Dr Anna Charly BTech MTech PhD MCIHT

Personal Statement

Dr Anna Charly is a Lecturer in Transport at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Liverpool. Her research experience lies in the critical area of safe and sustainable transportation, emphasising transport emission modelling, electric vehicle feasibility studies, proactive road safety evaluation, naturalistic driving studies, intelligent transport systems and human factors. She teaches first and second-year undergraduate students in Civil and Architectural Engineering and guides third-year undergraduate and MSc research projects.

Before joining the University of Liverpool, she was a Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, where she worked on the ambitious project Terrain-AI, funded by the Science Foundation of Ireland and Microsoft. She obtained her PhD and Master's in Civil Engineering, specialised in Transport, from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

She is a Member of the Chartered Institution of Highway and Transportation and holds an Interim Registration with the Engineering Council. She has been awarded the Academy of Medical Sciences Networking research grant for a collaborative research project on 'Evaluating Effectiveness of Lane Departure Warning Systems in Distracted Driving World' with the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

She has presented her research at several international conferences, including the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board held in Washington, DC, for multiple years. She has also published her work in journals of international repute, including Accident Analysis and Prevention, Transport Policy, Sustainable Cities and Society and Transportation Letters. She is an Editorial Board Member of Multimodal Transportation and is a peer reviewer of numerous international journals, including the Journal of Transport Geography, Energy Research & Social Science, Safety Science, Transportation Research Record, Humanities and Social Sciences and Transportation Letters.