A team from the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education has won the IMechE Railway Division Prize (WA Agnew Meritorious/ CN Goodall Award Prize) 2011 for their paper, 'Real-Time Train Re-Scheduling in Junction Areas'.

The team led by Professor Felix Schmid, of the School of Civil Engineering, comprised Professor Clive Roberts, of the School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering,  Lei Chen, Meena Dasigi, and Professors Ning and Tang from Beijing.