Editors) (2006). Railway Foundations. RailFound 06, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Railway Foundations. University of Birmingham Press. ISBN 0704426005 / 9780704426009.
  • Goodman, C. J., Roberts, C., Takagi R. (2006). Optimization of Train Departure Times at an Interchange Considering Passenger Flows. Proceedings of the I Mech E Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, Volume 220 Number 2 2006, pp113 – 120.
  • Goodman, C. J., Takagi, R., Weston, P., Bouch, C. J. (2006). Optimal Train Control at a Junction in the Main Line Railway Network using a New Object-oriented Signalling System Model. COMPRAIL, Prague, June 2006 pp. 479 - 488.
  • Goodman, C. J., Weston, P., Takagi, R., Bouch, C. J., Armstrong, J., Preston, J. (2006). Minimising Train Delay in a Mixed-Traffic Railway Network with consideration of Passenger Delay. WCRR, Montreal 2006.
  • Gunn, D.A., Nelder, L.M., Chambers, J.E., Raines, M.R., Reeves, H.J., Boon, D., Pearson, S., Haslam, E., Carney, J., Stirling, A.B., Ghataora, G.S., Burrow, M.P.N., Tinsley, R.D., Tinsley, W.H., Tilden-Smith, R. (2006). Assessment of railway embankment stiffness using continuous surface waves. Railway Foundations, RailFound 06, proceedings of the first international conference on railway foundations. University of Birmingham, UK. pp 94 - 106.
  • Gunn, D.A.1, Nelder, L.M.1, Ghataora, G.S, Stirling, A.B., Konstantelias, S., Burrow, M.P.N. (2006). Geophysical properties of the railway subgrade at a site in Leominster. Journal of the Permanent Way Institution, 124, (3), 131-135, July 2006.
  • Huang, S., An, M., Burrow, M.P.N., Ghataora, G.S., Baker, C.J. (2006). A Potential Application of the Fuzzy Reasoning Approach to Railway Foundation Maintenance. Railway Foundations , RailFound 06, proceedings of the first international conference on railway foundations. University of Birmingham, UK. pp 134 - 151.
  • Huang, Z.Y., Thompson, D.J., Jones, C.J.C. (2006). A general model for wheel/rail curve squeal. Proc. 9th International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics, Southampton, paper 34, 11pp.
  • Joseph, J.A. (2006). Effect of the magnitude of 0.2 Hz roll oscillation on motion sickness. Presented at the 41st United Kingdom Group Meeting on Human Responses to Vibration, held at QinetiQ, Farnborough, Hampshire, England, 20 – 22 September 2006.
  • Monk-Steel, A.D., Thompson, D.J., de Beer, F.G., Janssens, M.H.A. (2006). An investigation into the influence of longitudinal creepage on railway squeal noise due to lateral creepage. Journal of Sound and Vibration 293, 766-776.
  • Nash, C.A. (2006). Financing passenger services: learning from franchising experience, invited speaker presentation given at The Institute of Economic Affairs’ 5th Annual Conference: The Future of UK Rail.
  • Nawayseh, N., Griffin,M.J. (2006). Effect of frequency, magnitude and direction of translational and rotational oscillation on the postural stability of standing people. Journal of Sound and Vibration 298. pp. 725–754.
  • Powrie, W. (2006). RRUK and Track Systems Research. Railway founations, RailFound 06, proceedings of the first international conference on railway foundations. University of Birmingham, UK. pp 187 -189.
  • Sheng, X., Thompson, D.J., Jones, C.J.C., Xie, G., Iwnicki, S.D., Allen, P.D., Hsu, S.S. (2006). Simulations of roughness growth on railway rails. Journal of Sound and Vibration 293, pp. 819-829.
  • Smith A.S.J. (2006). The successes and failures of franchising policy in the UK rail industry and what we can learn from them. Invited speaker presentation given at the Waterfront Conference, ‘Rail and Competition Policy: The Future of Franchising and Open Access’ July 2006.
  • Takagi, R., Bouch, C. J., Weston, P., Goodman, C. J., Armstrong, J. (2006). An Object-oriented Signalling System Model for the Study of Delay Minimisation by On-line Train Control. IRSE Aspect 2006, London, UK.
  • Thomas, A.M., Lim, H.M., Metje, N., Rogers, C.D.F., Chapman, D.N., Atkins, P.R. (2006). The Complexity of GPR Data Interpretation in Railway Foundation Surveys, Railway Foundations, RailFound06, proceedings of the first international conference on railway foundations. University of Birmingham, UK. pp 48 - 61.
  • Wardman, M. (2006). Demand for Rail Travel and the Effects of External Factors. Transportation Research E, 42(3) 129-148.
  • Wheat, P.E., Smith, A.S.J. (2006). Assessing the marginal infrastructure wear and tear costs for Great Britain’s railway network. European Transport Conference September 2006.
  • Widiyarta, I.M., Franklin, F.J., Kapoor, A. Modelling thermal effects in ratcheting-led wear and rolling contact fatigue. Contact Mechanics of Rail Wheel Systems (CM2006), Brisbane, Australia, Sept 2006.
