Wednesday, 28 July 2010 10:52

Northern Maritime University extension

Two years of continued project funding have been secured from the EU Interreg North Sea Region Secretariat by TRI's Professor Kevin Cullinane and Gordon Wilmsmeier.

The "Northern Maritime University" (NMU) project has been given a two year extension period thanks to the funding. The extension of the project has been driven by dialogue and feedback from stakeholders in the maritime industry about the formation of a transnational network of universities in the North Sea Region (NSR). The existing expertise of international partners in the NSR will be pooled to provide multidisciplinary and internationally oriented qualifications.

Industry representatives and stakeholders have responded very positively to the NMU approach and the intensive discussion with stakeholders has revealed new strategic needs regarding education, specifically for the maritime sector in the North Sea Region. The total funding this project has now received is €4.9m and will hopefully go a long way to meeting the demands of the maritime industry.

Professor Kevin Cullinane said: "It's great to win yet another pot of research funding from the EU's Interreg (North Sea Region) programme. This is the fifth TRI project to be supported by this form of structural funding in the past three years, with TRI having gained recognition from the Interreg Secretariat, through the hard work of Gordon Wilmsmeier and Yakov Boglev in particular, as a benchmark for best practice in leading and managing such projects."

Further information on the project is available at:

• Official NMU website
• NMU - TRI project summary

Thursday, 24 June 2010 13:47

10th Annual Scottish Statistics Seminar

The 10th Annual Scottish Statistics Seminar of the Transport Research Institute and Transport Statistics Users' Group was held on Wednesday 28th April 2010 at the Merchiston campus of Edinburgh Napier University. Please follow the links below to download a copy of the presentations given on the day.

Presentations from:

• Eric Ling, Senior Analyst - Surface Transport, Committee on Climate Change (PDF)
• Carol Ann Munn, Statistician, Transport Analytical Services, Scottish Government (PDF)
• Dr David Connolly, MVA Consultancy (PDF)

Monday, 14 June 2010 09:32

Controlling Transport Emissions: TRI Keynote Speaker

The Engineering Policy Group Scotland (EPGS) will be running a forum at the Scottish Parliament on the topic of Controlling Transport Emissions. The keynote speaker at the event will be TRI's Gordon Wilmsmeier. The EPGS is a joint initiative of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Engineering & Technology, and the Institute of Physics. The EPGS aims to present MSPs with the views of the wider engineering community on the major issues that will impact people's lives in the future.

Event Details:

Time: Wednesday, 23rd June 2010, from 17:30 to 20:00
Address: Committee Room 1, Scottish Parliament, Holyrood, EH99 1SP
Chair: Iain Smith, MSP Chairman Enterprise, Energy, Tourism Committee


Important Information!
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Thursday, 10 June 2010 00:00

TRI Chairman's lecture 8th June 2010

TRI Chairman’s lecture, Tuesday 8th June 2010:

Low carbon vehicles – prospects and reality

Dr David Quarmby, Chairman of the Transport Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University

City Chambers, High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1YJ

Tuesday 8^th June, 4.30pm to 7.30pm

The inaugural TRI Chairman’s lecture took place on Tuesday 8^th June 2010 at the City Chambers, High Street, Edinburgh.

Dr David Quarmby, TRI Chairman, spoke on the very important subject of “Low carbon vehicles – prospects and reality” and his lecture was followed by a Q & A session. 

To download the presenation and lecture, please follow this link.

Wednesday, 09 June 2010 16:02

UK DRT Portal

A UK DRT Management Portal

Edinburgh Napier University is pleased to be working with Mobisoft, the University of Aberdeen, and Quotient Associates on a major new project to simplify how Demand Responsive Transport is offered and booked. 

Although Demand Responsive Transport (DRT - shared door to door public transport from bus services to Taxis) has developed in a number of urban and rural areas, solutions are local with no mechanism to offer services further afield - for example if you wish to book DRT in Cornwall, does it exist? 

Also, transport providers, particularly smaller ones, cannot offer their services to the users easily, even though demand and spare capacity exist, as they cannot afford to invest in advanced scheduling systems. 

A DRT Management Portal will match the demand for shared transport to the supply and allow passengers to actually book transport in real time. A trial will demonstrate how existing operators can interface to their current systems and new, smaller, operators can offer their services directly. 

The project will show how such an approach can remove the barriers to shared travel. 

"We wish to offer new forms of flexible transport that people will actually use, by making it easy for them to use it" says Jeff Duffell the UK Operations Director with Mobisoft.

 

Further information is available from:

Dr. James Cooper

Tel: +44 (0)131 208 1055

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Friday, 04 June 2010 13:48

Port Strategy: Dryport article published

Today saw the publication of an article entitled "Ticking the E Boxes" in the online publication Port Strategy. The artilce focuses on the operation and potential impacts of dryports on the shipping industry, and the maritime field more generally.

TRI's Dr Jason Monios, who works on the Interreg IVb funded project "Dryport", was quoted in the article:

"The primary motive of shippers is to reduce cost, whereas governments want to encourage modal shift, so projects like Dryport are needed to bridge the gap, bringing together shippers, transport operators, infrastructure providers and funding sources to support and manage project development," says Jason Monios, research assistant at TRI. "There is a bit of a chicken and egg problem, because shippers are reluctant to reorder their transport chains unless they have a secure and cost-effective option already in place, but operators will not provide this option unless they have shippers ready to use it.

TRI is working in partnership with SEStran, the South East of Scotland Transport Partnership, on the Dryport project. The full article can be accessed by following this link.

For further information on the Dryport project:

• Contact Gordon Wilmsmeier or Jason Monios;
• See our Projects section for news on the Dryport project;
• Visit the official website of the Dryport project.