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Dr Neil S Ferguson teaches transport planning and engineering at the University of Strathclyde.  His research interests encompass understanding, modelling and predicting travel behaviour, the role of land use regulation on travel and location choice and the link between accessibility and health/quality of life.  Dr Ferguson obtained his first degree in civil engineering from the University of Strathclyde and received his PhD in transport engineering from the University of Strathclyde in 1998.  He is a chartered engineer and member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and he currently chairs the Scottish Transport Group - a special interest group affiliated to ICE Scotland.

Dr Ferguson has expertise in quantitative and qualitative choice analysis and GIS applications for transportation.  He has explored links between dimensions of urban form and patterns of travel using multiple regression and multilevel models.  In 2003 he was awarded an EPSRC grant (GR/S20529/01) as part of the CityForm Consortium (http://www.city-form.org/).  The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of urban from on travel behaviour.  As part of this project, a multi-modal model incorporating road and public transport networks (bus, rail and underground systems) was created for Glasgow within TransCAD GIS software using Ordnance Survey Integrated Transport Network Layer data and public transport schedules.  This model enabled point-to-point travel times and distances to be estimated.  This work was extended and enhanced under an MRC grant (G0701942) to encompass the whole of Scotland and with the inclusion of additional transport network attributes.  The model incorporates public transport routes and schedules and also has a range of advanced features such as turning delays at junctions, public transport access and egress times (walk and car) and interchange penalties.