Loughborough University

Resilient Intelligent Traffic Systems with Learning Optimisation and Chance Constraints

Loughborough UniversityLoughborough, United Kingdom

Course overview

This project develops learning-driven and optimisation-based methods to keep cities moving under disruption, with a core focus on chance-constrained optimisation for risk-aware decision making. You will build calibrated digital twins of urban corridors and highways and co-design prediction, control, and contingency policies for signals, routing, depots, and EV charging. Methods may include graph neural networks for network-state estimation, multiagent reinforcement learning for cooperative control, Bayesian and causal tools for uncertainty handling, evolutionary and quality-diversity search to generate robust policy portfolios, and risk-sensitive formulations (violation probabilities, quantile/CVaR objectives, distributionally robust models) to guarantee service levels under stochastic demand, incidents, and weather.

94% of Loughborough’s research impact is rated world-leading or internationally excellent. REF 2021

Key highlights

  • Core focus on chance-constrained optimisation for risk-aware decision making
  • Build calibrated digital twins of urban corridors and highways
  • Co-design control policies for signals, routing, depots and EV charging
  • Methods include graph neural networks and multiagent reinforcement learning
  • Bayesian, causal and distributionally robust tools for handling uncertainty
  • 94% of research impact rated world-leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021)

Entry requirements

  • Degree: 2:1 — or above

Scholarships

  • Alumni Bursary

    10% of tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.

    Up to 10% of fees
  • Alumni Discount

    UK students: £1,500 tuition fee discount for one academic year. International students: £3,000 tuition fee discount for one academic year.

  • Care Leaver's Scholarship

  • Excellence Scholarships

    UK students: £3,000 off tuition fees; International students: £6,000 off tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.

  • International Sports Student Postgraduate Bursary

    Our International Sports Student Postgraduate Bursary offers a £12,000 tuition fee discount (set against the tuition fees of your chosen postgraduate taught programme ONLY).

    Up to £12,000
  • London 10th Anniversary Award

    £5,000 off tuition fees.

    Up to £5,000
  • Loughborough Business School Scholarship

    £1,500 (UK students) and £3,000 (international students) off tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.

  • MBA Progress with Purpose Scholarship

    50% of tuition fees which will be credited to the student’s tuition fee account.

    Up to 50% of fees
  • Qatari Ghanim Al-Muftah Excellence Scholarship

Careers this course leads to

  • Transport Systems Research Scientist
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Machine Learning Engineer
  • Operations Research Scientist
  • Intelligent Transport Systems Engineer
  • Traffic Modelling Specialist

Cost of study

UK/Home: £5,238 | International: £23,100

Admission

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