Research strengths

Our research strengths span a broad range of topics within the specialisation of aviation, with聽work聽focused on聽the human side of the industry聽as well as聽more technical or logistical areas.聽
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Aviation & sustainability
Exploring聽the聽various聽ways聽that聽industry can expand its commitment to sustainable operations and developments聽for improved future outcomes.聽聽

Aviation consumers
Understanding the decisions that passengers make when determining where they'll聽fly, and how often they鈥檒l聽fly.

Aviation finance
Determining the variety of forces that influence the earnings of major aviation stakeholders, including airlines and airports, such as jet fuel prices and the state of the economy.

Aviation management
Maximising efficiencies and flow within various elements of the industry, such as airport terminals, airline scheduling and freight logistics.

Aviation meteorology
Collating and interpreting聽meteorological聽data from different regions, to聽understand the accuracy of weather forecast in planning a safe and optimal flight.

Aviation safety
Understanding the interaction between humans and systems, with the objective聽of聽enhancing聽safe operations.

Baggage handling
Analysing聽the logistics performance of new baggage handling concepts and聽minimising聽the environmental impact of baggage handling equipment.

Driver training
Improving pedagogical goals, objectives and outcomes聽for the betterment of the industry.聽

Ground operations
Minimising聽the聽environmental impact of aviation by optimising,聽for example,聽the gate allocation of aircraft and by using the Internet of Things and blockchain to optimise the dispatchment process of ground equipment.

Human factors
Understanding human capabilities, and applying this knowledge to improve聽safety, efficiency and wellbeing聽in aviation and road environments.

Injury outcomes
Examining injury outcomes of transport crashes, and particularly factors that contribute to serious injury crashes and strategies designed to prevent them.

Road safety
Understanding driver behaviour and the hazards and challenges they face. The focus is on聽safer聽roads,聽safer聽vehicles, and聽safer聽people聽鈥撀燼nd their integration into a Safe System in order聽to聽聽reduce聽the burden of road trauma.聽聽

Road vehicles
Exploring聽the role of vehicle type, quality and technology in road and transport safety outcomes.