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 feesAlumni 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 £12,000London 10th Anniversary Award
£5,000 off tuition fees.
Up to £5,000Loughborough 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 feesQatari 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
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Loughborough University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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