Guidelines on Standards and Procedures to enable Underground Freight Transport systems.

这个为期7个月的合作项目旨在确定设计、建造、运营和验证地下货运（UFT）系统所需的标准和程序指南。虽然UFT系统正在全球范围内得到积极和越来越多的考虑，但相关的特定SP尚未被确定、编译或发布。该项目的关键和颠覆性创新在于，它首次为新型UFT系统确定了SPs，该系统将定义未来的货运基础设施。UFT系统是21世纪比卡车更智能的货物运输方式。它们解决了政府提出的“未来交通”、“清洁增长”和“2050年零碳目标”的“重大挑战”，并与之保持一致。UFT货物在一个封闭的管道中自动移动，通常是在地下。与其他货运运输模式相比，它们具有重大的成本、社会环境和可持续性优势，并且在COVID-19等大流行期间，通过提供无人送货服务，它们将是有益的。设计原则是可扩展的，因此可以运输手提袋箱，托盘货物，集装箱和散装产品。莫尔解决方案有限公司（MSL）在英国、中国、欧洲和美国承担了UFT研究项目，是公认的UFT全球领导者。他们提供了UFT需求的详细输入。ARUP是一家一级土木工程公司。他们详细介绍了隧道工程的可行性，以及如何克服穿越关键基础设施（公路、铁路和公用事业）等挑战。与有关政府部门和研究所的磋商将是该项目的主要部分。一个由主要学术和行业专家组成的指导委员会将提供建议。UFT概念引起了全球的兴趣——2018年在北京举行的一场国际会议上，来自中国、荷兰、瑞士、美国和英国的论文发表了。大家一致认为需要一套国际标准。在2019年DfT科学咨询委员会的一次报告中，也有人提出并同意迫切需要一套UFT标准。该项目的交付成果是一份正式报告和一个SP组合，将为国家标准，甚至可能是国际标准提供基础。它将为英国在这一全球重要的颠覆性创新的发展中发挥关键作用，并使UFT的巨大全球市场成为现实。

This seven month collaborative Project seeks to identify guidelines for the Standards and Procedures required to design, build, operate and qualify an Underground Freight Transportation (UFT) system.Whilst UFT systems are being actively and increasingly considered on a global basis, associated specific SP's have yet to be identified, compiled or published. The key and disruptive innovation of this Project is that it identifies, for the first time SPs for the novel UFT system that will define the freight transport infrastructure of the future.UFT systems are a 21st century, smarter method of transporting goods than trucks. They address and align with the government's 'Grand Challenges' of 'Future Mobility' and of 'Clean Growth' and its' Zero Carbon 2050 target.UFT goods move in autonomous, electrically powered capsules travelling in an enclosed conduit, normally underground. They offer major cost, socio-environmental and sustainability benefits compared to other freight movement modes and would be beneficial during pandemics such as COVID-19 by providing an unmanned delivery service. Design principles are scalable and so can transport tote bins, palletised goods, shipping containers and bulk products.Project lead Mole Solutions Limited (MSL) has undertaken UFT study projects in the UK, China, Europe and the USA and is recognised as a UFT global leader. They provide the detailed inputs on UFT requirements.Project Collaborator ARUP is a tier 1 Civil Engineering company. They provide details of the feasibility of the tunnelling engineering and how challenges such as crossing key infrastructures (highway, rail and utilities) can be overcome.Consultation with appropriate government departments and institutes will form a major part of the project. A steering committee of leading academic and industry experts will advise.UFT concept is of global interest -- a 2018 international conference in Beijing included papers from China, Holland, Switzerland, USA and the UK. It was agreed a set of international standards are needed. At a presentation to DfT's Scientific Advisory Council in 2019 it was also proposed and agreed that a set of standards for UFT was urgently need.This project's deliverable is a formal report and an SP portfolio that will provide the basis of national, and potentially, international standards. It will provide a key role for the UK in the development of this globally important disruptive innovation, and enable the enormous world-wide market for UFT to materialise.