  • Wilson, J.R., Norris, B.J. (2006). Editorial for special issue on rail human factors. Cognition Technology and Work, 8, pp. 2-3.
  • Wilson, J.R., Norris, B.J. (2006). Human factors in support of a successful railway. Cognition Technology and Work, 8, pp. 4-14.
  • Xie, G., Iwnicki, S.D. (2006). Calculation of wear on a corrugated rail using a three-dimensional contact model. CM2006 Brisbane.
  • Armstrong, J. (2005). Rail Journey Recovery Following an Incident. Eng.D. thesis, University of Southampton, 2005.
  • Armstrong, J., McDonald, M. (2005). The Application of Scheduling Techniques to Train Regulation.4th IMA International Conference on Mathematics in Transport, London, UK, 7th to 9th September 2005.
  • Blanchard, A. (2005). Measurement of railway curve squeal noise on ISVR’s 1/5 scale railway. MSc dissertation, ISVR, University of Southampton.
  • Bowness, D., Lock, A.C., Richards, D.J., Powrie, W. (2005). Innovative remote video monitoring of railway track displacements. Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol 3-4. pp. 417-4223.
  • Bowness, D., Powrie, W., Clayton, C.R.I. (2005). Formation dancing: factors affecting railway trackbed. Ground Engineering, 38 (5), 30-33, ISSN 0017-4653. Reproduced by kind permission of Ground Engineering.
  • Burrow, M.P.N., Ghataora, G.S., Stirling, A.B.S. (2005). A rational approach to track substructure design. Railway Track Integration Conference, Derby, U.K, 25-26 November 2005.
  • Bye, R., Farrington-Darby, T., Cox, G., Hockey, G.R.J., Wilson, J.R., Clarke, T. (2005). Grounding research: From work analysis to a macrocognitive representation of integrated rail operations. Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Rail Human Factors, 21-23 November 2005, London.
  • Bye, R., Hockey, G.R.J. (2005). A cognitive analysis of train driver information requirements. Proceedings of the HFES European Chapter Meeting, 26-28 October 2005, Torino.
  • Cox, G., Farrington-Darby, T., Bye, R. (2005). From the horses mouth: The contribution of subject matter experts (SMEs) to rail research. Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Rail Human Factors, 21-23 November 2005, London.
  • Crockett, J., Hounsell, N.B. (2005). Role of the Travel Factor Convenience in Rail Travel and a Framework for its Assessment. Transport Reviews, 25(5), pp. 535-555.
  • Eden, H.K., Garnham, J.E., Davis, C.L. (2005). Influential Microstructural Changes on RCF Crack Initiation in Pearlitic Rail Steels, Mats Sci and Tech. 2005, Vol. 21, No 6, pp 1-7.
  • Farrington-Darby, T., Wilson, J. R., Norris, B. J. (2005). Investigating train driver behaviour- the use of lineside information when regulating speed. In: J.R. Wilson,
  • B.J. Norris, T. Clarke & A Mills (Eds.) Rail Human Factors: Supporting the integrated railway. Ashgate Publishing: Abingdon, UK. pp. 60-69.
  • Hatano, L., (2005) The international benchmarking project. Railway Strategies, Issue 28, Hartford Publications Ltd. Essex, ISSN 1467-0399. pp. 70-72.
  • Kapoor, A., Fletcher, D.I., Franklin, F.J., Vasic, G., Smith, L. (2005). New Developments In Rail-Wheel Contact Research At The University Of Newcastle. Proc 11th International Conference on Fracture (ICF11), Turin, Italy, March 20-25, 2005.
  • McDonald, M., Armstrong, J. (2005). The Vulnerability of Rail Operations to Disruptive Incidents and a Proposed Framework for addressing the Issue. 1st International Seminar on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis, The Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, June 2005.
  • Naito, S., Burrow M.P.N., Madelin, K.B. (2005). The development of a network level railway track condition model. Railway Engineering 2005, London, U.K.
  • Priest, J.A., Bowness, D., Clayton, C.R.I., Powrie, W., Richards D. J., Gräbe, P. J., Maree, J. S. (2005). Instrumentation testing and geophysics on the Richards Bay coal line, South Africa, Railway Engineering 2005, London, U.K.
  • Sheng, X., Jones, C.J.C., Thompson, D.J. (2005). Responses of infinite periodic structures to moving or stationary harmonic loads. Journal of Sound and Vibration 282, 125-149. ISSN 0022-460X.
  • Smith A.S.J. (2005). Capital Efficiency, Its Measurement and Its Role in Regulatory Reviews of Utility Industries: The Case of Rail. Invited speaker presentation given at a London Business School Conference, ‘Capital Efficiency, Its Measurement and Its Role in Regulatory Reviews of Utility Industries’ June 2005, as part of their ‘Regulation Initiative’ series of Conferences.
  • Whelan, G.A., Wardman, M.R., Lythgoe, W. (2005). Examining the influence of station catchment areas on the demand for rail travel. Presented to the European Transport Conference, Strasbourg.
