Imperial College London’s Centre for Transport Engineering and Modelling (CTEM) is a research and teaching unit based in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at South Kensington in London. The centre focuses on transport engineering, planning, operations and management, together with geomatic engineering and surveying. Its work sits at the intersection of academic research, professional training and applied transport analysis.
CTEM runs the MSc in Transport and an active PhD programme, alongside undergraduate teaching in transport-related subjects. The centre says its research programme attracts significant external funding from industrial and government sources, indicating a strong applied dimension to its work. The centre is headed by Professor Dan Graham.
A major part of the centre’s activity is organised through specialist groups and labs under the transport engineering umbrella, including the Transport Strategy Centre, the ISIM Group, the Transport Risk Management Centre, PORTeC, the Transport & Environment Lab, and Transport Systems and Logistics. Among these, the Transport Strategy Centre has an especially visible international role. It focuses on benchmarking, performance measurement, urban and regional transport operations and management, and transport economics and policy. It works with more than 100 public transport and airport operators worldwide and manages nine benchmarking groups across aviation, bus, light rail, metro and rail.
The centre’s practical footprint is global rather than local: its research and consultancy work supports operators and public bodies in multiple transport sectors, while its teaching remains anchored in London. In short, CTEM combines academic research, postgraduate education and international transport benchmarking from one of Europe’s leading engineering universities.