Dr Marcelo Blumenfeld, Assistant Professor in Future Transport Systems talks about railways in the future of sustainable transport. On Monday, Prof Stuart Hillmansen highlighted the crucial role of railway systems in decarbonising transport and supporting the country towards its Net Zero strategy. The transport sector is responsible for around 25% of all global greenhouse gas … Continue reading “Railways in the future of sustainable transport”
Author: Karminder Johal
Unlocking future freight transport capability through vehicle aerodynamics
Dr David Soper Lecturer in Railway Aerodynamics at the University of Birmingham’s Railway Research and Education Centre talks about the safety, air quality, aerodynamics, fuel consumption and decarbonisation of rail freight. Our work in the field of vehicle aerodynamics extends far beyond the traditional view of automotive aerodynamics and matters of car performance. We consider … Continue reading “Unlocking future freight transport capability through vehicle aerodynamics”
The attraction of traction to decarbonise railways
Stuart Hillmansen, Professor in Railway Traction Systems at the University of Birmingham’s Railway Research and Education Centre provides his take on the importance of net-zero and how best to decarbonise the railways for #DecarbonisingTransportWeek In order to reach net zero, it is essential that Transport is decarbonised urgently. This week marks the Decarbonisation Transport Week, … Continue reading “The attraction of traction to decarbonise railways”
BCRRE debuts at Rail Solutions Asia with successful links
Marcelo Blumenfeld, Assistant Professor in Future Transport Systems at the University of Birmingham’s School of Engineering provides an overview of his trip to Malaysia and the successes that came from it. A few weeks ago (from the 22nd – 24th June) the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) debuted in its participation at … Continue reading “BCRRE debuts at Rail Solutions Asia with successful links”
Passenger Train Research for the RoofRider
Dr Hassan Hemida, Reader in Computational Mechanics at BCRRE talks in detail about his latest research on the aerodynamic impact of the RoofRider on a passenger train. Details on this impressive project below! The world’s premier location for the study of aerodynamic drag on trains is probably the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education … Continue reading “Passenger Train Research for the RoofRider”
DyanPan demonstrator: A novel solution for automated pantograph health inspection and testing
Dr Moussa Hamadache, Research Fellow in Mechatronic Systems for Railways at BCRRE talks about the success of a recent Railway Pantographs project. Railway pantographs, which are nowadays (with overhead wires) the dominant form of current collection for modern electric trains, have to be inspected on a period basis to make sure that they are … Continue reading “DyanPan demonstrator: A novel solution for automated pantograph health inspection and testing”
High Speed Rail Education Interchange 2020 – delivering a digital conference
Culminating a year that has required significant adaptation to new ways of working, BCRRE hosted our first ever online conference ‘High Speed Rail: Education Interchange’ from the 14-16th December 2020. Dr Heather Steele and Dr Holly Foss report on the conference. The three-day HSREI event brought together experts in academia and industry to share knowledge, … Continue reading “High Speed Rail Education Interchange 2020 – delivering a digital conference”
Good news and exciting times at BCRRE
Alex Burrows Director of BCRRE provides us with a piece on some good news. 2020 has provided some cheer for us all at BCRRE. We found out two days ago (Wednesday 25 November) that we had won the Guardian University Award 2020 for Business Collaboration for our work with Porterbrook on the HydroFLEX project, the … Continue reading “Good news and exciting times at BCRRE”
Resilience is key for UK businesses post-Brexit
By Rachel Eade MBE, FRSA, Supply Chain Lead at the Birmingham Centre of Rail Research and Education. Resilience has become a much used word in many contexts in the current pandemic be it, personal resilience, business resilience, NHS resilience or supply chain resilience. But what is a resilient business? “One that is able to … Continue reading “Resilience is key for UK businesses post-Brexit”
Welcome to the new home of BCRRE
Alex Burrows Director of BCRRE shares his thoughts on the new building and what we aim to achieve. We are delighted to share the news that our new purpose-built railway centre designed to deliver specialist research in railway systems engineering has opened on campus at the University of Birmingham. Our new home provides us with … Continue reading “Welcome to the new home of BCRRE”