Professor Nick Tyler CBE FREng is the Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering at UCL and the Director of the UCL Centre for Transport Studies. Nick conducts research into the application of engineering design to the urban environment, including the interactions with people and policy. He combines highly diverse fields in this research, from science and engineering through to performing arts and policy. To do this he has created a £50M massive (44,000m3) multiscale multisensorial Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory (PEARL) to allow him and his team to study the interactions of environments, people and their activities at life-scale. This approach is a new way of examining how people interact with the environment, using a combination of neuroscience, psychology, creative arts to inform the synthesisn of these results to create new ways of designing safe, accessible, aesthetic and effective pedestrian environments.
Recent research projects have included contributions to the design of the Thameslink services and trains, access for disabled people to the London Underground Victoria London, Thermal comfort on London Buses, redesign of buses for the Covid pandemic, creating Acoustic Vehicle Alert Systems for e-scooters, New Tube for London, Evaluation of digital signage for London Buses, and the investigation of urban environments for autistic people. Nick is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, and the Royal Society of Arts, was appointed CBE in 2011, and awarded the CIHT Institution Award in 2022.
In December 2023, Prof. Tyler will be invited for Joint Research on Design of human-centred urban mobility systems hosted by Prof. Koji Suzuki.
– Lecture at NITech 2023: Human Perception and the design of a humane city
– https://www.ucl.ac.uk/civil-environmental-geomatic-engineering/people/prof-nick-tyler