  • Wilson, J. R., Norris, B.J. (2005). Rail Human Factors: Past, Present and Future. In: Wilson, J.R., Norris, B.J., Clarke, T., Mills, A. (Eds.) Rail Human Factors: Supporting the integrated railway. Ashgate Publishing: Abingdon, UK. 3-12.
  • Wilson, J.R., Norris, B.J. (2005). Rail human factors: past present and future. Applied Ergonomics, 36, pp. 649-660.
  • Wilson, J.R., Norris, B.J., Clarke, T., Mills, A. (eds). (2005). Rail Human Factors: Supporting the Integrated Railway. Ashgate Publishing: Abingdon, UK.
  • Xie, G., Allen, P.D., Iwnicki, S.D., Alonso, A., Thompson, D.J., Jones, C.J.C., Huang, Z.Y. (2005). The introduction of falling friction coefficients into curving calculations for studying curve squeal noise. 19th IAVSD Conference, Milan, Aug 2005.
  • Yang, L., Clayton, C.R.I., Powrie, W., Bowness, D. (2005). Preliminary investigations into the effect of principal stress rotation on railway subgrade behaviour. Railway Engineering 2005, London, U.K.
  • Burrow, M.P.N., Ghataora, G.S., Bowness, D. (2004). Analytical track substructure design. ISSMGE TC3 International Seminar on Geotechnics in Pavement and Railway Design and Construction NTUA - Athens, 16-17 December 2004.
  • Burrow, M.P.N., Ghataora, G.S., Stirling, A.B., Madelin, K.B., Konstantelias, S., Kingham. P., Bowness, D., Powrie, W. (2004). Track subbase monitoring and performance. Railway Engineering 2004, London, U.K.
  • Donohew, B.E., Griffin,M.J. (2004). Motion Sickness: Effect of the frequency of lateral oscillation. Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 75, No. 8, August 2004.
  • Goodman, C. J., Roberts, C., Takagi, R. (2004). Optimising Departure Times at a Transport Interchange to improve Connections when Services are disrupted. COMPRAIL, Dresden, Germany, May 2004, pp707 – 714.
  • Goodman, C. J., Takagi, R. (2004). Dynamic rescheduling of Trains after Disruption. COMPRAIL, Dresden, Germany, May 2004, pp707 – 714.
  • Hatano, L. (2004). Complexity versus Choice: UK Rail Fares. Japan Rail and Transportation Review No. 37, January 2004, pp.26 - 34.
  • Howarth, H.V.C. (2004). A comparison of standardised methods of evaluating rail vehicle vibration with respect to passenger discomfort. Published in: Proceedings of the 39th UK Conference on Human Response to Vibration, held at Ludlow, Shropshire, England, 15 - 17 September 2004.
  • Janssens, M.H.A., Monk-Steel, A. (2004). Test of friction modifiers for squeal noise abatement using the TNO roller rig for squeal noise studies. TNO contract report DGT-RPT-040037.
  • Monk-Steel, A.D., Thompson, D.J., de Beer, F.G., Janssens, M.H.A. (2004). An investigation into the influence of longitudinal creepage on railway squeal noise due to lateral creepage. Proc. Eighth International Workshop on Railway Noise, Buxton, 711-720.
  • Sheng, X., Thompson, D.J., Jones, C.J.C. (2004). Interactions between a moving wheel and a periodically supported rail. Proc. Institute of Acoustics 26(2), 80 – 91. ISSN 0309-8117
  • Sheng, X., Thompson, D.J., Jones, C.J.C. (2004). Interactions between multiple moving wheels and a railway track. ISVR Technical Memorandum 930.
  • Sheng, X., Thompson, D.J., Jones, C.J.C. (2004). Modelling rail roughness growth on tangent tracks. ISVR Technical Memorandum 929.
  • Sheng, X., Thompson, D.J., Jones, C.J.C., Xie, G., Iwnicki, S.D., Allen, P.D., Hsu, S.S. (2004). Simulations of roughness growth on railway rails. Proc. Eighth International Workshop on Railway Noise, Buxton, England, Sept 2004, pp. 333-344.
  • Thompson, D.J., Jones, C.J.C. (2004). Noise and vibration. Freight Transport Review, Autumn 2004, 91-92. ISSN 1474-6506.
  • Wardman, M., Whelan, G. (2004). Estimating the Effects of Service Quality Changes on the Demand for Rail Travel. Paper presented at AET European Transport Conference.
  • Donohew, B.E., Griffin, MJ., Quétin, F., Gautier, P-E., Cléon, L-M. (2003). Predicting motion sickness on tilting-trains - Application to field test results with the experimental tilting TGV. Proceedings from the World Congress on Railway Research, held at Edinburgh International Conference Centre, 28th September- 1st October 2003.
  • Powrie, W., Bowness, D. (2003). RRUK – a new start for track systems research. Eur Railway Review 2003, Issue 3, 57-61. ISSN 1351-1599
  • Takagi, R., Goodman, C. J., Roberts, C. (2003). Modelling Passenger Flows at a Transport Interchange using Petri Nets. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Volume 217, Part F, July 2003, pp 125 – 134.

 
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