UCL has been working with London Underground Ltd and the train companies that run suburban services to/from London. One of its current projects on the railway operation is “Developing and Evaluating Optimisation for Train control Systems” where dynamic trajectory and traffic sequence optimisations are used to improve the junction capacity. Operational resilience is also an area of the research at UCL. Through RPUK-A, we aim to find industry partners so that the outputs of our research will be used in practice.

The UCL OMEGA Centre has been coordinating research into the planning, appraisal and delivery of ‘mega’ transport infrastructure projects around the world to identify “what constitutes a successful mega urban transport project?” Working in partnership with research institutions in nine other countries, the OMEGA Centre has been studying lessons from various projects such as the High Speed Line – Zuid (Netherlands), the Arlanda Rail Link (Sweden), the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (UK), and other rail/metro lines in USA, Japan, Germany, Hong Kong, Australia and Greece. The OMEGA Centre is currently focusing on collating and disseminating this experience through publications, CPD short courses and a new MSc course in Mega-Infrastructure Planning

Our experience of research on transport accessibility for elderly and disabled people is useful for the railway industry. Its research for the railway includes the investigation on platform humps (for London Underground Limited) and the investigation on the train dwell time (for Thameslink Programme, sponsored by the Department for Transport, for New Deep tube trains of London Underground)

GNSS introduction in the rail sector. Investigated a number of technical questions relating to safety critical GNSS applications, such as signalling, on the railways of Europe

Research activities focus on decision analytics and project management