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Over the last five years Gaist has built up a strong partnership with the University of York that has delivered a number of exciting research projects. The outcomes of this research has added new capabilities to Gaist and strengthened our overall offering to our customers.
Peter Cowling, Professor of Computer Science at the York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis has overseen the Universities collaboration with Gaist says,
"The University of York and Gaist Solutions Ltd. have worked together in four projects in recent years to conduct high impact research and development in which use the University of York's cutting edge models and algorithms for decision making and computer vision together with Gaist's equally cutting edge technologies for data capture, analysis and visualisation. The resulting systems have started to transform planning and policy on maintenance of publicly-owned assets, and the associated research has been published in leading scientific journals and conferences. Gaist Solutions approach is characterised by an open-minded critical appraisal of novel scientific approaches, matched with a pragmatic understanding of customer needs, making this an ideal partnership for research and impact."
Research by our world class people and links to world class Universities makes us, not only ahead of the game, but 'Game Changers'.
Innovation is easy to say but innovating takes time, effort, money and above all access to experts that have vision and most importantly understand what our customers want and need.
Gaist re-invests heavily into Research and Development and is involved in internationally recognised pioneering research work.
Deterioration Modelling
This research and development project, partially funded by the Technology Strategy Board, is looking at better ways to manage assets by more accurately modelling their deterioration and the effects of different treatments, in particular focusing on highways assets. With accurate deterioration models we can study the effect of different investment and treatment scenarios (and conversely the effect of under-investment) to provide the financial figures needed to prepare business cases for large scale investment. This work is underpinning the prudential borrowing done by some of our clients.
Our Current Research Projects
Dynamic Routing
This CASE PhD studentship is looking at novel ways to better solve real world dynamic routing and periodic maintenance problems. Problems such as gulley cleaning require a solution that is dynamic when applied in the real world. The state of the assets change constantly and the uncertainty of the state of an asset increases. The project focuses on building robust maintenance plans which seek to maximize the condition of the asset and minimize the risk to high priority or socially valuable assets.
This CASE PhD studentship is looking at novel ways to better solve real world dynamic routing and periodic maintenance problems. Problems such as gulley cleaning require a solution that is dynamic when applied in the real world. The state of the assets change constantly and the uncertainty of the state of an asset increases. The project focuses on building robust maintenance plans which seek to maximize the condition of the asset and minimize the risk to high priority or socially valuable assets.
