road PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Road safety is associated with target setting at policy making lever. Such targets are usually associated with statistical analysis of accident data.

Modelling shared road space: Quantitative examination of the operational and safety characteristics of shared road space types in the UK and Australia

Coventry University
Institute for Future Transport and Cities

Prof S Birrell, Dr A Debnath

Application Deadline: 22 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Coventry University (CU) is inviting applications from suitably-qualified graduates for a fully-funded PhD studentship. This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Modelling shared road space: Quantitative examination of the operational and safety characteristics of shared road space types in the UK and Australia

Deakin University
Coventry Deakin Cotutelle

Prof S Birrell, Dr A Debnath

Application Deadline: 22 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Coventry University (CU) is inviting applications from suitably-qualified graduates for a fully-funded PhD studentship. This PhD project is part of the Cotutelle arrangement between Coventry University, UK and Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Developing countermeasures for work-related road safety

Loughborough University
School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Dr M Quddus

Application Deadline: 7 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Application details. Reference. UKCRIC/Highways. Start date of studentship. October 2020. Closing date of advert. 7 June 2020. Interview date.

Adaptive optimisation of road transport infrastructure management

University of Birmingham
Department of Civil Engineering

Dr H Evdorides

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

A road transport system should aim to achieve a fair balance between safety, user satisfaction, condition, cost and the environment.

Modelling road development costs and benefits due to changes in agricultural and industrial outputs to support HDM4 analysis

University of Birmingham
Department of Civil Engineering

Dr H Evdorides

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Road development cost and benefits due to changes in agricultural and industrial outputs are not directly included in HDM4.

PhD Studentship Opportunity in Real time complex scene segmentation and prediction in urban environments

University of Surrey
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Prof R Bowden

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Semantic image segmentation describes the process of associating each pixel of an image with a class label (such as flower, person, road, sky etc).

The role of the road network on city economic performance

University of Sheffield
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Dr G Punzo

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but potential funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

This project aims at mapping the transport enabled connectivity of the city economy. Using traffic data from Sheffield City Council and insights from the census, this project will draw a picture of mobility within Sheffield an across the City Region.

Trust In Autonomous Vehicles

Brunel University London
Design

Prof J Giacomin

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Problem Statement. Several recent research studies have suggested that “lack of trust” is one of the major factors which is slowing the commercial introduction of autonomous vehicles.

Reducing Greenhouse Gases in Freight Transportation and Vehicle Routing Using Artificial Intelligence Methods (Advert Reference: SF19/BL/MOS/QU1)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Business and Law

Dr Y Qu, Prof C Cui

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Transportation is a significant contributor to greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and other harmful emissions such as nitrogen oxides.

Enhancing passenger safety through path planning and control of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles

Sheffield Hallam University
Materials and Engineering Research Institute

Dr B Lenzo, Dr A Holloway

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Research Area. Traffic-related fatalities are the eighth leading cause of death worldwide, ahead of HIV/AIDS, and the first leading cause of death for children and young adults between 5 and 29 years old.

The Development of New Models for the Prediction of Vehicle Brake Judder Under Transient Conditions

University of Bradford
Faculty of Engineering and Informatics

Research Group: Mechanical and Process Engineering

Dr D Bryant

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The increasing provision of regenerative braking on road vehicles will enable the friction brakes to be downsized, with an associated weight and cost saving, but their performance (torque generated, fade resistance, durability, pedal feel and resistance to the development of judder) must meet established user standards.

AI to the rescue of climate change, modelling air quality for cleaner urban planning

Anglia Ruskin University ARU
Department of Computing and Information Science

Research Group: Computing, Informatics and Applications Research Group

Dr L Babu Saheer, Dr J Zarrin

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Research Group. Computing, Informatics and Applications Research Group. https://auth-authoring-prod.anglia.ac.uk/science-and-engineering/research/institutes-and-groups/computing-informatics-and-applications.

Safety and Optimisation of Autonomous Vehicles

University of Bradford
Faculty of Engineering and Informatics

Research Group: Mechanical and Process Engineering

Dr JP Li

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

It is increasingly clear that a structured approach using artificial intelligence (AI) components operating within a framework of conventional logic will deliver autonomous vehicles (AVs), which have the potential to benefit the world by increasing traffic efficiency, reducing pollution and eliminating up to 90% of traffic accidents.

VC International Scholarship in Effective and Secure Traffic Monitoring for Air Quality Control and Situational Awareness for Well-being (eligibility criteria apply)

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics

Research Group: Complex Systems

Dr N Saxena, Prof P R Burnap

Application Deadline: 1 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but potential funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Many people living in developing countries face serious problems of poor air quality (AQ) due to vehicle traffic.