Clean transport research

We are challenging the transport sector’s existing technologies, processes and practices, changing how transport is designed, delivered and used for future generations. Our research ranges from vehicles, fuel and recycling to how we design and construct our cities and their transport routes. 

Research highlights

• Led by the Institute of Applied Health Research, the TRANSITION Clean Air Network is a undertaking innovative research to address emerging indoor/outdoor air quality challenges across UK surface transport. 
• Our research has helped to improve decision making in the Winter Road Maintenance sector by deploying dense networks of low-cost sensors that are being used by highway departments across the UK and northern Europe. 
• Highways and Transportation research at the University of Birmingham includes research into materials, road usage and highway design, through to sustainable transport, railway engineering, energy efficiency and risk management. 
• From training engineers to developing world-leading technologies, the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education collaborates with industry and academia to drive UK and global rail innovation.