Our university partners are internationally respected for their research expertise in specialisms including sustainable transport, energy, digital twinning, engineering and policy development.
The eight universities in the TransiT hub are centres of expertise in core project areas:
- Heriot-Watt University – logistics and freight – including the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight and The Centre for Logistics and Sustainability.
- University of Glasgow – digital twinning and cyber physical systems – including the university’s research groups in Energy and Sustainability and Communication, Sensing and Imaging.
- University of Leeds – transport decarbonisation policy development – including the university’s Institute for Transport Studies, one of the UK’s leading departments for transport teaching and research.
- University of Birmingham – rail – including the university’s Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education, one of largest centres of its kind.
- Cranfield University – aviation – including the university’s globally-recognised Centre for Digital Engineering and Manufacturing.
- University College London – maritime – including the shipping research group at the university’s UCL Energy Institute.
- University of Cambridge – road freight – including the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, a collaboration between Cambridge, Heriot-Watt and Westminster universities with industry and government partners.
- Durham University – engineering of public transport systems – including work on hydrogen transportation in the Durham Energy Institute.