EPSRC PhD in Civil Engineering - Using big data from mobility and social networks to reduce road casualties

Every day 3500 people die in road accidents worldwide. As a result, many countries have set a target of zero serious accidents by 2050. Despite widespread efforts, road accident rates are still falling significantly short of this figure. Mining large quantities of historical and emerging real-time data from new sources, can help identify trends using advanced statistical methods and techniques through high-performance cloud computing. Simultaneously, recent improvements in traffic simulation software and increasing availability of new modelling methods and techniques, can open up new ways to correlate traffic flows, congestion and accidents to improve road safety.