Staff profile

Chapter in book

• Steele, H., & Roberts, C. (2022). Towards a sustainable digital railway. In S. Blainey, & J. Preston (Eds.), Sustainable Railway Engineering and Operations (Transport and Sustainability) (239-263). https://doi.org/10.1108/S2044-994120220000014014

Conference Paper

• Hamid, H. A., Nicholson, G. L., Douglas, H., Zhao, N., & Roberts, C. (2016, August). Investigation into train positioning systems for saving energy with optimised train trajectories. Presented at 2016 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, ICIRT 2016, Birmingham
• Douglas, H., Schmid, F., Roberts, C., & Hillmansen, S. (2016, August). Evaluation of Permanent Magnet Motor energy saving technology for different types of railways. Presented at 2016 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, ICIRT 2016, Birmingham
• Douglas, H., Roberts, C., & Hillmansen, S. (2016, May). Optimising energy saving in metro systems through characteristic evaluation. Presented at International Conference on Railway Engineering (ICRE 2016), Brussels

Journal Article

• Steele, H., Roberts, C., & Hillmansen, S. (2019). Railway smart grids: Drivers, benefits and challenges. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 233(5), 526-536. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954409718800523
• Douglas, H., Weston, P., Kirkwood, D., Hillmansen, S., & Roberts, C. (2017). Method for validating the train motion equations used for passenger rail vehicle simulation. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 231(4), 455-469. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954409716631784
• Douglas, H., Roberts, C., & Hillmansen, S. (2016). Method to evaluate solutions for complex systems: Rail energy. Transport, 169(5), 283-297. https://doi.org/10.1680/jtran.16.00017
• Douglas, H., Roberts, C., Hillmansen, S., & Schmid, F. (2015). An assessment of available measures to reduce traction energy use in railway networks. Energy Conversion and Management, 106, 1149-1165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2015.10.053