RRUKA Call for Research - Rail Research UK Association (RRUKA)

RRUKA
Call for Research:
Faster, Safer, Better
Boarding and Alighting
Information day:
26 May 2016
RSSB Offices,
London
RRUKA
RAIL RESEARCH
UK ASSOCIATION
Up to £500,000 available for academic-led
feasibility studies to identify novel solutions that
will improve the Platform Train Interface (PTI)
RSSB is making up to £500,000 available for academic-led feasibility
studies to identify novel solutions that will improve the Platform Train
Interface (PTI) enabling reduced dwell times whilst catering for increased
capacity and maintaining or reducing safety risk.
This competition will invite proposals focused on one of two main
challenge areas:
• Influencing and improving
passenger behaviour at the PTI
• Future PTI design for faster and
safer boarding and alighting
How can we influence passenger
behaviour at or around the PTI
to encourage speedier and safer
boarding and alighting of trains
(with minimal or no changes
to current infrastructure and
rolling stock)?
How would changes to the design
of the physical elements that shape
the PTI enable speedier and safer
boarding and alighting in the context
of increased demand over the next
30 years?
Key Dates
For more information, visit:
www.rruka.org.uk/events
Call document available: w/c 25 April 2016
Information day: 26 May 2016
Proposals due: 1 August 2016
Winning bids announced:
September 2016
or email:
rruka@rssb.co.uk
Projects due to start: October 2016
#rrukaPTI
Applications are welcome from academics of all relevant disciplines